The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1905-01-27

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from the shoulder. Col. w. B.
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 few minutes, when the
stream of bleeding. mangled ones
began to come to the rear. Men
leaning upon the shoulders of
comrades, or borne painfully on
stretchers. the pallor of their
cOuntenanceS rem dered more
CHASTITY by the thick dust which
settled upon them, where brought
INTO the hospitals by scores, where
the medical officers, ever active
in administering relief to their
companions, were hard at work
binding up wounds. administering
stimulants, coffee and food, or re-
sorting to the hard necessity of
amputation.
AT the summit of the ascent,
the Confederates were strength.
ened by their second line of
battle, and here they made a
stout reSista nce, but even this
position they were forced to aban-
don in haste, and as darkness
closed III upon the scene our men
were left as victOrs in possession
of the ground lately occupied by
the rebels, having driven their
adj erSaries more than a mile.
The Vermont brigade now came
to the relief of the boys, who had
so CALAMITY won the field, and
the Third Brigade returned at
midnight to the bivouac it had
lett 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 more. in the orchard, in the
road. about the frame house. and
upon the summit, where the rebels
had made so determined resist
ance their forms were stretched
upon the green sward and upon
the dusty road, stiff and cold.
Many more had come to the hos
pital severely injured, manned
for life, or mOrtally wounded.
The little brigade, numbering
only one thousand men when it
went into action, had lost two
hundred and fifty OF its number.
We gathered our dead conrad $
from the field where they had
fallen and gave them the rude
burial of the 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 and 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 headboards
of pine, and turned sadly away
to other scenes.
On an emiuence near the Con
federate advance was John @.
Breckenridge, the candidate re.
celving the votes of the seeding
States for President expecting to
enter the Capitol with Jubal
Early's Confederate army.
On the parapet of Fort Ste
pheus, by the side of General
Wright, stood the successful can
didate in that political struggle.
Abraham Lincoln, watch e with
that grave and pensive coun-
tenauce," the progress of the
battle. 1t was claimed at the
time of this incident that the
President was Strdck on the arm
by a spent ball from one of the
enemA'S guns, but this claim was
not true. Ii is true that an army
surgeon standing by the side of
the President was wounded by a
minnie ball and general Wright
being informed of it entIeated
the President not to expose his
life to he bullets of the Confed
crates, but he seemed obliyious
to his surroundings, finally when
the General fonnd that he did
not heed the warning, he said to
MIR. Lincoln, "Mr. President, |
know that y0u are commander of
the armies of the United States,
but | am commander here, and as
you are not safe where YOU are.
order you to come down." MIR.
Lincoln looked at him and smiled,
and then more in consideration
of the earneStness of the General
than from inclination, stepped
down and took a position behind
the parapet. Even then he would
persist in standing up and ex
posing his tall form.
That old paIapet is still stand
ing there at this late date, aud
for history's sake should be- pre-
served in memory of Lincoln as
a tribute to the bravery of the