comrades in their struggle, and remained, and was congratulating himself on the dealing out his ammunition to good account probable success of the ruse, when the until the day was over, as if nothing had soldiers seeing the U. S. on his cap, yelled Yankee son of a happened to him. Several days after, he out: "That's a returned to the doctor to have his wound re-dressed, and continued to pay him daily visits in his leisure hours, attending to duty in the mean time. give him!" On hearing this, Montgomery dashed the spurs into his horse, threw his head over the animal's neck, and made for the road. A perfect volley of Minie balls passed over and Montgomery's Ride into the Hampton Le- around the Captain-killing the horse, gion's Nest. West Point, Va., was the scene of one of the bloodiest of battles, May seventh, 1862. Of the various incidents by which it was distinguished, none was more notable than the escape of Captain Montgomery, General Newton's chief-of-staff, from the Hampton Legion. who rolled over, carrying his brave rider with him down to the ground. Knowing that apparently nothing but time would save him, Montgomery lay with his head back in a ditch, as he fell, and appeared dead for some ten minutes, not moving a muscle or a feature, although the soldiers were swarming around and threatening to It was about one o'clock in the after-"end him." He remained in this way noon, when the Captain received an order until they came up, took away his pistol from General Newton to go forward into and commenced a general plundering; as the woods to ascertain whether the seces- they thus fingered away he could not supsionists were falling back, and whether a press a smile-and then rising, said: certain Federal regiment held its position there. Captain Montgomery went forward at once as fast as his well tried horse could run, and upon entering the woods moved cautiously until near a barricade, when, hearing voices, he plunged into the woods, thinking, of course, it was a Federal regiment—the Thirty-first New York -but was surprised to find that he had gone right into a perfect nest of the Hampton Legion, from South Carolina, who were lying behind trees, standing behind bushes, and kneeling behind stumps like bees. 66 Well, men, I yield as a prisoner of war." You have been shamming," they said, "you d Yankee scoundrel, have you?" "Certainly, everything is fair in war." They then commenced to abuse him as a d- Yankee this and a d- Yankee that, when the Captain turned upon them and said— "I have yielded as a prisoner of war: I demand to be used as such. We in the North know now to treat dogs better than you do men; now lead me to your commanding officer.” At once perceiving his mistake, and They gave him another volley of abuse, aware that nothing but the most consum- at which he merely smiled, and then a mate coolness could save him, Captain M. shell, fired by the Federal artillery to the saluted them, and they, taking him for a place where the Captain was seen to enter, Confederate officer, inquired how far Gen-burst like the wind amongst them-skineral Hampton was then. Without hesita- ning the Captain's nose and scattering the tion, and with rather more assurance than Confederates like chaff. Seizing their he ever thought he possessed, Captain M. muskets, they pointed two of them at him, replied, "I left him about ten rods below and said, come along, you d― Yanhere and now, boys! the General expects kee!" He still continued conversation, you to do your duty to-day!" He then in order to gain time, when another shell turned his horse slowly to lull suspicion, bursting amongst them, they moved on 66 further, calling to their prisoner to "come the woods near by. He avoided these. on," the latter responding: "Go ahead, and about one mile further on came across lead the way, quick." Montgomery now saw a favorable moment, and preferring freedom to a Southern prison, made one bound into the woods and went back as fast as one leg would carry him, to the Federal lines. He was very much exhausted, and was carried to the rear by some men and placed under a tree, when, with suitable stimulants and care, he soon gained strength, and, calling for an extra horse, was lifted upon his back, and returned to the field, where he had the pleasure of once more reporting himself to General Newton for duty, and received the warmest greeting from that officer. Lieutenant Davis's delicate little Task. Lieutenant Frank C. Davis, Company D, Third Pennsylvania cavalry, performed a gallant exploit when the army of the Potomac was at Fair Oak station, in May, 1862. General McClellan was very anxious to communicate with the gunboats on the James river; and Lieutenant Davis, with one sergeant and ten men, was detailed for this purpose by Colonel Averill. a negro, who stated that about three hundred yards further on were twelve mounted rebel pickets at a house. The Lieutenant avoided the latter by making a detour to the left, and took a by-road, leading over to the Richmond and Charles City road. The night before, some seventy-five Confederate cavalry passed up this road, but were not in sight at this time. The white Lieut Davis. people all along the way were terrified at the sight of Union soldiers, as this small party was the first they had ever seen. It was of the utmost importance that the communication should be opened. It was a known fact that the enemy were picketed all through that region, and the danger of capture was imminent. It was A short time previous to the arrival of only by shrewd dodging from point to the Union party at this point, a secession point that the Lieutenant consummated his foraging party