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SAID 0E WASHINGTON.
Tliat ho was too modest to propose to
belle Mary Phillipsc, of New
when she won his heart long be-
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THAT UP. PAN WITH THE) MACHINE.
That had lie led Braddock’s army there
would be no “Braddock’s Defeat” in
colonial at: Ms.
That ho up his commission in tho
Idng’s army because American officers
were snubbed by tho British war office
and by the epauleted redcoats from over
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sea. •
i Tliat he did not say ho could not tell
that particular cherry tree lie and must
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that ini went out with the boys.
own np, but that lying was a habit he
hud not cultivated.
That lie “ran with the machine” to
Alexandria fires, and the old hand fire
engine is now a relic in the hands of the
Bsmo old Friendship Fite company, and
rests from its labors in the engine house
at Alexandria.
That he went out with the boys on
various occasions, loved fast horses and
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good fellows and entertained them roy-
That once, during the war, he wished
to be mad© monarch
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That never, during tho i
war or at any
other time, did he wish to be made mon¬
arch.
That on occasions, especially in the ■■
lieat of battle, be used the big, big D.
That at Monmouth he restrained the
boiling over passions of a New Jersey
volunteer by getting off this grim joke,
“Put up your reeking sword, my good
man JvcA don’t Ire n-cinn gViJ *
house right bore ca. tho battle field.”
That ho had an old Cremona of 1673,
which lio discovered in a negro cabin,
and that lie played forth© girls ami boys
on many festive occasions; that the old
Cremona is in the hands of a violin
maker in Astoria, N. Y.; that it is not !
a Cremona, but a Tyrolean anyhow. instrument,
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THAT HE HAD AN OLD CREMONA.
That it was a current saying in Revo¬
lutionary times, “Whom Washington
kisses marry young,” and all the girls
flocked to him to bo kissed, and then
“went off like hot cakes.”
That he got off this biting sarcasm on
the ubiquitous generation which is ever
on hand to tell president, congress and
all just how to run the government:
“The affairs of this country cannot go
amiss. Thera are so many watchful
guardians of them and such infallible
guides that one is at no loss for a direct¬
or at any turn.”
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1 That he was simply an “English gen-
, tk-man in Amenoa,” and by no means a
type ‘ of the Revolutionary patriot.
That lie was not an “English gentle¬
man iu America,” hut a plain, practical,
pioneer worker, simple in manners and
habits, and as far as possii»i£.removed
from the affected style of European
courtiers and aristocrats.
George L. Kilmer.
Mount Vernon has so long been public
nroperty that few remember what a
tedious' negotiation was required to ob-
Hi*i it andhow ^Mlm ore of the W;ishingtons iTlSoS
the Ladies’ Mount Vernon association
paid thl John A. ’Washiagton §200,000 for
" mansion and £00 acres of land. The
John/ L-s -therefore consented to for-
get
WASHINGTON.
[Written .upon contemplating Stuart’s portrait in
r tho Lost-on Athenteuin.]
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The autuuih sun carosse3 Vernon’s tomb,
Whose presence doth the country’s honor leaven;
Two suns they are that dissipate man's gloom,
Por one's the index to Earth's freeborn bloom,
The otto*-'to our burning hope in Heaven!
ri’.y dust in older in the hollow rock,
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Ifatjungnf#' Ann ijHI^tremble n will that swell she thy thankful flock,
cannot mock
Thy A fcfiry'a Truth that will enchant with rapt¬
ure.
How vain the daring to compute in words
The height of homage that tho heart would
render!
And y et how proud—to feel no speech affords
liarnwnions measure to the subtle chords
Thai, fill the soul beneath thy placid splendor!
The steady fire that battled iu thy breast .
Lit up ot*r gloom with radiance, good though
gory;
Like some red sun which the dull earth caressed
Into a 'vealthy adoration, blest
To be its glory’s great reflected glory.
