The New York Herald Newspaper, April 15, 1875, Page 7

NEW YORK HERALD, T! THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1875. —QUADRUPLE SHEET. THE FIRST BLOOD. Opening of theCentennial Anniversaries. ( a4 17 vO Oe AON Die DS Coming Celebrations at Concord and Lexington. THE RWAL TOWNS AND RIVAL DISPLAYS Who Fired “The Shot Heard Round the World ?” EARLY DAYS OF THE REVOLUTION Graphic Pen-Picture of the Concord Fight by Frederic Hudson, Amusing Account of a Visit to the Patriotic Towns. MAP OF THE BATTLE GROUND Programme of the Festivities Next Monday. Jannon Firing, Processions, Orations, Statue Raising and Distinguished Visitors, eeerets President Grant and Cabinet To Be There. Boston, Mass., April 18, 1875, Already people are beginning to feel an interest mm the approaching celebration of the battles of Lexington and Concord, and both places will be busier, more bustling and more self-conscious even on April 19, 1876, than tney have been any time these hundred years or can expect to be any time in the next. Eacu place is exceedingly busy with its preparations, and the rivalries between the two are as amusing as their jealousies are ao- surd, Concord, bowever, is justifiable in assert- ing a claim to the possession of the spot where —once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world, for it hagas much right to the deed as to tne line which celebrates it. This gives that old town the Orst place in the hearts of the American people at this time, and turns yes of the whole country to the quiet village nestling close to tne ridge around which it is gathered. It isin every way anexceptional town. Apart from its poetry and ts philosophy, its literary culture and ite grand American egotism, its Dbistoric asso tiations and its great men and women, Doncorad nas stood still for a century, It bas not grown in size or in anytoing else except the spiendor of its fame since the first days of the American Revolution. It bas its old woode: houses which antedate the war for independence, but it has none of the splendia structures which sariound she metropolis and are springing up Mke mushrooms at the capital. The buttncks Still live on tue spot from which their ancestor led his neignbors to battle at old North Bridge. Mr. John S. Keyes still dwells in the house where Bis grandfatber dwelt when English dominion in America met its doom at Concord fight, and the Walls of the old mansion show the scar of the British bullet holes which were pierced into them April 19, 1875. A TYPICAL WILLOW. A Wiiow branch stuck into tne earth by the roadside in froat of Mr. Keyes’ bouse by some passerby on the day after the battle grew intoa Jarge tree and fell be‘ore the biaste o! many years before the centennial of its pianting could be cele- brated. The trank still remains, showing the size | ' Yankee word. It 1s less agricultural, and conse- the tree had attainec, and out of it have grown a thousand brauches, typical of the thousand towns waich ba’ jprung into existence since it began to decay. Mr. Keyes can have a very pretty celebration ground that Old tree next year with Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose grandiather lived in the manse across the way and whose son is also a son-in-law of the owner of this historic spot as the poet celebrant, and (be Butiricks ana ali the rest of bia beighbors Woose ancestors stood with bis in the | CONCORD~LEXINGTON. Map Showing the Positions in the Memorable Fight and the Line of March of the British oops from JBoston to Concord. LS ee aS o/ is who was tried by his church council for swearing. The pretty girl opposite smiled @ “demnition”’ smileand the man beside me laughed outright. He then consoled me by telling me I could go across the country from West Medford to Arlington and then take the train I wanted, It was only a mie, he said, ana I might find a horse at the station to carry mo; if not I could walk, 1 walked. The eight furlongs stretcbed into sixteen, and when Ibad finished all but one of them Isaw my train rattle away as gaily as if I was aboard. The Clergyman’s remarks were mild in comparison 7 with my ejaculations at that momen’, Ibadan hour to wait, and so boughtacigar and waited while the