The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-04
MISSOURI HAD HER BULL RUN.
A WAR "REMINISCENCES EyOkEn
BY THE ARMY MANGUVREs.
IL Was the Confederates Who Marched
Proudly TO Meet the Enemy and Ran
NJ Athens-They Learned Some Things
About Long Range Musket Fire Fir.,

at Athens-They Learned Some Thine,
About Long Range Musket Fire Frs,
KAHoKA. Mo-, Aug. sl.-whie the eve,
OF military experts are turned upon the
manduvres at Manassas, and the veteran,
are thinking of certain hot day there
many years ago, Missouri can offer as miti.
eating history Bull Run" which occurred
here fifteen days later and in which the
result was gloriously reversed-the John.
MES doing the running, There were not A,
| many killed in Missour's Bull Run soma
| say three and some say six--but that is a
| mere matter OF detail. and detracts nothing
from the Importance Of the incident
Col Martin Green had gathered ND from
the First district 300 Confederates- IN.
flower Of the land" they we're proud,r
announced to be. They carried shoteuns
squirrel rifles. pitchforks, battle-axes and
two cannon. Col. David Moore was a,
Athens, in northeast Clark county. with
half a regiment Of guards in blue
Nobody doubted the result Whs,
Green's intrepid host marched by the conn.
try maids auttered their handkerchief.
and ploughboys waved their hats. It vas
all over but the shouting. The troon.
carried flags with which to deck the cant.
ured citadel. Back in the wagons ver.
viands for banquet at the tavern IL the
appetites OF the assailants should not be-
satisfied by the eating Of the handf, ~
defenders. 1t was a great day, and the
band played Dixie" all the way.
AS to what happened when Butternut.
and Yankees met it is best to leave tn.
telling to one who was there. DR.. J. r
northern Missouri, carried shotgun over
his left shoulder and surgical Instruments
in his saddle bags He was ready for tho
making or healing Of wounds
"Our men got of their horses and tied
them to trees and fence posts" said DR..
Norris, in describing the encounter a few
days ago. @They were armed with shot.
guns and squirrel rifles that would shoot
possibly from rs to $50 yards. Then We
had two cannon, a six and nine FOUNDER.
THE Federals lined up in the form of an L
Our cannon were numbered and the gun.
ners went to work. To me it looked homi.
cidal to point those grim monsters at hu.
man beings Remember, none Of us knew
any more Of war beyond what we had read
in the books.
THE cannoneers applied their matches
I shuddered and turned my head. Two
awful detonations followed-and the balls
Lit in Iowa. They graciously travelled
about 800 feet above the enemy, who jeered
us.
For two hours the battle ragged on TANKS
and centre, Word came to US that the
Des Moines River was almost choked with
the corpses Of the Federals. 1t was said
that the river was becoming rich carmine
Then we made a disagreeable discovery
the enemy's muskets would shoot more than
twice as far as our hunting guns. We
might just as well have been shooting in
The air for all the good we were doing.
of course the thing to have done on
guns Was to charge EN-. fhers wers
.nough Of US to have gathered in the whole
crowd, brass buttons and all. But their
guns could outehoot ours, and it was az
.asy as adding two and two to figure out
Every blessed Confederate turned himself,
nto lightning calculator to work out this
eeult and then made break for his horse.
did run, too? You bet did. 1t seems
UNI enough nov but thought bad "a a
)es Moines River being damned by dead
,luecoats we felt certain there were enough
eft to reach US with those terrible long
ange muskets.
Oh never saw 6ucn q mlx-up As when
he fugitivee tried to unhitch their horses.
Few waited to unite them. Some slashed
he brides with knife; others tried to jerk
hem loose by main force The horses
mbibed the terror OF their masters and
umped around frantically. Many broke
pose and rushed wildly across the field.
dding to the uproar. Some Of the excited
oldiers struck out across the country with
ut taking time to get their horses. The
terrible engines designed
o terrify the enemy-were dragged off
he field and hidden in some hazel brush
1.-The rout didn't stop until the Confed-
rates got back to their homes in Marion,
evils, Shelby, Scotland, Knox and Schuy-
,r counties You never saw men so home
ck in all your life. During all this panic
nd confusion there was no attempt by
he enemy to pursue. While COL Moore's
oldiers could outshoot us they couldn't
utrun us-not that day.
After the excitement had worn of Bit
nd the boys had rested they met and re-
rganized. Every man said he wasn't
cared up there at Athens; he Just wanted
, get away They laughed over their dis.
lay Of panic, but were grirnly determined
should never occur again.
Those men who ran the hardest developed
Ito the finest soldiers you ever saw. They
,ined the regular Confederate army, and
ANY of them atoned with their lfeblood
,r their scare at Athens. Inconsequential
; the battle was, il gave them il after
avs the equipoise OF veterans and taught
lem how to stand and be shot at without