had passed down the road; errand successfully. The distance was and the Union troops were now between some fifteen miles, but the party were two parties. In no wise daunted, they obliged to make some twenty-five miles proceeded up the road toward Richmond, before reaching their destination. It was about four miles, through a deep wood, on a Sunday morning that Lieutenant and came out at an opening and caught Davis and Sergeant Vandergrift, with the sight of the river, some three miles in the command of ten picked men, started in distance. The Lieutenant halted here the direction of the James river, to reach and hid his men in the woods, then prothe point opposite City Point. After pro- ceeded alone to a cross-road, to reach an ceeding about four miles, he learned that eminence that gave him a view of the six of the enemy's pickets were posted in country around; while there, one of the Union gunboats threw a shell into a secession party some distance above. Too Brave a Man to Disarm. The Lieutenant then returned to his command, avoiding the Richmond road, as it was full of the enemy, apparently. He got a negro, belonging to Mr. Hill Carter, by the troops of the State of Florida. In to pilot him down to the landing. The darkey stated that his master had acted as Colonel in the Confederate army at Williamsburg, but he got enough of it, and had left the service. While passing through this man's plantation the old chap himself rode down and demanded, would have entered that You see that I have but three men. These war. consequence of the weakness of the command, an entrance was gained. Mr. Powell, who had been in the service of the United States some twenty years, and had command of the place, acted in a gallant manner. After the troops had entered, he faced the line and thus addressed them: "Are you Yankee troops or Confed- "OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS: Five minerate?" utes ago I was the commander of this The Lieutenant answered that they arsenal; but, in consequence of the weakwere Union troops. Mr. Carter then ness of my command, I am obliged to surstated that he did not allow Confederate render-an act which I have hitherto troops to come on his plantation, as the never had to do during my whole military gunboats shelled them, and would soon career. If I had had a force equal to, or destroy his house. The Lieutenant as- even half the strength of your own, I'll sured him that he should be protected as be if you far as they went. The Lieutenant got an gate until you walked over my dead body. old boat and two slaves to row him out to the Galena, Captain Rodgers; and when about half a mile from the boat he was met by a cutter from the ship. The message delivered was verbal, as the undertaking was very hazardous, and no writing was given. It was a gallant exploit all through, and was the first communication opened with the army. The party returned in the night, and reached camp at eleven o'clock on Monday morning, where a warm and deserved greeting awaited them, and the commanding General signified his appreciation of the importance of the undertaking, and the promptness and skill with which it was consummated, by an official letter of thanks. While the Lieutenant was on board the Galena, a squadron of the Confederate cavalry entered the small town on the opposite side of the James river at City Point, at the mouth of the Appomattox river. Two shells assuring the bewitching donors that it were thrown amongst them, as additions to their number, but they hastily ignored the new 'company.' "My dear sir! take your sword! You Promises of Bravery in Advance. Among the secession flags captured by the Federals in their rout of the Confederates at Philippi, Western Virginia, was a very beautiful silk banner which had been presented to a brave secession Captain. only the evening before the rout, by some fair secession ladies. On receiving the flag, the captain had made a gallant speech, should lead him and his company ever to t should never trail dishonored in the mire eral Beauregard,-who promptly led the -that rather would he spill his life's Hampton Legion into battle. Just at this blood in its defence, and, dying, wrap his body in its gorgeous and defiant folds. But, alas! when that unmannerly cannon ball from the Cleveland artillery on the hill went crashing through the camp, this heroic Captain forgot all about the flag he had received with such exquisite gallantry the night before, and led the column-out of danger as fast as their legs could carry them. critical moment, General Johnston was heard to exclaim in agonizing energy to General Cock, "Oh, for four Regiments!" His wish was answered, for in the distance the rebel re-enforcements appeared. The tide of battle turned in their favor by the arrival of General Kirby Smith, from Winchester, with four thousand men of General Johnston's division. General Smith heard, while on the Manassas railroad cars, the roar of battle. He stopped "Go on with the Fight-Don't Stop for Me." the train and hurried his troops across the In the fight at Great Bethel, Orderly fields, to the point just where he was most Sergeant Goodfellow, of Colonel Allen's needed. They were at first supposed by regiment, was mortally wounded in the the rebels to be Federal troops, their arbreast. He handed his musket to a com- rival at that point of the field being so enrade, and several flocked around him. tirely unexpected. Cheer after cheer “Oh,” said he, “I guess I've got to go," and he placed his hand upon the wound. "Oh, don't mind me, boys," he continued, 66 go on with the fight; don't stop for me!" Ben. Phillips, the Hoary Old