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j HENDERSON'S POPULATION . . . , THE GOLD LEAF , Is tin cstnlilishctl nowsnniHT, pub- :, ,ri- I h.lll i.'HH I; 1 he population county is l.s.ouo. It is ;i rich n't unJ com muni t y, und Hciider . i hi-clii. f town undcouiity scat, a vil'--ii woke, thriving; voting; nil: i KNTiti: or a largi: i;S. and yi-'-at activity. It ,i li'-'.'l for l!i" intelligent anil ...i- advertiser, ami its only lish.el at the live und growing; town of Henderson, anil -imi!nt exten sively in Vano ainl adjacent countiee throughout the nourishing and fa mous rkigiit Ton.mo rf.lt. if you wish to k'p informed about thi station and .it t In- satin' tiiiic intro duce j i i i ! literal ureintu our horn", you should ill- GOLD LEAF. TAKE THIS PA PHI THAD R. MANNING, Publisher. O jr. GJL.xjsrA. , Gjrguustj, ZET"raE3st7s Blessings Attend Her." 1SIBSCRIPTI0N $1.50 Casb. VOL. XI. HENDERSON, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1892. NO. M. The Bank of Henderson, Hstablislied 1382. Incorporated 1891.) i.i'i:KOX. Y;tiice Co.. W f. jENZRAl" BANKING, HCMflGE and COLLECTIONS. OKFII'KKS : m u s ii:i!;VY.. jn-Mi.-iit. .! i' .T AY LOU. Viec-I'M-sident. ;.-hi-l . .! A RUIIGWYN. A-i-tant Cu-hier. ' M HAWKINS T.-ll-r. A' A L'l'LU M HKNDKItSON.Coll. cling Ch-ik. diuk' nuts : .iWIKS II. LAsslTKU. General M.t !,..M.W. S I'AUKKU. (oiinniss ion Mer . (m:, OWKN DAVIS, To'acco Wiii-f-i , ,,:1n. MLLVII.I.K IMIIM'.V. Dtng t. IIF.MRY l'KUWY, Cleik Niperior it. ! ,i li-K solicit, accounts fim ludi : ..!-. I'iiin- and Hi porations ; and i- . c i I ir-i - from other IS. inks. I'i r 1 1 1 t icturns made on Collections 19 v ii in I i. I. h ....... , n t air- s !.. ?: :!, inx'ntive p-cr", that ftu i' t ti a 1 -i kr. i j . y t.t.- -r-firt oppurtui-tty lt'' -if? jif-,.tf hi'.-. ..!!.' V 19 t 1 1 tlJII. I 'ly tllf.'ll. I'lllf lr I :,-!. J;--f-r .Mit :t !--. A fnt - :. i NNiVN to., X Liuil, JiiT ONE FACT IS WORTH A THOUSAND THEORIES. The Twenty -Year Ton tine policies of the Equi table Life Assurance So ciety maturing in 1891 return the policy hold er all premiums paid, and the following rates of interest on the pre miums which have been paid during the twenty years, in addition to the assurance of his life du ring the entire period. 20-Year Sndownents. A t i t urn in i n- Ii of :il! premiums v i! Ii iiili i ' st :it I Im rut"' o! () 7-S per cent. () :-1 per cent. 8 per cent. :r 5 5 LIFE RATE. Tontine period termi nating at the end of 20 years. ( A i.l urn in isli of premiums with int. rot ;it tin' nite of :: '2 :-! per cent. ' IT) : per cent. rf 5 por cent. The return on the oth er kinds of policies is in proportion, depending upon the kind of policy and the premiums paid There is no assurance extant in any company which compares with this. The Equitable is the strongest company in the W orld and trans acts the largest amount of business. Asssts, $125,000,000. Surplus, 23,000,000. Further information will be promptly furnished on applica tion to ,1. H. Yorx;, Agent, 1 lenderson, X. C. 25,000 AGENTS u2!i2 1...UOO aheadv started am! an- rollinu up ui.Mt li-ts of orders tor the ONLY Al- 'im 1 n .vjl, inikll't illutr,t(t;l Life of KOI CHARLES STEWART PARNELL "A 1 i j . t 1 bv hit mother wvA Klrt Me 11 !., -;.;. "splendid portraits of Pamell. !.., Mnne. Mrs. Fanioll, Mrs. OMiea-I'.iiii.-s:. 1',-jcv only sj1.2.". Sale in-ineiix-. K TS report -5 to 30 otdei -.1 '.;! . . ACT 2l"IC'K. Send l'j cent f 'i riit to Hi 5iSKI HKOS.. Puhli-lier. KACH St., 1'hiladelpliia, Pa. ' itnclkbamokeatguns A VISIT TO TrlE PLACE WHERE THELV ArtE TURNED OUT. A itonisli inc liuf.roicriient In the M.k lug of Oriliiaio-e Slnc the Days of Ialilgreii A Complete Establibhinent Cnverlru; Acres of (.round. iCopyn'Klit. IX'1. by American lion. I Press Assoc 1a- HE visitor who goes to the Wash ington navy yard and asks for tha commandant is ushered into the presence of an erect, square shouldered, keen eyed man of forty two or forty-three. This man is Com modore William Folgex. and he has just claims to regard as one of the most remark able and brainy men of the time. His career has f has far been productive of great results, arid as yet it has only fairly commenced. When the war ended he was still a student at Annapolis, and he did not reach the rank of ensign until 1869. Now, as he has for more than a year past, he enjoys the rank and pay of commodore, and he is the youngest man who has ever held that rank in the navy of the United States. He did not win his promotion in battle, but his ad vance is nevertheless the result of solid merit. The young ensign of 18C9 had a talent for the construction of ordnance that amounted almost to genius, and thU explains his rapid, if not phenomenal, ad vancement. Thirty years ago Captain Dahlgren of the navy and General Hodman