Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1920-09-17

volley, and they had raced past our
square and taken the fire OF the two
other ones beyond. Then they broke
through hedge, and coming on regi'
ment OF Hanoverians who were In line,
they treated them as they would have
treated us II we had not been so quick,
and cut them 10 pieces in an instant
II was dreadful to see the big Germans
running and screaming, while the
culrassiers stood up in their stirrups
TO have a better sweep for their long,
heavy swords, and cut and stabbed
without mercy. do not believe that
a hundred men Of that regiment were
left alive, and the Frenchmen came
back across our front, shouting at us
and waving their weapons. which were
crimson down to the hilts. This they
did to draw our fire, but the colonel
was too old soldier. for we could
have done little harm at the distance,
and they would have been among us
before we could reload.
These horsemen got behind the ridge
on our right again, and we knew very
well that II we opened up from the
squares they would be down upon US
In a twinkle. On the other hand, II
was hard to bide as we were, for they
had passed the word to battery OF
twelve guns which formed up few
hundred yards away from us, but out
OF our sight, sending their balls just
over the brow and down into the midst
OF us, which Is called a plunging FIRE.
And one of their gunners ran NJ TO
the top OF the slope and stuck band
spike into the wet earth, to give them
a guide, under the very mu2ZleS OF the
whole brigade, none of whom hred n
shot at him, each leaving him 10 the
other. Ensign Samson, who was the
youngest subaltern In the regiment,
ran out from the square and pulled
down the handspike, but quick as
Jack after mlnnow lancer came fly
ing over the ridge. and he made such
n thrust from behind that not only his
point but his pennon, too. came out be.
tween the second and third buttons OF
the lads tunic. "Helen! Helen!" he
shouted. and fell dead on his face
while the lancer, blown half to pieces
with musket balls. toppied over beside
him, still holding on to his weapon. so
they lay together with that dreadful
bond still connecting them.
But when the battery opened there
was no time for us to think Of any.
thing else. A square is a very good
way of meeting horseman, but there
Is no worse one Of taking cannon.
ball, so we soon learned when they
began to cut red seams through us,
until our ears were weary Of the slosh
flesh and blood. After ten minutes
of II we moved our square a hundred
PAGES TO the right. but we left an.
other square behind us, for hundred
and twenty men and seven officers
showed where we had been standing.
Then the guns found us again, and we
tried TO open out into line. but In an
instant the Observation-Disclosures they
were this time-were upon us from
over the brae. tell you we were glad
to hear the thud Of their hoofs. for
we knew that that must stop the can.
non for a minute, and give us chance
Of hitting back. And we hit hack
pretty hard, too, that time, for we we're
cold and vicious and savage and |,
for one, felt that ! cared no more for
the horsemen than II they had been
so many sheep on Corrlemuir. One
gets past being afraid or thinking of
ones own skin after a while. and you
just feel that you want TO make some
one pay for all you have gone through.
We took our change out OF the ancers
that time. for they had no breastp'ates
Ia shield them, and we cleared seventy
of them out of their saddles NJ vol
ley. Maybe II we could have seen sew.
enty mothers weeping for their lads
We should not have felt so pleased
over II. but then men are just bruteS
when they are fighting, and have as
much thought as two bull-pups when
they've got one another by the thrOt-
tie.
Then the colonel did wise stroke,
for he reckOncd that this would stave
OF the cavalry for five minutes so he
" heeled us into line and got us back
!nyo deeper hollow, out OF reach
OF the guns, before they could
pen again. This gave us time TO
breathe. and we wanted II, too, for
the regiment had been melting away
Ike an icicle Ia the sun. But bad
rs II was FOR us, II wasa deal worse
for some of the others The whole
or The Dutch.Eelgians were cut OFF by
tbs time heller SHELTER, fifteen thou
sand OF them, and there were great
gaps left IN our line, through which
the French cavalry rode ms pleased
them best. Then the French guns had
been too many and too good for ours,
ana our heavy horse had been cut 10
hits, so that things were none too
merry with us. On the other hand.
blood-soaked ruin, was
still ours, and every British regiment
was firm, though, To tell the honest
ruth, as man is bound TO do, there
we're sprlu ling OF red coats among