The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 6, 1882, Page 10

: which I proposed to. wipe out, ex-/! phal excursion into Dixie. BULL RUN BATTLE. & Breezy Sketch of the Federa Army’s First Great Reverse. | twenty columns, I will be happy to 1 | give you a brief resume of my sug- | gestion to the government at that It is a duty, I and momeatous hour. i think, that I owe to the public, | may serve some time for myself, or Will never live to fight again: at least mv heirs-at-law, to base a But he who fig: ts and runs away | claim, upon which disbursements } May live to fight another day. | may be made from a plethoric treas- —{ Old Song. Arthur, duke of a series ot brilliant successes on the | Spanish peninsula, attained the climax of his fame by the overthrow of the great Napoleon and his dynasty on the field of Waterloo. He then re- turned to England to be petted and admired, pretty much as some of our generals in the recent unpleasant- ness, whenever they had accomplish- ed some trumpery. two-penny feat, would post off to a photographer to be taken in attitude. Upon one oc- casion, ata grand banquett given by the beau moude, the aut ton, the elite and the creme de la creme at the London Squantum of that time, he was requested to favor the com- pany with Azs account of the man- ner in which he whiped . Boney. Now the duke was not. aversed to being made‘a lion of, nor to being well fed,but he hated speéch-making. Uuder the circumstances, however, he didn’t want to appear disobliging, so he erected himself amid the plaudits of the expectant throng, and said he, in that brusque, off handed way, so often now affected by military men who have achieved a little cheap and vetty notoriety— *‘Aw! There’s very little to say— aw! The French pounded us, you know, and we pounded the French, you know, and as we pounded the hardest we won the fight.”” And the great soldier resumed his seat, fully persuaded in his own mind, for all that 1 know, that he had thrown floods of light upon the conduct of the celebrated battle so recently fought upon the plains of Belgium. These were really the duke’s own words, as can be proven by unim- peachable authority, and they proba- bly enlightened his entertainers as if he had orated volumes. A DISCARDED PLAN. I always think of Mr. Wellington’s curt, put well chosen remarks when- ever I recall to mind the incidents that came under my notice that event- ful Sundav—the 2uast, of July, 1861 -—twenty-one years ago. They are as applicable to Bull Run as they were to Waterloo. ‘hat the secesh pounded the hardest is about as good an excuse as any that can be offered From the Providence Star. He who is in battle slain, Jellington, after | Wh A WRONG IMPRESSION. When I stated inmy gridiron I did not mean to be taken hterally. There are,however, some who picture me in their mind’s eye as holding that humble, yet useful culinary implement betore my or- gans of vision as though it was a binocular field-glass, and peeping at matter-of-fact peeple who undoubt- ed the conflict through the interstices thereof. Such was not the case. The gridiorn was never used tor aught but its legitmate tunction, and when not employed over a fire was generally strapped upon my back as related in historic chant of the knap- sack ef the martyr of Harper’s Ferry. I considered that gridiron as much a part of my equipment as I did my musket, my haversack or my = can- teen. It accompunied me to the outskirts of the battle and upon our expeditions return to Washington, although I forbore to encumber my- selt with sundry military accoutre- ments whieh only served under the circumstances to retard my speed to the prowess ot the confederagy, I bere onward with jealous cdfe, amid the turmoil and confusion, the rush and whirl, what was the captive of my bow and opear—my ligtimate share ot the sack and pillage of Fairfax Court-House. THE ALARM SOUNDED. One pleasant afternoon in July, as I was returning homeward over the dusty read from the city, whither I had been ona truitless attempt to interview the general commanding with regard to his plan of the com- ing campaign and to submit for his consideration a much superior one of my own, I overtook a fellow-vol- unteer belonging to a New York regiment encamped in the vincinity of Camp Sprague. He was one of those gaunt and hungry sufferers I spoke of in my last, who, at times, partook of our hospitality. Like myself, he chanced to be a iews- paper correspondent, wherefore he and I most intitamately fraternized and very frequently swapped items. As we paced the road together, for our ignominious failure to ad- vance