Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-09-13
SEEKS OLD.IIME FOE.
An Episode OF the Battle OF Cold Harbor In
tho Civil War.
THE Washington Post.

OaSaiTy WAS notiy eNSaSe" WIN viz
Confederate forces at Cold Harbor,
Va. AS the day closed active fight
ing and firing grew less and less,
ceasing entirely as the darkness of
night increased. No decided ad-
vantage had been gained by either
side. After posting videttes, the
brigade withdrew and went into
bivouac. Then men, having cooked
and eaten their suppers, prepared for
nights sleep.
At l o'clock, June i, the brigade
was ordered to resume its position
on the line on which the videttes
were posted. On the edge of belt
of nigh, open timber was a shallow
ditch on the other side of the ditch,
worm fence. The worm fence
was thrown down, the rails forming
a low breast work on the far side of
the ditch The men of the brigade
were ordered to lie down in the
ditch, so that their heads came up
above the breastwork formed by the
rails, which also made a rest for the
Sharp's carbines with which the SOL
diers were armed.
Quite number Of rounds of am
munition were issued to each soldier,
who placed them on the edge of the
ditch on his left-h hand side. These
preparations having been made, the
brigade awaited for what daylight
might develop.
HEAR EACH OTHERS VOICES.
1t should have been said before
that beyond the breastwork of rails
was an open space or field, from 100
to l60 yards wide; then the space
was bordered by belt of open tim
Der, similar to that which has been
already described as occupied by the
Union forces. The Union soldiers
could distinctly hear the voices of
the rebels in this timber Their
bugles sounding sveille were plainly
heard, together with the voices of
the sergeants calling the names at
roll call.
In very short time after these
sounds were heard by the Union SOL
diers, the rebel troops in line of bat
tie advanced from the belt of woods
in which they had been encamped.
They charged the breastworks be-
hind which the Union soldiers 81
lently awaited the attack.
When the rebel troops were about
half way across the open space, they
were met by seething, whitening
fire from the Union soldiers. The
rebel line paused, halted for mo-
ment, then advanced at a slower,
undecided pace; wavered, wavered
again, broke, turned, and retreated
into the open timber in which it had
been encamped.
In the meanwhile the batteries Of
horse artillery attached to the Union
cavalry division opened fire over the
heads of their troops, shelling fercely
the belt OF woods occupied by the
rebels. They went no farther than
the belt of woods, where they rallied,
and could be seen reforming in order
to make another attempt on the
breastwork held by the Union troops.
AT the same time the rebel skirmish-
ers opened lively fire on the Union
breastwork.
GOES TO ENEMY'S RESCUE.
The open space from the point
where the rebels turned and retreated
to the belt of woods was strewn
with their dead, dying, and wounded,
and thirty yards in front of the
breastwork lay a wounded soldier,
who made frantic and terrible at
tcmpts TO regain his footing, but he
was sorely wounded, and, after a
few struggles, stretched himself ex-
hausted on his back.
An officer of the Union forces,
seeing the sad plight OF his wounded
adversary, took canteen of water
from one OF his scrgcants, and, sling
ing it over his shoulder, jumped over
the breastwork and ran to the