Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-07-18
The Scene of Carnage.

The narrative before quoted from a
Confederate eyewitness COrrObOrates
the Federal writer. 1t says: The his
tory of war. rife with terrible conflicts.
can show no more terrific strife than
this. YEARLY the dark hours passed,
and Sabbath morning dawned over the
sand hills. and every detail of the scene
was brought out in bold relief. Men
lay in every possible attitude. with
every conceivable expression on their
countenances. their limbs bent in I'M
natural shapes by Il fall of thirty feet.
In the salient on the ramparts. they
lay heaped up. often three deep. Con
spicuOus among them WAS a tall. Su-
perbIy formed man. an officer. whose
calm features. only the more clearly
cut by the chisel of death. gaZed to-
ward the cIoudlcSs 2ky-a byeathless
Apollo. This was Colonel Putnam of
the Seventh New Hampshire.
Although. terrible to relate. the en-
tire back of his head had been blown
off. the wonderful beauty Of the face
remained unshadowpd. evoking from
his foes a sigh of pity. On the crest.
surrounded by n fcw-a very few-of
his sable troops. ut the foot OF the flag
he vainly had planted. was tie body of
Colonel Shaw. One would have
thought at a cursory glance that it
was the body of mere boy"
The FOrty-eighth New York carried
into the fight ZIG officers and men. Its
death roll was So, wounded 112. prison
ers in the bastiOn 80. The loss in the
Sixth Connecticut was - killed. ~
wounded and 46 captured. The Sew
enth New Hampshire mustered $50 of
/ ficerS and men that afternoon and lost
in the attack 213 Out of IS officers
| present II were killed; also - men.
! Shaw's colOred regiment lost $50 out of
, 1000 borne on the rolls.
Other Events of the Week.
! Beginning of anti-draft riots in New
/ York buildings We're fired. Federal
/ soldiers and negroes mobbed and tele,
graph wires cut by rioters.
Every day that General Il. L. Lee
marched his army from the field of his
! stunning reverse at Gettysburg toward
| the Potomac lessened the chances OF
] disaster to his battered ranks in case
/ the Federals should attack the retreat
ing column. His soldiers regained con
fideuce every mile they measured OIL
the road home.
( Lee marched day and night to avoid
pursuit, while his opponent. Genera
/ George G. Meade. delayed moving unit
/ the COnfederates had reached HagerS
/ town. Md, within 4 days march of the
! Potomac. When the FederalS started
1t was by a route almost twice as Ions
as that taken by the retreating enemy
So when the flooded Potomac held VI
Lees crossing to the Virginia shore ht
had six days in which TO choose anC
fortify a position to protect his army
and trains.
Although Meades army was up or
July II, he delayed attack until the
14th, when it was too late. Lee haC
abandoned his line on the Maryland
bank during the night. and by a. N
the entire army was safe on Virgini,
soil. The escape was not withou
Oloodshed, however. for two companie;
OF the Sixth Michigan cavalry dashed
Z with drawn sabers into the works hell
by Lees rear guard. Nearly half tn,
2 troopers We're cut down. but one O
: them shot and MORALLY wounded Ger
eral ]. ]. Pettigrew. a survivor q
3 Pickett's charge.