History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . tiring. Mason obeyedand was marched off by the rebels, ondouble quick. The remainder of thelieut. s. f. utley,* party trusted to the brush and escaped. Company K. T T . - .. . 1 In the head ot a little ravine, under somegreen briars, Captain Chappell sought shelter and foundsafety. The rest of the party also escaped. A short distancefarther on, the road leads by the field, where the mules weregrazing. Into this field, the rebels, some twenty strong,charged with a lou
History of the Fifty-eighth regiment of Indiana volunteer infantry : its organization, campaigns and battles from 1861 to 1865 . tiring. Mason obeyedand was marched off by the rebels, ondouble quick. The remainder of thelieut. s. f. utley,* party trusted to the brush and escaped. Company K. T T . - .. . 1 In the head ot a little ravine, under somegreen briars, Captain Chappell sought shelter and foundsafety. The rest of the party also escaped. A short distancefarther on, the road leads by the field, where the mules weregrazing. Into this field, the rebels, some twenty strong,charged with a loud yell. They had passed by the left flankof the guards. One man of the thirteen—Henry Beck—fired on the rebels. The remainder of the guards fled, seek-ing safety for themselves. Several of them state that they * Wras mustered in with the Regiment at Camp Gibson, and served in theranks until November, 1864, when he was promoted to Second Lieutenant ofCompany K. He was mustered out with the Regiment as First the war, he has been engaged, principally, in farming, and now residesnear Waterloo, FIFTY-EIGHTH INDIANA REGIMENT. 387 might have delivered efficient shots, but they thought sucha course would endanger their safety. Other bands of rebels, besides the twenty above named,dashed into the field ; accounts differ as to numbers. Asthey came in, they shouted, and some discharged theirpieces. They seemed more bent on making a noise than onhurting any one. The teamsters displayed a most astonishing ingenuity, andalacrity, in fleeing from the marauders. Some fled up thecreek and some down ; some flew rapidly over the bridge,like Mohammedan going to Heaven ; some plunged intothe stream, as Leander did the Hellespont; others, lessclassic, hid in the bushes. The rebels captured but twomen—Caleb Andrews, of Company E, and William , of Company F. My gallant mare caught the spirit of the hour. Shethought, in imitation of Jobs war horse, she would sme
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