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Breathless, heated, excited, the 65th swept on, yet it felt the cold air from the cavern. It had, of course, seen accidents, men injured in various ways, but never had it viewed so many, nor so much blood, and never before had it rushed past the helpless and the agonizing.
An order arrived from McLaughlin of the Rockbridge, "Lieutenant Poague back to the straw stacks!" The battery horses, quiet and steadfast, were brought from where they had stood and cropped the grass, the guns were limbered up, Jackson's aide and the men of the 65th fell back, the six-pounder shared its men with the howitzer, off thundered the guns. There was a stir in the 65th.
There was a shout of laughter round the table, for O'Grady had, as usual, spoken with an air of earnest simplicity, as if the propositions he was laying down were beyond question. "You must have had a weary time at Miranda, since you came back, O'Connor," the colonel said, "with no one there but a wing of the 65th." "I don't suppose they were to be pitied, colonel," Doctor O'Flaherty laughed.
"Who locked the door?" "Why why " "Take the key out of your pocket and go open it. Faugh! What's your brigade?" "The Stonewall, sir." "Humph! They'd better stone you out of it. Regiment?" "65th, sir. Company A. If you'd be so good just to look at my foot, sir, you'd see for yourself that I couldn't march " "We'll try it with the Rogue's March. 65th. Company A. Richard Cleave's old company."
Three naval officers and ten sailors were killed, while a large number of officers and men of the 42d and 65th were seriously wounded. The slaughter among the natives had been very great no less than four thousand of them strewing the ground in all directions. The British wounded were sent back to the zareba, and the force again advanced.
Allan Gold, fighting with the 65th, took the colours from the last of the colour guard. He was tall and strong and he swung them high. The glare from an exploding shell showed him and the battle flag. Gone was the quiet school-teacher, gone even the scout and woodsman. He stood a great Viking, with yellow hair, and the battle rage had come to him.
Richard got what was left back across the swamp." Allan groaned. "The 65th! General Jackson himself called it 'the fighting 65th! Just a remnant of it left left of the 65th!" "Yes. The roll was called, and so many did not answer. They say other Stonewall regiments wept." Allan raised himself upon the bench. She started forward. "Don't do that!" and with her hand pressed him gently down again.
The special session of the 65th Congress, known as the "War Congress," adjourned in October, 1917, having passed every measure recommended as a war measure by the President. In addition, it found time to protect by law migratory birds, to appropriate forty-seven million dollars for deepening rivers and harbors, and to establish more federal judgeships.
The sun, could it have been seen through the rolling smoke, would have showed low in the heavens. The musketry was continuous, and the sound of the cannon shook the heart of Winchester three miles away. The 65th moved forward. Halfway up the slope, its colonel received an ugly wound. He staggered and sank. "Go on! go on, men! Fine hunt! Don't let the stag " The 65th went on, led by Richard Cleave.
These had a gun or two. All opened on the 65th. It was cut to pieces in the swamp and in a little marshy meadow. Only a remnant got back to the northern side of the creek. Richard is under arrest." "He was acting under orders!" "So Carlton says he says. But General Jackson says there was no such order; that he disobeyed the order that was given, and now tries to screen himself.
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