Thou, when the earthly heaven of man’s soul—
The heaven of homo, of liberty, cf honor—
Shuddered with darkness, didst tho clouds uproll
Anil byrst such light upon the nat ion's dole
That every state still feels thy breath upon her.
—John Savage (.1SG0).
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Tommy Bingo—NIy brother and my¬
self wanted to be like Washington, so
we got up this morning, took a hatchet
and went down in tho yard and hacked
away at father's cherry tree. But my
brother was too sharp, ’causo when pa
called he sneaked away and left me with
the hatchet. He got ahead of me.
Miss Summit (sympathetically)—Dear
me, Tommy! What did you get?
Tommy—I got licked.
A Weapon of Defease.
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Tramp-Madam, as I was passing by 1
picked up in your front yard this■ httie
; hatchet, left there by some thoughtless
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Kind Lady—Such honesty shall
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get you a piece of my Washington pie.
Tramp—In that case, madam, I have
but one request to make.
Kind Lady—Certainty. Whatisitr
Tramp--Let me keep the hatchet.
RELICS OF WASHINGTON.
AM OBSCURE BUNDLE OF ANTIQ'JI-
TIES FROM THE LAST CENTURY.
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George It. Clllhcrall, of mobile, anti
the Discoveries He Mkile Will Bo of
Interest to All of ITjclo Sam’s Peoisie.
Not far from Government, on It.
Emanuel street, in Mobile, Ala., there
stands an unpretentious brick house.
The curious stranger will be faintly re¬
minded as he enters the arcade of this
homely dwelling, with its solitary oc< -
pant, of those houses which are comm- n
to semo quarters of New Orleans. Of
this, however, there is perhaps mi.ro
about the air of the place than any real
resemblance to those antiquated credo
quarters. As he enters the parlor, with
its central bay window that juts out. to
tho sidewalk, he will involuntarily pause
beforo an ancient and venerable book¬
case, raid if he be of a literary turn of
mind will note with a more than pass¬
ing interest the heterogeneous mass cf
books that with all their variety cf
bindiugs crowd close to each other upon
its time honored shelves/
It was before this musty piece of fur¬
niture that I stood just about a year ago
when I was in Mobile. Upon the top
shelf was a chaotic piece of accumulated
bric-a-brac such a3 you may see clus¬
tered together on tho top shelf of any
old bookcase, and among other things
there »whs a brown paper parcel tied
with a piece of old string, and of such
an unassuming appearance that if it
were lying in the street it would attract
scarcely a glance from the passer by;
and yet it would be difficult to find a
cluster of objects of such unusual inter-
est as this faded brown paper contained.
It contained, among other colonial rel-
les, George Washington’s slipper, a part
of his vest, his Masonic apron and two
silver spoons from his camp chest.
There were also copies of some old news-
papers—The New York Morning Post of
Nov. 7, 1783, Tho Boston Gazette 'and
Country Journal of March 12, 1770, The
New England Weekly Journal {publish-
ed in Boston) of April 8, 1728, The New-
bem(N. U.) Spectator, Dec. 19, 1839, and
The Federal Republican (Newborn, N.C.)
July 31,1813. There was also a package
of colonial money .and an old time pock-
etbook. ; To the right of the bookcase,
witli its mahogany back leaning against
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the wall is food an old fashioned chair
looldng very much like those stiff hitch-
en chairs.pf in the present day, albeit more
elegant appearance. This piece of an-
tiquated nja^Kagapy tfoprqpei js a .bedroom chair
which was v |y of Martha, Wash*-
ington, or, lovingly called by
Maj. CiitherallV^ii^jiiy, “Mistross-W^h--
ington.” I » I ^
Maj. George$5*014thorn'll, whosb death
has occuixed fine©-*ay visit to Mobile,
was the devoted possessor of theJe fehes,
and the last eurvivor of a family which
stands amcaig the first in a republic that
gained mortairahie its butepeinlence through the im-
of George Washington.
