The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1905-06-30
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the heroic lines. Yet a hal
mile of open ground remains to
be crossed. The firing from the
main works was now terrific.
Not a soldier of that gallant army
had ever experienced a fire sc
dreadful. The hundred cannon,
double shotted, swept the plain.
and the roll of 10000 muskets
was incessant and appalling.
But on swept the determined
cenfederates-never firing a gun
never cheered by the boom of a
cannon of their own, never way
ering, eyes to the front, "victo-
ry or death" ringing in every
heart, officers and men fell like
dead leaves when forests are
shaken.
The glorious Clebourne fell
and the dashing Granbury.--ef
Cheathamss-oid DIVISION, Strahl,
Carter and Gist fell, and Brown
and Gordon were wounded; and
yet on swept that glorious line of
gray. At last, the plain behind
them, strewn with the dead and
wounded until the dead and
wounded outnumbered the living
the assaulting column reeled
against the strong works, behind
which the federal army fought
! jim, comparative security; and
with the nerve and cool destruct-
liveness that became veterans.
The works reached, a ditch
must be crossed and an embank-
ment climbed. The federal fire
became now more terrific, all of
their reserves being brought into
action. Then it was that on the
right and left the confederates
recoiled and reeled back across
the fatal plain to the rifle pits
and locust zerebas just taken.
CHEATHAM'S BULL DOG GRIP.
Of all that assaulting column,
Cheatham's old division alone
held it's ground. This division,
with every general and field Of
ficer killed or wounded, except
Colonel Hurt, who commanded
the sixth and ninth, with half it's
number strewn on the plains,
scrambled across the ditch and
climbed upon the works, driving
the federals out and taking pos
session. Having repulsed the
confederates at all other points,
the federals rallied and charged
Cheatham's devoted division con-
fident of annihilating or captur-
ing it. The division quickly not
ing it's peril, placed the embank-
ment of works they had taken
between them and the federals
and held their perilous position
with matchless heroism and un.
equaled valor to the end. AS.
sailed in the front, subject to a
terrific cross-fire from angles in
the works to the right and to the
left, the old division stood firm
and poured a destructive fire in
to their assailants in front. Alone
they stood, amid ten Thousand
volleyed and thundered at from
three sides stood and died, anC
conquered. The federals gained
, the opposite side of the eartl
works, but could not cross o.
, dislodge their enemy. They
glared into each others eyes
j fought with dubbed guns, bu
. like gladiators, toe to toe, fought
= and died, but never turned bac]
3 or wavered. 1t was a sublime
, moment. The old division wa
f standing on the sacred soil of it
: grand old mother, Tennessee. |
, was making a last heroic effor
for home and caNse. The eye
: of mother, wife, sweetheart, i
hearing as it were f-the battle
thunder, watched, and waiting
r ! wept. Its comrades after prod
: gies of valor had reeled bacl
: from the impossible.
e THEY STOOD AND CONQUERED
, 1t stood alone of all the assault
\ ing host, using the enemy's work
t against himself-alone in tn
t fiery red jaws of a hell of battle
t The Spartans, at Thernopylae
9 the Light Brigade" at Balal
d lava, the "Old Guards" {