The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-29

When Mcclellan began his advance
 up the Peninsula we left HarwHItVso
 at niiv wynRe's nPe Miii' hio1 which was was on the line between the two rivers. which
 Magruder had privately determinea 10
 hold: as best he might; ,cns whsn tSis Meclsi ine structed fortlfications. These con-
 sisted of earthen breastworks;, thore moro entrenchments at some places ponus made by damming a little stream, ana in front at other points were sucn aS,l ientiy constructed. Some of our little army. we now discovered had been digging while we were out m dron, n-
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 The right of the sth. now rested at ! wynne's Mill, and the mill pond was | in our front Here on the Stn; or Aprirt we first heard the whistle of bomb shell, McClellan's forces having begun a Vigorous sheliing, which was brisk | iy replied to from our. side, Tn oay
 or two sharpshooters negsn 70 apPevs peyt | ing taken position in a wood and | small house in front of the right of the l sth Captain Royston of Co. A., was
 ordered to cross the dam ana nSa aisiSonge Son,e pany A. advanced As the tall form o1 | the gallant Captain Che was feet
 inches hfgh) loomed up in the open
 nesa mentariiy l yft to see him fail SO conspicu- ously was he as a mark Tor sharp- shooters; but he performed his task without the loss of a man. | Smelling and sharpshooting continued | on both sides by day and often at | night No serious attempt to preak our lines was made until the 10th or April, when the enemy, after at nrst | very considerable loss at Dam No. F. some two or three miles to our right. ! Our little army had been Keeping at | bay more than ten times It's numbers tIli General Johnson's army began on | the 10th. of April to arrive. General | McClellan's assaults on the lines we occupied, from April bth. to May Srd.s | now constitute in history the siege or | Yorktown" just as if we, who were | stretched in a thin line behind tempor- | ary breastworks extending over ten
 miles in comparatiyely open country, with a river navigable by the enemy's 5 | gun boats on either flank, had been | beleagured in a fort It was against these that operations were conducted | concluded after his repulse at dam No. 3 not to risk another assault, and sent | for seige-guns that would make our | little earthworks absolutely untenable.
 It took time to get aad hSve tne5e no5 structed' out of reach of our little held
 During the siege the sth. Alabama | lost four men hlllSu hHu WOuAuCu. | ClelIan was a month making ready | for his final assault and to us lt was | a month of trial and hardships. Cold | wintry rains were almost as incessant | as the shelling by the enemy Little | g. elter did we get from the drenchlnB | rains and when we slept It was always l in reach of our arms. One-third or | each regiment was required to be Tn | the trenches all through every night. | We dug necessarily, to strengthen our l works and to construct ditches or cov- | cred ways through which to communt- | cate with the wagons in our rear. The l enemy soon acquired our range, and the shells from their splendid guns | hurst over. our heads with remarka- ble accuracy. But against their nele pieces, the siege guns not having ar | lived. our rapidly improving embank- ments furnished great protection We l soon learned that 1t took some seconds | for A projectile to travel 1900 or 15OO | wards after leaving the mouth of a gun, l and whenever guns were opening upon us only at intervals the cry of Hook out" was a signal for everybody to get below the breastworks. Many
 manner in which this or that man ] dueked or lodged. Two boy soldiers oS co F. from Butler County, Glenn Gore and Charley Tisdale, were play | ing "seven up" one day behind tho breastworks, and just as Charley. whc
 was a wag as well as daredevil
 had begun to deal the cards the cry
 on the coming dodge hurried alone
 SUith the deal and at the moment when l ile shell burst over them and Glen | Sducked his head. Charley slipped a
 Jack to the top, and exclaimed. There
 clem, I've turned jack.