dealer in the weed, to whom | was fool- | fsh enough to explain my mishap, looked at me { with open moutu and exclaimed, “You took the | main line for Concord, N. #., when you should have taken the bramich for Concord, Mass.” I considered my experiences invaluaple to the readers of tae Hanatp, however, and to them I have to say, if they wisn to celebrate tne Centennial of the beginning of the American Revolution they must either leave Boston irom the Fitchburg depot, or if they have the courage to go by the Boston and Lowell branch, keep the talismanic words “Concord, Mass.,”” always on the tip of their tongues. LEXINGTON, But the fun does notend with the journey. All along the line of Colonel Smuth’s retreat the vil- lages are fighting the battle or series of battles over again as earnestly as the fleld was contested on that Aprii day of 1775. Concord and Lexing- ton, as I have already intimated, are especially ' Lexingvon {8 a much “slicker” town than Con- | cord, though its inbabitants are not so “smart” ' some manulactories, of both of which Concord is Ggut at the bridge just below as participants, | fois I conceive is a Very pretty notion, thoagh it ws all my own, and if I were Mr. Keyes and bade tranafather I would not miss the opportunity. HOW TO GET TO CONCORD. fone can get to Concord and is fortunate tnough to Gnd any accommodations after he gets here he will discover a hundred beauties that he Greamed not of Every & a delight, The troudle, however, is to get to + Clark's dwelling before the reguiars stampeaed will be @ surprise , Concord atal, Lbave travelled many milesand | never missed a train or took @ wrong car in my ie when | was in earoest about reaching my dew tination, barthe way to Concord was too muca for me, Like Professor Cawallader in ine play ) statues, modelled by Milimore and Gould and cut | ‘in marbie | Piteaira Gred bis famous pistol sho. and the rn was told to “#eli Bonanza,” | coud not quite jerstand the “points” my Boston iriends Gave Me avons reaching that ous Of the way village, — The truth i@ that Boston, althuagh it ia a ity Ol ideas, nos no notion whatever where Concord is situated, This | can torg: sor while ad @ bactie at White Pisins once I would not tnow whetuer to tell aatranger in Néw York to sake the Hasiem or the New Haven road to get there. So I should bave taken tue Fichborg Toad, but [toon the Boston and Lowell instead, The policewan at the depot told me L was ail ‘gt, bur to be sure to say “Concord, Mass.,"? to the ticket ageny avd to everyvody I addressed on she subjegt of my destination. 1 kept saying is di i got tired, and then seeing “Concord” on a tar f got in, Almost immediately the train moved, aud soon the conductor came for my ticket, Looking at it and at me, be said, pleaw wouy enough under the circumstances, “This ticket 18 for ‘Concord, Mass’~this train is for ‘Concord, N, i.'get out at the hex: station and | to be ceievraied in its hundredth anniversary, | snot heard arowad the world,’ ana this is the | go back,” Iwas astounded and said something | wart ike the romas® of & ciefaymaa I once Knew | credible ao it Was ridiouions. Some time after the bitter over the division of the respective shares of glory belonging to each. This is not to be wondered at, perhaps, for the two places are en- tirely dissimilar. To adopt the language of the driver who took us over the various battle scenes, im the higher imteliectual acceptation of that ‘Walden Da, ‘BOSTON HARBOR THE MINUTE MAN. ‘ French's Statue To Be Unveiled at Concord on the Centenary. battle of Bunker Hill, while Washington was at | his headquarters at Cambridge, a young maa named Earle, who Was attached to the staff of the Commander-:n-Chief, visited the spots mude fa- mous by the deleat and pursuit of the Britisn grenadiers, Being sumetuing of an artist he made drawings of some of the scene’, and among teem was a sketch of the massacre at quently there are tewer marts of revolutionary antiquity. it is nearer to Boston, and so has bigger houses and more wooden tow id Mi ard roofs. It is a shopkeeping village and has innocent, Indeed, one of the selectimen has “W. I. Goods” on bis sign, a thing I never outside of the seaboard cities. [tb men, and no