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10 THIS ROCK ISLAND ARGUS. MONDAY, JUNE 16, I9IS. The War fifty Years Ago Ineffectual Attempt to Capture Port Hudson, La. Fed eral Columns In General N. P. Banks' Army of the Gulf Storm the Breastworks Confederate Batteries Hurl Scrap Iron and Rusty Nails at the Assailants. General Thomas W. Sherman Rides at Head of Col umn Up to the Enemy's Abatis He Is Shot From the Saddle First Fight of Negro Troops The Assault a Failure Novel Election In Virginia "Ex tra Billy" Smith, Governor of the Old State. my wjpi. icuKit i. nun lr, uic MAY 27. fifty years ago. out a red day In tiie of General N. I. Bunks Br dpt. GEORGE L. KILMER. Lite V. S. V. turned history is' Army of the Gulf. After looking tbe p round over for some days and Teacliinc the conclusion that tbe tub was hopeless tbe troops were Ktut for ward to sturia the Confederate works t Tort Hudson, on tbe Mississippi, In tbe style urtitttM delight to portray. Tbe plan called for a grand simul taneous assnult by four divisions, but when tbe botir came tbe left column, led by General Thomas W. Sbermnn, bad tiot formed Its lines. Banks rode to Sherman's bivouac iu a bii?h temper and found Sherman calmly taking luDcb with bin officers. Hot words fol lowed, and Banks rode back to bead quarters, sending bis chief of stair to It A . Jr t . , a - 1 v : ' . " i Copyrucht by I'.evlew of Reviews comiJi.r.y. GENERAL THOMAS W. f I1KKMAX. U. S. A.. WOUNDED IN TUB A SALLT AT l'OKT HUDSON. tbe front to supersede tbe dilatory commander. When the officer reached Sherman's line tbe troopn were already In inotiou. Iind be wisely let well. enough oloue. The dlvlsiou moved lu iu column of two brigades, with r.n interval In tbe wcter. Sherman, In full dres. attondel by bis staff and esoort superbly tnount--d and equipped, galloped forward at tbe Mast of the trumpet and closed tbe luterval. , Then the line marched out from a screen of trees and dashed for tbe enemy's ramparts. Charged Through a Wall of Fire. 1 In front of the columns were four fences, and before these obstructions bad been . removed tbe Confederates opened, tire upon tbe assailants. . Not tinned with ordinary missiles, tbe gunners loaded some heavy naval guns mounted. upon the works with broken railway burs, chains and rusty scrnp Iron. In spite of the terrible fusillade Sherman's line charged up to the a ba lls, which, being formed of dry trees with pointed limbs, bad caught Cre from the shells The brave fellows who attempted to mount tbe huge trunk or cut away the branches to open a path were brought down by bullets fired at close range from the (urapet Sherman rode unscathed through the Vtorm until his horse was stopped by the ft bat is. although a bot fire was di rected upon him and the mounted offi cers in his train. Reaching the abatis, be was, shot from the saddle, with a battered leg. and two of his staff went down at the same time. The second in command. General Neal Dow, having Mso fallen. Banks' staff officer took command of the division and saved tbe Indomitable soldiery from useless anni hilation by ordering a retreat. When the sound of Sherman's guns .was heard on tbe left Banks ordered the center column under Geuerul C. C. 'Aujrur to charge. Tbe brigade of Colo nel Edward V. Cbapln. One Hundred end Sixteenth New York, led the dlvi 'lou. its front covered by skirmishers f the Twenty-first Maine." In rear of the skirmishers marched a storming icolnmn of iXK) volunteers, with Lieu tenant Colonel O'Brien of the Forty Igbth Massachusetts at their bead. The stormers carried in their bands All the News All the Time bags of cotton and fascines to fill tbe ditch in advance of tbe main column. Scrap Iron Used as Canister. Colonel Cbapln's own regiment, the One Hundred and Sixteenth New York, held tbe right of tbe line, with tbe Forty-eighth Massachusetts on the left. These were supported, by the Forty ninth Massachusetts, the Second Loui siana and the reserves of the Twenty first Maine. An eyewitness. Colonel It. B. Irwia of General Banks stair, thus