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THE MORNING ASTORIA N ASTOKIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, HJ. r : ilnniaif np'7iinni n Lee Turns on His Pursuers A FORTIETH ANNIVERSARY WAR STORY I Copyright, 1S6. by O. L. Kilmer ! pulsed by Anderson s troops, nmt wbeii f FTliU evacuating Richmond and j joined by M en-it t it sivoud attempt va Petersburg the night of April j uuiUe. Swell's trooim were uuw emu 2 aud 3, 1SC3, Lee marched hug up. Hud Anderson, aided by Kweli'k with the troops under his lui advuuee. repulsed Crook ud Mort.'tt. mediate eoniuiaud iu the Petersburg! Auuorsou came to u Maud at Sailor Hues westward along the railroad run ning to Oanville, Vs., the ioint which lYesideut l'avls had selected tlie new capital of the Confederacy. Gen era! John B. Gordou's corps formed the Confederate rear guard, aud General It. S. Kwell's corps was the last In Lee's regular column. General Long street led the vanguard. General Grant and General Meade set out from Petersburg on April 5 to follow upon Lee's heels with thre army corps, the Second, Fifth and Bixth, led respectively by Geneml Humphreys, General Griffin aud Gen eral Wright The Federal Army of the James, under command of General t Ord, marched westward on a more 1 officers whom he could 111 atford to southerly route than that followed by I lose at that stage. Amoug the Con Lee and Grant, hoping to Intercept the j federates cajitured were Ewell, Ker Confederate retreat Meanwhile Sher- j shou and G. W. C. Lee, son of General Idan, with the cavalry column, struck B. E. Lee. out still farther west to get between i The Confederate corps uuder Cor Lee and Danville. ' don and Humphreys' Second Federal General Gordou's men kept up a run-' corps bad gone too far to the right, nlng fight wita the pursuiug Federals, down Sailor's creek, to take part hi particularly at the crossings of streams the battle between Audersou aud the and the passes over ridges, but the Federal cavalry and between Ewell march was continuous, Grant's advance and the Sixth corps. Humphreys' men moving rapidly with skirmishers and had moved all day within sight of Uor artillery. This pursuit by the Graut doo, maintaining the most of the way column lasted all day the Cth, endiug a "neck and neck" race. Encounters at night at Sailor's creek, fourteen bad been frequent, but so orderly was miles ahead, where an Important ac- the Confederate retreat that a good Hon closed the heavy fighting of the battle front was kept up, and the red campaign. The operations on the front j eral attacks made very little Impres of the line began on the morning of j slon. the 6th. General Longstreet's corps Gordon's march was kept up all bad been pushed on In advance of ( night, and the troops reached Gaines Lee's army and during the night of the 1 vllle, placing the Appomattox between Cth had reached Rice's Station, on the South Side railroad, between Burke- rllle and Farmvllle. This brought him ; In front of Ord's Army of the James . ralL at Burkevllle. Fit Lee's Confederate j After passing the Appomattox, which cavalry was close up with Longstreet's. was accomplished during the night of Sheridan was In the vicinity. j the 6th at the two crossings, High General Ord, who believed that Lee Bridge and Farmvllle. Lee placed was marching down the Danville road j guards at the bridges and set out to on Burkevllle, sent out a detachment j ward Appomattox Court House up the of two regiments of about 500 men j river. On the Federal side the Fifth and his headquarters cavalry, eighty j corps moved up the Appomattox to strong, under Colonel Frauds Wash-: Trlnee Edward Court House. Merritt's burn, to Intercept Longstreet's column, j cavalry also went up the river on the Colonel Theodore B. Bead of Ord's ! south bank. Ord's army and Wright's staff led the enterprise. The Confeder-! Sixth corps moved to Farmvllle and i found that Lee had destroyed the ffff'':t;fl&j& I bridges. Crook's cavalry division mov WmWfNltii j d in advance- of Ord aud Wright and, (j4fi;S'!ji j fording the river, moved rapidly in lt S,'l'"B. 1: BABLOW'B MEN fHOSSIXO APPOMATTOX EKI1KJE. ates were the command of General T. L. Rosser and numbered about 1,500. When Rosser saw Read's column mov ing around Longstreet's flank be start ed In pursuit and overtook It about midway between It Ice's Station and Farmvllle, some distance west of the railroad. Read had posted bis infantry along the edge of an oak forest. Rosser sent a dismounted column led by Gen eral Munford against Read's front and , a column In saddle, led by General ; Hearing, to make a flunk attack. Gen- eral Washburn then led out the eighty j cavalrymen and charged Dearing and engaged him In a hand to hand fight According to Rosser, all of the Federal troopers were killed, wounded or cap tured. Rosser charged upon the Infan try and drove them through the woods, killing Read,ln the fight The Infantry then raised the white Aug. Read bad failed to destroy tiie bridges, but bis stubborn action bad alarmed the Con federates, and no forward movemeut