The Marshall republican., 1911-06-23

CHRISTIAN Advocate, requests the
publieatfon of the following inter-
esting account Of the battle OF
Lexington:
"Wednesday. the twentieth of
next September, VIII be the semi
centennial OF the close of the siege
OF Lexington, when Mulligan and
his army surrendered 70 General
Sterling Price. The siege lasted
nesrly a week, bat the fighting
was done on the eighteenth. nine
teenth and twentieth OF Septem-
Der. 1861.
II was thu desire ani expecta-
ton Of many that this thrilling
event shoild be celebrated in h
coming September, but the pre-
Iiminary preparation for the same
has been 80 long delayed that II
is now thought best to wait until
September, 1919, and celebrate
the seige and surrender on a large
scale. by inviting all the cnadi-
dates for the Presidency to speak
on the occasion. lasting, possibly
through two days. TIL e farmers
Of Jackson. Clay, Lafayette, Ray.
Carroll and Saline counties would
Doubtless furnish "a monumental
old-fashioned barbecue that would
feed tens Of thousands OF people.
These s!x counties are about the
richest Ia the world in their agri-
cultural possibilities, and al
all be seen from the acropolis on
which, and around which the bat
tile was fought.
In most battles there are very
many more wounded than killed.
In this battle General Sterling Price
had about three men wounded to
killed. The Federals
hand three hundred killed and
wounded, and there were more
killed than wounded. This was
from the fact that the Union
forces fought behind breastworks
with only their heads exposed.
Il required fine Workmanship on
the parts Of Prices men to hit
the heads OF Mulligan's men. but
when they did hit them they gen.
orally fell dead. During u ear
ly boyhood we were under the
impression that every man fell
instantly dead whenever his brain
was touched by a bullet! Lieu
tenant McNiel was shot through
the center Of his forehead and his
brains were spattered through his
hair. and II seemed 10 US like a
miracle when we saw that he
did not die instantly. This was
the first battle we ever witnessed,
In which we learned a great deal
that we did not know before.
The old Masonic College with
Il massive walls and great Greek
port.co, now the nucleus around
which Central College for Women
was built, was the silent center of
this seige. The tact that this
Masonic College Greek building
survived the siege, and that we
now have 4 Central College for
Women with so much promise
are monuments TO the heroism OF
a twelve-year-old boy bearing the
name-Charlels A. Lantheaume.
One OF our batteries, on South
street, at the south end OF College
street, was sending red-hot can
non balls into the building with
such rapidly that the whole
structure would hava soon burst
into flames had 1t not been for
this boy with a large shovel As
fast as the balls fell blazing on the
floor, the boy would shovel them,
one by ons, and throw them out
of an open window! The Hast
heard OF this brave boy he was
living in Southern California. He
certainly DESERVES a niche in the
temple OF fame, among the young
heroes OF the Civil War, Some
poetic genius among the future
pupils of the college may yet en-
balm his memory In a poem, some
thing like "The Boy Stood on the
Burning Deck The "Cassabianca
of the Battle of Lexington"
The Anderson House" was a
point around which, and about
which, there has been much con-
troversy and some bitterness of
feeling among the veterans OF
both the North and the South, in
which, possibly, there was blame
worthiness on both sides. The
Federals were very unfortunate
In selecting for a hospital a house
which was such a salient center
between the lines OF contending
forces 1t vas almost impossi
HE fs,r Them not to make more or