describes Cbapln's charge: "O'Brien shook bands with the officer who brought him tbe last order and, turning to his men. who were lying or sitting near by. some on their cotton bags, others on the ground, said In tbe coolest and most businesslike manner. Tick up your bundles and come on.' The movement of the stormers was the signal for tho whole line. A truly magnificent sight was the advance of these battailous with their colors flying and borne steadily toward the front, yet not for long. "Hardly had tbe movement begun when the whole force officers, men. colors and all became inextricably en tangled in tbe dense abatis under a fierce and withering fire of artillery. Besides tbe fleldpieces bearing directly on the front of the column two twenty four pounders poured upon its flank a storm of missiles of all sorts, with fragments of railway bars and broken chains of" grape, rusty -nails and the raklngs of scrap iron heap for canister. No part of tbe column ever passed be yond the abatis, nor was it even possi ble to extricate the troops in any order without greatly adding to the list of casualties, already of fearful length. Banks was for putting in the supports, but before anything could be done came bad news from the left, and at last it was clear to tbe most persistent that tbe day was miserably lost" Cbapin and O'Brien were shot dead while struggling to cut their way through the abatis. Nearly every offi cer In tbe storming party was killed or wounded, and the Twenty-first Maine color guard was totally destroyed. Charge of Banks' Eight Wing. The right wing of Banks' army tin der General Godfrey Weltrel happily escaped tbe dull and hopeless slaughter suffered by the left and center. The Confederate defenses on tbe land side at Port Hudson were nearly four miles long and touched tbe river at each end. In front of Weitzel tbe defenses bad been hastily prepared to meet the at tack by felling huge logs along the crest of tbe hill. The ravines approach ing the hill were barricaded with a net work of limbs. Welutel's men could not even see the enemy they were to attack. They be came a bold mark for a destructive era of small arms, grape, shell and canis ter the moment the lice left the cocer of the hollows and the timber. Final ly, after climbing over hills, logs and fallen trees and forcing tbe ravines filled with brush, the troops drove back the Confederates and seized the ridge THE ARGUS about 200 yards from tbe main point selected for attack. - As the infantry advanced the pio neers opened the roads, and live bat teries were hauled to the crest. Some of tbe regiments took an hour to move half a mile. So thicwas the brush that men could see only a few feet. and at one point a Confederate officer i and his skirmishing party were sux prised and captured In a ravine before they were aware that the Federals were coming. Weitzel's attack began early in the morning, and after it had spent Its main strength an atttmpt was made I on tbe extreme right to force tbe Con federate lines near the river. Two col ored regiments of Louisiana negroes lined up iu front of a rugged bluff which projected boldly from tbe main I height, forming a natural bastion with perpendicular sides and Inaccessible except by a narrow road winding along Its base. The ridge wis held by Colo nel Shelby's Mississippi regiment, aid ed by six field guns and two colum biads firing eight Inch and ten inch shrapnel. First Fight of Negro Troops. When tbe head of column of negroes reached the foot of the hill. Shelby's men opened up on them with musketry from the rifle plrs on the crest. The negroes pressed gallantly on and soon got within range of the field guns, which raked tbe line with shell and shrapnel. Still struggling on, they came under the enfilade fire of the columblads. Fushing into the narrow gorge leading up the bill, the foremost negroes were within 200 yards of. the top when all the guns bearing upon their course began belching canister. Courage against canister is like a broom against tbe ocean. Blood and bones cannot stand