had been made by Longstreet Rosser returned to Rice's Station and found the men of Ord confronting Longstreet. Lee made a chunge of programme by which bis army was to avoid Burke vllle and cross tbe Appomattox at High Bridge and Farmvllle. This drew the eorps of Anderson, Ewell and Gordon In the same direction. On tbe morning of this same day Sheridan bad directed General Crook, who comninnded th cavalry of the Army of the Potomac to move to Deatonvllle, aud ordered General Merrltt to follow with tbt Shenandoah cavalry corps. Crook found the Confederates passing westward through Deatonvllle and attempted to seize one of their trains. He was re- creek,' a tributary of Apujiuuttos river tu frout of the Federal ouvuiry. Ui line had A general ditv?tiou eu-t urn. west us the amies woie luiuvuiug Crook uud Morriit failed iu wverl ui tempts to peuoirute the Conusierait line. Ou the east K-vcil vf.u up to Audcrsou mill was followed elo.-eiy by the is.xili corps, liwell formed ou tin left of AnUcrsou. Uoruou, wno wa,-" closely pursued by Uuuiptueys' Secom. corps, turned off to lue right or uortb before ero-;Ug the creek. This left Anderson and Lweil to withstand the cavairy mid Wright's Sixtu corps. The Sixth corps oieuod the buttle, which cost Lee T.il meu and many good them and their pursuers. At Farmvllle the Confederates were rationed with provisions that had been sent up by , pursuit. ! Colonel Gregg, whose brigade was j leading Crook's column, soon met the i enemy and became heavily engaged. . Heth's Confederate Infantry formed on ! his front, and Fltz Lee, with Rosaer and j Munford, attacked him front and flank, I driving back the brigade. Gregg and a i number of his men were captured. 1 Crook was now ordered out westward ; along the Lynchburg railroad toward ApiHimattox. Sheridan's men had not ! yet crossed the river. Humphreys' corps started forward In pursuit of : Gordon at daylight on the 7th and ! reached High Bridge Just as the ene- my was giving the last stroke to the ' work of destruction. The railroad bridge, crossing a wide marsh on piers sixty feet high, was on fire, and a re doubt that served as a bridge head for the wngon bridge was being destroy ed by explosives. The division of Gen eral Barlow led the Second corps, and Its energetic commander sent a force at double quick and drove off the Con federates at the wagon bridge. General Humphreys, who was ou the ground, and Colonel T. L. Livermore of his staff led a party of men to the burning railroad bridge to save It from destruction. As soon as Barlow's men attacked the Confederates at the wag on bridge the latter were re-enforced, and on being driven off at this point they rallied at the railroad bridge and attempted to defeat Colonel Uver more's men. A sharp skirmish ensued, the Confederates being underneath on the grouud, while the Federals were above, putting out the fires. The struc ture was saved with the exception of four spans on the northern or Confed erate side. Barlow's men now dashed across the wagon bridge and drove off all opposition and hastened toward Farmville. General Humphreys, with the divisions of Nelson A. Miles and he Trobriand, moved along the roads toward Appomattox Court House. Lee's retreat was delayed the whole of the 7th of April by the activity of Humphreys, who harassed the Confed erates along tbe Appomattox route westward. Under cover of night Lee set out on bis last march, reaching Ap pomattox Court House about 8 o'clock on the evening of tbe 8th of April., Suddenly a dash of Federal cavalry from the south gave warning that the foe was across bis front The new force was Merritt's cavalry, which the detention of Lee at the Appomattox crossings on the 7tb had enabled to ex ecute a flank march.. Crook's Federal cavalry was In the vicinity, and before tbe morning of the lith Ord's column and the Fifth Federal corps arrived. Humphreys was close upon tbe Con federate rear guard, consisting that day of Longstreet's corps, General Gor don leading the vanguard? Lee was beset on all shies. Sheridan stood across his front on tbe west the three Federal corps under Ord. Griffin and Wright were strung out soufb of birn along the railroad, and Humphreys was closing In on the east That was the military situation the morning of the historic Utb of April, - GEORGE L, KILMER. 1III1DI ri Bin El HRHBIIM V HELP WANTED. WAS'l K1V Ablehodied men for I'nited State navy; ages 17 to 33 year: pay 1(1 to $70. Apply at room 11, PyUiisn building. v LKARN TKl.KOKAl'UY AND 15. 2t Accounting. SW to ifSOO a month sal ary aured our graduate under bond. Our fix school tho largest in America and endorsed by all Railroad. Write for catalogue. MJOKSE SCHOOL OK TKLK.ORAPUY, Cincinnati, 0., UuiTslo, X. Y Atlanta, lia., La Crosse, Wis., Tex arkana, Tex., San FramUeo, Cal. WASTED-GIRL TO WAIT ON TAW.K and do other light work. Apply 4'5 Duane Street, GIRL WANTED FOR GENERAL housework and to it with cook ing. $13 per month. J. P. Gibbon. AI derbrook, care of Tongue Point Lum ber Co. 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