of tha army were the government's great gun builders, and the Hodman and Dahlgren guns were famous in their time and re garded ns triumphs of the guumaker's art. Certain it is that they rendered splen did service ami aided materially in win ning the world's greatest war. But could Hodman and Dahlgren return and see the guns their successor is buildjng ia the very foundry that was the theater of their greatest successes they would be honest and generous enough to confess that he had surpassed them in every way, and this despite the fact that the Washington gun foundry in its remodeled and renovated form is a creation of the last six years. When it was decided to commence in earnest the work of rebuilding and re arming the navy the gun foundry was one of the first objects to receive attention. It was thoroughly overhauled, anduuder the direction of Commodore Folger fitted up with new machinery and the work of guubuilding, which was suspended at the LOWF.KIXO GCN TURK TO PIT. close of the war, began again. It was de rided that the manufacture of thegunsfor the new navy should be divided between private foundries and government shops, the former supplying the forged and tem pered pacts and the latter finishing the parts and assembling them. At the out set no domestic concern could furnish the forgings, and the government was com pelled for a time to purchase them abroad, but the Bethlehem and Midvale steel works in Pennsylvania are making them now, and it is said are able to supply all that may be needed in future. The building of a man destroyer at the gun foundry is a novel and in many respects an interesting process. All of the guns built by Commodore Folger are steel tubes, which are first bored oU and then strengthened by having successive steel jackets shrunk over them. The steel tubo lor a gun of 12-iuch caliber weighs in the rough ingot between sixty and seventy tons It is reduced by pressure, and its strength and elasticity carefully tested be fore it leaves the steel works. When the tube reaches t he gun foundry it is bored out, a process which occupies about a fort night, and then its steel jackets are put on. These jackets are heated before being put on and then are cooled with water until t hey shrink tightly into place. Then the bore receives its rifling and the outside of the gun is polished. Finally the trunnion bands, the breech mechanism and the sights are put in place and the gun is finished. In few words this is the method by which Commodore Folger builds guns at the Washington foundry. roKTT-TOX CKANB. So rapidly and skillfully have the equip ments of the foundry, which covers several : cres of grouud in the navy yard, been In creased that a 0 inch gun which two years ao it took six months to complete can now be finished in fifty days; an 8-inch gun can be completed in three months, a 10-inch gun in tive months and a 12-inch in about even months. One hundred and three guns have recently leen finished at the foundry and forty-eight are now in process c,t construction. 1 mentioned the weight i t the rough tube of a 12-inch gun. Two i t these guns have !een built by Commo ilore Folger, and eight more are underway. A gun of this size completed is thirty-six ! -eT long and weighs forty-five tous. The weight of its powder charge is 4ii pounds, iV.Tof the projectile it discharges just twice that amount. It is capable of doing destructive viork to an object eleven miles ili-taut and of penetrating inches of steel at the muzzle. It is interesting X compare these detaUs with the best work .Mm i k mm or folger's preoeceor, Dahlgren, If only to see what great advances in jfun con struction have been made in thirty years. The contrast between the Folger Run of I8'J1 and the Dahlgren gun of ISttl is as great as is that iwtween Maud S and a cart horse. The former in shapely and beauti ful to see; the latter, still preserved in many of our forts, clumsy and unwieldy and closely resembling m huge cucumber. Dahlgren did not buiid hi guns of steel, I but of cast iron. His crowning effort was ' a gun of 15-inch calilier. This gun was less than fifteen feet long and weighed ' twenty tons. I he weight of its powder charge was eighty-five pound and of its shot 450 pounds Its effective range was only a little over a mile, while t hat of th la-inch Folger gnu is over eleven miles. The Foiger gun is fired many times bo fore it is finally accepted as fit for use (250 rounds was the usuaJ length of life of the Dahlgren and Hodman guns), and it is fired by electricity instead of in the old way. The four S-inch guns which are mounted on the crack cruiser Chicago throw at a single discharge 1,000 pounds of metal, or 330 pounds more than an entire broadside of one of the forty four gun frigates with which Perry and his fellows fought and won