The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, August 19, 1915, Page NINE, Image 9
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Uwana Theatre.
Programme For August.
EveryTuesday Night
"The Million Dollar Mystery"
Every Friday Night
"The Exploits of J Elaine"
Uwana Theater,
Kingstree, - - - S. C.
Plies Cured In 6 to 14 Days
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A Battle Within a 1
Battle
By M. QUAD
Copyright, 1Hi, by tho HcCture
N?wip&p?r Syndicate.
Our battery had been doing splendid
service. From our position on the
right we could see the shells drop into
the woods and break up the formation
oI the Confederate cavalry every time
they left cover. ^
We knew where they were. Jet>
Stuart's old troopers were there; Wade
Hampton's dragoons were there?I mboden,
Rosser, Mosby?every Confederate
cavalry command we had fought
in Virginia was making ready in the
shelter of the woods to charge on our
left dank.
"Boom! Boom I Boomf
The gunners knew what was at
stake. The orders were to die at the
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guns 11 tne position couia nut ue neiu.
For half an hour their bunting sheila
kept the front dear, and we of the
cavalry cheered them.
Out from the cover of the forest at
half a dozen places gallop the gray
troopers by hundreds. They wheel to
the right and left, form in two lines,
take their distance, close up with a
trembling motion, and now there will
be a grand charge. The shells burst
in front of them, among them, but
discipline Is stronger than the fear of
death.
Less than 300 of us?all cavalry?to
support the battery. If that mob of
gray riders ever reaches the foot of the
slope we shall be picked up and sent
whirling like dry leaves in a hurricane.
The fire of the six guns becomes more
rapid. It is truly terrible, but in their
haste the gunners do less execution.
"Left wheel! Forward! Right dress!"
Just 278 of us by actual count as we
dress in two ranks. What are we go- %
ing to do?
"Draw sabers! Forward! Trot! Gallop!
Charge!"
They are driving us down at that
body of men?ten times our numberto
break and check the charge. If we
can stop them for ten minutes the battery
will be saved by the infantry. We
oblique to the left as we go to close up.
We are a living wedge, driving down
to enter a living mass and split it in
twain.
The wedge enters. The wedge drives
ahead over fallen horses and dismounted
men, yelling, slashing, cutting, keeping
their pace. A trooper slashes at
me. a horse goes down in front of
mine, I feel myself falling with my
horse, and then I am out of the tight
for a moment
The darkness which enshrouded
things passes away after a bit, and i
and my horse lying across my feet
with the saddle flap so holding him
that his dead body must be lifted up
to get me out
The charge of the gray troopers
was broken. That wedge drove right
through the mass and turned to attack
them in the rear. Swirling about in
circles like the vulture 01 war, uic
mass of men edges away until tbe
field about me is clear of all but tbe
dead and wounded. I've got a saber
cut on the shoulder and can feel tbe
warm blood bathing my arm, but 1
know I could walk away if I could
get my feet clear. 1 am working to
extricate them when I hear hoofbeats
behind me. The next moment a riderless
horse dashes up and comes to a
bait He has not been bit but be has
left bis rider dead back there In tbe
stubble, a Federal captain.
The horse stands pawing and snorting
when out from the whirl of death,
half a mile away, breaks a chestnut
charger and comes galloping down
upon us. There is blood on the saddle
flaps?drops of blood on his shiny
flanks. It is not bis blood, but that of
the Confederate man who rode him.
and who has been cut down by a stroke
of the saber.
It is gray versus chestnut?Federal
versus Confederate. The newcomer is
still a hundred feet away, when the
gray horse rushes at him with ears laid
back and mouth open, and as I watch
them I forget that shells are screaming,
bullets whistling and the saber doing
bloody work within sound of my
voice. As the two horses come together
they rear up. neigh defiance at each
other and a fight begins?a battle within
a battle. Each seeins embued with
a deadly hatred for the other, and to
be determined to destroy his antago
nist
Of a sudden I realize that they are
close upon me. In their mad fury they
see neither dead nor wounded?hear
not the shout and shot of battle.
The gray kicks a dead man aside as
he backs up for a fresh effort; the
chestnut tramples the life out of a
wounded man as he dances about.
They will be over me if I do not stop
them. The heels of the gray are throwing
dirt into my face as I unsling my
carbine and rest it across my dead
horse for a shot I Are at the gray, as
he U the nearer and the greater menace,
but the bullet misses the target.
At that moment they begin to work to
the left and in the next they are past
me, leaping over dead horses and trampling
on dead men as they scream and
bite and kick.
Above the roar of battle I hear a rifle
shell coming. It give3 out a growling,
complaining sound which no man ever
hears without a chill. The sound
grows louder ? nearer ? crash! The
horses were fifty feet away, and it
must have struck one of them. There
was a cloud of smoke, a whizzing of
ragged fragments, and when I could
see again both horses were down?torn
and mangled and almost blotted off the
face of the earth by the awful force
of the explosion.
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