Anicsefpa Tb^tistery tpu. of the the maternal Chtherall siite family in
back to the Kev.- Richard Maradon, who--
Vv;is^ bhapluin to tho Duke of Portland,
ai:,lwIio rec'jivadfrom the original lords
proprietors plantation^ the ownership of the two
known as “The Hermitage”
and “Castfe of old Ilaynes,” lying on opposite
sides the epuntry road, eight miles
uorth of Wilmington, N. C.
Mai. Ciitherali’s father, Dr. George
B. ChtheralV was a relative andi inti-
mate friend tef Gen. Ben Smith, of
North Carolina, who died at Fort John-
ston in ItKO. Gen. Smith was a man
of high social position and great wealth,
and Williatif married Sarah, daughter of CoL
-Dryt who was colonial gov-
ernor of Ijlolah Carolina.^ During the
Revolution Gen. Sniith was a volunteer
member of Washington's stuff and mili-
tary family, and there always, existed
between them the warmest friendship.
When Gen. Smith learned of the illness
of Washington he immediately left his
home in North Carolina and hastened to
the bedside of his chief, where he re^
mained until Washington died. Many
of the personal belongings of Washing-
ton were presented by his family to Gem
Smith, who cherished them as long as
qmathM ,o Dr CHthfir*ll.
Maj. Cli the rail had bat one of the ehp*
X>ers (the left) in his possAssion, tho mate
having been given by hisjnother to the
British Museum iu 185w In 18*76 tho
major presented one of Washington’s , I
Masonic aprons (of which there are two)
to a lodge
ooyc.f ray ral to KHt -ff.-.siangton;
library chair to the Mmnescta ilffirancal
society. With the exc^ptioa of this
chair, the right slipper and one Articles of the
Masonic aprons, the rest of the j
were in Maj. Ciitherali’s possession. *
The now famous’slippers samc'way^rthe did notteach !
Gen. Smith in the j
otaer roues did. Gen. Wa^msgton, after
bis farewell address, weut to pay Gen. ,
f^ latter lb in . a ^rtu at Carcxina, the r&idecce cud it q£ was the j
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to* that he bro-egbt them, to *
turning home he left, them bemad lnm, j
and they were carex«*ly pu* a.. ^ j
an old closew and lmd there in ncgxtcx
until tneir value eaote to be recognized,
Since then they have’been careftdly pre j
sorted. Th© oifc iiTMaj. ClitheralPs pos-
G^-iCCt ? s exactly eleven and one-half
j ilCi in length, Talf and across its widest
F-irt, where tho of the foot 1 lies, it
| measure? four and one-half - mebes.
: (Tv hiio tl^p Father of la* Country on-
j j denic.hly Lad a substantial foundation it
will he seen from this that his foot was
net too large for & man cf his stature.)
1 ho slipper is of red morocco leather,
but time lias covered it with a dusty
brown color, and a careless observer
would place it in the rank of theso cheap
brown .leather foot covering's which,
however much of comfort they may pos¬
sess, cannot be allowed to have that styl¬
ish appearance which mark; the slipper
of tho man of fashion. Originally tho
slippers are said to have been lined with
white sill". When tho imagination goes
back to tho tiino that these now faded
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P^ces of antiquity were new, and pict-
ures them in their original colors, the
r:ch and elegant red of the morocco eon-
trusted with the white silk, the flaps,
which somehow remind us of those old
fashioned curled up skates that the Hol-
Anders used of yore, and the deep
twinkles which lent to them their easy
rm(1 comfortable air, we must readily
believe that these slippers presented a
sm te Io > rich and elegant appearance.
