The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-15

the boys since last Monday. | am looking for them over here today. fou requested me to give you some details of the sbattle-maneuverin or the army. rumors, etc. On the 18th ult., we were ordered to strike tents early Tn the morning and be ready to march al moments warning. I had been on guard the night before. and did not feel much like, marching. not haVlhg had any sleep We took up our me oi march about ? o'clock on that day. 1sth. None of us knowing at the time where we were going, but when we had marched eight or ten miles we heard that they were fighting al Manassas, that the Yankees had been repulsed three times. In this pattIe they are said to have lost between 300 and 1000 men. From the number or men on each side and the distance oe- tween the armies. I knew there was sure to be more fighting. Another at tack from the Yankees was expected at Ii o'clock on the goth about the lime we arrived. We arrived at Pied mont at night on the 18th. never hay ing stopped day or night. Here we took the cars for Manassas. Jacks regiment arrived at the railroad sta tion before we did, but we were sent or first. They did not arrive until the 
 tbe cars we ate dinner-the second meal we had after we left Winchester: we were then ready for the fght-aii eager for the fray, but we were dlsap- nointed-the fight did not commence this day. So we had good nlgnts rest, Next morning just as we nad m ished breakfast Every earay) we heard the renort of cannon. The enemy had onened fire on our forces Our men aid moi return fire at all. as they were Tn a niece of woods and the artillery did no great execution. The enemy olu not expect to do much execution at that point. It was only ruse to make us think that there would be the maih point of attack. .,,,.s too old to be caught with chaff. or by "Fuss and Feathers" hurried us on up the Run. (Bee at the head) to place called stone Bridge, though we expect ed to have a fight before we reacneo that place, eight miles distant rom where we were encamped. but we couio see them moving towards our fei., evi. SantIv trying to outfank us. So we mt out again (we had stopped where we had expected to fght) up the Run, and our regiment encountered a force aholt five times our Jown-rlgnt III a. oid corn field in fair fight We stayed right there an hour and halI' we had no idea of falling back. but the order was given to fall nack, sio"Iy' Suhich we did in some order until we sot hack to where a Mississippi regi- ment of our brigade had been left as a reserve. but not man was 10 pc found. We discovered that they hau Nanked us on both sides. so every man set out at a double quick apparently TOT himself. .,or
 clear to the Iunction several miies--among them a captain, but as he has been (poorly' defended by some, I will forbear mem tioning his name
 Some of our regiment formed again. Our company formed over ana were counted off, but about the time we were formed the Yankees that had hanKeo us on our left hred lnto us, anV tsu,nS of the companies that had not formed nut off again, our company being the fast to leave We had mistaken them all that time for our friends. we ran over A hill, through an old field aDout 200 yards Some of us turned ana fired-here I let them have couple of fires When I got up the nlll l turned into a piece of woods on our left and fell, completely exhausted. A fellow passing by gave me drink or water, and I soon recovered. l knew there was not much time to tarry.
 There were two wounded men there and they begged me not to leave tnem' One of them was a member or the Canebrake Rifles, from Perry county belonging to our regiment. The other belonged to Hampton's Legion, from South Carolina. I took one of them on my back and went at double oulck about 200 yards to a branch. lalu him in the shade, where he could get water, and then I ran back after the other man. and disposed Of him III the same way. It was not two minutes before the woods were full or fan kees. I put off to try to get out or the way and met up with wounded friend, one of our company, (grape III his shoulder), whom I carried to the hospital, and then l went out to try to find our regiment, or part Of It, put I never succeeded in finding even rev of them until after the battle. l dian think that even as many would succeed in getting together as did.
 fell in with a part of Virginia reg iment which aided in taking Sherman's s battery. It was taken by parts of reg iments collected here and there. There was not any whole regiment there. Twelve or fifteen from our regiment were there. Two of our company (my- self and 8 fellow by the name of Hous- ton) a messmate. of mine. were en- gagged in taking it. There. we gave Ellsworth's Zouaves fits" l reckon Mole and Jack will tell you how the fellows with the red brooches on were lying around on the field
 well, we brought off the artillery which we had taken-this was nearly the las, fighting done. squad. (com- nared with their forces) pursued them Tthe Yankees) for some distance and brought in and report bringing in the things which have mentioned in my letters to you before. The last l saw