upon Richmond; and at this | campward bound, he informed me late day, with bloody chasms all} that that very day order had been issued for a torward movement into Virginia—that the anaconda was about to constrict himself and have Richmond taken, Jeff Davis hung and the rebellion crushed within the go days predicted by Seward. Here closed up, and our happily, reunited country, under the beneficent do- mination ot Geuld, Vanderbiltet al., on the high road to prosperity and consequent Lankruptcy it can be no money in my pocket to advert to the contemptueus indifference with which was treated a plan of battle I | had hastily sketched out before en- termg upon the campaign and sub- mited to a certain high military of- ficial. It was net even looked at! Well! Well! The country does not direction of his own regiment. while T hastened on to Gale’s woods. to find out, when I arriyed. that the news was undoubtedly true, for all was in contusion when I regained my headquarters. Unsual bustle knew, and never can, until I di- | prevailed on eyery side. From the vulge them, the incalcuable benefits| chimney of the cook-house rolled that would Lave tollewed an adop-} volumns of smoke indicating por- tion by the authorities ot my scheme | tentious preparations within, and to crush the rebellion. 1 would de- | Commissary Cole was as busy as tail it here were I not pressed for | the prover ural bee. The ‘‘moving- time and had other fish to fry. I | wagone’’ that had accompanied us can only say Von Moltke’s rush; | from Providence were being piled up through France and Wolsely’s jump | with odds and ends, while into other into Egypt were nothing in compar- | yehicles were packed the sundries ison with the expeditious manner in | considered necessary tor our trium- H Officers terminate, eradicate, obliterate, | and men were in the most exuberant elimimate and aboiish the Southern | of spirits and even the looks-on confederacy from its lowest root to! shared the general enthusiasm, and its topmost branch. I know not | expressed their regrets that they what malign and unseen influences | | couldn’t ge along to be welcomed prevailed against me. Malign” and | with bloedy hands to hospitable unseen influences are rife in Wash-/ | graves. My first sergeant, Tom ington to-day, and were rife then— ; ; Briggs. was particularly elated. m 1861. [had no political, fact, any kind of backing. and now that grim Gen. : war, he wurk a wink and strode off in the | He= | hesses, | you can spare’ some eighteen or]! ways bore a quarter-deck sort of ex | to shoulder my gun, and, | ury, @ Za river and harbor bill style. | | get us all together and in marching | last commu- | nication that I surveyed the pattle of | wanted to go to the picnic ; and thus Bull Run between the bars of a| conjoined, the colonel, with his staff, | nor in i was anold veteran of the Mexican‘ alarums | Scett’s anaconda got = contract to | sounded in the air and calied him to! “conquer a peace.’” Hence our | the field, he snuffed the battle atar. triumphant march into Virginia and } and trom an easy-going, hail-fellow- our pusililanimous. skedaddle there- | well-met sort ot a chap, he was in- from. Hence the subsequent four | stantaneously transmuted into a grim years of warfare. Hence a great \ | disciplinarian of the grimmest kind. many things I ave neither time nor, and as i considered, tyranized over patience to narrate just now. Some} me with oppresived and uncalled for ot these days when the claims upon severity. Familliarity between us your space’'are not so urgent, and | Was at anend. His face now al | manner of al! pression, and instead of lounging 1n- to and out of the city and making a gala-day ot every twenty-tour hours, as had been my wont, I was regard- ed as simply tood fer powder, had like my comrades, observe all the minutia of the noble profession of arms. THE ADNANCE BEGUN. I forget now how long it took to order, but the time was brief, for all followed by the band, which was fol- lowed by the regiment, which was, followed the artillery, which was followed by the moving-wagons, and all of us, trom front to rear, head to | foot, enveloped by a cloud of camp- followers. prominent citizens, aud other tag, rag and bobtail, with the American brass band playing | ‘“‘Wood-up’’ and the **Mocking- | Bird,’?’ we left Camp Sprague,.