it. The leading regiment fell back in disorder and struck tbe one following at the base of the bill. Both regiments rallied under cover and reformed for a second charge. Confederate bullets, shrapnel, canis ter and scrap iron did not fly wild at Fort Hudson, notwithstanding the ir regularity and confusion of the lines. Over 100 Federal officers, including two generals and nine colonels, were shot down and nearly 2.000 soldiers in the ranks killed and wounded. The Con federate loss was comparatively light, probably less than 300. although Banks' guns bombarded tbe works at inter vals, beginning at daylight. Banks went into the movement against Fort Hudson In the belief that General Grant would send help from the large army operating around Vicks burg. This help was ordered from Washington, but the dispatch didn't reach Grant until bis troops were in battle near Vicksburg tbe 17th of May. It required him to abandon the Vicks burg campaign, but he had already half won the game and declined to give up. Having failed to carry the Confederate works by storm. Banks en tered upon a siege which finally ended in the surrender of Fort Hudson. Triple Election In Virginia. Fifty years ago. May 28. three state elections were held in Virginia, one un der Confederate auspices and two la sections which supported the union. General" William or "Extra Billy" Smith was elected governor of the Confederate "state" to succeed the noted John Letcher. Smith was a military and political character, of a type new in the con servative south. He received a clas sical education in Virginia and began the practi-t of law. Joining his for tunes with those of Andrew Jackson, he made fame as a public speaker. Smith served as state senator and congressman in Jackson's days and GENERAL WILLIAM ("EXTKA BTLLT") SMITH. C. 8. A.. OOVKltNOR OP VIKGrSlA. one morning in 1S45 woke up to find that he was governor of the state. The legislature had elected him to the executive- chair, and some enemy of his promptly had the power of electing a governor taken from that body. The gold fever attracted Smith to Califor nia at the expiration of his term as gov ernor, bnt be soon returned, and the outbreak of the civil war found him back in the Old Dominion. He soon took the field as colonel of tbe Forty ninth Virginia infantry. He was a gallant fighter and won a brigadier generalship before the people of the Confederate state elected him gover nor. Tbe unique nickname "Extra Billy" was a survival of General Smith's first business enterprise. He became a heavy contractor for carrying United States mails by post coaches running from Virginia all the way to Georgia. Tbe routes lay through North and Sooth Carolina, and the contractor of ten asked for and invariably received compensation not specified in the con- tract and known as "extras" 00000000000000000000009000 0 PAPER HANGING S Q and decorating. Paper hung by Q O the roll or contract. Prices g gladly given. O. F. STANLY. O : 5 Telephone West 2725. Q oooooooooooooooooooocoooco Z jet JTSjf"''1 WILY WOMAN WON She Made Up Her Mind to Get That News, and She Got IL In clearing the ground for some im provements in Potomac park in Wash ington the contractor some time ago removed a stone that for nenrly a cen tury was a quaint landmark in the na tional capital. It is called the "Anne Royall stone1 and lay on the bank of he river just opposite tUe White House, about twenty feet back from tbe water's edge, at the top of a grass covered knoll. It was' on this stone that Anne Roy all sat when sbe had her famous inter view with President John Qulncy Ad amsat least so runs the story that has been handed down for three gen erations by tbe inhabitants of Wash ington. And. according to that story, it would appear that tbe good lady for whom the stone was named was not only a person of . energy, but was endowed with considerable grim determination as well. She evidently had a good strong will of herown and an active mind of her own, and when these two started to work in concert in deadly earnest results were bound to