Th °y se rvo in a great measure to show
tliat the taste of this great man tended
toward simplicity, at the same time
uniting with that refinement which al-
v.-ays selects the best. We have as an-
cthcr example of this the story of Wasli-
^Ston’s watch—familiar to every school-
u '?- yr -which lio desired should come to
him from France, of pure gold, but per¬
fectly plain, so that its smooth and pol¬
ished sides, had the Father of bis Coun¬
try been a vain man, might have served
the uses of a looking glass. : •
Nothing remains of tho *. waistcoat
the huge hip flEp^fext pbekbt laps tlii§ WHioS
were such an important part of gar-
ment during the colonial days. From
this flap it is impossible to obtain a com-
plete idea ct the whole. It may be said,
however, .ft is-sea green in color,
richly embroidered 'in silk with figures,
and when neW must have presented a
very handsomo appearance.,
Only one thing moro remains to be
said. May Chtherall was, from time
to time, in receipt of various letters
of inquiry from different parts of the
country bearing upon these unique and
valuable possessions, and I have endeav-
ored in the present article_ to cover the
entire ground, however briefly, and it is
hoped that ic will be copied widely
enough to fall into the hands of all tnose
who havo been more especially interested
Lndhe matters touched upon.
Sffy 8 no ^ without a feeling cf venera-
wot that I said good-by to theso ancient
r ehcs, whose authenticity cannot be
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other Washingtons.
■ There were two Washingtons in Revo-
lutiou days who would doubtless have
filled digger places in'history if they had
borne - some other name. Bushrcd,
nephew of George Washington, ’and served
with distinction in the cavalry in
the Virginia convention, and was ap-
pointed justice of the United States su-
premogxmrL Col. William Washington
won honor in several battles, especially
at Cowpens.
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She—My poor, dear father knew
Washington so intimately, and I, my-
self- was bdrnoathe 22d of February,
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From tbe death 0 f Washington jf till the
„j a it was an y ,i rp r>a invariable
tu Washiugtoil each Waslungtbn township. ^any counties So, of
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ton county, a5fc were too old and fire are
apparently too irew.
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VOLUME. XVI .---NO. 6.
S THE LITTLE HATCHET MYTH.
Its Origin nr.-A .Development—Evolved by
a Highly Moral Liar.
“Father, I cannot tell 'a lie—I did it
’ wfth my littlo hatchet!” Who thick
can
of. tho Father of his Country without re-
calling this affecting story? And yet,
like so many other cherished anecdotes
of great men, it is absolutely without
founiJLation.
His napoo was M. L. Weems. He was
a clergyman or preacher by profession,
an adventurer by nature, and loved no¬
toriety, money and a wandering life.
So he wrote books which ho correctly
believed would meet with popular favor,
and peddled them himself as ho trav¬
eled through the country. Chanco
brought him to Mount Vernon in the
closing days of Washington’s life, and
bis commercial instinct at once told him
hero wfcva chanco for distinction and
dollars such as lio had never met be¬
fore. Bo ho produced his famous biog¬
raphy, and being tho first on the ground
ho had things his own way Rnd ran riot
in language and alleged reminiscences.
The best known of his myths are those
concerning the little hatchet,, the .refusal
to fight or permit fighting among tho
boys at school, and tho initials in the
garden. Tho last is to tho effect that
little George’s father planted seeds in
such a mannor that when they sprouted
tlioy formed tho initials of the boy’s
name, and ho being much delighted,
the elder Washington explained that it
was the work of the Creator, and thus
inculcated a profound belief in God.
This tale is stolen bodily from Dr. Beat-
tie's biographical sketch of his son, pub¬
lished in England in 1799. There is not
a scintilla of evidence to support the
others.
