A Month of Battles

TO A PENSIONER i TO UNION SOLDIER i I If will ooob roach the of IS, or , If jm *M tater Art «f Jum >7, lttO. you afo or or and do aot draw ud win mob mek If* of tft, M, or 70, 65, 99, 70, psa- writo for a to Tho HationU writ* fir a Uuk to Tko latioul Trib- tion, blank, D. uo, Vaalii|toi, D. C. Tribune, Washington, C. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 4,190C. There he the wreathing smoke and shaken by furnishing an immense supply of this sent the Arizona down to the thunder of «nd needed condiment. It was by far the the Mississippi with a letter from deafening musketry Southern Banks Admiral to co¬ A OF artillery, the devoted brigade pressed best source of salt for the asking Farragut MONTH BATTLES. forward "into the of death. Confederacy, which suffered from its operate with him in an attack upon valley Government Alexandria and also to the river into the mouth of hell." No martial scarcity. The Confederate patrol music cheered the weary ranks. Only had seized it and was controlling the and look out for a force coming down from on Both Sides and the wild excitement of battle sustained distribution of the product to the the Arkansas country by the way Pope's Virginia Campaign.Splendid Fighting batteries country. The deposit of salt rises of Black River. He sent the Estrella the column as "the rebel to be to follow the im¬ vomited forth their deadly iron hatl close to (he surface and has only Arizona. Farragut at All Points. of the mlnle in which are broken mediately ordered the two vessels and the terrible zip-zip quarried blocks, ball was quenched in blood. As we OPENING OF THE MISSISSIPPI. up into clear crystal fragments and back, and sent with them the Alba¬ yield the finest table salt. Banks or¬ tross, with Lieut.-Commander John F. crossed Cub Run streams of stragglers dered Grover to the works, and Hart in command of all of them. Hart and wounded poured down from Bald destroy Co. 1Kb Pa. Hill. A of them wore the Grover sent on this errand Col. Wil¬ examined IJiack Iilvqr, found no indi¬ By PHIL K. FAULK, F, great many by john Mcelroy. liam K. Kimball with the 12th Me., cations of any force in that neighbor¬ red breeches of the Zouaves and their of the 24th hood, and ran on toward Alexan¬ brilliant uniforms had made them con¬ the he 41st Mass., one company up II. lifeless body failed to discover a single the CHAPTER XXXIX. his retreat. Early in morning and a section of Nims's Bat¬ dria, reaching the neighborhood pf spicuous marks for enemy's rifles. without much Conn., wound or scratch. He had probably One fellow us with a met Grover advancing tery. Kimbafl burned all the buildings Gordon's Landing on the evening of The Confederates still moved on our been killed the concussion of air poor passed GEN. BANKS ON "THE TECHE." plan or energy against his only road. 3. The by frightful wound in the face, a *hot hav¬ Bri¬ and destroyed the engines and tools, May next morning they start¬ right, and on the evening of the 27th it caused by a passing shot or shell. Such Taylor promptly struck Birge's 600 barrels of salt. While this ed early, and at 8:40 reached the bluff ing carried away his mouth aad lower Baakn Tries to which the advance, in flank, with vas known that Stonewall Jackson had instances have been known. Capture Taylor.Narrow gade, had was done a number of important and bend which had been the" scene of* the the battle two jaw. Escape at Blalaad.Adraacc to Alex- and forced it back. While Grover was being passed through Thoroughfare Gap and During night after Our brigade now deployed into line factories, including two cannon foun¬ the capture of the Queen of the West of the wounded of our regiment died in aadrla*.Work of the ttaaboats.Or- cautiously developing his line of battle, 10 weeks before. Not to run was then concentrating his forces on and advanced, guide right, toward the of the dries in New Iberia, were destroyed, desiring the ambulances. On a little knoll near . Dis¬ the fire cap¬ summit As we reached W»l«i«g Xejrro Troops.Halleck's Taylor, assisted by with a of supplies for Into the same trap, Hart moved slowly the plains of Manassas. side of Bald Hill. satisfaction With Banks.Back to Port tured Diana, rushed by him, large quantity Bristoe Station they were placed the crest which our batteries had gunboat the Confederate army. around the bluff to investigate, and On the 26th communi¬ side in a to slumber on upon Hudson. and with nearly all his