The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-05-28

"N Ii 10 American SOIuleTy were rdl-
lying to the defense of the
n beautiful Crescent City, and
for weeks the surrounding
country presented scenes Of unparal-
leled military activity.
The meager troops of the defenders
were gradually REINFORCED by the op-
erations of the recruiting forces, which
were sometimes ruthless In their man.
ner of .'persuading'' men to join the
army. And there was need of men
grave need.
The commander Of the British forces.
Sir Edward Pakenham, had in his
forces the picked veterans Of foreign
wars, 10000 of them In all-men who
had braved the terrors of continental
campaigns under Wellington-men of
Drawn and skill and courage. who side
by side with the bearded Prussians,
had shattered the Old Guard of Napo-
leon at Waterloo.
Surely this proud array would make
brief work of Andy Jackson's raga-
mullins; surely this rawboned Ameri-
can rebel, with his combined force of
only $500 soldiers. most of whom were
but half trained had no hope of pre-
vaiing against the flower of the Brit
ish army. Thus reasoned Sir Edward
Pakenham and his staff of gilded ad
visers, little remembering that those
men are twice armed who war for
home. for country and for right.
The closing days Of the war of 1872
We're momeutous ones for the Ameri-
can people Proud Britain. shorn Of
her briefly tolerated right to search
Anerican ships for supposed subjects
In the ranks of the seamen and pre-
vented from perpetrating other gross
injustices on Americans and American
property was battling on land to re-
gain the prestige which Yankee brav-
cry had 80 sorely shattered on the
high seas And II was In the general
neighborhood Of New Orleans that
was to be struck decisive blow to
demonstrate the superior force Of the
one time mother country
But when nation produces Gilbert
Steeles to wage Its wars In the ranks.
throwing their lives In the balance,
risking life and love for the stars and
stripes that wave above them. then
indeed must invaders look sharply to
their muskets and their saber edges
and learn to weigh opponents In a
scale giving a record that does not lie.
Dawn. following the night when GIL
bert Steele left Madeleine de valette
at the planters house. found him
stretched In troubled sleep on the
ground In the camp with his mates
AS yet the hastily mustered detach-
neht to which he belonged had not
been able to secure tents for any save
the officers. for the infant nation was
but III supplied with funds to provide
necessities for Its defenders.
Shortly after the first streaks OF
morning light painted the eastern sky
bugle sounded. followed by the rat-a
tat-tat-tat-tat of O drum--reveile-ant
the rows Of sleeping men unwount
themselves stifily from their blankets
gathered the rolled coats which hat
served as pillows and proceeded to fal
In line before the crudely constructed
cook shack. where coffee and bean'
would be served to them for breakfast
The day had come, and over Gilber
Steele there stole houghts-thought
OF Madeleine de valette-- which sub
dued his ordinarily gay spirits an,
caused his comrades to survey him Il
wonder and regret
The day Of the big fight and Gilber