The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-08-18


Longstreet's conduct was ad,ni-
rrable,. that OF General Lee was perfect
~ sublime He was engaged In rally
q g and encouraging the broken troops
OF the wood quite alone, the whole Of
his STAFF being engaged In a similar
fnanner further to the rear. His face
Whlch is always placid and cheerful
olu not snow signs of the slightest dis
appointment. care or annoyance; and
lie was addressing to every soldier he
met few words of encouragement
such as. All this will come right in the
enc, Wen talk 1T over afterwards; but.
IN the meantime, all good men must
rally. We want all good and true men
Just now, etc. He spoke to all the
wounded men that passed him, and the
slightly wounded he exhortad to bind
Up their hurts and take a musket.'
very few failed to answer his appeal
ana saw many badly wounded men
take off their hats and cheer him
re said TO me. This has been sad day
Tor us. Colonel--a sad day. but we
can't expect always to gain victories
re was also kind enough to advise me
70 get into more sheltered position.
Lee Saw Everything.
:. ,Mi.oi,twitlstanding the. misfortune
General Lee seemed to observe every
thing, however trivial. when a
mounted officer began licking his horse
ior shying at the bursting of a gun,
ne cai!ed out: Don't whip him, Cap
tam tam; don't whip him! 1 have just
such foolish horse myself. and whip
ping does no good
~ II say say General Wilcox come up TO
iilrn and explain. almost crying. the
condition of his brigade. General Lee
immediately shook hands with him and
said, cheerfuiiy: Never mind. General.
an this has been my fault II IS I that
~ md 4, II,
me out of 1t the best way you can
The Enemy IIesitnted.
1T is difficult to exaggerate the crit
zeal state of affairs as they appeared
about this time. If the enemy or their
general had shown any enterprise there
pened General Lee and his officers
were evidently impressed with a sense
of the situation. We heard
that Generals Garnett and Armistead
tally wounded; also that Pickett's Di-
vision had only one field officer unhurt
Nearly all of. this Slaughter took place
in an open space abaut one mile square
and within one hour.
Ak p NJ we heard long and con-
tinuous Yankee cheer, which we at
hrst imagined was an indication OF an
advance. but II turned out to be their
saw riding down the line. followed by
about thirty horsemen.
Soon afterwards I rode to the cx-
trfme front. where there Were four
any infantry support.esTo the. non
Withdrawal of these guns Is to, be at
tributed the otherwise surprising mac
tiyity OF the enemy.
a Big Dose Was Ready.
II was Immediately surrounded by e
sergeant and about half a dozen gun
ners. who seemed in excellent spirits
and full of confidence. in spite of their
exposed situation. The sergeant ex-
pressed his ardent hope that the Yank-
vance and receive the dose he had in
readiness for them. Whilst
We were talking the enemy's skirmish-5
ers began to advance slowly, and sew
sion told us that we were attracting
their attention, and that 1t was neces-
saw to break up the conclave. l
therefore turned around and took leave
Lieutenant Anderson, who had orr
dcrs, ltmbered UP his two pieces and
was going to the rear, and asked me
Hif We're going; told him had no
until 1 had them. Anderson had left
in the tray of his gun timber chest a
few rounds OF ammunition, which he
KIND. left With me at my earnest SO;
to four rounds of canister, at which
time retired two of my guns. having
no ammunition for them. having now
only two guns with four rounds of
canister.
The Fedcrals at this time advanced
from behind a red barn In our front.
T. ordered firing TO commence, but as
they retired on the first shot. and hay
ing only three rounds OF canister left
] ceased firing and held those three
rounds for closer work
LonSstreecs Anger.
While waiting their approach
G whfa Lah hsy eY haang ha s
handed of me why I had disobeyed
his orders Of an hour ago. and why
tn, guns We're here thus exposed
piled: II have had no orders; besides,
have been busy keeping back the YAM
KEGS who were there behind the red
an attempt but retired on my firing
among them: that I was hero by Cap
tain Parker's ORDERS who was off look
Ing u after his wounded" Just then
and turned tho general over tc him.
The general was very much OUT OF
Ehumor. and thoseiwho knew odd Pete"
CHS army sobriqneD knew when he
lie said all sorts of things. but after
our explaining to him the work We
aons snd 3g to him h
front and behind the red barn, ard
their, ATTEMPT to come up the road,
which road, passing through the peach
orchard at this point, led from one
army to the other, the general reccg-
nized at once the Importance to our
nov, retiring army of holding this
position at all hazard. and said to us,
Iif we could hold the position for a
short while lie would send back to
us an infantry support. and on their
arrival and after dark we could with
draw our guns and follow the army.
| Ma Sa1iItSH tbn and tn11 him
we would hold the orchard until ths
Infantry support came 1t was about
! dark when a skirmish line of our In
fantry utiousl y5s came up in our rear
and formed line on right and left of
our, two guns. And IL, few moments
Iaght, we Ne Withdrew dhd the he guns Mh'As 'as7
quote tho words Of General Long,
lstreet in conversation with Colonel
l'reemantle, the English tqwars lcorre-
spondent. a short while afterwards
when. referring to these guns on this
occasion, viz: n'Ihe enemy would lave
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