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Written for the Patriot. 7 BOTH SIDES. A man in bis carriage was riding along, i i a ifo fila Hide: 5 L. gaily uretJOOtt nuo w; ' In satin and laces she looked like a queen, , v AUU UCJ illkO tt . u tr A woodsawyer stood on the street as - they passed, ' ; - ' " The carriage and couple he eyed : And said as he worked with his saw on a log, , ' ' ' ul wish I was rich and couldrldeI - ,- The man in the carriage remarked to his wife, One thing I would give If I could . . .. iw fnm tYta trenpth X a giv uijr- and the health '-. f ? Of the man who sawed the wood." A pretty young maid with a bundle of Whose face as the morning was fair, "Went tripping along-with a smile of delight, . . While humming a love-breathing air. She looked on the carriage ; the lady she saw, - Arrayed in apparel so fine, And said in a whisper, "I wish from 1 my heart Those satins and laces were rained The ladv looked out on the-maid with the work, So fair in the calico dress, And said, "I'd relinquish position and wealth, - Her beauty and youth to possess."- Thus it is in the world, whatever our lot. - ' : Our minds and our titffe we employ, In longing and sighing for what we have not, Ungrateful for what we enjoy. " "" III! . - ' TARHEELS' THIN GRAY LINE. Colin Campbell's Highlanders Out done by North Carolinians. An incident of the battle of Winchester, Va., that surpasses the Ninety-third Regiment's famous stand on the morning of Balaklava How Gen. Robt. D. Johnston re pelled repeated charges of Yankees cavalry far outnumbering his at- tenuated brigade as tola oy lien. Bradley Johnson At the battle of Balaklava oc curred an incident which Kinglike has painted in words and thus im mortalized. The Highland Brigade, the Forty-second, the Black Watch, the Cold Stream Guards, the.Gren adiers and the Ninety-third, Sir Colin Campbell's old regiment, were in position which threw the Ninety-third just along the crest of a slight rise of the ground. iue aubbiuu riiuery uau ue- third lay down just behind the crest, where they were better shel tered and concealed. A division of Russian horsemen was moving to the left of Sir Colin's whole line, and its head of column nearly with the British, where at once four squadrons of Russians, 400 men, swung quickly out of column, and struck a gallop towards the English position. Instantly the Highland ers rose from the ground, and with their tall forms and towering black plumes looked like a line of giants. The Ninty-third was not in touch with either of the other batalions of the Brigade, so they stood and took it and when the Russians got within 300 yards, opened lire upon them, and drove them back. They never repeated the charge. This scene has been-celebrated in song and atorv as "Sir Dolin namnhMlPa Thin Red Line." It was witnessed Jpy the allied armies, English, French and Turkish, and simply astounded the Russians, for both sides saw it. - But I myself, with thousands of others, saw Johnston's North Caro lina Brigade First N. C. Batalion Sharp Shooters, Fifth N. C.Twelf th N. C, Twentieth N. C.r and Twenty-third N. C. regimentsdo a thing-on September 19th, 1864, which far excelled in gallantry, in firmness, and in heroism this feat of the "Thin Red Line," and I have never seen a description of lit in rjrint. and I dn nnt thin1r . it referred to in the. reports. I am sureBob Johnston did not, for he was as modest as he was handsome and brave. In September, 1864, Early's army was lying-about Winchester. We had been through Maryland, and . . mmr t . lerriueu urasaingion into nts, and had gotton safely back into Virgi ginia, with thousands of horses; cattle, medical stores and hundreds of wagon loads of eatables of every Kina. l nad a cavalry brigade of wild southwestern Virginia horse men, as brave and as undisciplined as the Virginia Rangers Colonel Washington surrendered at Fort Necessity! or Andrews fought Corn stalk witfc at Point Pleasant. I was bivouacked we had no tents. About three miles north of Win chester, on the Valley pike, and picketed from the Valley pike to the Berry ville pike, running east from Winchester Gen. Robt. D. Johnson, of North Carolina, had a brigade of 800 to 1,000 muskets on the BerryviUe pike, on the top of the ridge running across ino ruu. My picKets were.a mile in advance of his in Ashe Hollow. Sheridan, with 45,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, lay eight to fifteen - miles beyond our picket lines; from Ber ryviUe and Bifen to Charlestown and Halltown, in Clark and Jeffer ion counties, Virginia.5 .Now, every morning the Yankee cavalry would rush my pickets in on Johnston's nn.tfl Ha would stbD them until I r 5 : I'd drive theTan- kees back and re-establish my orig inal picket. , This done I would send my command back to campec I had about 800-mounted men, and I'd ride up to Bob Johnston's headquarters, wnicn was a wagon under a tree, one camp stool and : a frying pan eizzing with bacon, and a pot of rye coffee and sorghum; I'd zet mv breakfast. But after a week of frhis proceeding it either became monotonous or my appetite showed no signs of weakening. I don't know which. One morning I dismounted after my usual morning call to boots and saddle and swung myself very comfortably into John ston's single und only camp stool. I smelled the