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KOCK ISLAND ARGUS. THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1913.
The War Fifty Years Ago
Retreat of General R. E. Lee's Confederate Army From
Gettysburg Federal Cavalry Pursuers Checked In
Hand to Hand Combat Lee at Bay Behind Earth
works Fighting Renewed In the Vicksbarg Zone.
General W. T. Sherman Lays Siege to Jackson, Miss.
Disastrous Charge of Nine Hundred Men Federals
Land From Rowboats on Morris Island, Charleston
Harbor An Attack on Confederate Battery Wagner.
Br Cant. GEORGE L. KILMER. Late U. S. V.
THE second week in July fifty
years ago witnessed the retro
grade movement of the Con
federate invud'TM of Feuns-yl-Tarda.
As moo ii as the F!eral authori
ties lu Washington realised that Lee
had been defeated at Gettysburg. In
the heart of the Keystone State, the
well woru message -Ion't let Lee get
uwny" was repented with einphusiH to
the victorious commander at Gettys
burg. General Georgi: G. Meude.
Compared with the great retreats of
history, the escape was a marvelous
feat. General V. 15. Illrney went out
oa the Fairfield road with part of his
and waited for Mende or the falling of
the ride.
Meade Arrived at the river oa July
12. and Lee stood at bay behind earth
works Lee had but a few rounds of
ammunition for his guns, and every
one of his regimen's had fought in the
thick of it at Gettysburg. Meade had
plenty of everything, and his fresh di
visions, which had not fired a shot at
Gettysburg, outnumbered the battered
battalions of Lee's army.
A Sequel to Vicksburg.
In the timber, driving the Confederate
back and slowly advancing until th
front line had gone to the edge of soma
timber that lay in front of their works.
Colonel Pugh saw that to advance far
ther meant an assault or sure death, in
open field. lie ordered the men to lie
down to protect themselves from the
shells of the enemy, which were flying
overhead in a lively manner. Just then
an orderly rode up to General I.auinan
and handed him an order, which, h
read and immediately sent Colonei
Pugh's column forward.
"Oh, the Carnage of That Hour."
What followed was described in a
narrative written by Colonel E. T. Let
of the Forty-first Illinois as follows
"Scarcely had the word been ppoken
when the remnants of these four old
regiments, about 900 men in all, movefi
forward with a terrific cheer that al
most made the earth tremble. For
ward they go, right into the Jaws oi
death, for they are facing the famouk
New Orleans light artillery, one of tho
finest batteries in the field; also Ma
bane's Tennessee battery, Cobb's Ken.
tucky battery and General J. C. Breck.
inridge's division of veterans, behind
impregnable breastworks.
"A section of the Fifth Ohio battery
follows up the charge, and see those
gallant boys. Every horse is killed.
and almost every man who belonged fc
man. lot 17. block 5, Donahoo & Con
ner's First addition. East Moline, $250.
Louis E. Dodson to Harry E. Repine,
part lot 12, Brien & Lament addition,
Rock Island. S600.
Carl A. Johnson to Otto Mortenson.
lot 160 Emma D. Velie's addition,
Moline, $2700.
Paulina Depaeger et all to John
Eckennan, lot 7. Depaeger's First ad
dition, Moline, $1035.67.
Otto McVtenson to Carl A. Johnson,
out lot 18, Donahoo & Cosner's First
addition, East Moline, $1200.
H. B. Carpenter et al to George E.
Sudlow, ne s., se 4, sec. 27-17-1 w,
$1500.
Iowa Wood & Sancke to Frank Brus
so, 33.6 acres on Island "Ah," $336.
Porter, Fish & Young to O. V. and
M. M. tFnderwood, Warner's Park ad
dition. East Moline, $900.
Marie and A. C. Maas to John Kroe
ger, lot 1, block 11, B. Davenport's
fourtji addition. Rock Island. $2,000.
Matilda and John Frederickson to
Edmund and Antoinette Cabor, part
lot 6. Suess sub-division, Moline, $600.