-/ marched gayly through avenues of the city, over Long bridge, which rocked beneath our tread, and | passing the guardian forts of Run- yon and of Corcoran, plunged bold- ly into Secessia ‘Onward to Rich- mond,’”’ to restore the Union, the } constitution and the enforcement of | the laws. I trudged footsore along the dusty highway, oceasionally pausing to survey the scenery, and to from a reeking brow the prespiration engendered by more than tropical sun. Then changing my 150-pound gun from one raw shoulder to another. I jogged limping along, yearning for | the gloaming, the bivooac, a quiet snooze. and above all for the end of the war. You see, a private on foot don’t take the same interest in a battle as his superior othcer on horseback. Well, onward and on- ward I nobbled with Company A. over what appeared to be an inter- miniable road, half choked with pungent dust, borne down by the weight ot my martial panoply, and becoming by insidious degrees more and more deliquescent until the god of day, sinking in the west, found us in the vicinity of Annandale. THE BIVOUCA. There we turned from the high- way into adjacent fields, and going into bivouac prepared to enjoy a well-merited relaxation, if not re- pose, after our fatiguing tramp of the day. This we did after the valiant men-at-arms. Little camp-fires were kindled among us and all around: jovial messes gathered thereabout on ! culinary thoughts intent; the grateful | aroma of boiling coffee and the appe- | tizing order of frizziling flesh pro- , claimed the swift appoach of supper ; haversacks were opened and _ their contents fished out to be distributed | to the right and left with a liberal hand. Then a thousand jaws champ- | and | ed unanimously, while quip, jest and merry laughter added their quota to the feast. Then, appetites satisfied, pipes and tobacco ap pear- ed as though by magic, while song, i story and horse-play ruled the hour. Then Joe Greene gave us ‘*Wood- Up.” the ‘‘Moeking-Bird’’ and ‘“‘Amelia-Polka.’’ Then the senti- | nel stars set their watch in the sky, | and Luna sailed higher ia the | twinkling firmament, to irradiate with her full effulgence the pictur- | esque scene below. Then wearied | men dropped off one by one to seek the suclusion that a blanket grants, and ‘succumbed to the power of | Somnus. Then, from far and near, | was borne to the drowsy hearer, on the fragrant air of night, the plain- | tive notes of tattoe, from drum, and | fife and bugle harmoniously blended. Then taps; and silence held domin- | ation, broken only by a thousand! healthy snores, a few rattling har- | the croaking of frogs and challe: We all sleptunder natures canopy, and I believe we all enjoyed the repose ge of wary sentinels. the wide | *“*Thunder!”’ thinks I, as | wipe | ‘*This is all Greeley’s work!”’ | speedily | march, when would adva on Fairtax Court-Heuse, where rT purloined a gridiron. ON TO FAIRFAX. ‘Lhe next morning, in response to the clarron-like summons of the blithe | reveilled,we lightly sprang from our bed and were soon en route tor Fairtax Court-House. As we moved along, it was whispered among the ranks from man to man gras: the flower of the contederate army; ce up- | that diretul would be the struggle, | and horrifying the carnage ere the | ' flag of the Union ceuld triumphant jly wave from ite battlements. Un- | sonaiied! however, by these dis- | heartening rumois we kept on the | even tenor of our way andivalliantly | trudged toward the goal, encoumer- ing in our course sundry nuefarios | machinations of the enemy to im- pede our victorious progress. At one time a Stately tree would bar- jricade the path, but with derisive jeers we would overcome the obs ta- | cle by simply gomg around it; again | a mound ofearth would by, our ap- | prehensive immagination be | distorted | hideous masked battery prepared to | belch forth shot and shell to deci- | mate our ranks, but when we arrived at the same we would step over it jand go ahead. Every clump of | bushes and wayside ‘thicket was re- garded as in ambushment from which might pour a horde of Black ! Herse cavaraly te wreak massacre ; in our midst, environed by perils ot no ordinary nature, but guided by | stragic minds, we groped cautiously onward, thwarting every devilish device ot the rebles, until very much to my surprise I tound myself in the deserted stronghold et the foe, and roaming its abandoned streets in search of something to eat. What I found todevour, where I obtained it, and how I cooked it, will be related wtth every particular- ity of detail in my next contribution to the Sunday Star, peradventure I may explain how it came about that Philip, my grandfather’s black coachman, married Marie An- toinette, and was the ultimate cause of the French revolution, as depicted ; in print bv the late Thomas Carlyle. | Canonicus. 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