Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-10-16

| sorted TO devices for obtaining the GOV,
eted drug that would bring a flood Of
crimson To their cheeks were 1t record.
ell against them now
This was the state of affairs when
the battle of which | speak took place,
where the gallant major won distinc-
| ton by means of the circumstance and
the particular type of genius which en-,
abled him to take advantage OF and
turn to account caiamitous condition
of things
Just at that time they were IN Ar
kansas and the fever, malignant at all
times, was holding high carnival. Men
who We're accustomed to the climate
We're doggedly desperate and those TO
whom IL was comparatively a new ex-
perience We're in despair. Everybody
was sick and almost everybody was
sullen. In short, it was particularly
inopportune moment TO ask for brave
| deeds or expect TO find heroes
There was pretty brisk skirmish
| going ON which merged itself into a
battle later In the day The Confeder-
ates were lodging and firing or lying
on their arms according to the orders
| given in logged and half-dead con
| dition. They oheyed orders as ma
| chine might-if the machine was pref
| ~ nearly worn out. The officer in com
mand tried TO rouse them in vain. lie
shouted TO them Ut glory but the fever
| cursed men had no yearnlng 10 be sl0-
| rious just then. lie dashed along the
| line and tried to inspire them with the
idea that the protection of the homes
of the South from all sorts of dire dis
| aster and disgrace rested upon their
shoulders alone The men. shaken
| with ague fixed their thoughts not
Upon homes, but upon the empty drug
| stores Of their beloved land--and felt
that home would be a mockery with
empty quinine bottles.
One officer shouted brief speech TO
the reserves TO the effect that this was
to be the turning point of the war, and
that the success or failure OF the Con
| federacy rested upon them and them
alone. The men sat or lay sullenly be-
fore him, and no CLEAN of enthusiasm
stirred them. Only the steady, awful
their minds The Confederacy was Il
dream. This was reality. The Yam
KEGS We're far Off. Each man clutched
to his own breast the terrible enemy.
The officers were in despair No one
could win battle with men so In
different and so sullen as these.
At last a happy thought struck The
major lie dashed along the line with
fresh news from the front. lie told the
company officers that which put new
life into them. The word was swiftly
passed along the line from man TO man
as they lay IN the reserve line.
The effect was magical Every man
prepared with that vim and energy
command 4 battery had for long
time held for the Northern troops the
vantage ground Behind that ugly bat
terry We're the supply wagons of the
Federal army The major had sent out
word that those wagons had Just ar
rived, laden with quinine That was
enough.
When the command was given to
charge not a man failed him, not n
man was too i'll TO reach-over breast
works and cannon--the one thing that
all wanted. SO when the major dashed
ont In front with upllfted sword aud
shouted: Charge! Charge, boys
Give the Yankees fits. ard charge for
quinlue.' his ranks were full. and not
man stopped Of his own free viii I'M
| I'll he was in the enemy's rear
A good many there were who stopped
short OF this, II is true; poor fellows
who needed qunine no longer, and only
left the more for the comrades who
captured the battery and CALAMITY
saved the day. So says history and
history is right es to facts. But as 10
the motive for this gallant and dcsper-
ate charge history is silent, and glory,
not quinine. IL enormously supposed 10
| have been the inspiring stimulus with
which the major In some mysterious
way infused his men at the last mo
ment.