John G. Scheuerman to George
Himes, part east half, northeast quar
ter, section 3, 17, 2w, $475.
eral
with
trmy bad captured ioksburg,
its 20,001) prisoners and all the
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On July 5. 1803, Just after the Fed- J the battery has gone down in the strug
gle to help out the infantry. ve look
again and see the shattered line has
reached the breastworks, and some
have gone over tbem into the ranks of
the enemy only to be made prisoners.
Colonel Pugh as soon as he could make
his voice heard above the dH of battle
gave the order for recall. But it waa
too late. Oh, the carnage ol that hour,
the sad havoc of some officer's mistake!
Out of those 000 who went in the
charge history gives the figures that
045 were killed and wounded. There
were a few tnnde prisoners of war who
had charged over the enemy's works."
Flags a Special Target.
The Federal regimental colors were
the special targets of the enemy's ar
tillery. The bine field flag of the For-tv-flrst
Illinois had two of its bearers
wounded and four killed. The last to
hold this flag was Sergeant Samuel IV
Hall of Company F. He was wounded
twire. The last time he was shot he
fell near the Confederate works. The
flag was sent to Richmond ns a trophy
of war and returned to the regiment iu
lStf.. The color bearer of the Fifty
third Illinois was Sergeant George
Poinidstone of Ottawa. He carried his
flag almost to the breastworks.
When he saw that he was about to
be taken he said. "They can't get the
ting unless they get me." Reaching
u he tore it from the stuff and was
I in the act of putting it undor his jack
et when a shell struck lam. nlruost sev
ering his bead from his body. This
flag went to Richmond with the oth
ers and also returned. The re'all was
soundrd. a::d whet was left of the gal-
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IX I.LK'S RKTKKAT FROM GF.T-
and to:;sed! I''l'heru.'.liii of the forts, with
ly. ,. ; thouoands of sin::l! arms, fjeui-ra
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T. Sherman was ordered bv jr;
pro-eeu to .Tacksoi!. Miss.. :iud drive
the Confederate army under General i lant brigade rallied around the remain-
p i..-t. u ii Ii Genera
;n t Lef'ii nil' the pursuers, i
Seiiu;.-!; Imihed l!ie f.niiil ever and'
K.i'l the pnitei:i was ten strong to be
cairi' d .y ;n-.:i.ll. i
Tcdernl Cavalry Punv.it.
Gein r.i! .Ii.d-.':i Ki!p::!ri.-k also set
out .lu'y Ti to Iie.id off I.ee with three
cavalry iTigades. lie str;: U General
".Iel" Smart's tniiTs in Mnnter.-y
tass and while l.htlng them in front
was attached in the rear by a b.nly of
Lee's infantry. The dashing cavalry
man cut his way tliroiigli Smart's lines
aud p.1e fT toward the Potomac with
1.S;m priseuers l;i hi train. Lee's
wagons were under u str ing eirt.
eouiinaiided by General .1. I). Iinbodeli. j
Kilpatriil; oflen att;:rl.ed the muting;
rolini.n sj bolilly tlrit lniUxleu wan
roinpi'lled to mm canister to save his '
train. I
KI!p:i trick readied ILigerstown. 511..
and found It lu pos: cssion of S:n:i!t.
but he did not tuni hack. Gaptal-i
I'lrie I lahlj.ren. on Kilpa trick's sta!T.
distinguished himself by a charge into
the Htrcets packed with Stuart's troop
er, t'aptalu Lindsay of Company A.
Eighteenth IVimsylvatila cavalry, liad
been killed in a hand to hand tight,
mi, I Pahlgven led the survivors of the
company I:i n d.ish across the public
suare. lie lost a leg lu the exploit
and was ;iveii colonel's commission
for caliwntry.
Imboden's r!nnin of trains was
fourteen miles Ions. When it reached
the Potomac the river was so high on
accoiint of went rains that crossing
by ford was Impossible. Lee's bridge
to the Virginia side had Iwen destroy
ed behind him by Federals. Hi. artil
lery. luelinUiu: that under lrubodeu.
was without numiuuition. and if ever
cn army was lu h plight it was the
Army of Northern Vlrtfnia. faeinc a
fl'MMlcd and lridKe!es river with the
foe closinj; tn.
