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I1Our iurn now e imo—I rat an my rtgi- ; meui \\v had boen ^peitaiois of the | disumifort ure wh.ch bvfell cur com- 1 ( lodes on tne left, and a fueling of re- j • venge .-piang up \u our breasts a£ we wiJnes.-vd th4 n* decimated ranks fall j hai k liroken and apparently disheart- j ✓emd Forming in hue of battle Lieut.- I j t ol Leake wave ibe order, and the 1 region nt moved forwaid at a charging ( sup Livery man was in his place, | , i very officer with h»s men Gaps made in the ranks by rebel sharp shooters wtio promptly closed without confusion and in silence. Col heake and .Major Thompson was as cool and self-posstfSHii as on ordinary battalion drill Our it re was reserved until we ; had hi most gained the foot of the hill ■ on which i he n be Is were awaiting us, I j when we were deployed us skirmishers, » { and opening on them as rapidly as we . could load and fire, at the same tijne I leaping the fence audeharging up the 1 hill j ;4We now found ourselves confronted ' by a heav foice of rebels who pre- * viously ttad been concealed from view * , by the tinnier in rear of the houses, 1 • who promptly came forlorn to meet * j us. '1 heir start was prefaced as usual ■ lt;by a yell, but as this was our first bat- j lie we had not yet learned to fear dem- j oust rat Ions so harmless, and therefore , cooly met It with a ciose and low^wll-d I reeled fire, which not only* spoiled the yell, but disorgan.zed their charge, when it was changed from a forward to a backward movement. After a few minutes of sharp fighting we gained the house, set it on lira, and drove ther*il* u lt;wl I f n i I k h « • 4 l \ \i »n *• * 11, f, f i b »* n ** i « tm ml u'th rvn-»» 111 .r» t»n n'rrl'otolv nlv\ijt n.’ w n bo-1for some mk/utes taikd to observe the movements our right, when we suddenly heard Lkut.-Col Leake give the order to fail bat U and in doing so wesaw our right *\ lug lorzniirg in frontof one of Gen lilunt’s batter.es Tafcn our isolated position became apparent, and gU/orny fwrvbodings for a moment took posession of our minds Was our army defeated9 Had we so long and well contested the ground against fearful odtfs. successfully driving the rebsfrom their first and strongest p sition, and alteady, as we believed, on the eve tif winning a victory now to relinquish our hard fought advantage aid fly fiora the field? But our position was too critical to admit ot de-la) Firing almost our last cartridge we dashed back down the hill just as Hiuut s batteries opened, throwing grap and can n is ter over our heads and among the rebels in our^/ear. The fir- j ing fiom the batten h-s crabled m to re- I join i r get in line on the grountt we04t»ip».l at the commencement of thebat* e with very little further loss 1 h» main bouy of t»en BUtfnt's forces ha 1 now arrived anlt;lviw forming on t/ur light with twenfy^our pieces of artillery and on uur left Gelt;p her-ron had twenty-six pieces, and from h the terrible artillery fire the reb-recoiled along their whole line, akmg position further «ack ia thp ipdier VVe now again moved for-va»d. but meeting with no resistance ve returned and as night had clt;ose1 in ve lay down on cnir arras with orders o be prepared to renew thk battle on he following morning, Our sen tine’s ccupied the field in front and there fas no kind of alarm d irirg the night, nit gnat commotion was observed imong the rebels whose ambu’ances •ould be seen constantly moving from joint to point am ng the timber on .he hill No reorganization of our
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Moline Weekly Mail
Moline, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 28, 1899
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