poet who could sing its past glories as Emerson sung those of the “embattied sar- mers” of Acton and Concord. Its chief claim to distinction, accorjing to its own showing, is that Hancock ana Adams were under ita protection that night the greoadiers leit Bos- ton, and it was & fortunate circumstance, per- baps, that these statesmen ran away irom Parson the militia trom the green in front of the par- son's meeting house. Still Lexington remembers the fact with pride, and ls going to set up their iu Florence, in the green where Teai battle took place later Inthe day, There is @ pair of hayscales now where the meeting house stood, but Parson Clark's dwelling sul re- mains and some of its rooms are uncuanged, ‘The house isto be decorated for the Centennial | and every historic spot to be marked with fowers j ana Bags, But Concord has the aavantage, bon in the trash of aistory ana im tne favor that is to be shown it by the autoo: ities, and it is not sur- prising that Lexington, Raving the least snow ot justice in her clait, should be the most bitter in | assorting hadow Of a claim it possesses, THE JEALOUBIES OF THR RIVAL TOWNS. | ‘The quarrel is @ very absurd snd amusing one, | and the claim of Lexington, though an alter vhought, ie just ball as old as the act which is now The real poiat at issue is, where was ‘fired tne | claim woich Lexington now makes, It isa claim | utteriy witoout support, and the strangess part of it is that it Was not made at all anti 1825, fity yeare aiter the event to whien it relates, Waen | it Was made it Was supported by a device as in- | ington and Joncor!. | neorly 7,000 ticke Lexington. The time in the picture was the mo- ment the British volley was fred, the Americaus being recresented as retreating ratner hurriediy irom a position they had good military reasons jor assuming. When Lextngton made up its mind to contest with Concord the hoaor of fring the first shot of resistance to British tyranny this pictare, which nad been engraved long betore, was repub- lished, but the fleeing Lexinatonians nad jaced | back in the meantime, though it took them flty yeafs to dol', and were seen to be blazing away at ‘be English with great sound and jury. picture, in its revamped shape, may now be seen in ail the shop Windows in Boston, and it repre- sents Afteen platoons of British iniantry drawn up iu line of batile on Lexington Green, one platoon having just fred their pieces, watle the Ameri- cans to the joreground, who are opposed to them, are only eignteeo men ail told, ©, these ten are firiug, one tailing, one down, one hesitating and four rupning away. Now, the trath is that no svots Were fred by the Americans at Lexington in the early movnimg of April 19, 1775, while the enemy remained in the place, and that the only | shouting (bat Was done, if any, was that of one man, Solomon Brown, who testified tna: he sent “the gucs 01 bis gun’ aiter them when they were leaving. THE RIVAL CRLEBRATIONS, It has been customary bitnerto whenever the events of tne great day were commemorated ior all the towns which took part in tne batties to unite in a Union celebration at Concord. This was done as late as 1860, when Judge E, Rockwood Hoar was, as now, the President of the day. Actou, Lincoln, Woburo, Sudbary, Danvers and other places took part in the ray, a8 well as Lex- All are entitled to be bon ored lor their cour: apd patriotism, and Mer- riam’s corner «nd Ke tavern lave clearly as mnca riguttoa “celebration” ss Lexington. It Would have been better, perbaps, if ali nad united, as of yore, in celebrating the day at Coucord Bridge, vat 1 see no ou Why Lexingion snould hot algo pave @ celebration it {t wants one and is willing to pay for it, Lexington shows this spirit to-day, Voth in the desire for an exhibition and the Willingness to pay Tt ts building aa immeuse pavilion on the green capable 01 seating 3,500 persuns at dinuer at a sin: rvice. for the tm it has no end of r dinner arrangements, and its kere would k people to death with their patriotiem and gotism and their threudbare history, # litte tne wo jor the mauy bends through whieh it nas passe post prandial exerciser, peculiar prerogative in Hancock aod Adams, be- eatse t! 1 tried to sleep