Confederates Turn to Fight.
The town of WinuinBport was con-
founded. tie,.,.ral Jhu UU
l et.eral cava'.rr ro,1e im ti,.
oi'tposls. and l,.,b,.den turned to kM
aWTiers were foni.tsl i nuc anJ
meereu ey v.miiuIM soldiers who
were able to br.ndlo a sword. Several
boxes of ntrnnu.'t'nn had been brought
ovur from Vlrpnin in a bent, aud Im
lmdeu's tuns tret Lufoid's troopers
with doses of canister.
Lee tr.arohed Ul infantry to Fallln?
Waters, on the Potomac, little snp
jMisinj: tint the pontoon bridge be had
left there en the march north la June
Iind been destroyed while he wag Cftht
Intf Meade .it pettysburp. It was gone-,
nr.d the Pctouiac swept over the fords
In n resistless flood rortnnate'y the
position Is la a bend and could not be
attacked on the Cank. Lee fortiCed
the narrow line across the peninsula
Joseph E. Johnston from Jackson and !
i the Mississippi valley. Sherman took !
i wiili him men. iiieiudinx Gen j
eral .1. I..-n:man's division uf the Thir- I
! tccnth army -nrps.
Jaeusiin i-: lifty miles e"st of Vi Its-
burs a!:d in ls'k! was a railroad cen
ter, with eoitiieeiiicis north, south, east
j ::i:d west, and was controlled by Fed
; er.ils. Iu May Jackson fell into Grant's
i hands, t ut was rhandoncd when his
main army moved on west to attack
! the MisM..ipp: stronghold. Gcnerrl
i Johpsion promptly reo-cupitnl the town
as a rallying point for forces which he
i hoped to gather for an attack upon
Grant's re:ir.
At the close of June four Confed
erate divisions marched from that
point west anil had advanced halfway
to the Federal besiein camp when
Johnston received news that the
flace had surrendered. Lemming to
ing colors. There were forty-seven
survivors of th-.' Forty-first Illinois,
some of them sl'.phtly wounded. Ser
geant II. M. Rtreeter of Armenia car
ried this (laji. and with his flapstaCT
shot in two and the flat: tern and rid
dled with b illets and shol'.s he brought i
it off the field In triumph.
Over two-thirds of the men who bad
gone into the charge had been killed
and wounded or taken prisoners. Gen
eral Lauma:i was placed under arrest,
lie demanded an Investigation, but
died without any belli? made.. He al
ways said that he was not to blame
for the great loss of his men.
Other Eve of the Week.
Fifty years hzo. July S. Genera! John
H. Morgan's raiders. 2.500 strong, with
teu cannon, crossed the Ohio river into
Indiana. On July 9 the Confederate
fortified post at Port Hudson. La..
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derfully developed. In the long
distance events she uses a double
overhand with a peculiar little catch
that sends her flying through the
water. Her kick is a combination of
the scissors and the crawl, which she
alternates with each stroke. In the
sprint events she SA'ims a crawl that
would do credit to any man. George
Freeth taught her that, and it was
strong enough to win the 50-yard
swim and get a new record for her.
ir.g for his body. Frank fell from
the pier and dragged his companion,
Peter Wyngaard, 10 years old, into
tho river. The, latter swam ashore,
but Frank drowned.
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Getting Up Speed.
"Well. George." said u Georgia man
not long ago to an old negro in his
employ. "I understand that ;-ou intend
to give your son an education."
"Dat's my Intention, suh." responded
George. "I knows myself what 'tis to
struggle along widout learnin". an' 1
has determined my son ain't goln' to
have no sich trouble as I's had."
"Is your son learning rapidly?"
"He shore is. sail. Las' week lie done
wrote a lettah to his aunt what lives
more'n twenty miles from yore, an'
aftwhile lie's goin' to write to his
aunt dat lives 'bout tifty miles from
yere."
"Why doesn't he write to that aunt
now?" smilingly asked the employer.