follow. Whether the good lady's sense of hu mor was cramped or extensive tbe reader must determine for himself. Anne Royall was in a sort the mother of modern journalism. She was the originator of the "interview ." Sbe first, in the little sheet that she published In Washington in the second and third decades of the last century, departed from the. dry forms that had always characterized newspapers. Sbe did not confine herself to a mere summary of current happenings, even spiced with careful essays on abstract subjects, after the manner of Steele or Addison. She struck firmly the "per sonal note." She wrote and printed things about public men as they were in their daily lives an innovation the startling effect of which we cannot re alize today. Her paper was called the Washington Paul Pry and afterward tbe Huntress. During the administration of John Qtilncy Adams congress passed a cer tain bill, tbe signing or veto of which by the president was a matter of in tense public interest. In those days the interview of tbe president by a newspaper man was unheard of. and no one had the temerity to ask Mr. Adams what '.e would do in tbe matter. But there was one exception among the timorous Journalists of that day. It was Anne Royall. She dared to ap ply at the White House for a confer ence with the president, the avowed object of which was to learn from him bis intentions concerning the bill. Poor Anne, however, was kept at a discouraging distance. Day after day she waylaid the president, only to be foiled by bis attendants. But sbe did not grow discouraged. She learned that every morning, immediately after rising, the president walked to the bank of the Potomac, some half a mile iu tbe rear of the White House, and there, after taking off his clothes, plunged into the stream for a swim. One morning when the president after swimming far out into the stream turned to make bis way back toward the shore be was astonished to see. sitting upon bis clothing, which he had left upon a stone on the bank. & spec lacled female with a look of great de termination. It was Anne Royall. and beside her were a pen and bottle of ink. and in her hand was a sheet of taper. "Woman, depart:" sputtered the president us be swam up into tbe sbal lows where he- could touch tbe bottom a-tiptoe. "You know who I am. Mr. Presi dent." said tbe woman, "and you know wh-at 1 want. I'm going to sit here until you tell me what you intend do ing with that Cherokee Indian bill." "Go away, woman V shouted the president. "This is scandalous-" "It's scandalous." Anne is reported to have said "that the people of a free country have to resort to such extreme wessures to find out what their serv ants arc going to do.. You give me the information that I am entitled to: then I'll give yon your clothes. Otherwise I'll stay here and you'll stay therej" There was only ojie outcome to such a struggle. The . shiverjug president told Anne wnat he expected to do and why he would do it. Then, and not until then, did Anne, armed with copi ous. notes, rise from the stone that she bad made famous and hasten to her little printing office, where she lost no time in getting that first and mos! famous presidential interview iutt print. Youth's Companion. They Didn't Like Razors. Bald Daniel Webster: " tbe rasor! It has taught me to curse. It has cost me more time and more trouble than 11 my speeches." Rufus Choate. tbe lawyer, called tbe razor an Instrument invented by Luci fer to fill up bell with barristers. Edward Everett never nsed profane language, but before shaving be would Invariably give vent to all aorta of French barbarisms. The Retort. Here is a retort which a "dull stu dent" once made: Professor You seem to be very dull. When Alexander the Great was your age he had already conquered th world. Student Well, yon see. he bad Aristotle for a teacher. Chambers' Journal. f. : Missed Vocation. Client Didn't you make a mistake In going into law instead of the army? Lawyer Why? Client By tbe way you charge there would be little left If tbe enemy. London