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THIS
WAS THE
CIVIL WAR
Confederate Forces Ambushed
By MERTON T. AKERS
L'nilrd Press Intrrnational
A nolc of frustration crept
into the letter Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lec wrote to his wife,
Mary, on Oct. 19, 1863.
Describing the maneuvering
of his Army of Northern Vir
ginia against Ihc Federal army
of the Potomac, Lee told his
wife:
". . . Our advance went as far
as Bull Run ... I could have
thrown him (the enemy)
further back, but I saw no
chance of bringing him to bat
tle and it would have only
served to fatigue our troops by
advancing further.
"If they had been properly
provided with clothes I would
certainly have endeavored to
have thrown them north of the
Potomac. But thousands were
barefooted, thousands with
fragments of shoes and all with
out overcoats, blankets or warm
clothing.
"I could nut bear to expose
them to certain suffering, on an
uncertain issue.
"Wc could only come up with
their rear, punished them a
little . . .
Lee's Letter Flanker
"f think my rheumatism is a
little better. Yet I still suffer.
Lee had been franker about
what had happened on the ad
vance in a letter to President
Jefferson Davis two days before.
". . . .We have captured about
sixteen hundred prisioners, and
inflicted some additional losses
upon the enemy . . . Our own
loss was slight, except in an ac
tion at this place, where it was
quite severe, and I regret to add
that five pieces of artillery be
longing to (Lt. Cen. Ambrose
P.) Hill's corps were cap
tured ...
The "action at this place"
which Lee mentioned was an
engagement at Brisloe Station,
Va., just south of the Old Bull
Run (Manassas) battlefield.
The fight at Brisloe was un
important (except, of course, to
the men who were killed or
wounded) but it marked one of
Ihe few times in the Civil War
when any part of Lee's army
was ambushed.
At the time, Lee was maneu
vering Maj. Gen. George G.
Meade's Federal army north by
striking at its right flank.
As Hill's corps arrived at
Brisloe Station the banks of
Broad Run, just north of the
hamlet, were blue with Federal
troops. Hill's artillery threw
some shells into the lounging
Federals on the south bank of
the creek and they scurried to
escape. Hill thought he saw a
chance of cutting off all the
troops still south of the stream.
He ordered a quick attack by
his two leading brigades. Other
units were coming up in support.
The Confederates attacked
with a will. But as they came
near Ihe embankment of the
Orange 4 Alexandria railroad
they met a terrific artillery and
musket lire on their right llank. i
From Concealed Troops I
This fire came from Union i
troops concealed behind t h e
embankment, troops which Hill
i had not known were there. Too
late came the realization that
this part of the field had not
been scouted.
The two Confederate brigades
had no choice except to attempt
to drive out the Federals. It was
too late too turn back.
In attempting to carry the
embankment they were slaugh
tered. One of the brigades,
commanded by Gen. John R.
Cooke, lost 700 men in the
attack killed, wounded and
captured. The 27th North Caro
lina, which Cooke had led in
Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Virginia campaigns, lost 2'M of
its 416 men and 33 officers.
The other brigade, c o m
manded by Gen. William W.
Kirkland, lost 602 men, about
half of whom surrendered. Both
Cooke and Kirkland were
wounded. All told, the casualties
were 1,361 in the two brigades.
Another brigadier, Carnot Posey,
was wounded in the leg trying
to support Cooke and Kirkland
and died a month later.
Cooke came from one of the
famous divided families in the
Civil War. His fatther was Maj.
Gen. Philip St. George Cooke,
who remained with the Union in
1861. Maj. Gen. J. 10. B. Stuart
was the brother-in-law of the
younger Cooke.
The Federal troops in the
fight at Brisloe belonged to the
II Corps and were commanded
by Maj. Gen. G. K. Warren.
Approaching From South
They were approaching Bris
toe from the south after a long
march and were screened from
Ihe Confederates by woods.
Warren heard the preliminary
firing and saw an opportunity.
From the saddle he shouted
an order:
"Tell General (Alexander)
Hays to move by the left flank,
at the doublcquick, to the rail
road cut."