in the piace, but Were compelled to ran away in the nignt did not @ substaniial ainger precede tbe | It is ready to asserta | This | | hog.” | o'clock. | aa a civic and military spe It has sold | | Waosworth Longiellow, and fight im the morning. It would have done better, perhaps, to have crowned anew the mon- umenét to its martys who died on that day, but it is entitied to its choice, It wilt unvell the Statues to the two statesmen it has chosen as lis titular divinities if they come to hand in time, Cp to last night there were no tidings of them. Mr. Chariea Hudson, ao old resident of the piace and the bistcrian of Lexington, is to deliver the a dress on the occasion, The oration will pe d livered by Mr. Richard Henry Dona, Jr. Th is to he a poem also, I believe, and a procession, as @ matter of course, and tne President and toe Cabinet and the Governor and the Legislarare— Geueral Conrt, | think, they call it in Massachu- setts—are to come down from Concord and take partinitand ia all that follows. They wanted General Giant in the morning, but Concord also wanted fim at that time, andi believe has secured him. Indeed, the bitterest part of the = s 4 5 ry < g 8 3 8 a = } ? spect I stould not wonder if the Presidential eyes would see @ bigger demonstration in Lexingion in the afternoon than at Concord in the earlier part ofthe day. The whole aifair is to be altogether grand and exceptional, and a proud select man of the place assured me yesterday afternoon that they sad made up their minds “to go the whole Butafterall I think it would have been better if the people of Lexington had been a little more modest, for oy foolably claiming “the shot heard round the worid” they place tuemseives in an absurd light beiore the country. They are titled to much bouor, and this they would unques- tuonably nave received, while by arrogating to themselves too much glory they may lose part of that whieh is their da conxcon, Concord, too, has je preparations grand @ sale as thoss of Lexington, It ts to bea day of festivities, The programme ts very elaborate, and the detalis for the whole day a weil marked out, Of course t evitabie salate of a hundred guns and the ringing of every churen bell in the town at dayoreak. Thene little 1eatares of a celebration in New Eng- land Gre traditional, and of course cannot be dis- pensed with on ths extraordinary occasion, The noxt event Im order Will be the formation of t mouster procession, woich t# set down tor nine Tne escort of the procession will consist § of Massachusetts § regi- | men, and the whole will ve under the marsvaiship of General Francw ©. Barlow, | There wil be no less than five divisions, and t Will probably surpass auything ever vefore witnessed ia Massa- chosetts, The First division will be made up of | the regiment of escort, and the notabilitie: will com liverary exercises of the day, togetter with the several committees, the Judges of the Supreme | Court, the Governor and ot ¢ oMciais, aad the mi Of both brancues of the State Legis | lature, the latter veing under escort of the Boston | Cadets Gnd sue Newburyport Veterans. in tue | figure Is attired in the President of the United States, members of the Cabinet, Justices of the Supreme Court, General of the United States Army and staff, Ad- miral of the United States Navy and stam, Senators and Representatives and other oMicials of the federal government, tte escort consisting of the old Concord Artillery. The Third division will comprise the New England Governors, under escort of sucn veteran organizations as the Portland Mechanics’ Biues, Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester, N. H., Ransom Guard of St, Albans, Vt., the Providence Veterans, and the Putnam Phalanx of Hartford. The Fourth division will embrace the Harvard Col- lege dignitaries and representatives of various | Massachugetts associations, escort duty being per- | formed by the old Sixth Regiment Association and the active Minute Men. The Filth and last Givision will be made up of citizens generally, | and it 1s anticipated that the procession, asa Whole, will be several milesin length. After visit- ing the monuments at Old North Bridge the line | Of march will be taken up to a