Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 176, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1910 — London Times Correspondent Praised Fredericksburg Attack. [ARTICLE]

London Times Correspondent Praised Fredericksburg Attack.

Noticing in your issue of July 6th, a very able and interesting article from the civil war veteran, John Kresler, about the battles of Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, I wish to copy what the London Times correspondent, who watched the Fredericksburg battle from the heights, says: “Never at Fontenoy, Albuerto nor Waterloo was more undaunted ‘ courage displayed than during those six frantic dashes which they directed against the almost impregnable position of the foe. That any mortal man could have carried the position, defended as it was, it seems idle for a moment to believe. But the bodies which lie in dense masses within forty-eight yards of the muzzles of Colonel Walton’s guns, are the best evidence what manner of men they were who pressed on to death with the dauntlesSness of a race which has gained glory on a thousand battle fields and never more richly deserved it than at the foot of Mary’s heights on the 13th of December, 1862.” '' , . A READER.