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TIIE MORNING ASfORIAN, ASTOKI A, OREGON. , WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1901 FROOFESSIONAL CARDS. JAY TUTTLE, M. 1). rHISICIAN AND SUKGEON i Acting distant Surgeon r.S. Maria Hospital Service, &S kwn: 10 to IS a.n 1 to 4:J0 pjn. ' m Otmmerclkl Street. Snd Floor. Forrest's Fight Against Fate A FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY WAR STORY April 12. K13 Pr.RHODA C. HICKS OSTEQPATHIST HaastB Eld. ST J Commercial 81 PHONE BLACK 9385, DR. L. L. BALL, . DENTIST. El Commercial St Astoria, Oreeon. - Dr. VAUGHAN, Dentist, Tjtinm Building,; Astoria, Oregon. Dr. W. G. LOGAN DENTIST tSU Cbramerckl St., Shanahan BuilJicg JfUSCELLANEOUS. JAPANESE GOODS New stock of fancy goods just waved at Yokohama Bazaar. Call and see the latest novelties JrisB Japan. C. J. TRENCHARD Estate. Insurant. Commission and Shipping. CUSTOM HOUSE BROKER. CSs 133 Ninth 8traat, Next to Juatio Office. STORIA, OREGON. , BEST 15 CENT MEAL. 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H cam wltk Ma wonderful Vhi natkarbt, room, hod, Ma aod mi an entirely Tarawa la M af thl. umem aaawr I i MS ehral ia- 1 1 MM I aaat 1a tarn awaur. awsr taimlai nmitr, kmn la aottaa of eStaa. which be eacmaantlry am la am WMw to car awa, a M. iaaf, throat, 1)11 iiimll i. aarvaaaMMk MKk, Dtot, kldoeya, ul ; as aaaarae. af llrtnaltli Charra axrtanu. CaU aa wm alak Patfenta oat af ttaa a wmm tar kaaoeoroaan. tmlnun, ODMtJIr tanos run. A.Dtnnt Tk C Gtt Wo Chinese Eei&dac Civ IU Aider SC. nrManUM aaaaf. A FewPrecious jJepanese Swords F0RSALEAT Yahhoma - tBazar t Copyright. UOS, by Q. I Kilmer. URIXG the last days of March, ISttt, General James II. Wilson took his squadrons In band for a gratia rota mrougn Amuainn and Georgia. The expedition had for Its object, as planned at army head quarters, a demonstration In favor of the attack by another aud a larger force upon the Confederate strongholds it Mobile. Wilson made the enterprise something more than a parade of forces. He turned It into a fighting campaign, which resulted In the de rtruetlon of Forrest's cavalry, the cap ture of Selma and the conquest of all central Alabama and Georgia. Wilson's force was a heavy one, num bering 13,000 sabers. But It was a new command which had been hurriedly formed In the excitement of the cam paign against General Hood In Tennes see the previous autumn. The leader was a new man In the west He had earned his spurs as general of a caval ry division In the Army of the Poto mac. His opponent. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, had never found bis match as a raider and a fighting caval ryman. It was a byword In the Missis sippi valley that all the territory of western Tennessee, northern and cen tral Mississippi and Alabama belonged to Forrest, because his squadrons rode over it at will. "Forrest's country" had ! become a new geographical division on the military maps. At the beginning of the raid Wilson captured a courier with dispatches on bis person showing Forrest's plana of action. He learned that the scattered Confederates were alert and riding In hot baste to get between the Federal columns and Selma. Orders were given to Wilson's divisions to drop the scent In all other directions and meet in front of Selma. The game was to be a man hunt; the prey, Forrest's troopers. The Confederate cavalry had passed the winter to central Mississippi. 150 miles from the border. It bad been re organized and numbered about 7,000 men. When news reached Forrest that Wilson was moving he accepted the ! challenge. His troopers had been under i orders to march "at six hours' notice" for several days, so there was no time i lost In throwing his brigades across the i line of march taken np by the enemy. Selma, Tuscaloosa and Columbus were the exposed points. Selma came first, and in front of it, northwest, the clans gathered, all booted and spurred, with their swords sharpened for the fray. April J, 1S5, the advance guard of Wilson and the rear guard of ForreBt met