The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-10-05

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Camp Fire, Festive Bugs, ETC., Etc.
Yes" said Captain Fowler, Eve
frequently fired at an enemy when we
couldn't see a man or a gun. At Av-
erysboro, N. c., General Fitzpatrick or
oered my section of the battery for
ward to dislodge the enemy. When 1
reported to the general the lines We're
quiet and l coul6 see neither our own
troops nor the rebels. 1 asked Kilpat-
rick where the enemy was and he
waved his hand dramatically toward
about half of North Carolina and said,
Right over there
L turned to look for a position for
my r1ned t~en-pounders, when a shell
from the enemy whizzed over the gen.
'eral and staf. Fitzpatrick fattened
himself on his horse, saying a moment
later: I always dodge these things.
I don't suppose it does any good, but
II Is human nature to dodge, and I
dodge. But, I say, captain, can you
dismount that gun without seeing it?
u old him we could, and going into
position We opened fire at 1900 yards
and the enemy soon concentrated the
IRE OF six smooth bore twelve pound
en- on my two rifed ten Founders.
The range was too great for he
smooth bores, and l lost not a single
man. But we located the enemy,s
guns, n by one, and the gunners,
with three years practice, put every
shot in the right place to make trouble.
Soon an orderly rode up to say: The
generals compliments-you have dis
mounted a gum In ten minutes he
came again: The generals compli-
ments, and you have exploded a Gals
son. In five minutes another cavalry
man disturbed us with: You have
disabled another gum Then for five
minutes the rebel battery was silent.
when it opened again the boys let
drive with the two guns and literally
demolished one of the rebel guns,
breaking the carriage and turning the
gun end for end. We saw it later
when the rebs had retreated, and when
We discovered we had been firing over
u own men, who were near enough
for their lookout to see our shots
strike. When the lines came together
the affair was over in fifteen minutes,
and Colonel Rhett, a South Caroliriar
in command, was a prisoner.
1.-TWO or three hundred of Rhett's
men were captured with him. Just
before their capture, Captain Duncan
OF our own army, who had been cap
tured at Fayetteville, reported to Gen.
erai Sherman minus hat, shoes and
coat. He stated that Wade Hampton's
men made him get out of nearly every
thing he wore at the time of his cap
tire, and appropriated all the articles,
and that when he appealed to Hamp-
ton for protection he was answered
with a curse. Hearing the story, XII
patrick ordered that Rhett be permit
ted to march on foot to Goldsboro.
by the way, when the Union troops
concentrated for the battle Of Mission.
airy Ridge, our battery was left at
Dallas without support to guard the
river crossing. The reDs on the other
side Of the river knew a battle was in
progress, and the first day shouted at
intervals: How is the fight going?'
Every time our boys shouted back:
'You'uns is getting licked As the
rcbs accepted this without comment
we suspected they had more informa-
ton than we had, and knew the battle
was going against them. However, we
traded coffee for tobacco the day
Hooker went over Lookout mountain,
and exchanged views on the situation.
THE rebels had quite a large force
on their side Of the river, and that
night one Of the pickets shouted: We
will be relieved Good-by, Yanks.'
The next morning a 11atboat loaded
with men in gray came over to or
side under a flag Of truce and said rs
their whole army was r~etreating they
would like a chance to get into Ken
lucky. Another boat load came later,
giving us news of Missionary Ridge
and expressing a willingness to sur
render. When they saw that our bat
terry was unsupported they allowed
they could have taken us in out Of the
wet if they had known the infantry
had been withdrawn.
A Stone River we had smooth
bore guns, but we did a good Job.
After the rebs retreated we followed
beyond Murfreesboro ON the Manches-
ter pike. The rear guard made a
stand while a heavy column crossed
the pike just out of our range. The
boys noticed, however. that when the
solid shot struck b hard surface OF
the pike they ricochetted forward to
the point where the heavy column was
crossing, so they fired glancing shots,
using the pike as a bouncing board,
and did effective work.. A general off,
Ger who rode a white horse and who
was very busy was struck and killed
by one Of these ricochetting cannon
balls"
speaking of glancing Shots" said
the lieutenant, there was a case in the
Philippines that beat the record. The
day General Lawton with only two
hundred men was cut OF from his
command, operating south Of Manila,
there was great excitement On the
Monadnock. We could see that the
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