Bloodhound. and pressing away those who attempted to support him, he sank down upon the An old Virginia trapper of considerable ground. Just at that instant his Colonel notoriety 'in his way,' Ben. Phillips by passed, and looking up to him he gasped, name, and for many years a resident of "Good bye, Colonel!" Colonel Allen Hampton, was coming up the road near turned ghastly white as he observed it. He bit his lips, too much moved to speak, and rushed on to avenge his death. went up from the Confederate lines, and by them the battle was won. that town one afternoon, armed with a double-barreled gun. Seeing a buggy some distance ahead of him, he slipped into the woods and waited its approach. "Oh, for Four Regiments!" He soon discovered two Federal officers It is a fact acknowledged even by the seated in a buggy, and saw from their disrebel commanders themselves, that at the tressed appearance that they were in no battle of Bull Run, the fortunes of the condition to do him much damage. They day were for a time evidently against hailed him as they passed, asking who he them. Between two and three o'clock was, to which he responded in a way to large numbers of men were leaving the suit his own purpose. As soon as they field, some of them wounded, others ex- passed on, the old man let fly both barrels hausted by the long struggle; some of the of his gun in rapid succession into the best Confederate officers had been slain, back of the buggy. and the flower of their army lay strewn heard, and one of the officers leaped out upon the field. The result of that hour and took to the woods. The other fell hung trembling in the balance. Among forward, and the buggy passed on. Ben. other high officers wounded was Colonel had previously killed, at different times, Hampton; but there was at hand the nine of the Federal scouts,—affording a General whose reputation as a commander good specimen of Virginia Chivalry; a was in the die, on this battle,-Gen- hoary old bloodhound. A death-yell was 4 Donelson. Western Regiments on a Charge at Fort fire, or in returning fire. This was a new thing to the rebels, and in which they At the battle of Fort Donelson, Gener- were not prepared to imitate. Seeing al Wallace ordered the Eighth Missouri that our brave Zouaves were comparativeand Eleventh Indiana to retake the hill ly unharmed by their fiercest volleys, they from which the first brigade had been began to give ground, and were evidently driven in the morning. Colonel Smith, panic-stricken. commanding the second brigade, rode up, "On, men, on!" cried Colonel Smith. and in a clear, loud, ringing voice, gave "Forward, Zouaves!" repeated McGinnis. the word of command. Colonel McGin- With a cheer which made the old hills nis, as calm and self-possessed as if on ring again, and which struck terror to the dress parade, repeated the order, and in hearts of the retreating rebels, the two double-quick the two regiments, the Mis- regiments rushed up the hill, driving the souri in the lead, moved forward. The enemy straight into their entrenchments. hill proposed to be stormed was about a So soon as they were farily behind their mile to the right of the Union position fortifications the rebels opened upon the when the order was given. As they went Eighth and Eleventh with grape shot and forward they met bands of straggling shell. Here several of the Eleventh were soldiers of the various regiments that had been engaged in the morning, and who would shout out "Boys, you'll catch hell there on the hill!" "We were cut to pieces there this morning!" "There are seven regiments there all armed!" etc., etc. killed while lying flat upon their faces. One of the rebel gunners, a Hoosier from Evansville, and who knew the Eleventh Indiana when they approached, cried out, "Here comes those Zouaves-fire low, boys, if you wish to do any good!" They accordingly depressed their guns, But the two regiments moved steadily and began to throw shells right into our onward, notwithstanding the foreboding ranks. Night intervening, our men were fears so freely and earnestly expressed by drawn back a few hundred feet under the those who were just freed from the field of strife-and not a soldier of the little brigade seemed to hesitate or falter in the least. "No man was there dismayed Take the hill!" Wallace said. brow of the hill, where they slept with their arms in their hands, ardently wishing for the morning, when, under the protection of our guns, which General Wallace ordered up, they expected to storm the fortifications. The ravine was reached, the two regi- Alas! for the poor wounded soldier on ments in line, the Missouri in the lead, the battle-field! Every possible aid was and up the hill they start. When about given them, yet all night long their groans half way up they were met by a most could be heard, and their cries for water fearful volley of musketry, while a sheet and for help. Many of the Eleventh of flame seemed to burst from every bush wounded lay out in the open field exposed and tree and log, and the leaden messen- twenty-four hours to the cold and the tengers of death sped in every direction. der mercies of the rebels, who stripped Our men saved their lives by their faith- many of them nearly naked. ful practice of the Zouave drill-throwing themselves flat on their faces when the rebels poured in their hottest volleysloading while on their backs, and never, in connection with the Island No. 10 strugindeed, upon their feet except when upon gle, was the planting of a battery by the the advance after receiving the enemy's boys of the Forty-third Indiana, at Rud Whiz-z-z and Whist. One of the most daring feats performed |