The daily Alaskan., 1905-06-08

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 it's rank and file. No better material could havc been found in America. A couple or weeks, however, showed the colonel to be an ogotiSt and a drunk ord, and few Of the company or regi- mental officers seemed anxious to give him credit for anything outside.
 One day the regiment came out to relieve the Fourth on outpost duty. At mjdafteruoon a mdrcd Confeder- ate cavalry. divided into squads Of twenty five. attacked four full compa- nlcs of the Thirteenth at about the same moment One discharge of their carbines. followed by a grand yell did the business in each instance The same 100 cavalry then fell upon the reserve of 600 men and routed them at dash. One thousand men were beaten, routed and diSgraccd by loo,
 The colonel called his officers to- ccther and said they must give the men double drill and that in the ncNs fight they must shoot down any man who tried to make a bolt for lt And the captains got their respective com panles out on the parade ground and looked savage and swellcd out theli chests and shouted:
 You are laughing stock In th!s brigade. You have had two or three chances to win glory, but you have | run away like beaten CUTS. In our next fight I will shoot the man who even turns pale"
 And yet every private In every com pany remembered that when he ran away he followed his three officers and was not able to ovevtake them A month later, at Q o'clock one summer morning, our brigade swung Into bat, | tie line on the left center. lt stretched | across a cotton field, with It's right and left connecting In the woods with oth- CT brlgadcS. The fight began far above us. That meant waiting, and it Is the waiting that makes towards of brave men.
 Down the lines of the Fourth, Sev- enth and Eighth went the company officers to brace up the men who were not towards, but yet losing their nerve in the waiting, but over in the Thir. tecnth it was different, The officers were at the regulation distance in rear of the lines, and the men had nobody to brace them up. To talk to each other only made matters worse.
 We were quite prepared for what happened-kncw that it would happen | Of a sudden the enemy opened fire on our front with artillery, and as the first shell exploded In the ranks ot the Thirteenth the whole 1000 men broke back like a flock Of frightened sheep ! X second shell completed the business | and there was a stampede which car rled them a mile Co the rear. The gsr was closed up. and the battle went on but the Thirteenth could not be rallied again that day. Three days later tho major general said 10 the officers and men on parade:
 "I know the history Of the Thirteenth since its first skirmish. You are a dis grace to your state, to the army and Co | yourselves. I shall rcCommcnd that tho reSiment be wiped out of existence.
 on the morning that the order oi | ,Tishaudmont arrived from Washing ion the Thirteenth was in charge of senior captain, and some Of the com panies were in charge Of orderly scr eeants A Confederate column, whicl had cut loose and marched by night through the fields and woods, suddenly burst out of the woods upon the scat tered camps along the river. The sur priSe was complete, and without 2 check the enemy came sweeping dowr the stream. The Thirteenth turned out but there were no officers Co gtv' them orders. They were cowards ane had always run away, few ha, already started on this occasion, whel there came the sound Of hoot beat from the west, and a woman rode int camp. She was hardly above twenty wears old. fair haired and handsom' and probably the wife Of some Jniol officer from the camps above. Ever! man thrilled as she pulled up her hors, and cried out;
 Men, they are making a stand ul there by the ford, and if you'll icI them the enemy can be checked an' driven back"
 wen go-wen 60! Fall in-fall in. shouted the men In chorus, after an h stanrs silence, and five minutes late every man had his musket and car tridge box and companies were bein' formed up the road crowded witi white faced fugitives, and yet never man of the Thirteenth fell out Ther was no officer to lead them, but th' woman rode ahead and turned now an, then to smile and beckon them on. I round shot plowed up the dirt near by but she gave no heed. A shell burs against a tree a few yards away am filled the air with splinters, but sh did not turn her head. The bullet came thicker and thicker, but she hex her way until line Of blue suddeni! came into view and then waved he hand and said:
 "Right down there, comrades,