The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09

After we had crawled up in front of the fort, and about two hundred yards therefrom, we lay down flat on the ground. and our batteries In the rear opened fire on the enemys ar tillery in order to draw their ire. rms I was done that we might charge with- out being subjected to their artillery and the main line. which was onAy eighty yards beyond the fort
 1 But the enemy appeared to under stand our object, and declined to TO- ply.
 Our guns soon ceased nring. saS,,,sr ana rd we at once arose and moved forward,
 as directed. in quick time. ct tran arms, with bayonets fixed.
 Tn a short distance we came In view of the enemy-both infantry ana ar ltiliery-and then was presented one
 of the most awfulfy. grand cruel spec tacles of that terrible war. one brl- gade of 62S men was charging fort in an open field, filled with the enemy to the number of over 5000, and sup
 ported by a park of artillery sald 70
 number fifty pieces. The line or ao-
 vance was in full view or the W. nS armies, and In range of the guns or
 fully twenty thousand men. including
 both sides When we came withl1 range we saw the flash or the sun I light on the enemys guns as they were leveled above the walls or the
 wrecked fort. Then came stream ol fire and the awful roar of battle. rms
 volley seemed to awaken the demons lof hell. and appeared to be the sigma
 for everybody within range Of the
 fort to commence firing We raised
 yell and made a dash in order tc get under the walls Of the 1ort pc fore their artillery could open upoi
 us but in this we were unsuccess
 fui. The air seemed literally hlee The 4 Vireinians Georgians ant South Carolinians commenced nrinl
 from the Hanks of the fort ana at t1' :. enemy's main line, as did our artll Ierv. and the enemys Infantry an' 1, artillery from all sides opene1 upoi sInto The Mouth Of Hell Charged Tn
 Six Hundred" ,. On we went, as 1t seemed to us' ut !, erally into the mouth or hell When we got to the walls ot the TOT !. we dropped down on the ground t
 get the men in order anu iet t"er . get their breath While Walting = could hear the Yankee oH'cers III tI W n fort trying to encourage tne to .,re v telling among other things 10 s . member Fort Pillow" (ln that TOT Il Forrest's men had found negroes am 7, whites together. History tells h@ e they did for them). Then com ,,,i hT,ieS v. s novel method of fighting. Iher U were quite a number of aeandone 's muskets, with bayonets on them, Ly
 ing on the ground around the IorI 1l T. our men began pitching them over th th = embankment. and over we went an an ;. ins to harpoon the men inside an an ss' both sides thew over cannon balls an L' fragments of shells and earth "nie m by the impact of the expl9s'on Ina na 5 been pressed as hard as brick EVets ,it, body seemed to be shooting at I Il rs ix fort. and doubtless many were kiile is Y by their friends. I know some or U
 Yankees were so killed.
 70 In almost less time than | can te 1e 1t we were in condition to go II i- Colonel J. H. King ordered the H m' ls ,s near him to put their hats on the er eT bayonets and quickly raise them aoo, W the fort, which was done, ana as " anticipated they were riddled wi ,S bullets. Then he ordered us over tl al embankmnt, and over we went eI ne were soon engaged in a hand-to-hal ips struggle of life and death. The enen an shrank back, and the death grapp ed continued until most of the Yanke sL
 found in there were AA1A""' ~