The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09

As we went over the embankment into the fort. one of my sergeants' Andrew McWilliams, brave ieiloW, was shot in the mouth, the pali ulu not cut his lips. It came out or tne top of his head. He was eVlueh15y 11 , yelling with his mouth wide open. lie fell an top of the embankment with | his head hanging in the rort. nulIed him down In the fort and that night carried him out. and purieo him. .1.a .a l inc wrecked fort and in doing so un- | earthed numbers of Confederate sol
 diers who were killed and buried oy inc explosion remember In one
 plaee there were eight poor felloWs lying side by side with their coats un- der their head. They seemed never 10 have moved after the explosion.
 The Confederate Line Restored sharp
 shooting July SI. The recapture of the fort restored
 our lines in statu quo.
 That night we slept in the fort oyer 9et those who slept "the sleep that knows no waking" and with the liv- tinr that slept that sleep caused by exhaustion. The morning came as
 clear and the day as hot and dry as
 the preceding one. The sharpshooters
 were exceedingly alert flrlng E.. every moment. each side momenfarily e1
 pecting active hostilities to be re
 pewed While the wounded in the fl fort and our trenches had been re- moved during the night and were pe-
 ing cared for, the ground between the
 main lines of the two armies was literally covered by wounded and dead
 Federals, who fell in advancing ana retreating. We could hear them cry ing for relief but the firing was so severe that none dared go to them either by day or night.
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 About noon or little later, there went up a flag of truce immediately in our front The flag was white l piece of cloth about yard square on
 a new staff. General Saunders order l ed the sharpshooters to cease hrlns
 Then a Yankee soldier with clean 3 white shirt and blue pants jumped or 3 | ton of their works holding the tiae 5 and was promptly followed py tWt ] elegantly uniformed officers. Genera
 Saunders asked those of us near mn if we had a white handkerchief. Al e replied. "No". A private soldier neal 2 by said to the men around hiu, Boys 1, some of you take off your shirt an' l hand 1t to the general" to whicn an other replied Never do that' the! 6 will think we have hoisted the Dlao' l, flag" ,..,..r
 chief which though not altogethe e suitable for a craving rooh' ne an an @ Captain George Clark, assistant auJu Il taTt general, tied to the ramrod Of
 musket. and Captain Clark, with on e man carrying the Improvised rag = went forward to meet the Yanke 3, flag. q have frequently thought Una - the get up" of these flags of true f illustrated the condition of the ar d mies,) They met half way-apou .y forty yards from each line After I few minutes interview they hande C,nptain Clark a paper. They the
 withdrew to their respective sides l y handing tie communication to Geneit e Saunders. Captain Clark said
 1t 'They are asking for rtuce to bur or their dead and remove their Wouno
 ed" -,. h The communication was forward' d to the proper authorities and prove le to be from General Burnside, Wh m commanded the Federal troops " front but not being in accordanS m with the usages and cjvilities or wa to it was promptly returned, with The II i- formation that whenever a ike r' t, quest came from the general con n- handing the army of the Potomac
 the general commanding the army