| Show THE DAY utah beans her honors modestly not because they are not grand or numerous for they are emphatically both but rather because she is so BO ably and conspicuously doing only her duty in the present struggle and as aa more as a falls her way without boast tog log or asking for invidious recognition her ons have won honor on every field to which they have been called and elicited the unstinted applause of peoples beyond the sea as a well as at home it was waa to be expected that when an opportunity camely cameby came by means of which the enemy emboldened by the discordant elements which beat upon the earth with merciless fury together with the lateness of the hour adf and served as a mask to the surprise attack had nearly va gained ined the field the utah battery would not be found idle in the ithe midst of the intense darkness the drenching AchIng downpour the sullen rumbling of the thunders the vivid hut but blinding darts of lightning and the all but impassable mud ow boys were lowly but determinedly tugging away at their field pieces making all the speed possible to that portion of the line where the attack was the fiercest and getting there just in the nick of time it would have been altogether out of the question tor for the infantry surprised as it was by greatly superior numbers and measurably unprepared for such an onslaught to have stemmed the tlde tide much longer and even so slight a victo victory ryas as that would have been must have encouraged the spaniards to the point of renewed hope and determination no such assistance was to be theirs the valorous ano ana hardy pennsylvanians lans ians with only the comparatively ineffective aided in great measure by the califor callior anians and Colora doans kept the enemy at bay as only such men engaged h hi such a cause could but ithe need of a battery to hold the ground was as necessary as was the arrival of blucher to the success of wellington at waterloo it came it conquered down the lines of skulking darkened and desperate spanish were soon pouring volleys of shrapnel tearing great gaps in the ranks filling them with dismay and forcing them from the field wath many hundreds of their dead and wounded left behind this was a victory under trying circumstances cum stances but a great a decisive victory none the less and that the utah boys as the dispatch had it saved the day is a source of honest pride in which no feeling of discrimination against the other heroes of that occasion finds a place cheers for the living and tears f for or the dead of our Amer american fean spartans spartano Spar tans |
