The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-23

foot of Little Ronnd Top a body eg Union troops had been pasted
 0niy 0ne Man For nefenae.
 wa. M sxpscssd uS a ~ momsntarlly. and every
 man was waiting. tntently. vith his eyes fixed npon the open space that @s tSs S two a5miss ss.Des gest
 occurred to General Meade to order General Warren te ride over the 6eld l the foot of Little Round Top ne left his horse and climbed to the summit What was his surprise to Hnd af this fha signal corps He no sooner looked about him than it became instantly clear to him that the top of this hlli
 had mad been abandoned for a signai sta tion, was in reality the key to the whole position. His astontshment gave place to consternatfon.
 wooded ridge beyond the swamp: therP. he surmised the enemy was already forming his lines. to burst 'uddeniy where in the screening woods nothing could be known of the movements of the enemy until the Confederate were upon them. To verify this strc9g sus as rapidly es possible to battery at the foot Of the hill.
 -cantain;" he said, fire 8 shot int The captain of the rife battery al so. and as the shot. whistling. passef over the wood, 1t must have caused ioek i in V the I'd direction @ of the sound: for a simultaneous flash of musket barrel and bayonet revealed to the Northern the enemy far outfanking the position | of the Union troops. The fact thrilled him; it was almost appalling. strong l force should have been intrenche even now 1t was not too late. He rush ed off messenger to General Meade with penciled word to 'Ser' cansra' position at Little Round Top"
 On the summit where the signal Of . | hcer was the musket balls were be-
 snd was to going ng to Ieaec Ieave @ but at a moment Warren came back. and tn- duced him to keep the fiaEs waving.
 Tt may puzzle those people" ppsop he sasL said, them back for q few. minutes" So the \ two men waited. watching the puffs of smoke that appeared at different m . \ the action was already raRing at the
 Peach Orchard; in hot haste the bat
 tie was spreadinR all along the field;
 rattled at. right, left and center Of the I long battle lines. A movement of the mass of infantry which wsrren had
 O piainiv visible. Suppose Meade hai delayed in sending him an army corps
 The moments of suspense came suc 1 deniy to an end with the arrival os
 Haziett's battery of riaed cannon of
 The young Lientenant sDoke. -GeD
 eraI. whats tho matter?.,
 "rhe deuce Is to payP was the re-
 ply. T hope you can hold cut until
 the infantry come ur.
 Stayed Until He Was Killed.
 'T guess 1 can,' answered Lieutenant
 Iazlett. As a matter or fact, he lstayed there until he was kil4el. The lpassage of those six guns thro, gd lting boulders of the height was mar tvelOus; nothing but the dash and eAS- tarness of the men to get into action together with their incredibly skilfu Thriving. could have planted those can lnon on the very summit of Little Round
 The infantry were not far behind 1 Among the regiments closing in to selze lthe hilltop were the 47th and 18th Ala.
 hama of the Confederate side; and oi
 the Union army, the goth Maine, com
 handed by Colonel Chambsr4ain, whlcn
 was an unusually sma:l reglasnL little force had no sooner reached the
 portion of the hillside assigned to tthem. where they stood pantinE from their exartionE than they saw a deDss
 mass of CoEfedeTates coming toward Ithem: for the two strong Confederate
 regiments. containing 1.Og9 nea. hsd been ordered to turn the union nan lat exactly that position. Discerning n la flash the grave peril of his command lthe Maine Colonel quickly ordered i've lrompanies to swing back until they
 formed a line at rsght angie to tht rest At this instant the Alabamia ni attacked them on front and flank opening with a murderous fire.
 Cnlonel Chamberlain with drawr
 sword moved un and down his lines
 The Rebel bullets whizzed incessantt!
 past him; his men were constantly
 grooming and falling on every side lOutnumbered more than three to one their position was terrible, and It was apparently a hopeless one. Yet with
 dripping faces the men loaded and fired their unuskets, displaying the cool ex- lnertness of true veterans. Smo kt
 walled them in and to some extent con lceaIed from the enemy the terrible ex- ecution they were making upon thei' lthin. 1aping battle front.
 However, their Colonel never thoughi Iof retreat.ng. In the dense smoke. the , ldeafening and confusing volleys, in the
 face of the rapidly approaching annt- Ihilation of his command. Colonel Cham lherlain thought only of one thing, that the position he held was of great i'm. portance in the battle, Retreat might mean the destruction of an entire corps lit was almost certain that support'