In pitched battle. Toon leurnlni that the Federal cavalry was galloping toward Selma the Confederate leader ordered his troopprs to concentrate for the defense of that point. After n lav of lively sklrralshfng Forrest's sipiad rons had been driven l.ul; upon Ad anis' reserve division at the crossings of the Selma roads over Hosier's creek near Jlaplcsvllle. The Confederate!" claimed to have 1.300 men in position Forrest's line of battie extended a Ion;: a ridge where steep, wooded hills com manded the pas over the stream, the right resting on a height, the left se cured from attaci. by an impassable swamp. Two cannon were pouted on each of the two roads converging near there from Randolph and Mapiesville, General Ell Long's dirislou. inarching upon the Maplesville road, held the ad van or ilson s column. As soon as the Confederates were discovered in position Long re-enforced his vanguard, a batt.iJJou of the Seventy-second Indi ana, by the remainder of the regiment. A spirited charge of the whole eom niaud on foot drove Forrest's lieavy skirmish line bark in confusion, and Lon? Immediately followed up the ad vantage by .sending forward a battal ion of the Seventeenth Indiana under Lieutenant Coionel Frank White. colonel White's har;,e at Maiiles- wlth hla revolver, but received only sllfht arm. Three other came up meanwhile and took part, ao that actually aa snany is all troopers were either attempting; to laber or ahoot him. Uy thia time the i kammer of hla pistol had been harked iway. ao that the weapon waa uaeleaa. while hla rlht arm was weakened by the many blow which had fallen upon It. Ilia stuff and eacort could not heln him. 1 tor ail at that moment were enagd In i like personal rombata. On either hand the roadway waa hedved by a deiwe. Impenetrable thicket and rearward waa choked by a two horae raxoa, which barred hi eaoape In that Itrectlon. while hla anemlea tilled the road frontward, fiercely cutting and ihootln at htm. Kacapa Indeed seemed hopeleaa, for, aa If to render It utterly ao. I hla horae waa now severely wounded by a piatoi bail in the Utlfh. But It waa not the habit of the man to look upon aught aa hopeloas. Wheeling hla horee toward the wagon, giving htm the spur fiercely and lining him with the bridle, the brave animal rose Into the air and aurmounted tha, ob. I Made at a bound, going some thirty atepa before ha waa halted, and Forrest turned I to survey the field. Scarcely had he done lo when he was charged by a Federal of ' Beer, who lunged at him with hla saber, but Forrest panted the thrust with hie other pistol, which he hud been able to draw, and, tiring, killed his reaolute ad- ' ....MUM. foMta ( T" . 1 . 1 .. .Wl- .( . v. i j vv.m..ih ujr una iiiiir. however, those whom he had eluded by hla dee pe rate leap over the wagon hail continued to paas It and were again upon him. Colonel M. C. Galloway and Ir. Jones of the staff rame to the aid of their Imperiled chief, and each put an adver sary hors da combat. Forrest klllud yet another, and Calloway, wounding atltl another, took him nriiuiier. ' 9 i C3JTS Don't simply "get a cake of soap." Get good soap. Ask for Pears and you have pure soap. Then bathing will t mean more than mere cleanliness; it will be luxury at trifling cost. Sales increasing since 17S0. ' The Federal troopers fought with sabers almost exclusively In this melee. Forrest ami his staff were armed with two navy revolvers each, the men In the escort with 8ener rifles and pistols. At daylight April, 2 Wilson resumed his march upon Selma. ForresJ'a skir mishers were encountered about 2 o'clock and driven bock to the fortifi cations. These consisted of a bastloucd line, on a radius of three miles, ex tending from the Alabama river above the city to the same below. The profile of the line assaulted was as follows: Height of parapet, six to eight feet; thickness, eight feet; depth of ditch, five feet; width, from ten to fifteen feet; height of stockade, five feet. General Emory Upton asked for a picked body of 3) men to work around Forrest's ilank and turn it, but before he could gather the detachment General Long discovered a column of Confeder ates riding up on his rear to divert his attention while, re-euforeenicnts jwured Into the works In front Instead of 7,Ooa Ills own forct at band was fcOOO. with 8 guns. 