Year: 1865

!; Broderick was engaged was little dis
tance from me and had just wheeled t.


ride up to his he'll when two fellows pu
at me. The first one fred at me missed


Before he could again cock his revolve


| succeeded in closing with him. Nj,


sabre took him just in the neck, and mus


have cut the jugular. The blood rushed


out in blacklooking stream he gave


horrible yell and fell over the side o.


tie horse, which galloped away Then
gathered up my reins, spurred my horse
and went at the other one. | was riding
that old black horse that used to belong
to the signal sergeant, and it was in fine
condition. AS drove in the spurs it gave
a high leap. That plunge saved my life


The rebel had steady aim at me but
the ball went throught the black horses
brain. His feet never touched ground a.
gain. With convulsive contraction of
all his muscles the black turned over in
the air, and fell on his head and eide
stone dead, pitching me twenty feet. l
lighted on my pistol, the butt forcing it.
self for into my side; my sabre sprung
out of my hand, and l lay, with my arms
and legs all abroad, stretched out like a
dead man. 1t seemed to me to have been
an age before | began painfully to come
to myself; but it could not have been
many minutes. Every nerve was shak-
ing there was terrible pain in my
head, and a numbness through my side
which was even worse. Fighting was
still going on around me, and my first i'm
pulse was to get hold of my sword. /
crawled to it and sank down as | grasp
ed it once more That was only for a
moment. for rebel soldier seeing me
move rode at me. The presence of dan
ger aroused me, aud | managed to get to
my horse, behind which | sank, resting,
my pistol on the saddle and so contrived
to get an aim. As soon as the fellow saw
that, he turned off without attacking me.
[ was now able to stand and walk so
holding my pistol in one hand and my
sabre in the other, made across the
fields to where our battery was posted,
and shooting others Nobody managed
to hit me through the whole fight When
got up to the battery l found Wood
there He sang out to me to wait and
be would get me a horse. One of the
men who had just taken one, was going
past, so Wood stopped him and got it for
me. At that moment Whites battalion
and some other troops charged at the bat
terry. The squadron of the First Mary
land, who were supporting it, met the
charge well as far as their numbers went;
but were, of course, hanked on both sides
by the heavy odds. All of our men who
were free came swarming up the hill, and
the cavalry were fighting over and around
the guns. In spite of the confusion, and
even while their comrades at the same
gun were being sabred, the men at that
battery kept to their duty. They did
not even look up or around, but kept up
their fire with unwavering steadiDess.-
There was one rebel, on a spendid horse,
who sabred three gunners while I was
chasing him. He wheeled in and out,
would dart away and then come sweep
ing back and cut down another man in
manner that seemed almost supernatural.
We at last succeeded in driving him a.
way, but we could not catch or shoot
him, aud he got off without a scratch.


I'm the meantime the fight was going
on elsewhere. Kilpatrick's Brigade on our
right. The Second New York did not
behave as well as it has sometimes done
since, and the loss of it weakened us
groat deal. The Tenth New York though
went in well, and First Maine did splen-
didly, as it always does. 10 spite of their
superior numbers (Stuart had day or
two before reviewed thirty thousand cav
airy at Culpeper, according to the ac-
count of rebel officers) We beat them
heavily, and would have routed them
completely if Dufle's Brigade had come
up He, however, was engaged with two
or three hundred men on the left; and
the aid camp sent to him with orders
was wounded and taken prisoner, and he
is not the sort of man to find out the
critical points in fight of his own accord.


$50 now, they bringing up still more
reserves, and whole division of theirs
coming on the field, we began to fall
back. We had used them up so severely
that they could not press us very close,
except in the neighborhood of where the
Second New Nork charged. There some
of our men had as much as they could
do to get out, and the battery had to leave
three of its guns. We formed in the
woods between quarter and a half a
mile off the field, another moved back to
cover the left of Buford, who was in re-
treat toward Beverly's Ford, Hart aud
Wynkoop tried hard to cover the guns
that were lost, but they had too few men,
and so had to leave them. The rebels
were terribly punished. BY their own
confession they lost three times as many
as we did. La our regiment almost every
soldier must have settled his man Ser
geant Craig, of Company K, | believed
killed !, three. Slate, of the same Com
pany, also went above the average. But
we lost terribly. Sixty enlisted men Of
the First New Jersey were killed, wound
ed, or missing. Col. Wyndham was