Hays' men and those of Brig.
Gen. Alexander Webb wheeled
into position behind the em
bankment, a breastworks made
to order.
From there they poured in the
fire which mowed down Cooke's
and Kirkland's brigades.
In about 40 minutes it was all
over, the Confederates moving
away and the Federals continu
ing north. Warren lost about 350
men.
Meade moved two corps to the
vicinity but by that time it was
night. He then withdrew to
Centcrvillc, Va., near the Bull
Run battlefield and dug in.
Hill came in for much criti
cism for the Brisloe fight.
Attack Too Hastily
"I am convinced that I made
the attack too hastily," he
wrote in his report, "And at the
same time that a delay of half
an hour, and there would have
been no enemy to attack. In
that event I believe 1 should
equally have blamed myself for
not attacking at once."
Lee noted on the report that
"General Hill explains how, in
his haste to attack the III
Army Corps of the enemy, he
overlooked the presence of the
II, which was the cause of the
disaster."
Secretary of War James
Scddon wrote on Ihc report that
"the disaster at Bristic Station
seems due to a gallant but over
hastly pressing of the enemy."
President Davis came to the
point.
"There was a want of vigil
ance," he noted.
The day after the fight Hill
and Lec rode over the battle
field. Hill explained to his chief
what had happened.
Lec made little comment as
Ihey rode. At the end he said:
"Well, well. General, bury
these poor men and let us say
no more about it."
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Products Overseas
REPORTS PLANE CRASH
CAIRO, U.A.R. (UPI) - Au
thorities said today 14 persons
were killed in the crash ol a
Soviet military transport plane
at Aswan Airport last week.
HANDY FOR BATH Shirley DeMarke awoke to find five
inches of water on the floor of her bedroom in Phoenix, Ariz.,
the result of rains measuring nearly two inches during the
night. It was the second time this year that heavy rains have
flooded homes in Phoenix. (UPI).
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NEW YORK (UPI) -There
was a day when a food produc
er or a maker of housewares
could sell his products by load
ing them into a horse drawn
wagon driven by a salesman
who peddled the goods door to
door.
The method is long since a
victim of progress, but the idea
holds, and if plans come to
fruition, a modern-day version
of the old house-to-house merch
andise display will hit the high
seas late in November of next
year.
S. S. Tradefair
It is an exhibition ship, a trade
ship which will be christened
the S. S. Tradefair, and it will
be designed to carry examples
of U. S. production to selected
potential consumer areas.
A spokesman for the first
United States World Fair Ship,
Inc.. a private corporation
which is sponsoring the idea,
said that as of this Jate, more
than a year in advance of the
scheduled first sailing Nov. 21,
1904, commitments have been
received from a wide range of
industries.
The corporation is headed by
John H. Morrill, who retired
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CONVINCED THE
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WHILE "THEY
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THEY AUGHT A3
WELL 60 FOR
ALL THE TRIM-A1INC-S
BICYCLE-WISE-
About ome
week later
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THIS GUNK JUST SLOWi 1 1 WJWN-
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. from active duty with the Navy j
! in 1S55 with the rank of rear
(admiral. The S. S. Tradefair;
project is sponsored by 10 New i
ork lirms. and beside the pri
vate industries which have ex
pressed interest, the Depart-
. ments of Agriculture and of
Commerce are considering con
tracting for space.
! Sponsors of the project noted
that a Japanese floating trade
fair ship, the Sakaura Main.
I sold S15 million in goods in four
I months. But where the Japanese ;
at some ports opened their ex-
I hibition ship to the general
public, the sponsors of the S. S.
Tradefair plan lo have attend
ance by invitation only, and
i "we're making the point" that it
is trade people only," the
; spokesman said.
! The vessel which will bei
christened the Tradefair now is
; in use, but will be withdrawn !
I from trade around the first of
the year fur conversion and re-
furbishing by the Bethlehem
Steel Company.