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Oysters served in anyjstyle; Game in season. 39 Bond Street, Cor. th." Astoria, Ore. viKe was worthy of the brave "six hun dred" who rode Into the Jaws of death at Kalaklava. His men da.shed onward at a swift gallop, with tfrawn sabers, breaking through the Confederate main line and riding completely over the guns. After sabering some artillery men and their supports, who resisted, the Indiana troopers wheeled and swept on in a lateral course along the line of Forrest's n.en. Loth sides shooting and sabering vigorously. While's men cut their w;ay out, leaving Captain Taylor and sixteen troopers dead within the enemy's m inn. Taylor had carried his nieu into the midst of the Confederates banded about the purs. There he and his fol lowers, singly, fell upon Forrest's body guard man for man and -engaged in a savage running fight of a couple of hnn- 1 dred yards. Forrest and Taylor met In a auei, ana tne gallant captain was shot dead while trying to saber hla an tagonist. The melee around the guns Is described In the "History of For rest's Cavalry" as follows: Forrest had at the moment available only hi famous escort and etaff and a section of Adams' artillery. From the latter one discharge was aecured, but the artillerists abandoned their guns and re tr.iS&4 abruptly. On came the Federal cavalry, with their sabers drawn, when Forrest sprang to meet them and became Involved In one of thoee personal encoun ters that have marked hla ltfe, and his escapes from which appear Incredible. He was set upon by four troopers In the wood at one moment Shooting one, the others were down upon him with uplift-1 3 habere, which he attempted to parry f'MH Co-vsnoMTt 4c Annwe nonrtlng a .ketch and rtMorlntWm mar HniKMrictlrroiiSilMitUI. HANDBOOK I'ntmiU qitlciilf ureruin mir opinion free M hr au 'uruniuitlrft. TORItEST IN A HOT COI1NEH. turning about to assail the new enemy Long ordered the bugles to sound the charge. Armstrong's Confederate di vision, 1,500 in number, occupied the position In front of Long. The latter mustered less than 1,600 for the assault Long's men were armed with repeat ing carbines and as they advanced poured a steady stream of bullets into the Confederate ranks. Despite the fire of artillery and musketry which swept the open space for 600 yards the gal lant troopers pushed forward steadily and in fifteen minutes bad cleared the works between Armstrong and Hod- dey'a brigade of supports. Then the as sailants turned leftward upon Arm strong's own line. Forrest threw himself into the breach with all the troops ha could rally, and a portion of Long's command suffered terribly for a moment At last Armstrong's line gave way, and the scene became one of wild con fusion. The Confederate troopers, beaten from the breastworks, rushed for their horses; tha militia threw away their arms in flight, and the streets of the city became choked with soldiers, citizens and horses hurrying to escape Forrest and bla generals got away separately after darkness came to their relief. Wilson gathered In 2,700 prison ers of war, including 100 officers and 01 cannon. He estimated the garrison at tmitWn M pmbahlr enli-ntnhl aiii..rictlTiMiinilulll. HANDBC Miit frff. tlllMl iuwh-t for oprurtmr pattmta. -I'imu Ukm thniuxh Mitnu A Lu. IpVrial tmttc, without ch.nre, m tbe Scientific Jmrm. A hMidofT)(if lltntrwt4 mk1f, Iaw rtr ttilsUMm of nv awittfitifla kmrtuti. Trm. W ft Tmr: fmir ttmntb. lie tiuU by til nvwiuttMitorii, n 'MUM SCO.""""- BratKcb umc. (Ot t BU Waihloiiuo, li. OF Tie J. S. Dellinger Go. Astoria, Oregon. Fine Line of Samples Now Ready. JgVv'e furnish all the latest designs at prices lower than Eastern Houses and save you the freight. 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