. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . itement of war and rushin to avenge them. The Union batteries in the rear drop their shellsin the woods, preparing the way for the advance of the Union the extreme left of the Union line the fighting lags. The artil-lery and the skirmishers have it all to themselves there. The com-batants seem to prefer long range. Further to the eastward, though,the too-extended line of Carl Schurzs division tempts the gray-backsfrom t
. Battle fields and camp fires. A narrative of the principle military operations of the civil war from the removal of McClellan to the accession of Grant. (1862-1863) . itement of war and rushin to avenge them. The Union batteries in the rear drop their shellsin the woods, preparing the way for the advance of the Union the extreme left of the Union line the fighting lags. The artil-lery and the skirmishers have it all to themselves there. The com-batants seem to prefer long range. Further to the eastward, though,the too-extended line of Carl Schurzs division tempts the gray-backsfrom their vantage-point. They dash out, and for a time spread con-fusion in Schurzs ranks. Here there is no long-range fighting. Muz- BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. 29 zle to muzzle the muskets spit out their spiteful messages, and thebayonet searches out the vitals of its victims. Many of Schurzsmen—most of them, indeed—are Germans, and they fight with despe-rate valor for their adopted country. Rallying, they beat back theConfederates. They follow them. Right up to the railway embank-ment the Germans swarm, and hold this point of vantage in theteeth of a furious. Confederate fire untilfresh troops come torelieve them. The fighting be-gun on the Confed-erate left soon ex-tended all along theline. Regiment afterregiment of Uniontroops was broughtup and plunged intothe fight. The Con-federates too were re-enforced by the ajrivalof Longstreet, whoreached the fieldshortly before arrival was un-known to GeneralPope, however, andthere is nothing to show that his troops took any part in the battleof that day. Mid-day brings a lull in the battle. Under the broiling Sep-tember sun in Virginia there could be no furious fighting. And so forfour hours only the skirmishers and the artillery are engaged. Mean-time General Pope is getting ready for what he hope? will prove the VN/ONCOHFEDIRATS. The Battle of Manassas. Positins at Koon, A ug. 2qth. 30 BATTLE FIELDS AND CAMP FIRES. fini
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