The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-11

ant change In the coming year
Children born on this day prob
ably will be original and inventive,
but not wise in money matters.
Lieutenant Charles Is Killed, and the
point where he fell will ever be
remembered by our regiment
1.-The moving OF the colors was the
signal for the regiment. When the.
color pressed forward the regiment
moved with II. In Fridays fight
the color bearer was wounded, and
on Sunday (the day before this fight
the Color Guard. a color bearer and
right guard. nine in all. The guard
was composed entirely OF volunteers
whose only qualification was to bear
the Color onward fearleSsly and
unhesitatingly.
I'VE charged a quarter OF a mile
across an opeh field under a very
heavy infantry and artillery fire.
During the critical moment and 4
quivering tendency of the men.
rushed to the color and shouted
Onward, push forward rapidly
Lieutenant Charles rushed forward
in front of the color, firing his re-
volver as rapidly as he could. The
color and his company rushed for
ward after him.
After crying to the Color TO push
forward l rushed towards the right
of the regiment to hurry up the
right companies; spoke to Captain
Boulding (and just a moment be
fore he was shop to hurry up his
men to the support of the color. See
Ing at the same time the confusion
In the 18th, | rushed into the midst
of the retreating men and cried out
at the top of my voice-'Whore is
the 18th going? Will you forsake
the 22nd? Just see how far ahead
they are! spoke about n minute IN
| language of this sort and the men
rallied and together we drove the
Yankees still further, a quarter OF
mile.
After speaking to the 18th.
rushed back to see how came on my
own color At the time of which /
am now writing, we were in clOset
proximity to the enemy, some 10 or
20 feet. AS l came back to look for
| the color / saw 1t waving violently
backwards and forwards over the
! bearers head, who was not one Of
the original nine, he holding It by
stem half foot losg. Here oc-
CURED the most affecting scene Of
all the battles: Where last saw
Lieutenant Charles. he fell. ball
striking him below the right cheeS,
and passing out at the back of his
head: here also the color bearer
was shot dead; one Of the guard
seized the color and fell; anotner
seized 1t and fell-seven of the nine
were killed or wounded, and the
flagstaff cut in two Just beneath
the color.
Amid this confusion in cuttins
down the guard and the staff, the
color fell to the ground. The posi-
ton of the color staff is between
companies T. and X. AS the color
fell to the ground Colonel Gray
missed It and rushed forward 10 In
quire after it, fearing 1t had fallen
into the hands of the enemy, As
Colonel Gray reached the spot, Ser
geant Greenleaf of company X see
Ing 1t fall, had rushed In, gathered
1t up and was waving II over his
head as described 1t above, crying
out: Colonel, here is our lost flag
"On this spot, not larger than
10x14 feet, were killed four men,
each from companies + and X, leiu-
tenant Charles, the color bearer ana
two color guards. and, l suppose.
twice as many wounded.
THE Old Flag has been honor
ably discharged. The top was cut or
by grape shot the flag is riddle 1
with bullets ana fragments OF she'll
the staff is cut in two Just undo
, the color and struca by a shell Ia
another place. II Is wrapped un
carefully, flaw and staff, to be for
, warded home, to be preserved as a
. memento of the past, of the brav.
men who rallied around 1t and di'H
, beneath 1t.
| II cannot think OF the flag and the
Q scenes it passed through without
= crying. on the 2sth day OF May
! 1861, with heaving heart and nov
y ing eyes. I pledged the youny lad.
{ OF Greensboro that that flag shonl
( never trail in dishonor At the bat
tie OF Seven Pines l was not salts
e fled with the conduct Of the color
e bearer. Here bullets fell as thick a.
r bullets ever fell, yet 1t was no
e touched. / felt badly about It'd
8 placed the sergeant (who DID no
}, belong to company E) and appoint
:, one from company +, who knek
c how to prize the flag. He bore J
r nobly Thursday and Friday. an'
when wounded Friday still held F.
d up, calling for me 10 take u
y new guard was then appointed
y every man brave. have Just dt
r scribed their conduct CT Monday q,
now ask. is not my pledge Ne''
e field?"
q The Young colonel, himself, wa
d killed on his 18th battlefield, anI
II this flag of company e. that no,
n become the regimental flag, WA
: folded and laid on his coffin In IN
church back home from where ~
= was buried. 4 silent memorial
o a promise we'll kept. -,
= The flag. the colors are revere
4. by all nations the world over