Show A correspondent of the springfield republican sergeant thomas C boone gives an interesting account of this new feature of modern warfare re he says to the balloon was attached a strong rope 1000 feet long and eighteen mm men pulled it from one dart art of the battlefield to another A telegraph wire also connected the basket with the ground and observations were transmitted in that manner to the of acm below finally a point that is now known as hells crossing was reached rached by the balloon men and a oc scathing athing fire was poured into the inflated bag three shells from a shrapnel battery tore great holes in it and showers of bullets made it resemble a bu large buge ge sieve yet the three men in the basket at the time it was destroyed es with but one slight injury they were cot col drew chief of engineers on oen gen shatters staff maj J E maxfield of the signal corps and sergeant thomas 0 boone detached from cornway K of the second massachusetts volunteers as telegrapher in the bal loam detachment three of the men the rope P on the ground were wounded Oun ded the balloon was finally tended bax d ed in the middle of a stream waist beep J just as the first and tenth regi ments of cavalry dismounted were charging ng a sK ambush in a field af wild corn on the west side aide of the trea s which for the terrible slaughter adre is in known as hells crossing et was about 12 at noon when the balloon was destroyed and up to hour the commanding off officers leers furnished accurate information of 1 we frere I aft enemy information that chat some in worth a whole regiment of etoen it being demonstrated that an aeronaut can keep himself aal afloat oat in the air for hours in spite of a murderous are and then fall a thousand feet witt lout sustaining serious injury it is tat nAtA natural iral that in future wars more attention will be given to the use oi of balloons than hitherto the exploit of a colonel drew and his associates to is one of a the remarkable Indi incidents dents of this war |