Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1898 — Gallant Pipers. [ARTICLE]

Gallant Pipers.

There have been several instances of bravery similar to that of the gallant Gordon piper at Dargai, who continued to play after both his legs had been shot off, says the London Chronicle. One of these which occurred during the Peninsular ware, was almost Imlentical with that of the capture of the Dargai ridge. It was at Vimlera, when (he then Seventy-first Highlanders hurled themselves against the French as a couniteT-stroke to the attempt of Kellermau to recover six captured guns, and drove back their assailants In headlong rout. When the Highlanders were advancing Piper Stewart of the Grenadier company, fell, his thigh being broken by a musket shot. Yet he refused to quit the field, and sitting on a knapsack, continued to inspire his comrades with a pibroch, saying, “De’ll ha’e me, lads, if ye shall want for music!” For this he received a handsome stand of pipes from the Highland Society o? Loncfcn.

Again, there is the historical incident of Piper Major Maekay, who, when his reghnunt bad formed square to receive a charge of French savalry at Waterloo, stopped outside the square and strode round the bayonet-bristling ranks playing his most inspiring pibroeh in the presence of his comrades—an incident which forms the subject of one of Mr. Bogie's finest battle pictures exhibited at the academy a year or two ago.