immortal honor the war of 1812. The firing of one of these 8-inch guns is a costly operat ion. The powder at thirty cents a pound costs 7 50 for one round, and a forged steel shell almost 125. The f'.nti itself, when completed, represents an outlay of $1000. In the mounting and management of guns on hoard ship the ad vance has been almost as great in their "(instruction. The naval commander of to day can fight his guns by broadsides or CRANK FOR NAVAL PUOVING GItOUND. singly, as may be required, directing all operations from an armed conning tower. In this tower are buttons which send elec tric sparks toone gun or all the guus of the vessel. Signal light bulbs at the com mander's elbow show him when the guns and what guns are loaded. An 8 inch gun requires a crew of sixteen men and a 0 inch gun a crew of fourteen men for its man agement. Kach gun is under the charge of a petty officer and each pair of guns constitute a division commanded vby a commissioned officer. The discipline instituted and maintained by Commodore Folger in the gun foundry is almost perfect. He is not as noisy as Admiral Dahlgren, who used to work out rusults with an abundance of profanity that was startling at times, but his influ ence is felt in every part of the works. Kach department is under the direction of a competent head, who is held to a strict account for nil the work that passes through his hands, and in this way a measure of personal responsibility is estab lished that insures perfection in the fin ished articles. When visitors come to the navy yard Commodore Folger, if he is too busy to show them about in person, gener ally turns them over to Lieutenant John C. Fremont, a son of the Pathfinder, who displays all that is of interest. Every where about the great plant energy anil activity abound, throngs of workmen busy about lathe, drill, forge, plane and trip hammer. One thousand men are now em ployed, and this number will be doubled when machinery now ordered is put in place. The building of heavy ordnance is not the only work performed in the navy yard. Gun carriages, turrets, projectiles, shields and other equipments are made there, and Gatling guns and secondary batteries also mounted. At present a cannon ten feet long is being built that is shot from the shoulder the same as a rifle and discharges with accuracy twenty shots a minute. American ordnance in quantity does not as yet equal that of other nations, but its superiority is calculated to make any in vader pause before attacking. Commodore Folger has good reason to be proud of the work he has accomplished during the last five years. Rpfus R. Wilson. WHAT IS A SMILE? What is a smile ? A latent gleam Of sunshine born within the eyes. As water lilies in a stream, Awakened from their long, deep dream, To light arise ! What Is a smile? A nameless thing The lack of which a fair face. .mars, And makes to be like brook or spring No radiant sunlight imaging, No dancing stars ! What is a smile? An airy rhyme Which tells more with its subtle wile Than tongue could tell throughout all time Which sets the heart-bells in a chime. This is a smile ! Josephine Preston Peabody. About Error! in Newspapers. People like to rind mistakes in the newspapers and then call the attention of their critical friends to the errors. A blunder so trivial is easily magnified into something awful. An event may have been said to have occurred at 3 o'clock, when in reality the time was 3:03. A misspelled name or a wrong initial is equally serious. A place may be mentioned that the critics are ignorant of anil immediately they con clude it is wrong. Anything is iood enougn tor an opportunity to call a if .... ii J::"LT: Z wives probablv make more mistake. ! destroy hopes, in order to secure from d.anapohs m 1S91. I he undersigned than the newspaper. However, there ! multitudes great Lords of plunder. ; tnerefore unanimously and heartily is satisfaction in the thought that there We assert that political organizations gave their endorsement to these pnn is another class of people who believe representing political principles, herein cipies. implicitly in their favorite paper and stated, is necessary to redress grievan- Impressed with the solemn convic will stand by it through thin ami thick. ces G- Wn;cn we complain ssem- tion that the enactment of these prin To those who know anything about the bkdon anniversary 0f the birth i cipies into a law and the faithful en business the womler is not that mistakes r.t ... .. . , , . if.n, f,i, 1,,.. i.rin ri,.f shouM occur, but that they are not more frequent. H"here thousands of little pieces of metal have to be j handled one at a time it is not strange i that the wrong letter should creep in now and theu. or that an error of fact should be made by the editor or re porter in the