"He Uaint write so fur ylr. sah. He
feln write twenty miles rust rate, but I
tnle him not f. try tifty miles till he;
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Marinette, Wis. Frank Tzynirk, 0
years old, was forbidden playing on a
pier in the Menominee river, but lie
disobeyed, and now they are search-
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The Proof Is In Rock Island, Almost at
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GENERAL J. G. LAUMAN. U. S. A.. AND GENERAL J. C. BRECKIN'
RILiGE, C. S. A., OPPOSING LEADERS AT JACKSON.
Jacksou, he began to fortify for de
fense. Sherman's advance arrived on
July fun. The Federals promptly
closed in on the city and drove the
Confederates back to their breast
work The city was invested from
Pearl river oa the north to the Mis
sissippi Central railroad on the south.
IJiuman's division was ordered to take
positiou ou the south, and Colonel
Isaac C. Pugh's brigade, composed of
the Twenty-,ighth. Forty-first and
tifty-third Illinois and Third Iowa in
fantry, was selected to fill a gap be
tween the railroad and Pearl river and
drive the enemy into his works.
A Disastrous Charge.
On the 12th General Lauman'a divi
sion was ordered to make a reconnois
snnre on its front for the purpose of
locating good sites whereon to estab
lish Federal batteries. Pugh's brigade
btd teen maneuvering all the morning
commanded by General Frank Gard
ner, surrendered to General N. P.
Banks as the result of a six weeks'
siege. July 10 Federal batteries and
warships opened fire upon the Con
federate works ou Morris island.
Charleston harbor. At the end of a
two hours' bombardment Ger.eral
George C. Strong's brigade landed on
the beach from rowboats which had
ferried them across a narrow chan
nel from Folly Island.
Early on th llth Strong's brigade
advanced against a powerful Confeder
ate battery which guarded the north
end of the island from shore to shore.
The column was met by a hail of grape
nd canister and recoiled at the para
pet. The work was known as Battery
Wagner. It was about two miles dis
tant from Fort Sumter. Both works
nred upon the assailants, who fell back
to the middle of the island and began
to intrench.
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dash and second, after a hot finish, in
the 410.
Though she did not win the final
event of the day, she and Miss Mar
querite Brack swam neck- and-neck
the entire distance, but Miss Brack's
hand touched tho ropo an instant
ahead of her rival's. Everyone com
mented upon the Redondo girl's good
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showing in the longer distance after
her tiring fight in the fifty.
Miss Mings is only nineteen years
old. Rather young, one would say.
for an American record-holder, for
such she is by virtue of her perform
ance in the fifty-yard swim.
Asked to tell something of herself,
she says:
"I first began to swim when I was
12 years old, when they taught me
to dog-paddle in the water. Then
I came to Redondo, which is about
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six years ago, but I did not take up
racing swimming until about three !
years later.
"My first competition wa3 with !
Mrs. Desch, who beat me in the nun- j
dred, which she covered in 1:37:2.1
But since then I have done the hun- i
dred in 1:22." There was a tcuch of!
pride in that last statement. I
Since her first defeat. Miss Mings!
has had an unbroken string of vie-1
tories. George Freeth, the Kanaka i
trainer, took hold of her after he
came to Redondo and to him belongs !
all the credit for her development, j
In March, 1912, she won the 50
yard swim at the Los Angeles Ath
letic club, and in April of the same
year she set the record which she
beat Saturday for fifty yards at 40
seconds flat. Then she captured the
open-water swim for ladies from
Ocean Park to Rose avenue, which
is about half a mile. In September
sho set her 100-yard record of 1:22;
and her 440 record of 8 minutes and
8 seconds.
"I just love to swim and think,
that it is a swell sport," she said. "I j
find the swimming here very easy :
and I have no trouble in making any
of the distances. How do I turn?;
Why, Just like a man, under water, ;
which Is the only way to do if you j
want t6 succoed ia competition swim-'
ming. Oh, there goes the S0 now ;
and I just have to see it, so will you i
excuse me, please?" i
And away she skipped, and her '
shrill cries of "Come oa, Ludy" (Ludy
Is Ludy Langer, the Redondo long-
distance man) could be heard far ;
away.
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