Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1907-08-22
A new VIEW OF
BUNKER Nil.
BY MAX ADELER


gus. On the day before tho a Ar
stry OF Bunker Hill, Bangs astos
Scudder II he was familiar WITH ~.
history Of that battle, and scudsl
said he was. So Bangs told Sordser
ne would like him to write un utt,t
sketch of it for the anniversary a"I
and Scudder said he would trv n.y.,
next morning the sketch appearod ~
the Argus, and attracted a good don,
OF attention. When Bangs saw il ha
called Scudder in and said:
Mr.. Scudder, didn't you tell mo w..
thought you were familiar with tba
battle of Bunker Hill?"
Yes, sir
"Wel, If that is the case will ho
obliged to you if you will mention
10 me what you mean when you saw.
BY four o'clock the Confedoroto
troops were ready to make the att.ol,
General Washington had the catanplt.
put in line to await their coming and
when Napoleon saw them. he drom
his sword, and exclaimed: Soldiers,
Twenty centuries look down nnon
you pON
Now, Mr. Scudder, If you had pos
sessed the most ordinary acouaintanco
with that conflict, you would have
been aware that Napoleon was mt
present, and that the idea of George
Washington fighting the Confederate
army with catapults is calculated IN
excite the derision of educated nor.
sons. And l wish to direct your al.
tention, Mr.. Scudder, to another his.
torical inaccuracy.. At the bottom Of
the second column there you say:
mo sooner were the gathering rams
leveled against the walls of the castle
than the Duke of Wellington sent
word to his mother by General Butler
that he would either win or be brought
home upon his shield. Then order
ing his men to fire at the whites Of
the enemy's eyes, he awaited the on.
set with that majestic calmness which
ever distinguished the hero of Buepa
Vista ....
Nov, don't want to hurt your
feelings, Mr.. Scudder, but really for
journalist, this kind of thing won't do.
You certainly must realize that the
battle of Bunker Hill was not fought
in castle with battering rams; and,
at any rate, when you allude to the
Duke of Wellington communing with
General Butler, and connect him with
Buena Vista, there is actually no hope
of your molding public opinion on
those topics The public mind is
made up. And then a little farther
on, in the next column, you say;
This was the very crisis of the
battle. Joan of Arc, spying General
Jackson behind the cotton bales,
dashed at him upon her snow white
charger swinging her ponderous bata.
tle-ax above her head; her fair hair
streamed behind her in the wind As
her steed pressed forward, her hair
caught in the bough of a tree, and as
she hung there, Sergeant Bates shot
her through the heart with bolt from
an arquebuss. Her last words were
DOA SA'O up LlhC o4'tP'
"Now, you see, Mr.. Scudder, this
kind Of thing sets people to talking.
1t hurts the paper. You've got AbSa'
lom mixed up somehow in your mind
with Joan of Arc, who died about
10000 years before General Jackson,
who wasn't at Bunker Hill, and who
never knew Sergeant Bates any more
than Sergeant Bates knows how to
fire an arquebuss. Arquebuss! Ora
cious Heaven No doubt you meant
well, but you've about done the busl'
ness for us, especially here, where you
say:
"The duke could stand it no longer
The Mamelukes had slain all OF his
vanguard; General Sickles had losl
his leg and retired on pension; anu
the enemy's skirmishers, lodged IN
the top of the monument, were pour
ing boiling oil on those who attempt
ed to scale 1t. Leaping upon MS
horse, he shouted, up guards, ana a'
them!" and the next moment WIN
the glorious flag of truce in one manu-,
and his sword in the other, he nuriea
his legions upon the Lava-beds' anu
crushed the savage foe to the ear'l'
killing, among others, the weA'kho"l
General Harrison, afterward fre'f
dent of the United States
"The dukel Mamelukes! flag u
truce. Lava-beds Awful. SIT aN
full! The Argus is goner! Gone us
Mr.. Scudder! Slain! But how coula
you have scared up that IDEA ap0u'
man fighting with flag oil lfuT;
in his hand? And how, oh, now coui '.
you have killed a man who you aum,
was afterward President OF the Ors ~,
States2 No comic paper ever ,at
passed this. 1t is terrible! 'nip
we shall have to part, Mr. Seudael
seems to me that your career a.
Journalist ought to come to an sns
right here. 1 will accept your i0'''
nation. e<ss s.or
"And if any one asks you WI!
left the Argus, point to this lasl rs
agraph and say that it was Oeca snr.
the proprietor was afraid ne asnt
der you when he read your s'a ale1tbs
that-sAt the battle of Bunker hiii,.