press of work that always crowds him. But some people lose . piiiht of these things.. We waut our friends to take more int rest in the editorial conduct of the fiOLD Leaf. That is help us make a better and more readable paper of it. They can do it if they will. How ? Send u the news from your neighborhood. m mm ISSUED BY THE ST. DELEGATES LOUIS To the Brotherhood of the Far mers Alliance in North Caro lina The Great Industrial Con vention and What it Did. Having 5ecn honored with a com mission from you as delegates to the Industrial Conference to St. Louis on the 22nd inst., we, the undersigned, deem it due that we should render, at the earliest practical moment, a truth-; ful statement of the work accomplish-: ed and of our action as your represen- tatives in that body. j The six organizations embraced in the official call issued by the Commit- tee on Confederation, were represent- ed by-seven hundred and thirty-seven properly accredited delegates. To these were added the delegates of seven other kindred organizations (on the recommendation of the Committee on Credentials), making in the aggregate over one thousand delegates, -and rep resenting almost every State in the Union. The Committee on Platform consisted of one hundred and twenty members, representing every State and every organization, 'this committee labored faithfully and without inter mission for fourteen hours and pre sented as their unanimous report the following PREAMBLE. This, the first great labor con ference of the United States and the world, representing all the di visions of urban and rural organized industry assembled in the National Congress, invoking upon its action the blessing and protection of Almightv God, puts iorth to and lor the pro'- ' ducts of the nation this declaration of union and independence. The con- ditions which surround us best justify our co-operation. We meet in the midst of a nation brought to a verge j of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box. Legislature and Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. People are demoralized. Many of the States ownership of land should be prohibi tive been compelled to isolate voters , ted. That all land now held by rail. at the polling places in order to pre- roads and other corporations 'in ex vent universal inlimidation or bribery; Cess of their actual needs, and all land newspapers are suDsiaizea or muzziea ; public opinion silenced; business pros trated; our homes covered with mort gages; labor impoverished and land concentrating in the hands of capital ists. Urban workmen are denied the ! right of organization for self protection, of expense and public necesssty, the imported pauperized labor beats down government should own and operate their wages; a hireling standing army the roads in the interest of the people, unobjected to by our laws is estab- j B. The telegraph and telephone lished to shoot them down, and they Tike the postal system being a neces are rapidly degenerating to European sity for the transmission ofnews.should conditions. Fruits of the toil of mil-! be owned and operated by the Gov lions are bodily stolen to build up col- eminent in the interest of the people, lossal fortunes, unprecedented in the j history of the world, while their pos- j While some parts of the above ad sessors despise the republic and en-, dress may seem, at a glance, to make danger the liberty of the people partizan political distinctions, yet upon through National power to create i careful study one will clearly see that money appropriated to enrich bond j it is non-partisan, and further, will be holders; silver which has been accept- j impressed by the truth of its premises ed as coin since the dawn of history j and the ability of the committee who has been demonitized to add to the framed it. It was adopted with only purchasing power of gold by decreas ing the value of all forms of property as well as human labor and a supply of currency is purposely abridged to 1 having completed its work as a repre fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprise and sentative body, then adjourned sine die. enslave industry. Vast conspiracy ! , - jl THE MASS-MEETING. against mankind has been organized ; on two continents and is taking pos-j After the adjournment a mass-meet-session of the world if not met and j ing was called, in which a great many overthrown at once. It means social j delegates took part as citizens, together convulsions, destruction of civilization j with a number who were not delegates or establishment of absolute despotism. ; to the Conference, and proceeded to This crisis of human affairs intelligent ; take steps looking to political action, working people and producers of the The result was a call for a National United States have come together in ! Convention, to be held the 4th day of the name of peace, order and society j next July, in the city of Omaha, Ne to defend liberty, prosperity and jus- j braska. This action was entirely dis tice. We declare our union and in- j tinct from the work of the conference dependence and assert them through j of Labor organizations to which you political organization which represents j sent us as your representatives, our principles. We charge that the! It will be seer, that the Conference controlling influence dominating the .did not by its action bind any one ofj old political parties have allowed ex- the organizations represented, nor any isting dreadful conditions to develop! of the members thereof to the support j without serious effort to restrain or j of any particular political party. In a j prevent them; neither do they now in-; spirit of concession and compromise j tend to accomplish reform. They i all the various States and sections and '. have agreed together to ignore in the 'all shades of political opinion, sought i coming crmpaign, every issue but one. only the common good of the whole i They propose to drown the outcries of people, and with remarkable unanim- j a plundered people with an uproar of, ity, adopted a declaration of princi- j sham battle over the tariff, so that the pies, which, in their judgment, will j corporations, national banks, rings, : restore peace, prosjjerity and justice" to j trusts. watered stocks." demonetiza-; the country. It will also be observed tion of silver and oppression as usurers may an ue lost signt oi. They pro- ' nnr anH Ar.il. "Idren uuo, the altar of mammon, to 01 tne illustrious man wno naa leu me first great revolution on this continent auainct nnnrwcinn a fillpH with n- timents which actuated that grand ceneration. We seek to restore the ; to all Alliancemen and all patriots, 01 government of the republic to the j whoever calling, to aid us in electing hands of the "plain people" with i to office only such men as will laith whora it originated; our doors are fully execute the laws. It is gratifying open to all points of the compass, we j to state that all the Southern States ask all honest men to join with and , were represented in a body and every help us in order to restrain the extor- j delegate voted for the platform, tions of aeereeated capital; to drive Marion Butler, W. C. Wilcox, J. F. money-changers out of the temple; to -"- " . f.-irm a tvrfwt nnirm- establish iustire ' J and insure domestic tranquillity; pro- vide for the common defence; pro- mote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. - We do ordain and establish the fol lowing platform of principles : 1. We declare the union of labor forces of the United Stares this day ac complished, permanent and perpetual. May its spirit en'er into all the hearts for the salvation of the Republic and the uplifting of mankind. 2. Wealth belongs to him who cre ated it. Every dollar taken from in dustry without an equivaleni is robbe ry. If any will not work neither shall he eat. The interests of rural and ur ban labor is the san.e, and their ene mies are identical. PLATFORM I. FINANCE. A. We demand national currency- safe, sound and flexible, issued by the general government, only full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and without the use of banking cor- norations. lust and eouitable means of circulation, at a tax not to exceed two per cent., as set forth in the sub Treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance or some better system; also by pay ments in discharge of its obligation for public improvement. B. We demand the free and unlim- ited coinage of silver. C. We demand the amount of cir culation medium to be speedily in creased to not less than $50 per capita. D. We demand the graduated in come tax. K. We believe that the treasury should be as possible in the hands the money of kept as much of the people, and hence we demand all National and State revenues shall be limited to necessary expenses and the Govern- ment economically and honestly d- ministered. F- We demand that postal savings banks established by the govern ment for tiie safe deposit of the earn- inSs of the people and to facilitate ex- change. 2. land. The land, including all natural resour- ces of wealth, is the heritage of all peo- pleand should not be monopolized for cnprnlativp nmn nnH th oi;n now owned by aliens should be re- claimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. 3. TRANSPORTATION. A. Transportation being the means a few dissenting votes and the platform was adopted unanimously and received with great applause. The Conference that this declaration or platform em- ooaies essentially tne great principles; enunciated bv the Order at St. Louis 18S9, at Ocala in 1S90, and at In . "--"- " i"- ", ..... to our distressed industrial people ai,d enure to the common good of all in- terests and classes, we earnestly appeal ' n - . T- TJ ! rnnson, J. 1. 