Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1905-03-29
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most weeping with Joy at the sudden
stem of the torrent and the magnih-
cent stand of his little division. while
doubleday. seldom given To praise. is
wr.aging that veterans hand i'm hearty
fashion. Doubleday's own men now
are fast hurrying up in support of the
First division and there is soldier tri-
uH2h mingled with no little anxiety.
as tsS var-tried leaders note through
their glasses fhe long columns In gray
stretching far tick toward the horizon.
all telling the coming OF supporting
thousands. cavalry officer comes
salloping in from the right. whittier
Devin's brigade has been sent to guard
the Hank of the line. Where is Gen.
Reynolds" he asks. whole divisions
are coming there to the north"
Where. indeed. is Gen. Reynolds? An
aide-de-camp is squirting at swift trot
through the maze OF unlimbering bat~
teries. His face is white. his lips are
pale beneath the grimy mustache. lie
springs from his saddle and says:
Gen. Doubleday. you command. sir
| Gen. Reynolds is dead
And now, far out to the right and
rear the boom of cannon grows inces-
SAINT, and signal men are tagging des-
perately: More men are needed!
More men are needed" Howard's
corps. the Eleventh. is once more at
one O'Clock. facing the very same vet
Grams that swept 1t from the field at
Charlottesville. and that seem bent
on doing the same thing here.
| Then comes tho CriSic pf Tho ,ta,. g.
the men of the Iron Brigade. Nine
field batteries are Smelling the west
ward front of Seminary ridge. Nine
brisades have been deployed cross
country and a-e now. at three o'clock,
bearing down to envelop the grim
"stayers' of Doubleday. Here. about
the Mcpherson wood where Reynolds
fell, raging old Meredith and gallant
Roy Stone hang desperately to their
ground. But Roy Stone is soon terri
bly, wounded. Wlstar, who springs ia
his sword. is shot in the face. Mere
| dith is crushed under his falling horse.
tairchild's arm is smashed at the eel.
bow; and Stevens. his lieutenant eois
onel is instantly killed; so Mansfield,
| the major. takes hold OF the Blacl,
Hats. Morrow, heroic colonel of the
Wolverines. with every one of his field
and staff officers, sooner or later, Ia
| shot One after another five Michi-
gan sergeants are killed while keeping
aloft the sacred colors. Hoosiers too,
and the Seventh Wisconsin are fear
| fully pelted. Chapman Biddle's brig
ade, on their left, Is hurled back
Baxter is fairly swamped out to their
right, AMI, farther still to the north.
Ramseur, Rodes and O'Neal. with a
triumphant host of yelling confed9r-
ates, have doubled Robinsons des-
perately battling division. swept liza
| fragments away; and, with despair Ia
his heart, Howard realizes that the day
is lost. that only by the fiercest fight
ing and the best of luck can he hope
to save the remnant of Reynolds lefA
wing that all the morning held 20
| grandiy.
| Then 1t is that the Iros Brigade, stirl
clinging TO the Mcpherson wood gets
the word TO fall back to.its right rear.
covering the Cashtown pike. There II
Is that they find their comrades OF the
| Sixth Wisconsin sternly fecing the
coming storm despite the fsct that
everything seems sweeping away be-
yond them; and Dawes, their acting
colonel. pointing backward into the
low ground, shows TO the brigade Com
mander's astonished gaze that sven
Gettysburg is practically lost, ond
through that town lies their line OF re-
treat-the only way TO save those
| precious guns.
| ITO BE Continued