At present, the schedule of
her voyages would see her call
ing at 40 port'-, the North Euro
pean area, the Mediterranean,
the Fur East and the South
Atlantic. A 523-foot. 20.000-lun-ner.
she will contain exhibit
spaces, arranged in blocs, plus
conference rooms and projec
tion looms where trade movies
can be shown lo prospective
l customers who desire more in
i formation than is given in a
; single exhibit.
j "It's Ihe first time this
has been tried here." said a
spokesman for the sponsoring
company, "and we have t o
' make a hard sales pitch,
i "But it's a limcly project,
j Right now. there is a lot of in
j tercst at high governmental lev
I els on any measures which will
serve to increase our export
trade, and help out our balance
' of payments problem. So we
teel we have a lot ol ashuig
ton support behind this."
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Small Worlds
Around Us
; By LYNN M. W ATKINS
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BREW IN GRAVEYARD
ACTON, England (UPI) - A
brewing company said today it
had turned down Ihc Rev. Rich
ard Parsons' offer to open a
beer garden in his Anglican
church gra eyard here.
"Wc were flabbergasted." a
brewery spokesman said. "But
we. turned it down because it
might tarnish our image."
Achilles .May Have Lived
If Yarrow Had Been Found
Achilles, the greatest Greek
warrior of the Trojan war, evi
dently couldn I find a fresh yar
row plant just when he need
ed it most. Too bad, for he had
been treating his wounded sol
diers with the leaves and juice
of (his plant, and knew that it
stanched the flow of blood. But
wounded, and in his most vul
nerable spot his heel by an
enemy by the name of Paris,
neither he nor any of his men
could locate a single plant.
Achilles, that mythical char
acter, died from his wound, but
in so doing he definitely estab
lished a pretty descriptive man
ner of expressing a weak spot
in one's armour, or anatomy;
an expression still pretty uni
versally used to this day. many
hundreds of years after the
Trojan war.
Ever since, in many lands
and by many peoples, the crush
ed leaves of the yarrow, or
bloodwort plant has been used
for the stanching of blood, eith
er from a wound, or even in
cases of severe nosebleed.
Today, after experi ments,
modern man admits that the
fresh leaves, and the juice of
the yarrow is highly astringent.
So universally used were the
leaves of this plant, for staunch
ing blood, that its scientific
name, "achillca" is derived
from the name of that ancient
Greek warrior. Achilles, and
this is today the recognized bo
tanical classification.
The common name, blood
wort, or soldier's woundwort,
has the same implication. But
of course we could not let well
enough alone, so we have come
up with other descriptive, com
mon names such as, nosebleed
plant, devil's nettle, bodman's
plaything, and old man's pep
per; all common names for the
yarrow.
The yarrow weed, and a weed
it surely is. grows just about
everywhere, in pastures, waste
lands, in fenccrows. and along
side dusty roads. It was intro
duced in America from
Europe a very long time ago.
Considered a nuisance, wc could
however, get a valuable lesson
. from it in how to survive, for it
i contents itself with living in ne
' gleeted corners where it will ba
bothered little, if at all.
I The yarrow blooms from Junn
, to November; small white blos
soms, each one slightly resem
bling small daisies, and with a
nutty, autumnal fragrance. The
stem is tall, stiff, and carries
I lacy leaves, borne on branches
of the main stem.
Pioneer housewives made a
strong, bitter tea from tho
steeped leaves; it was adminis
tered as a tonic, and for induc
ing perspiration, believed to be
helpful in the treat m c n t of
colds. Made extra strong, it w as
supposed to act as a stimulant.
Back in the middle ages, long
before the first plant ever found
: a toehold in America, the leaves
of the milwort, or yarrow wcro
believed to be a vary potent
love-charm.
In spite of the plant's abun
dance in pastures and fields,
there is no record of it ever
having been eaten by livestock,
its only claim to greatness to
day is the legend of Achilles,
and the Trojan wars, and its
name. Who knows'.' Maybe tho
course of history would havo
been different if that ancient
: Greek warrior could have found
some fresh leaves of the "sol
dier's woundwort" when he was
sorely wounded in his one and
only vulnerable spot his heel.
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