15. Hoover, i ocu- dinzfield. P. H. Massev. LF. Johnson, 1 ' - A. L. Shufoid, H. M. Kent, J. U Brown. PENNSYLVANIA GRIT. FIGHTING DILL'S RECORD GALLANT OF COL. REGIMENT. MA The One Hundred und Porty-first Penn sylvania lld Its Own Itliutdy Anglrt at t'haiM-rllui-Kville ami it t Gettysburg. Its Kxrept ionlly Heavy Losses. ICupyriitlit. 1SH1. by American Press Associa tion. I '.00k rights reserved. AK meetings in 1S;2 drew togethei less fireworks ma terial than those j of 1861, and the j instances of anx- ious recruits "fall- 1 inn over one an other" in order to Ket their namesen rolled were rarer, and perhaps scarcely known, but the war quo tas were filled, nevertheless, and the volunteers had staying qualities that made up for lack ol enthusiasm. At a KHtherinjj of citizens held in a church in Terrytown, Bradford county. Pa., early in August, 1SC2, one ol the speakers was a youn lawyer of Towanda, Guy II. Watkins, a man of good social position and bright prospects; mar ried, with hostages to fortune, and sur rounded with every temptation to stay at home and make the most of life. At the close of a sound war speech ht said that after careful deliberation he had decided that it was his duty to ko to his country's aid in the hour of peril; that he had often thought how, when the war was over, he would be telling his children the story of the conflict and they would say to him, "Were you there?" He was going to be able to say, "Yes, I was there, and I tried to do my duty." Throughout the quiet vales of north ern Pennsylvania a like spirit to that dis played by Watkins was at work undei leaders by the dozens and scores farm ers, merchants, teachers, students, preach ers and others, not a few so young that they modestly declined offices in the ranks, and even some were rejected by the government on the score of youth. On Aug. 2i War Governor Curtin accepted and tendered to the United States service a regiment composed of ten companies raised in Bradford and Susquehanna counties and designated the One Hundred and Forty-first Pennsylvania infantry. Guy H. Watkins, who had recruited one com pany and been chosen its captain, was elected lieutenant colonel of the regiment. The first duty of the One Hundred and Fifty-first was to go to the defense ol Washington while McClellan's army was battling with Ijee on Maryland soil in Sep tember, ISOi When Lee was pushed back southward to the Rappahannock the regi ment went to the front and was placed among tried and disciplined troops in Kearny's old division of Hooker's corps. At the first battleof Fredericksburg it had its baptism of fire, and coolly met the fu silade of shot and shell poured upon Meade's Pennsylvania reserves by Stone wall Jackson's batteries Dec. 13. On Burn side's second campaign, January, 1SG3, tht regiment was selected to cross the Rappa hannock alone and carry the heights on Taylor's Hill at the point of the bayonet, the forlorn hope of the movement, hut a severe storm put an end to the affair before the crossing was made. But at Chancel lorsville, in May, 1803, the field of many re markable struggles, the hour of trial came. On May 2 Stonewall Jackson's corps, by a flank march, struck the Union right and crushed it, rolling it up like a scroll. The Third corps, led by Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, became a break water for the tide of Confederates rush ing with blind impetuosity in pursuit of the ill starred men of the Elev enth corps. The wounding of Stonewall on the evening of the 2d caused a tempo rary halt in the plans of the Confederates, but on the morning of the 3d, Sunday, his corps, led by the cavalryman, Jeb Stuart, and under the personal dfrectiou of Gen. Iee, renewed the fight and com pelled the Union commander to order a general retreat. Sickles' corps, under imperative orders, abandoned position ufter position, and the Confederates followed up with growing enthusiasm. The brigade of Gen. Charles K. Graham, of Birney's division, to which the One Hundred and Forty-first belonged, was rear guard of the corps, as it had been during all the retrograde movements, and when it Ijecame necessary to vacate certain elevated ixjsitions known as Fairview and Hazel Grove and remove the artillery, with the exulting Confederates pushing madly in pursuit, Graham was ordered to charge to the rear and check the enemy's advance. Voir Rem thi ha Bert "FtALLT l:OUD THE FLAG. nOVS." Graham marched his men down the slope of Fairview crest anil up the slope of Hazel Grove, where the Confederates stood ready to receive them. Halting in a llt of oak timber at twenty rods from their line, Graham answered the bharp