Tit-Bits. ' Practice. "I could hold year hand forever!" be exclaimed rapturously. . "If you did." sbe replied calt&ly. "vou might learn how." life. Daily United States Weather Map U. S. nr Unsettled and contin ued warm with prob able showers. Pw3r - Wife ,;, tif wwliseo EXPLANATORY"NOTE9. ObMrystlons taken tt 8 s. tn.. 7Tith meridian Mme. Air pressure reduced to sea level. Isobars fenntlninn llnMl thmnsh nntnts ofequal air pressure. Isotherms IdoUed lines) pass througH points of equal ttaimwlST. O clear; partly cloudy; cloudy: rain; snow; report missing. Arrows fly wltn the wind. First flcures. lowest temperature past 12 hours: second, precipitation of .01 Inch or more for past 24 hours; third, maximum wind velocity. " WEATHER CONDITIONS. i Showers and occasional thunder storms in the southern portion of the lake region and in the St Lawrence valley and northern New England have resulted from the northwestern area of lpw pressure which has moved eastward to the province of Quebec. This disturbance has also been attend ed by high temperatures from the Mis sissippi and lower Missouri valleys to the Atlantic coast Another low which overlies the Rocky mountain plateau has beeh accompanied by thunderstorms in the upper Missouri valley and the northern Rocky moun tain sections and by showers on the north Pacific coast. The pressure re mains moderately high in the lower Mississippi valley and on the north Pacific coast, and another high, ac companied by cooler weather, is cen CHICAGO MARKETS. (By Associated Press.) Cattle 18.000; strong to 10c higher. Beeves 7.359.10; stockers and feed ers C.408.30; cows and heifers 3.90 8.50; calves 7.75S10.75. Hogs 4S.OO0; weak, 5c under Satur day's average. Bulk 8.70(08.80; light 8.C08.00; mixed 8.508.87; heavy 8.258.77. Sheep 24,000; slow, 15c lower; 5.00 (5.10. Hog prices weakened as result of a run today, being larger than the trade expected. Intense heat caused heavy mortality among animals in transit. Cattle Only moderate supply. Ow ing t.o the heat, however, buyers hold ing oft awaiting a "shrink." In sheep trade, bulk of offerings con sisted of natives, too heavy to be good sellers. Chicago Cash Grain. Wheat No. 2 red,' 102 106; No. 3 red, 90 100; No. 2 hard, 94 95; No. 3 hard, 92 94. Corn No. 2. C2S62V2; No. 2 white, 62V4G2Vi; No. 2 yellow 6262Vi; No. 3, G1G2; No. 3 white, C2C2'i; No. 3 yellow, C2C2:.i. Oats No. 2 white, 42Vi42; No. 3, 39V440; No. 3 white, 40?i41; standard, 41 42. July wheat opened 92Vi92V4ffl clos ed 93 93S8. Corn oppned C14C2; losed G2. Oats opened 41V442i; closed 42T. Pork 20.75. Lard 11.07 11.10. Ribs 11.77. NEW YORK STOCKS. New York, June 16. Following are the quotations on .the New "York stock market today. American Sugar Refining 106Vi American Tel. & Tel 127 ; Athfcson 9574 j Northwestern ... .; 127VS j St. Paul 102' ! Illinois Central 112 V j International Harvester 102 j New York Central 99 'i i Northern Pacific ... lOG'i i Pennsylvania 109 ! People's Gas 107 1 Reading 156 j Rock Island common 15 '. Rock Island preferred 24 : Union Pacific 144 j U. S. Steel common 52Ts U. S. Steel preferred 104 LOCAL MARKET CONDITIONS. June 16. Following are the whole sale quotations on tno local market today: Butter, Eggs and Cheese. Eggs, fresh, doz 18C Butter, dairy, lb 25c Butter, creamery, lb 29c Butter, packing stock, lb 18c Vegetables. Potatoes, bushel S0c Parsley, bunch 3 l-3c Tomatoes, green house, lb. 20c Onions, bunch 2c Cucumbers, eacL 15c, 10c, 5c Lettuce, lb 12c Lettuce, head, lb 25e New potatoes, Florida, bbL ...f6.7a New Cabbage, Louisiana, Jb 4c Onions. Texas, Bermuda and Silver Skin lb 6c, 4c Chickens. Old cocks 8c Chickens 14c Spring 25c Today's Market Quotations Department of Agriculture. Father bureau. W74 30.: - - AAA- tral over North Dakota. This distribu tion of air pressure will probably be attended by thundershowers in thl3 vicinity tonight or Tuesday. OBSERVATIONS. High. Low. Prep. Atlantic City 74 66 .00 Boston 74 60 .00 Buffalo .....76 60 .04 Rock Island 90 73 .00 Denver 92 52 .00 Jacksonville 94 70 .00 Kansas City 94 70 .00 New Orleans 84 72 .00 New York ..SO 64 .00 Norfolk 92 70 .00 Phoenix 98 72 .00 St. Louis 94 72 .00 St Paul .... 