But lot us examino the littlo hatchet
story. The father of the young hero,
we are told, took great pains to inspire
his son with an early love of truth. Af¬
ter describing tho downward course of
the prevaricator he is made to exclaim:
“Bather than see you come to this pass,
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“i did xT with my little
dear as you are to my heart, gladly
-would I assist to nail you up in your lit*
tie coffin and follow you to your grave,
Hard, indeed, would it bo to give up
my sen, whose little feet are always so
ready to run about with me, and whoso
fondly looking eyes and sweet prattle
make so large apart of my happiness,
but still I would give him up rather than
Eeo } lim a common liar.” Ho next as-
6urea George that while somo parents
compel their children to become liars
«<by barbarously beating them for every
little fault,” it shall not bo so in their
case. “Whenever, by accident, you do
anything wrong, which must often bo
the case, as you are but a poor little boy
yet, without experience or knowledge,
y OU must never tell a falsehood to con-
cea i it, but come bravely up, my son,
like a little man, and tell me of it, and
instead of boating j*on, George, I will
but the moro honor and love you for it,
dear.” Need we longer marvel at
George’s penchant for mischief and his
to own up?
The anecdote, tcld in AY earns’ rambling
manner, is as amusing as Ihoprelimi-
nary remarks. lie gives as his authority
“an excellent old lady,” and declares
that tho narrative is “too valuable to be
lost and too true to be doubted.” The
climax reminds one of Bill Nye in his
happiest Tom:
“Presently George and his- little
hatchet made their appearance. ‘George,’
said his father, ‘do you know who killed
that beautiful little cherry tree yonder
in the garden? This was a tough qnee-
tion, and George staggered under it for
a moment, but quickly recovered him-
self, and looking at bis father with the
sweet face of youth brightened with the
inexpressible charm of all conquering
truth, he bravely cried out; ‘I can’t tell
a lie, pa; you know I can’t tell a lie. I
did cut’it with my hatchet.’ ‘Bun to my
arms, you dearest boy,’cried his father
in transports, ‘run to my arms; glad am
I, George, that yon killed my tree [he
puts a premium upon mischief for the
sake of hearing tho truth], for you have
paid me for it a thousand fold. Sachao
act of heroism [although the lad knew in
advance that he would not be punished
but commended], my son, i3 more worth
than a thousand trees, though blossomed
with silver and their finite of purest
gold.’”
Tliough ignored by Soaring, Marshall,
and attecied by otner esnor.a biogra-
phers, the myth of the little b -tehet has
survived, and probably will survive for
ages to come. Its acceptonco and popn-
larityaro largely due to writers like Mrs.
C. M. Kirkland, who, iu 1857 , published
a life of Washington “especially adapted
to young tcoplc-,” in which she sraista
W^as poetic style “rntertaming of the narrator,” book” and and declares “the
that the various anecdotes are “ttfld with
the richness of Jean Paul,” and, in her
opinion, on good authority.
Shorn of its weak preliminaries and
told as if the youthful culprit expected ;
and'seiwed to
readers, as excellent a pur- j
pose aa the best kble from ^Esop. !
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into -a' proverb, and, strange to say, be- I
come the very synonym for truth. ;
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SABER AGAINST PISTOL
THE GRAND CAVALRY ACCOMPANI¬
MENT. TO PICKETT’S CHARGE.
How Gen. Gregg and ”JcG" Stuart Dis¬
puted the Head to Meade's Rear While
I-co’s Infantry Charged His Front—A
Thrilling Fight.
[Copyright t>y American Trees Association.]
EX. GREGG'S
cavalry battle
\ ( with Stunrt (Gefe-
’Nl!?63) tyshurg, July 8,
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cavalry fight of
Up the war." The
c o m bat, though
brief, was desper-
S ate; the losses,
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I were
A Vf( p,Pj) Inflicted quarters with at close pis-
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d result was Incal-
k culable. An ideal
- cavalry action is
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fm columns rush up-
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y ^ turn right momentary amt left
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wavering into a disastrous panic. In the
affair between Stuart and Gregg cavalry
met cavalry and struggled hand to hand
for the mastery. The hour was simultane¬
ous with that of. Pickett’s charge, and Stu¬
art was attempting to aid Pickett by a fire
in Mio rear of the Union line.