pavilion on the Pro- vincial Parade Ground”—in other words, the | Dattlefiela of 1775, where the statue of a “minute already in position, is to be unveiled, with an address by Ralph Waldo kmerson, and where there are to be heard an oration by George William | Curtis, and apoem by James Russell Lowell, and Possibly an alter-dinner effusion by Henry | Was thereever such an Grray Of names as this before on sach ap occasion to bring #0 many great na: together? Then the statue, too, is a work of exceptional interest, and, it is claimed, of exceptional merit. It is cast in bronze from cannon voted by Congress, and was designed and modelled by Mr. D.C, French, « young townsman of Concord, now studying in Italy, and then scarcely out of his “teens.” It is the picture of an “embattled farmer’ leaving his plough to enroll nimsel afhong the nigh spirirs of Niberty. The following is irom a description of this work of art:— It is of semi-neroic méasure, somewhat more tham seven feet in height, generously propor- tioned, and is elevated epon a fine pedestal of granite. it represents a young man turning at the harrsing call of the messenger from bis la- bors in the fleic and Instantly ready for duty. His le t hand rests a moment on a handle or bis aban- doned plough, across whose upper brace his coat is Ow musket; he rests on nis left (oot, while bis right is just leaving the ground benind—the whole attitade indicating @ moment's pause, as if to listen, The tome, and will preserve its detalis for tutore ages, | The loug waistcoat, caught by one button; the | shirt, hitched up loosely at the walst with toil, and with sleeves rolled carelessly above the elbow; the breeches and the buttoned galligaskins, the stout cowhide boots; the powder horn, with its pine stopple, huog by & strap over the shoulder, like @ scarf of decoration ; the soft hat, cocked at one side—all add to the curionsiy vivid way in which this statue brings one in neighbornood with the day aud the spirit it erystaluizes ir ics enduring bronze. For this Minute Man of Concord is instinct with life and principle. It is no ideal face, no coun- tenance of jorm that would be at home in other countries, but athorough Yankee, that Mr. French has given to immortality. The commaud, the ready shrewdness, the immediate decision, and, avove ail, the air of freedom, that belong (0 the New Engiand race. The frame is stalwart, the shoulders squarely hela, the muscies of the bared forearms—the one that leans strongly on the pionga, the one that strongly grasps tne musket—are tense abd uoencumbered by flabby flesh; the great veins staud Knotted on the streuu- ons nands. The man I$ alive from head to soos, ana, indeed, we Know not where there is berter represented the momentery pause of vigorous action than in this novle statue, Th tue 8 to be dedicated with the eloquent language of one who once beiore set a monument on this ground, singing, im Words toat Will never dies The foe long since in silence Alike te eunqueror silent al Agu sine the ruined bridge vown (Ue dark stream which onward creeps On this green bank, 4 this soft stream, We set to-day a vot That Memory may their ead redeem hen, ike our sires, our sons are gone, Astanza from this immortai hymn 1s carvea upon the pedestal of the statue, and a rustic bridge, on the site of the old stractare for which the contestants waged the wage of battle, has wh thrown Across the stream. Young Frenon 18 to be home for the occasion, and ail tue cere- monies are to take piace on the spot where the Revolation begun, Alter the speeches and the festivities there is to be @ bail at Agricuitural Hall, and the glaaness and rejoicings are not to) stop till the day is fully expired by the slowest: clock in Convora, THE BATTLE OF CONCORD. In the May number of Marper's interesting magazine is puclished avery graphic account of the Concord fight, irom the pen of lrederic Mud. Som, author Of (he “History of Journalism.’ As Mr, Budson {8 an Old residqat OF Concord, and as 5 bis rignt hand grasps the old flint-lock | ittonal Continental cos- | features are , strongly Marked, and oear the energy, tne soit. | | be regarded as the most accurate description of | the famous fight that has yet bean publusned, We, | Merefore, lay before our readers the following ex- tract from his weil considered articie:— | THE COUNCIL OF WAR. On the highest potnt of land, where the Americans had assembled, the chief officers and citizens of Concord, with a few from the adjoining towns, held @ counct of war. here W4s an anlinat ed conversation on that tise toric spot. Robinson, Pierce and Brook or Buttries, Captains Davis, | Brown, Miles, Ba a Smith, citizens Wiliam | uraim Wood and others met and con. course they would pursae. These | patriots, requiring even more moral than physi- cal courage to mee, the regulars, armed with the | power of u strong government, did not jong hesi- | tate. Indeed, the aggressions of the euemy soon | provoked them tow decision, While these delib- | erations were absorbing their attention the Brit |4sn were ruthlessly burning gun carriages, wheels, the liverty pole and other spoils in the village, the | smoke :rom which rose in @ cloud over the coi | mon and was plainly to be seen by those om the bill, It appeared as if the enems had aiready set fire tothe town, The sight sent a thrill of indig+ nation through the ranks of the militia and min- ute men gathered there. In the mlast of the ex citement the energetic Hosmer exclaimed:— “THEY WAVE SEC THE VILLAGE ON FIRE! Will you let them burn itdown?” With taisdanger m view, and urged by the bold and emphatic | expressions of Major Buttrick and Captain | Davis, they immediately “resolved to march to | the middle of the town to defend their nomes or die in the atrempt.”” | Although the British force at the bridge was not | Over 150 to 200 men, there were more than 500 in the Village, a distance of balf a mile, 100 more un der Captain Pole only a mue iurther, and the three companies under Captain Parsons, expected to return at any moment irom Colonel Barrett’s, ‘The British cowid concentrate over 800 men within half an hour after the drst gun was fired. The Americans numbered 500, and in a military point of view were merely an “armed mob’ suddenly called together jor self-protection. The British were well organized, well disciplined, expertenced so.diers—veterans indeed, accustomed to war in all its rigor and sustained in waatever they did by agreat nation. But im face of ail this array was | there a doubt in the ranks of the Americans? In the excitement of the hour Captain Smith, of Line | coin, full of patriotic impulses, volunteered to ais- lodge the enemy at the bridge with bis single company. Smith had led his men to the Held on the first alarm, and leaving his horse | at Wrighv’s Tavern in the village took his | position on the bill avd joined in the coun- cil. Captain Davis, of Acton, animated with the same leelings, exciaimed, “I haven't a man that’s alraid to go!” This Was the spirit snown by the Provinciais, and it was decisive. It was arranged that in the forward movement Captain Davis, ag commander of the first company of minute men, should take the rigut, which he did in a galiant Maoner, It was thought best that the minute | men should have the advanced postion, because many of them had bayonets, and it was deemed best to be prepared for @ charge and-ciose ight | ing. THE CRISIS HAD COME. The council broke up, the officers took their | respective positions as well as circumstances would permit, and Colonel Barrett gave the order ; to march to “the bridge and pass the same, but not to fre on the King’s troops unless they were fired upon.” They wheeled {rom the rigut, Lautner Bianchbard and John Buttrick, the young Aiers, playing “The White Cockade,” advanced to the scene of action, and placed themselves in an ex- | posed position on the rough, narrow highway. Approaching the road leading trom Captain David Brown’s house to the bridge, the Acton minute men, under Davis, passed im jront, and marched toward tue bridge. In flies of two abreast tne Con- cord minute men, under Brown, pushed iorward, and came neXt in position, These companies were | followed by those of Captains Miles and Bar- rett, ‘The former marched to tue battiefield “with the same seriousness and ackpowledgment of God which he siways jelt om going to churen.” Tbe Acton militia company, under Lieutenant Simon Hunt, followed