The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-04-29

that fearful fire." White. WHO rode by
1 Burt's side, says It was one OF the most
\ deadly fires Of musketry he saw during
the war, and that sometimes In visions,
oven now. he sees "those brave fellows
failing like leaves of autumn before the
northern blast" The dnuntless Burt fell
! from his horse mortally wounded, ana
! was borne from the ficld--still cheering
his men on to victory, In the true spirit
| of n hero.
\. Tba fnll OF n commander often causes
l commission. so,netimes decentralization.
| Not so with these stnuncl1 sons of the
| sunny South The knightly shirt Of the
diving Burt was In their hearts,, and.
under Lieut. Col. Griffin, their volleys
| drove Tho enemy from his position Into
| The ~ vino ncar tho river for shelter.
And now camo ID, at a double quick,
Colonel T7eatherston. with the Seventeenth
| Miss,ssinpi. and flied the gap between
| thc Eighth Virginia and the Eighteenth
| Nfississinpi
rhe battle. which had lasted from dawn
.untIl night began to let her sable curtains
! down was drawing to its close-trium-
nlant,v for us disastrously for the foe
Rl,,cher had come to give the coup de
rrnce >,
T4unton's charge having driven the
ono,r,,l across tho omen field to the woods
diroct,v IN front of the Bluff. ut which
mint Colonel nolIcr. the Federal COM
mnndor wns killed (pierced with four
halls no one knowing really Who did 1t,
= ,tho,,,h there was Ymrch rornnncing at
no tjn,e) and there being Indications,
,,nr,ietnlxah,e 10 tho eve of n solt11er,
hat that Tho Tcdern1s we're In disorder and
fact losing their cohesion: we give. in
1vhito,s own vivid words. the last act
n tho drama.
"rro,onel 51Jrnton halted his man. who
r,oro coun,ntnv hrol,en flown-nature
,na ammunition both exha,sted-and
rndo o,.or ~ rolonn, Fcathcrston, saving:
.S.ol,ne, charge the enemy IN tho Bluff
ma, t,,nrston 5nnEod n ia not know tho
rrnnnd., and TT,,nton exclaimed Come
=, nil lead lvou., hui 17eatherston&
o,,rt,,. eaId. No civ. 7 will lead NV own
n,on 1,u+ Ivant a r,,ide who knows tho
or,,,,a ), u;,,on IJunton turned IA mo and
sn,d I .1 .,pa nv Inv Won't Won 20 with
thnm, was thoro,Irhly acquainted with
thn country having fox -h,1nted over 1t
MANY timcs ana now ut sunset If q
hms,, day I rodn IL +he front shouting
.rToIlow me-. n, show Won tho way..'4 The
Two regiments moved promptly n short
distance when they we're met with a
sailing five m which thew heartily re-
sno,dea md In f, rua,,,nr charre drove
| thn enemy hcndlnntr over the steep rug
rnd bl1ff canturinr three hundred pris-
| onors among them Colonel C-ogcs we'll OF
| tho Tammnnv Regiment. but now act
| inr hrieadier general In place OF the gal
lant RnItor and Col vi. r, Lee goth
Mnssachusctts together with the rifle
cannon
RE,N1APEAR1 ~ EVENT or WAR.
A remarkable Incident. attended with
scrous loss TO the enemy. occurred just
hnfore Feathnrston's final charge. which
mist not be omitted. After Baker was
klcd corswcll saws in his report, that
no vent r. tho mint occupied BY Colonels
Dovenc and 90 and found that they had
drc,ded on making n retreat--that he In
formed them he was In command Of the
fleId.-tl,at !, retreat across the river was
,n,nossiblo and the only movement to
Ia made wac m off their ,yav through
10 Edwards Forry-and that a column
If ottac, must no at once formed for
th,t n,,rnosn While endo, vortno IN make
the Unnecessary dIsnos,tions for tt,s des
norata attnmnt we learn from the 70
norts Of hoth stone and Dcyens that an
nrrcer of the enemy ,.odo ranidly IN front
fnr tho Tnmmanv Regiment and called
m them "a chnrro tho nncmv Tho ram
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