People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — A DESPERATE CHARGE. [ARTICLE]

A DESPERATE CHARGE.

It Carried a Bold Confederate Brigade Completely Through the Union Army. From nine in the morning till five in the afternoon this charging and coun-ter-charging in the woods went on. Brigade after brigade was knocked to pieces, fell back, reformed and went in again. There was a surprise every half hour. The trees were not so thick as to hinder the progress of the troops. They were thick enough, however, to conceal movements, until often the columns marching in different directions came front to front or front to flank within half a musket shot before either discovered the other. Then volleys were delivered and received at short range. Masses of troops fell to fighting until one or the other gave way. This happened when Stuart, of the confederate side, marching to relieve Cheatham, came plump upon two brigades of Van Cleve’s division of union troops, and fought them muzzle to muzzle. Bate’s brigade, led by the present junior senator from Tennessee, made one of the moat remarkable

movements. It plunged forward through the union lines opposite it and kept going until it crossed the state road, for control of which both armies were fighting. On it went over the road, through more woods, and into a clear field, bringing up at Widow Glenn’s house, half a mile in the rear of the whole union army. Rosecrana had to pull two brigades out of the battle and send them after Bates to drive him back to where he belonged. In that wild, resistless charge the Tennessee brigadier had three horses shot under him.—American Tribune.