Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-13
SOLID SHOT AND BURSTING SHELL
RAIN DOWN ON UNPROTECTED HEADS

: lei HEAL(O
handled 30 roughly the day before+--
used up as General Meade said OF
FEARFUL KISSING SOUND
LIKE WHISPER Or DEATH
| Suddenly there Was a fearful missing
! sound. like the hooded cobra's whisper
OF death. deafenine explosion. q
i msrasntary blank. and when got on
my>teet again there ware spIinters OF
bones, and Jumps OF flesh sticking to
my clothes. Then remembered see
Ing lank Tell TaIiafsrro. adtutant OF
! kangaroo and rubbing his crazy bone.
| and blessing the Yankees In way that
{, did credit to old Jube Earlys one time
law partner and handsome ocey White,
the boy lieutenant Of Company A taxi
ball had raised cash on his scalp
and carried away one OF his pretty
faxen curls, and, lastly, old BUCK"
Terry with peculiarly sad smile on
his face. standing with poor Geiser and
Bal Harris and others between the
colors OF the Eleventh and twenty
fourth. near where now is the pretty
monument of Colonel Warde, of Mas
{! sachusetts. ] could not hear what
The said, but he was pointing rearward
! with HIS sword, and knew what that
, meant.
bloody field we had traversed, the
| thought In my mind was repeated at
my side. ooh, colonel, why don't they
support us?" It was Walker, General
Kemper's orderly. endorsed, But stilI
unseatehed and undaunted awkward,
ungainly, hard featured. Of good
mature. sirnple.minded,, stout-hearted
1 Walker, one OF the brayest boys. I
| believe; only private, doing his full
duty with might and main, and reckon
Ing no more OF glory than the OK that
/ has won the prize at a cattle show.
] At the storming OF the Rsdsn, when
, Wyndham's forlorn hope tumbled into
the ditch and couldn't get out again,
! tho men huddled together dazod and
bewildered. and were moved down like
dumb beasts by the Mueoovite rifiee
/ because theirs were no officers left to
Head them. There was a notable excep-
ton, an Irishnlan. Scramtling UP the
scrap, he shouted: Come. boys! Fol.
low the captain" The captain fell, but
Pat went on >to Immortality. It was
not 80 that day at Gettysburg. Twenty
PAGES or more beyond the spot which
is marked to tell where stout old
Armistead fell, the foremost hero OF
them all. bit the dust The man in
! blue who told the story. had great
seam in his cheek. IT tried to save
4
/ had to Kill him to save my own life"
| What order do you leave us, my
Lord, IL you are ktlled?'' aaked Hill of
] wellington when the pounding was
hardest on the famous plateaus at
Waterloo. do as am doing" he re-
piled. and turning to the men he said:
| Boys, you can't think OF giving away;
remember old Englandw And well 1t
was for old England that behind the
Iron r Sc was q wall of iron men.
7 A a t. III A.
| brlgades had crossed the stone fence.
had captured and silenced the suns at
the Bloody Angle and had established
/ the High Water Mark'' whore the bat.
;tleheld commission has erected the
monument which shall tell to those
who may como hereafter and see 1t
that a brave people once lived.
Calling to the group around me to
spread themselves. 7 led the way back
| to the woods In roar OF our guns on
Seminary Ridge Realizing painfully
our sad plight. we were. OF course,
anxiously concerned for the rest of our
| people But soon Mara Robert CAME
along. followed by his faithful aides,
the two Charles. Venable and Mar
shall How inenably grand he APP
peared: very annointed King of
command. posing for the chisel of
/ Phidia5. and looking on him, we knew
! that the army was safe! So ended our
part In the days bloody work. Major
: James Dearing. riding from gun to gun,
flag in hand, was untouched by shot
or she'll Five times he was promoted
for conduct on the field for "dlstin-
guished valor and skill" TO brisadier OF
cavalry. Strange indeed that he should
I finally meet his classmate from West
Point, Brigadier-General Reed. and In
a sabre combat each killed the other
/ at Apponnattox. What q tragedy!
With ammunition almost exhausted,
tired, worn and weary, tried In three,
j days and nights OF terrific battle. the
i Army of Northern Virginia confronting.
| greatly superior numbers, held the
| battle line for twenty-four hours with =
/ out molestation.
After ten days Lee slowly returned
towards the Potomac. Meade did not
! follow In force. On the days OF the,
1ath and 14th Of July Lee recrossed
into virginia with all his trains, and
| his army intact, ready, to dispute the
march OF the invader. r.
What bloody page In history. what
| a story of devotion, love of home and
/ country. sacrifice and suffering. The
very flower of Virginia perished on that
| fateful day at Gettysburg.
| Bringing with him more than 1000
prisoners. Lee camped along the banks
OF the Rappahannock to await the com
ing of the enemy under Grant
Colonel Joseph Mayo. Of Hague.
4 Westnnoreland County. entered these
vice at the age of twenty-six as a.
Observation-Disclosures OF the Third yir-
ginia Regiment, and was promoted for,
gallantry on the field to colonel. He
was the senior field officer OF the
division after the battle OF Gettysburg
for a time. Colonel Mayo died April
( II, 1893. at Hague. the home OF his
birth. having kept the faith and lived
q life OF distinguished usefulness and
honor to his State.-Editor's Motel
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