bacon and sniffed the coffee and waited. In a few mo ments the cook handed me a chip for a plate and a tin cup of red hot coffee, so hot you had to sit the cup on the grass, and Bob spoke up. Say 8 he : iBradley, you let those Yankees do you too bad. You have got so" scared of them that you all run the very first dash they make at you." "Is that so, Robert?" said I. "That's a pity, but I don't know how to help it. I do the best I can. How many Yankee cavalry do you think you are good for?" - "Well," said he, "I've got, 800 muskets present for duty. By a week's time, as the boys get back from the hospital, I'll, have 1,000. Well, with 1,000 muskets I think I can take care of 5,000 Yanks on horseback." "All right," said I, "wait and see. I hope you can." " So I got my breakfast and went off, mightily tickled at the conceit of the Tar Heel ; for Sheridan's cavalry, with Custer, Torbett and Devens, were about as good soldiers as ever took horse or drew sabre. We had drilled them so that in three years we had taught them to ride. They were always drilling enough to fight and they learned the use of the sabre from necessity. Well, things went on as usual. Every morning Sheridan would send a regiment out to feel Early, to drive in his pickets, so as to make sure where he was, and to know where to find them, and every morning I'd ride over to the Berry viUe road, re-establish my lines, get my breakfast off of Johnston, and back to sleep. . j. By daylight, the 19th of Septem ber, a scared cavalryman of my own command nearly rode over me, as I lay asleep on the grass, and reported that the Yankees were ad vancing with a heavy force of in fantry, artillery and cavalry up the Berryyille, road. Early was up towards Stephenson's depot, and Johnston and I were responsible for keeping Sheridan out of Winches ter, and protecting the Confederate line of retreat, and of communica tion up the valley. In two minutes my command was mounted. We always saddled up and fed an hour before dawn, and moving at a trot across the open fields to the Berry viUe road and to Johnson's assist ance. There was not a fence, nor a house, nor a bush, nor a tree, to obscure the view. Way off, more than two miles; we could see the crest of the hill, covered with a cloud of Yankee cavalry, ancf in front of them (500 yards in front) was a thin gray line moving off in retreat solidly, and with perfect coolness and self possession. As soon as I got to realize what was going on I quickened our gate and when within a mile broke into a gallop. The scene was as plain as day. A regiment of cavalry would deploy into line and their bugles would sound the charge and they would swoop down on the thin gray line of North Carolinians. The in stant the Yankee bugle sounded, North Carolina would halt, face to the rear rank, wait until the horses got within 100 yards, and then fire as deliberately and coolly as if firing volleys on parade drill. The caval ry would break and scamper back, and North Carolina would "about face" and continue her march in retreat as solemnly, stubbornly, and with as much discipline and dignity as if marching in review. But we got there just in time. Cavalry aids the Tar Heels. Certainly, half dozen charges had been made at the threatening thin gray line, and each and every time the charg ing squadrons had been driven back, when the enemy sent his line with a rush at the briagade of Tar I Heels, and one squadron overlapped the infantry line, and was just passing it when he got up. In an other minute they would have been behind the line, sabering the men from the rear, while they were held by the fight in front. But we struck a headlong strain and went through the Yankees by the' flank of North Carolina and carried their adversaries bacK to the crest of the hill,)back through the guns of their battery, clear back to their infant ry lines. In a moment they rallied and, were charging us in front" and on both, flanks,' and; back . we .went in a hurry, but the thin gray line of old North Carolina was safe. They had gotten back to the rest of ; the infantry, and formed lines at. right angles to the pike west of Winchester. I I rode up to Bob Johnston, very "piert," as we say in JNorth Caro lina, and said I : ; "Pretty close call that, Mr. Johnston. 1 What do you think now of the Yankee cavalry's fighting qualities ?V I And the rest of the day we enjoyed ourselves. We could see everything that was going on for miles around. The country was entirely open.' The day was beautiful, clear and bright --September, the 19th. They would form for a forward move ment three lines one after another march sedately along until they got within touch of our lines, then raise a hurrah, and rush in a charge, and in two minutes the field would be covered with running, flying Yankees. There were 40,000 in-, fantry and 10,000 cavalry and 3,000 mounted gunmen. The thing be gan at dayligfit and kept up till dark, when flanked and worn out, Early retreated to escape being surrounded 1 1 This is the story of the Thin Gray Line of North Carolina, and the cavalry charge, a feat of arms before which that of Sir Colin Campbell's Highlanders fades into insignificance. IMPEOVINO ITS SERVICE. New Dining Cars on the Southern Hallway's Washington & South western Limited. 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