Since that time Gen. Gregg has resisted
every effort to draw the story from his pen,
and his lips remained closed until he met
the Count of Paris on the battlefield last
autumn anil recounted the particulars,
lie was marching on to Gettysburg, 1m
said, on July 2, and lii3 route led to the
right rear of Meade’s army, lie saw some
important points exposed to the Confeder¬
ates, guarded them until nightfall, skir¬
mished with I/ce’s infantry, put out pickets
and stationed artillery, and then re ported
to headquarters. The instructions given
him'for the next day, the Sd, were based
upon what he bad reported about his action
of the 2d, and he was told to go hack and
hold the ground he had so wisely seized.
Gregg’s force consisted of two brigades cf
the Second cavalry division, as follows:
First brigade, Col. J. B. McIntosh—Third
Pennsylvania, First New Jersey, First
Maryland; Third brigade, Col. J. Irwin
Gregg—Sixteenth Pennsylvania, Fourth
Pennsylvania, First Maiuo and Tenth New
York. Company A, Purnell troop, Mary¬
land; Company A, First Ohio; Battery
E, First United States; M, Second United
States, and a section of the Third Pennsyl¬
vania artillery, were attached to the Sec¬
ond division. Tho Second brigade, Third
division, waa also serving Sixtt; witAi Gregg. It
Mattel ft? tho First, ififth, anifTjOTerTCh
Michigan, The troops with Gregg, Inclu¬
ding Custer, numbered 5,000 men.
About 1 o’clock on the 3d an order cama
from headquarters for Custer to rejoin his
division some miles away on the Union left
flank. His brigade at the moment was
deployed on the extreme front, a danger
point, by other and troops it was that while the action relieving about his to men bo
described was brought on. Gregg says
that when Custer came in in person from
the outposts he «nid, “General, you’ll hare
a fight here.” Gregg then asked Custer to
stay, and lie "was well pleased to remain.”
Some of Stuart’s troopers were engaged
in skirmishing with Custer's men when
the attempt was made to relieve the latter.
Stuart had four brigades of cavalry and
three batteries, about 7,000 men in all, and
liis position was somewhat higher than
Gregg’s and was well screened with woods.
Between the two was an open space a mile
long anil half a mile wide, which soon be¬
came a bloody lane of strife. Gregg’s bat¬
teries commanded the flelu.
The brigade of Col. McIntosh had taken
position on the ground vacated by that of
Custer on retiring, and the carbine ammu¬
nition cf there men was exhausted in cop¬
ing with the enemy. When Caster’s men
returned to relieve McIntosh, and resume
their place on the front line the Confed¬
erates began to force the fighting, and the
retiring men and their relief both had
their bands full for a time. Finally a Vir¬
ginia regiment swept down from Stuart’s
line along the open space, directing its
course upon Gregg’s batteries. Near the
center of the field the Fifth Michigan of
Custer and the First New Jersey of McIn¬
tosh stood in line across the pathway,
and not being able to withstand the Vir¬
ginians separated in the middle, swinging
backward like double gates, and left a gap
for the enemy to dash through.
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At tho moment Cutter was drawing to-
termed the rerfmeot ia clow column, aad
advanced to meet the Virginians. The
latter were already, between two fires, the
Fifth Michigan and First New Jersey hav-
ing deployed parallel to the route of march
of the enemy and opened upon them. Cun-
on tb ® Seventh until he
-
MrIllMf an<1 the CSnfederates gellantly
faced the music, forced their way to the
opposite side of the wall, and returned the
fire with pistols. The battle waged for
some time at arm’s length, lrattheConfed-
eratca were quickly re-enforced, and Cus-
ter had to give ground, followed by the
ovShway^Sghf^ Gregg’s' but
they were drawing nearer to cao-
non at every step, and were made to suffer
terribly for their boldness. They were, in
fact, ronumg' a gantlet of fire on both
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ft and
retire. Thus far the fighting had been
only a byplav on tho part of the Confeder-
ates. *«taart intended to occupy iny at-
teatian here v.-ith only one of lib- brigades,”