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X> „ ,L 7 V . -f-l LXj— 1 5 f w£T L A N MATTHEWS, northrup works, buffalo, n. v. )| f . of^^ur^july J,y the two regiments and their supports were terribly cut to pieces or captured, and commanding officers killed or badly wounded.* The struggle over the flag of the Thirty-ninth lowa regiment was a thrilling one, the Confederates seizing the colors and the Federals clutching the staff. The colors were torn from the staff in the melee, and afterwards carried off by the Confederates. * The following extracts are illustrative of this struggle : “It can with perfect propriety be said that in the assault made by Ector’s and Cockrell’s brig ades, officers and men, behaved with great intre pidity, and charged the works in the most heroic and dashing style; and particularly distinguished at this time were two young officers, Lieutenants E. T Freeman and T. H. Cahal, the latter a member of the personal staff of Lieutenant Gen eral Stewart. Their conduct was the admiration of these veteran troops. Both rode up the mountain side, with Cockrell’s brigade and Young’s Texans, into the very lines of t e l eder als, and ttfe bastion fort on the west side of the railroad cut. Freeman sabered an infantry officer who was captured and brought out by him, and his wounds were properly dressed st Freeman’s instance.”—From letter by Major D. W. Sanders. “Lieutenant M. W. Armstrong, Tenth Texas, seized the United States standard from the Fed erals, and, after a struggle, brought it and the bearer of it off in triumph.”—General French’s Report. General French does "not state whether this was the flag carried by the 39th lowa or the 93rd Illinois. Both were taken by the Confederates. Captain Charles A. Cameron, the surviving ranking officer of the 39th lowa says in his report that the Confederates “Chargingus on the double quick, passed the works and, turning upon our men in the rifle-pits, killed, wounde 1 or made prisoner every man remaining but nine. It was in this charge that the colors of the regiment were captured, but not until the entire guard were killed or Wounded ” In cl osing his report he commends for conspic uous daring, “the entire color guard, and especi al y the color sergeant, Charles Armstrong, who so gallantly defended his flag,” The Confederates then pushed for- J ward in the pursuit, and established themselves close up to the main works, i —the “star fort,” —especially on the south side. It is stated that in the rush upon this fort two of the Confed erates leaped across the ditch and scaled the parapet, where they were captured by the garrison. In the meantime Sears had made j his assault on the north of the ridge. I The formation of his line threw the 35th and 39th Mississippi regi- ' ments east ot the railroad, and the 36th and 46th Mississippi regiments and the 7th Mississippi battalion on the west side of it. All of these, of course, faced south. He was successful on his right, but that portion of his line which advanced up the slope immediately west of the rail road, in addition to the fire from a portion of the Ninety-third Illinois, in the ditch in front, was subjected io a deadly enfilading fire from a part of the Twelfth Illinois in the works on the opposite side of the railr< ad cut and repulsed, Col. W. H. Clark of the ! Forty-sixth Mississippi regiment being 1 among the killed.. The works west of them having been stormed, however, the Federals hastily retreated from this line next to the rail road and took refuge in the “star fort.” Gradually the fire slackened, as no ' one in the works could expose himself so as to fire without almost certain death or wounds. The Federals lay THE KENNESAW GAZETTE. closely below the inner side of the western and northern parapets, or in the ditch immediately surrounding the fort, and the Confederates could only wait for an exposed head as a target. The artillery in the redoubt was almost entirely silenced by the Confederate musketry fire, even before its supply of ammunition was found to be running low. The horses for the artillery were kept in some stables about a hundred yards down the ridge, north of the fort, and were captured by the Confederates and taken off. One of the Confederate generals in command says, in a letter to the writer : Our men got near to the foot of the fort, and, by a close fire, made them close their port-holes and stop using artillery. In this position we remained for sometime, resting and waiting to get ammunition f r a final hand-to-hand struggle in the fort. Sears’ assault on the east side of the railroad, however, was not so success ful. His men had to scale the ridge, which is everywhere very steep, and cut by a deep ravine. Under the murderous fire from the Fourth Min nesota (450 men),aided by a part of the Twelfth Illinois (say 60 men) and the Fiftieth Illinois (267 men), they found it impossible to climb the abrupt slant with the entanglement of brush and briars. A portion of them dashed into the ravine east of the railroad on the north side of the ridge and found their course stopped by the steep bluff, and that they were furthermore caught by a cross fire from the Federal works on the two sides of the ravine. They here suffered about their only loss in unwounded prisoners. Major Edson, commanding the Fourth Minnesota, thus describes this incident: The two regiments of the enemy charged with much desperation; but were forced back, excepting small detachments of each that pushed forward and took shelter in a narrow ravine near our works, where we captured eighty prisoners, including one field and several line officers, with the col ors of the 35th and 39th regiments Missis sippi Infantry, and one hundred and twen ty-three stand of arms. Lieutenant Colonel William Hanna, commanding the Fiftieth Illinois and temporarily here the Twelfth Illinois, also says of this portion of the fight: The enemy charged our line three times, but by the gallan' conduct of the officers and the cool and c urageous bravery of the men. thev repulsed them with heavy loss, our loss being very heavy also, and now the battle raged. Colonel W. S. Barry, commanding the 35th Mississippi, was wounded in the attempt against the Federal posi tion on this side of the railroad. After these repulses of the Confed erates the Twelfth Illinois and the Fiftieth Illinois were ordered to double quick across the railroad cut and rein force General Corse. This movement was mistakeu by the Confederates for an evacuation of that position on the 5