96 68 .00 San Diego 68 68 .00 San Francisco .... 60 52 .00 Fish Market Buffalo .8c Perch 4c to 7c Halibut, fresh ." 10c Pickerel, lb. 8c Trout, lb 12c Catfish, lb 15c Halibut, lb 10c Flour, Feed and Fuel. Straw, ten .'.9.50 Straw, bale 4045c Hay, prairie, bale 50c COc Bran, ton $23.00 Bran, cwt $1.25 Ear corn, bushel 58c Oats, load, bushel 40c Corn chop, cwt fl.35 Shorts, tpn $24.00 Shorts, cwt $1.25 Wheat bushel ...85c Corn, bushel' 65c Coal, lump, per ton $3.504.00 Timothy hay $14 $17 POCKETS VERSUS HAND BAGS. Real Reason of the Subjection of Wo man to Man. Civilized man finds it difficult to make his way through life without a dozen pockets. Tbe ordinary walking suit has fifteen. Civilized woman makes ber way through life without pockets, depending on a single bag curried in the band. The professional humorists have never tired of com menting on woman's pocketless condi tion, but it is really no laughing mat ter. Here is n sex difference which is something more than fashion, which goes to the very heart of the subjec tion of woman to man. If we accept Spencer'a definition of the evolution ary process as consisting in progress from an indefinite homogeneity to a definite heterogeneity the superior po sition of man Is at once established. His fifteen diversified pockets, each al located to a separate use wstch, cigar case, pocketknife, purse, newspaper and package of garden seeds need only be contrasted with the single reticule in which the female of the spe cies stores away an unco-ordinnted mass of handkerchiefs, toilet articles, car fare, press clippings, telephone ad dresses, dress goods samples, confec tionery, memoranda and tradesmen's bills that have long been settled by check. Strong in his pockets, man walks the earth free in the piny of his upper limbs, whereas woman sacrifices the A polluted and impure condition of the blood causes irritation and in flammation t,f the different mucous membranes of the body, and we call it Catarrh. The early stages of the disease are characterized by euch symp tom as a tight, stuffy feding in the nose, watery eyes, ringing noises in the ears, irritation cf thethroat, and often hoarseness and difficultbreathing. If the trouble is not checked it invades the stomach and other portions of the body and becomes a dangerous disorder. Antiseptic washes, sprays, etc., are beneficial in removing accumulated mucus from the nose or throat, but such treatment can never cure Catarrh. S. S. S. is the one real de pendable remedy for Catarrh. This great medicine cures the disease be cause it purifies the blood and thus destroys its cause. S. S. S. goes inti the circulation and removes the last trace of catarrhal matter, and then the , - have Catarrh in any form take S. S. S. and cure it as thr-usr,nc3 Lave done. Book on Catarrh aud any medical advice free to all who write. S. S. S. is sold at drag stores. THE SWIFT. SPECIFIC CG, ATLANTA, GA Seattle '. . 64 - 48 .01 Washington, D. C. . 92 68 .00 Winnipeg 86 54 .00 Yellowstone Park . 44 .00 MISSISSIPPI RIVER. Flood. HeightChng. St. Paul 14 1.7 0.4 Red Wing 14 .3.4 0.3 Reed's Landing ...12 3.7 ., 0.2 La Crosse ., 12 4.1 0.3 Lansing IS 5.0 0.3 Prairie du Chien . 18 5.9 0.2 Dubuque TS "7.0 0.2 Le Claire 10 3.6 0.4 Rock Island 15 5.9 0.7 RIVER FORECAST. Slowly falling stages in the Missis sippi will prevail from below Dubuque to Muscatine. J. M. SHERIER, Local Forecaster. use of her right arm before venturing out in a world of street cars, motor cars, moving staircases, elevators and ticket booths. New York Post v , -v No Wonder She Behaved. I "I believe." said the minister, with a twinkle in his eye. "that the saying that children and fools tell the truth" is true. The other day my wife and I were invited out to dinner. Tbe chil dren of the family wore so remarka bly well behaved that my wife re marked: " 'What lovly. well behaved children yours are. Mrs. Brown'.' 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