Show THE ASSAULT ON missionary descriptions will doubtless be presented many and moio written of the hie taking of missionary ridge but I 1 doubt whether of them will do justice to the subject any cannonading for imagine after a fierce canno thousand movin moving five hours twenty men ZD fori vaid in three columns two miles in length preceded by the proportionate lumber r of skirmishers skirmish eis to assault a mountain ridge abruptly lising from two to three hundred feet defended by a force larger than that making tile the assault at alic he base by two parallels of rifle pits the clest by a grand graild line of battle and abtil lery cry that rained its iron hail on the alic advancing colu columns the 1 line pits are talen taken seemingly with a bound the skirmishers that cannot be ersy with in an impetuosity leap up tile the mountain side their banners cairies far in advance all along alic erest crest tile at ai til tillery I 1 cry thunder s and volley after volley swee p s the slope now the three heavy colu columns ns of supports advance an aimy with hundreds of battle flags moving with a steadiness and precision that ica lizes the idea of a truly grand military movement sweeping the slope knitli Nit li the eye you see the and stripes planted and waved in many places ill in cue lie it is cairies far ahead of all others ot liers by a gallant fellow who only stops to beckon on those lie lias has outstripped thousands who see him mount up amid the hail of bullets and bursting shells sli ells expect to him go down every moment tile the light the alio left the contre centre go over gionni plowed by the shots and shells of the enemy and swept by their musketry tic ridge is jilt the IG ing in columns column 3 of hags flags glare b to the sun the cannonading canno calino nadin is ia incessant the biest of tile iid lidge 0 c is a sheet of flame and how men can advance in the face of such a file is a inh acle Thoc the iest is neatly i cached light bight above our men aie the fortifications to get into then them would bo be lilo like climbing to the roof from the window it seems like certain death to attempt it it is done tile the and tic aio planted on oil tile the vely clest and hundreds of men aie in ill alie of tile who nee flee just in ill time to escape tile alie I 1 bayonet in ill tile text next ten tell minutes the firing 0 has neally ceased and those hags flags wo have watched as things of beauty and emblems of geoly are now waved alon along tile whole lin line of tile ridge 1 tile the taking of Aliss missionary ionar y ridge didgo 0 by assault ought ac according colding acco iding to lo mili military tiry iule have cost at least five thousand lives it one fourth of that number it I 1 suppose this is measurably owing to the character of tho ridge side which deceia deceived d the debels into f firing rill over at any ra rate t C aur our men seem to have c been almost ienir miraculously c preserved no one di it earned tic right b would bo be carried so s 0 easily I 1 am assured by prisoners that thai when braggs foicey saw our grand colu moving z to the attack attach and that in spite of tile the ateer BL cof tile ascent and tile the fire fife 1 aig ight lit on oil they wel ocic c struck awo and went out ot ol their our ian men went in ill tile the next half hour bra with it a rabble of an art array dy was in full retreat boillin buining 0 and devastating batin ovely thing in his iea icar |