men, telegraphic by single grave been a hurricane of shot and escaped Grover led the to¬ saw in front of him a fort with three cation with had been in¬ unmoved by the tread of hostile armies posted his greatest loss being conscripts who April 17 pursuit casemates.Fort guns Washington shell burst suddenly upon us, causing Gen. Halleck was much disappointed the to desert to the ward Vermillionvillc, while Banks with DeRussey.the terrupted. reinforcements or the carnage of battle. took opportunity the of which commanded the lon» stretch Expected the line to recoil, but only momentar¬ that Gen. Banks did not attack. Port Union lines. Weitzel and Emory marched along of the river in front of it. Two river from McClellan's army, with the ex¬ The Battle of Gravetoa, ily. Just before we entered this terrl» the meanwhile Weitzel and Emory Teche to St. Martinsville. Early in ble Are a Hudson while Farragut was steaming In of steamers, with steam up, lay near the ception of the Pennsylvania Reserves, On the stalwart, whiskered artillery* had been pushing forward, not too the afternoon Grover caught sight a morning of the 29th the divi¬ from the field with his by, and take the place. In his report of retreating fort and flatboat upon which had under Reynolds (afterward killed at sion moved to Fitz man, driving eagerly, in pursuit. the rear guard Taylor's been mounted one of Manassas, passing gun, drawled out deliberately: "Don't for 1863 in the the heavy guns John Porter's men. Halleck says: We lost at Bisland 40 killed and 184 army about two miles distant taken from the these Gettysburg), 2,500 strong, had failed Corps of 13,000 be discouraged, boys; we're no cow¬ the Vermillion. Grov¬ Indianola. Near We were soon to in mor¬ "Had our land forces invested Port wounded, and at Irish Bend, from act of crossing was a heavy raft blocking the stream to arrive. Under the circumstances mingle again ards, but we're out of ammunition." Grover's Division, 49 killed, 274 wound¬ er attacked it, but did not succeed in tal conflict with the flower of the Con¬ Thus our were sent in Hudson at this time, it could easily from and secured by chains to both banks. Pope decided to abandon the line of federate armies infantry fronv ed, and 30 missing. The Confederate preventing the enemy burning The Albatross moved to within 500 the skillfully led by the whence the artillery had retired, fov have been reduced, as its garrison was was across the up Rappahannock and attack Jackson of the South loss was not reported, but it very the important bridges yards and opened lire, though she was greatest military captains every piece had been withdrawn frory weak." in and deserters. They bayou, with the result that the next before assistance could reach him from On this day was fought the great bat- the hill. after great prisoners in much embarrassed by the eddies and Regiment regiment Halleck was as much in error as he also lost two gunboats and all their two days were spent rebuilding tho intricacy of the channel. She kept swept forward swiftly, almost, as the blew up and burned these, and Weitzel's advance was di¬ clouds smoke were frequently was, and there was no ex¬ transports. They to come up the fight 40 minutes, encountering wreathing of that all these but one, which we captured. verted from St. Martinsville not the carried from the field the sou cuse for this error, as when his report of Grover. Similar only heavy guns of Fort De¬ by tti While it was a considerable suc- to the assistance Uussey but a storm of rifle shots from wind, and flung into line of battle fillet: was written he must have known that the men on the river steamers, who up the gap through which the msssecU the garrison was at that time at its were contemplating repeating Magrud- divisions of the enemy were attempting- strength. Gen. Gardner's re¬ er's exploit at Galveston in boarding to pour. greatest (he Bald shows that on March 31 he had gunboats and carrying them by Immedlately upon reaching port overwhelming force. After having been Hill the command "Attention!.-Fix 20,388 present, of whom 16,287 were hulled 11 times, having her spars and bayonets!" rang out in tones strong and fit for duty. With his 15,000 men rigging injured and losing two men clear. Instantly the nervous click and Banks could not have attacked these killed and four wounded Lleut.-Com- rattle of steel ran along the line and with any hope of success.

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