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Updated: June 27, 2025
Through the open curtained window she had seen her husband lead his command out through the echoing archway to the plain beyond; she had heard his boyish voice bark out the command and had listened to the rumble of the gun-wheels dying in the distance for the last time possibly.
During the night the withdrawing Federals had also travelled this road. It was cut by gun-wheels, it was strewn with abandoned wagons, ambulances, accoutrements of all kinds. There were a number of dead horses. They lay across the road, or to either hand in the melancholy fields of sedge. From some dead trees the buzzards watched.
Men lay dead or bleeding under the debris of gun-wheels and broken bricks. Above all the noise of this confusion and death in the night the hard, stern voices of German officers rang out, and German discipline prevailed, and men marched on to greater perils.
McKee reported that the Indians could find no trace of the gun-wheels the gun was carried on a pack-horse, and so he thought that the Kentuckians were forced to leave it behind on their retreat. A very common feat of the small frontier historian was to put high praise of his own side in the mouth of a foe.
And then, far-distant yet not above, but under the jolting of the gun-wheels and the rattle of the scabbards they could hear the clickety-clickety-clickety-click of a horse hard-ridden. They had scarcely caught that sound, they had barely tightened up their bridle-reins, when another sound, one just as unmistakable, burst out in front of them.
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