Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-11

yan.a Cour. House. hoping to pass isT Lees right flank and beat him to Richmond. But Gen Lee had divined his purpose. and when Grant reached SD0ttsylyania. he found Lee already there. "a lion i'll his path" As d mat ter of fact Grant never caught Lee off his guard Wherever Grant made an attack he found Lee there ready to meet him and hurl his lines. shat tered and bleding, back upon the main body, leaving the ground cover ed witL his dead and wounded, look
 ing at distance like flock of black birds on the ground.
 There had been more or less severe fighting every day since the Wilder ness. Before day on the morning of May 12th, Mahone's division, compos- ed of Fnnegan's Florida, Wrights Georgia, Wilcox's Alabama, Harris Mississippi and Mahone's old Virgin ia brigades, was moved down to the vicinity of Spottsylvania Court House and drawn up in line in a muddy road cut with front towards the eN emy, and about quarter of a mile in rear of a line of artillery, which soon became engaged in a spirited duel with the guns of the enemy, about three-quarters of a mile away. The country in our immediate front was open. Our batteries were stationed on the crest of slight ridge in front of us The large majority of the enemys shot would be either too high to have any effect or would strike the top of the ridge aud sion- chet over us. Yet many of the:n came too near to be conducite to perfect. mental repose
 \ Personal Experience.
 We were in a road cut about eighteen inches deep. It had bee4, dri5zling rain all night long. The passing of artillery and wagons i,ad converted the clayey roadbed in,o 3 slush The boys had taken -hei" tn plates and scraped the slush away as best they could, and had lain down
 behind the small embankment 10 protect themselves from the enemy $ shells. The writer surveyed the sem liquid condition of the road and sta5 ed to his comrades that he'l be did dledy doggoned if he was going ta act ,he hog and w-lllow in sllzsn Sho1t- iy after delivering himself D. the above lll-timed def, Whlle still HatChing the shells come 0v(' the crest of the ridge oyou can Sat :hem hen they are coming in :, "a. 2ht line for you) he saw a shell just barely clear the ridge, and more- over he saw that the shell had his eX- act range and that unless he actec with great promptitude in removing the target for which the shell was speeding with lightning rapdity. he was a candidate for promotion to the ranks of the heavenly hosts. But just at that time his thoughts were directed rather to the task of fighting Grants S hosts than an ambition of sprouting angelic pinions. However. there was no time for debate. If the writer stood his ground for the short space of about two seconds his anat-
 omy, reduced to minute particles, would be scattered far and wide over the muddy landscape. He therefore not only with alacrity, but even with cheerfulnes and gladness, and with out taking time to remove any of the aforementioned slush, turned all holts loose,'' as the boys say and dropped full length in slush four or five inches deep, and was greeted with roars of laughter from his un- feeling comrades, who mercilessly guyed him by saying: "Oh no! you won't get down in the mud, You don't want to soil your nice Sunday clothes" etc.
 While we were in the road cu.. awaiting orders, Gen. Lee rode bJ just ill front of us. A shell exploded apparently within three feet of Trav- eller's nose, but he did not seem to notice it at all. He seemed to req .ze his responsibility, and wanted u show that he was made of the rlSh. kind of stuff. About 8 o'clock in shc morning we were ordered to posi- tion on the front and to the left. Gen. Edward Johnson's divison hal been surprised and overrun by rush of Grants lines at o'clock and we Were called upon, with South Caroiina brigade, to retake two lines works. We were marching in column, and as we approached skirt of Woois, Grants men opened on us at clos" range with heavy musketry fire. It staggered our boys for moment,