tne Con cord minute men. Those from Lincoln and Bedford tell in under the direction of Col onel Barrett, woo conunaed on horseback in the rear, giving orders to toe Voluateers as tney came iu Jrom the other towns. It 1s impossible to | state the precise position of all the Americans as tney advanced, Tue lower road, leading to the bridge. was narrow and subject to inundations, fod a wail had been built wit large stones, om the upper sive, ia which pos's were placed for @ railing, to ole 100% passengers to pass over when the river overiluwed the road. imagined that this was not a favorable place for the Jormation o: many men in battle array, even {i they hud oeen drilied soldiers, Major Buttrick took command of tne American in che forward movement. He was accompanied | by Lieutenant Colonel Robinson. Major Buttrick uested Colonel Rooinson to act as his superior, as be was his senior in years and im rank, but Colonel Robinson modestly declined, aud said ne would go as @ Volunteer aid, “Jo the leit band they held their fusees trated,” and macchea with Cuptan Davis and bis met Major Buttrick thas led this small band of patriots | IN DOUBLE FILE TO TH SCENE OF BLOOD, The British, somewhat scattered in small groups on the bridge and on the West bank oi tue river, noticing the advance Of the Americans, tm.nedt- ateiy lormed and crossed to the east bank, taking up some o/ the planks o/ the oridye as they passed over, The soldiers under Captain Lawrie, whe had previously retired to the hill, moved ior. | ward and joined their companioos on the rigni bank of the river. The attempt of the Britis t¢ dismant’e the bridge attraced the attentton o! Major Buttrick as the Americans were advancing, “two and two, aud turning the corner of the cross. road.” He remonstrated against the act im a loud and emphatic tone and ordered bis men to marca in @ quick step. Thereupon the enemy desisted from the destruction. Tney became al + vhe Meuacing movement of tho Americans, and it may have occurred to them at toe time that wost ever obstructions were piaced in the way of the Americans woula jeopard the salety of Captas | Parsons’ Getaclment. THE FIRST GUS. It was, according to Captain David Brown, “be ' tween nime and ten of the clock in the forenoon,” The British fred two or three guns in quick sac cession, Inese were precoocerted signal guna Jor the distant detachments of the enemy tore. turn at once, Woen the Americans arrived within tou or G.teen rods of the bridge, and were rapidly moving jorward, one of the regviars, a sharp sbouter, stepped from t ke aud discharged his musket, manifestiy aimed at Major Buttrics or Coione] Robinsun, the ball from which, passing under tue arm of the latter, slightly wounding | Luther Blanebard, the fifer of the Acton company, in the si ad Jonas Brown, one of the Concord | minute mes, Tow gun wos immediately folowed | by @ volley, Which instantly niliod Captain Ieaao | Davis and Private Abner Hosmer of Acton, a bal | passing through tae heart of the former and goother through the head of the latter, and ' slghuy wounding Ezekiel Davia, a brother o: Captain Davis, a ball passing through Gis bat and grazing oie bead, When he saw toat bit © Was wounded Captain Davis impulsively stepped to the wail by the road a Was im the act of sighting bis gan when he was hit by the enemy's snot, He Ang two or taree feet in the air, fell onthe north siae of the wall, fod expired Witnout utiering ® word, Josnua | Brooks, of Lincoln, Was struck with a ball that cur through his bas and drew bdiood on bis tore bead. It appeared as if he had been wita $ kalie; aad “I concinded,” said Privare Baker, ‘THAT THE BRITISM WERE FIRING JACKENIVES,”” | Mejor Buttrick, then im fromt of Captain instantly jumped irom the and partly turging to ow men impeta ously exclaimed, ‘Fire, fellow soldiers! tor Goa’e sake, fire’ discharging his own gun at the same moment, Captain Brown, who never bef.re nor | Miler used & proiane Word, exclaimed, “Gud dame bo spn ew are Gring balla! Fire men, fre)’ arew kot, deliverately aimed and Bred. tay | Secoud division Will be the President and View | he haa evidentiy devoted mubok Taiuavie time and | | Che ei tue deed Sewnsn soveeen bane’ seat WD