Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-01-25

| WlC0lu q u1T0 OF W1o VIllo6C.
1T seemed from the circumstances
that developed. that Gen. Grant in
tended to fall back into the old rife
pits, but found that theforce being
pitted against Us was too strong for
us to hold 50 long a line. SO at last
they established q new line through
the center Of the town, that was then
untortified.
It was a busy night, building an
earthwork to protect one of the bat
teries. hauling fence rails from the
plantations, tearing the town down to
get material to add to the rails to
form line Of defense.
The confederates manuvered all the
| morning Of the 4th to get their troops
through' the fallen timber and get
them formed In battle 1nes. :
AT about 10: 30 they moved forward
seven columns deep, and soon came
within rife range, when they made
the grand charge to run over us or eat
US up.
/ was detailed that morning to
stay with the ordnance wagons, just
back little ways from the battle
lines, but on lower ground, and could
see quite well what took place. The
onslaught was terrific. They come
with shouts and yelis from thousands
of Threats, up to the union tines and
to the mouths Of the guns in tho
little earthwork. An eight horse bat.
terry in the open on the right OF the
earthwork was crowded so hard that
they got bugae orders to Timber up
and fall back, the riders leaning for
ward and putting their horses on the
run and performing the evolution
with the precision Of their drill, it
seemed, as it was only one minute
until they were firing again and the
horses all standing perfectly still In
their allotted places.
1T looked for q few minutes that
they had won: everything that was
loose, broke for the rear. Niggers,
settlers, cooks, and even women, one
with baby in her arms, and also
hundreds of weakened soldiers,
that even the cavlarymen with drawn
sabers, could not stop.
But just as the confederates had
victory in their grasp, they weakened,
waavered and broke for the rear; in q
few minutes the musketry firing
stopped and Corinth was still ours.
Where, on that fateful day, the
ground was strewn with hundreds of
the dead and dying, there are streets
and business houses, factories and
handsome residences, with children
playing in the streets.
Over by the seminary was little
earthwork called "Robinet." There
the dead lay several feet deep. It is
now fenced and is called Confederate
Park. Out about two miles is a Gem
etary, where the dead, after the close
of the war, were all removed to.
There Is said to be about six thous-
and there and shout one third Of them
are marked unknown.
Out Of the ashes OF the past has
grown q city Of ten thousand people.
and it is the greatest manufacturing
city In the state. .
:. The buildings are fine here. Just
ACROSS the street from tho hotel am
I'm, il q fine school building, better
than the nigh school Of Bismarck. j
; Before the war only the slave hold
ing class gave their children an edu'
cation; now with the curse Of s]ay-
cry removed the poor. mans boy on
girl Has an equal. chance with tie
rich to get an education.
: At the crossing Of the two streets
10 q monument erected to the confed. !
crate general. Gen. Rogers Of Tex. It |
was not put there to mark the union
line of defense, but as a matter Of
fact it does.
After the battle there .was not a
half dozen houses left standing, and
some of them are still there, con- I
federate soldier told me. |
The cries OF the women. and the |
blood and the dead, and the wreck |
Of the Battlefield are all gone and In |
their stead, the prosperous new city.
w. B. HlBBS.