. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ,and carried a long-range Henr\ rifle, withsights delicately arranged as for targetpractice. In action each was perfectly inde-pendent. They never maneuvered as a the time came they were asked, •• Can-teens full ? • Biscuits for all day ? Then theironly order, All right: hunt you holes, they dispersed, and, like Indians,sought cover to please themselves, behind rocksand stumps, or in hollows. Sometimes theydug holes; somerimes they climbed into in a good location, they remained therethe day. At night they
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . ,and carried a long-range Henr\ rifle, withsights delicately arranged as for targetpractice. In action each was perfectly inde-pendent. They never maneuvered as a the time came they were asked, •• Can-teens full ? • Biscuits for all day ? Then theironly order, All right: hunt you holes, they dispersed, and, like Indians,sought cover to please themselves, behind rocksand stumps, or in hollows. Sometimes theydug holes; somerimes they climbed into in a good location, they remained therethe day. At night they would crawl out andreport in camp. This morning, as I havesaid, the sharp-shooters dispersed early to findplaces within easy range of the breastworks. The movement by Smith and McCIemandwas begun about the same time. A thickwood fairly screened the former. The latterhad to cross an open valley under fire of twobatteries, one on Buckners left, the other ona high point jutting from the line of outworksheld by Colonel Heiman of Pillows the skirmishers, the batteries started out tofind positions, and through the brush andwoods, down the hollows, up the hills theguns and caissons were hauled. It is nowadaysa ver}- steep bluff, in face of which the goodartillerist will stop or turn back. .At Donelson,however, the proceeding was generally slowand toilsome. The ofticer had to find a van-tage-ground first: then with axes a road to itwas hewn out; after which, in many instances,the men. with the prolongs over their shoulders,helped the horses along. In the gra>- of thedawn the sharp-shooters were deep in theirdeadly game; as the sun came up. one batteryafter another, having found position, openedfire, and was instantly and gallantly answered:and all the time behind the hidden sharp-shooters, and behind the skirmishers, who oc-casionally stopped to take a hand in the fray,the regiments marched, route-step, colors fly-ing, after their colonels. ^94 THE CAPTURE OF FORT D
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