The citizen., 1905-01-27

from the shonlder. Col. w. Il.
French Of the Seventh New York,
was injured. The commanding
officer Of every regiment IN the
brigade was either killed or
wounded. The fight had lasted
but a few minutes, when the
stream Of bleeding, mangled ones
began to come 10 the rear. Men
leaning upon the shoulders Of
comrades, or borne painfully on
slrctchrrs. the pallor Of their
cOuntcnanccs dered more
gha~tly by the thick dust which
settled upon them, where brought
INTO tho hospitals by scores, where
the medical officers, ever active
IN administering relief to their
companions, were hard NJ work
binding up wounds. administering
stimulanta, coffee and food, or ro.
sorting 10 the hard necessity Of
amputntion.
At the summit of the ascent,
the COnicdcralcs were strength
encd by their second line of
baltic, aud here they made
stout resistance, but even this
position they were forced to aban-
don ~ haste, aud as darkness
closed IN upon the scene our men
were left IA victOrs in possession
of the ground lately occupied by
the rebels, having driven their
nd crsnrios moro than "a mile.
Tho Vermont brigade now came
to the relief OF tho boys, who had
50 gallantly won the field, aud
the Third Brigade returned at
midnight to the bivouac it had
lclt IN the morning. But not all
returned. Many of those brave
men who had went with such
alacrity into battle had fallen to
rise no moro, in tho orchard, in the
road. about the frame house. and
upon the summit, where the rebels
had made so determined resist.
nnco their forms were stretched
upon the grrcu sward and upon
tho dusty road, Stiil and coId.
i Many more had come 10 the hos
pltal severely injured, manned
! Tor life, or mortally wounded.
/ Tho littlo brigade, numbering
! only ono thousand men when il
went into action, had lost two
hundIod aud tittN ot its number.
We gathered our dead conrad, \
from the field where they had
fallen and gave them the rude
burial OF tho soldier on the
common near Fort Stephens. No
officer Of state, no lady of
wealth, no citizen of Washington
was there, but We laid them in
their graves within sight of the
+ Capitol, without collins, only
their CORY garments end their
blankets around them. With the
rude tenderness of soldiers, we
covered them with the earth and
marked their names, with our
pencils on the little headhoardS
Of pine, aud turued sadly away
to other scenes
On nm cmlucnCe near the Con
fedrratc advance was John &.
breckenridge, the candidate re-.
ColNing the votes Of the seeding
States tor prcSidout expecting to
enter the Capitol with Juhal
Early'S Confederate army.
On the parapet Of Fort Ste.
phenS, Ivy the side Of General
Wight stood the successful can,
dldatc IN that political struggle.
Abraham liuColn, watchi = with
that grave aud peH>ive coun
tcnauvc," the progress ot the
battle II was claimed at the
time of this Incident that the,
ItcNljCUt was >trdrk ON the aru<
by a $pent ball from one of the
enemy : GuuS, but this claim WAS
not true |; is true that an army
surgeon Staudug by the side of
the President was wounded by n
minnie ball aud general Wright
oeiug iUiorwed at II entteated
the President Uot to expose his
HE to The bullets at the Conted
crates, hnt he seemed 0bll, lonS
to hl> surroundings. 6ually when
the Gvuetal toOud that he did
NOT heed INe warning, he said Ia
Mr. lAucN,O. "Mr President, |
NUow tha, you are commander Ut
the armies at the United States,
In, lam commander herr, aud S$
Yea ale uot safe where YOU ave, |
order NOU to come down." Mr..
lWColu looked az hlM and smiled,
and then moyc Ia consideration
Ut the eayuv>t0C>< NJ the General
,OaN O0@ iavlWatleu. stepped
down AUa toe& = lsa<,,jo0 behiod
fae payApe,, Evvu then he weOld
persist lO standing NJ and ex
Yo>Wx his ,aW toyn>
THAT Nl6 la,ape, Is <,il stand
(a& there az ANS late date, aud
Ter bl>tNrN'> sake $0eUld he pre-
served ia wcmerV ot ljoealO a.
t(NCte ~ Jbe NyaVeUy ef the