Show A EIlS sensations engaged IN FlOI ITINa V chenever onan and a soldier who under lire jiin low and to nuke ever bullatt wound or kill you and etteen alio aie lenou ly throw ins aw to red gon that the ot then kukets will cleck or anve alm enemy and need not be won debei at fo they aap plying the ame of life or death at M alvern hill seventeen soldiers Lelon sins to ao alno took cover in a dry chith answered admirably for a drifts rifts pit A georgia regiment this little ere three back ile fire was rapid and tho los in gun WAS more than one liun died killed in tn minutes regiments h ive bun engaged boran loing halt that number ahe fare of teen v a so continuous that mcclell in forwarded a brigade to their sup beli eung that an entire regiment had been cut oaf at mine run the writer was just in the rear ot a hew york regiment whick was suddenly attacked A single company ot confederates cut jf irom the regiment and dodging around about to bjoin it suddenly de botched itself into a held and found itself face to face with the union regi anent righting commenced at once A regiment fought a company both h ing down tor coer 1 lay so beai a third sergeant serpe ant that I 1 could touch his heels and 1 watched his hrc every time he pulled the he the muzzle of bis run at an angle of 45 degrees instead ot it tor the enero lying down 1 saw him repeat tins operation foai teen diffee ent times ahe man in him fired as many bullets plump into a stump in fiant and the roan on the other side shot into the ground about ten feet away others must have been wasting bullets about the same way but the little company was shooting to kill in that ten of fighting the new yorkers suffered a lo 10 of flirt six killed and wounded and then a bayonet doubled them back and opened a gap for ohp little bands ccase I 1 walked over the ground and found one dead and one wounded confederate not a blanket knaps ick or canteen had been left behind any soldier will no doubt ficht better under cover than be will in the open held but cover does not always insure good fighting at pittsburg landing five thousand union soldiers under the river bank safe from tho enemy s fare and many of them threw their auns into the nver rather than fire a shot again at yellow tavern biye of austera men dismounted and lying behind a fence held five companies of cavalry at bay foi twenty tour minutes and this without getting a scratch in return at mine run a union regiment went into the fight with sixty rounds of ammunition per man making a total perhaps of tour thousand bullets fihs ihs regiment was placed to act as a check to any advance of the enemy in a certain erection con federates dm ine the whole dar ind yet it was twice more supplied with ammunition it filed away at least twenty thousand bullets and yet oily hilled two rebel skirmishers one cool man will do more execution with his musket than thirty men firing at random one mut have a will strong enough to crowd down all emotion and oblige ins bands to cease trembling at the word out of every regiment not more than one hundred men are he liters these hunot to kill the shoot at random and kill only by accident thirty would last a good fighter tor all days haht 1 he ordinary soldier would ahre out ins sixty in an hone and a half and likely enough bave hisses half the time when he pulled the A member of the second michigan infantry hit the case pretty well burn ford when the skirmishing be gan he courted his cartridges and said just sixty efem and ill fire three a minute and hae these fellar licked in lust twenty minutes to a tick I 1 |