Confederate fire with :i few volleys, then ordered the advance resumed. The One Hundred and Forty-first held the right of the brigade. The whole line moved forward with a cheer that made the woods ring, and the Con federates gave way and fell back in con fusion to a ridge behind them, where an old log fence offered some shelter. With the logs for a breastwork they made a stand and poured a galling fire upon Gra- ham's ranks. Again the advance was sounded and the brrgade attempted to carry the works. The situation of the One Hundred and Forty first was most desperate. A second lo; fence extending forward from the first named, and at right angles with it, also offered shelter, which the Confederates quickly took advantage of. thus forming two lines. These two lines created an au tie IhlU III'" i:"IHn (ji WUC gle into the hollow of which the One Hua- dryland Forty-first bravely rusned The regiment ;iauile.'eM only -HT men and 21 i . . 1 . officers, although th1? ' it first battle. It struggled g-.r.aatly to Lreali through the angle Td dKmrt the enemy's line. but it win MVcr, lieon -.l A i -!e Con federate cliviMoii was hurled aioiot Gra ham's btide, a::d 1:1 a short time t he One Hundred and Forty-first was engaged, front, fiank and r-Hr The crisis that trie- men's soldier mettle had fallen upon those quiet, s.miid hearted Pennsylvaui;iiis, and away otT in one cor ner of the great light at Cl.ancellorsville they stood up in the lone woods and fought like heroes. Both the regimental color bearers were quickly shot down, and the leader of the color company, Capt. Swart, was instantly killed while lifting oue of the fallen flags. Oue Hag was subsequently carried by the co'.ouel, H. J. Madill, and the other by the major. Lieut. Col. Wat kins redeemed his pledge most nobly. Early in the fight his horse had leen killed under him by a shell and lie Mmself se verely stunned. Two days before this af fair the same thing had occurred, and al though his companions iir-e l him on both occasions to go to the rear he was to the very front and received a miniu ball through the breast while urging his men over the Confederate works. Twelve of fleers out of the 24 engaged and 234 men out of 417 were killed and wounded. The killed and mortally hurt numbered fO. Gen. Graham wisely withdrew his men before their slaughter was complete, and retired slowly. On reachiug the wooded ridge some distance from the log fence and where the brigade had begun the fighting. Iieaordered the colonels of regiments to re form their disordered ranks. Col. Madill, whose smiling face and encouraging words had animated the regiment throughout that bloody Sunday morning, f.xed the flagstaff of the One Hundred and Forty first, which he was still carrying, firmly in the ground and in a loud voice struck up the familiar camp song: Rally round the flag, bos. The men responded heartily, joining in the singing until the woods that shortly In-fore resounded with their cheers were echoing back the notes of music than which no bler was never heard on the battlefield, and with unshaken coolness and resolu tion, despite the terrible experiences of the hour, the unwounded survivors faced the enemy again with closed up ranks. Chancellorsville was followed by Gettys burg, two mouths later, on Pennsylvania soil. The story of that fight is too well known to need rehearsing. The One Hun dred and Forty-first was with Graham's brigade in the front line of the famous Eulieut angle formed by Sickles in the "WIIFKK AUK MY MI S?" Poach Orchard, on Enmiittshurg pike, July2,lSo3. In fact, the One Hundred and Forty-first was the tingle itsidf. It num bered at 3 o'clock that day MOO men till told. After some maneuvering to get into the best position to meet the daring as sail Its of Ix)iigstreet's Confederates, eom ing from two directions against the angle. Col. Madill found his regiment alone, facing a withering fire from artillery and musketry on both fronts. When a whole Confederate division emerged from .1 shel tering wood ami d.islie l for the IV o h Or chard, one of the captains of 'he regiments said to the colonel, "Hadn't e belter get out of this?" "I have no orders in ch nut. It I had my old regiment I could whip all of them,'' was the response. In .twenty minutes, however, the brave colonel found that he must go or leave his last man in the fatal angle. At the first Confederate volley 30 fell. In a few minut-s lay dead within sight of the colonel. The major and the adjutant wete killed, and all the color guards and Ixitii color U-ar rs were killed or wounded. A wounded man aw the bearer of the slate flag shot down and took theMalT from his hands In a fewniiuut.es the bearer of the stars and stripes fell, imil the same wounded man caught up the falling flag und carried it until relieved of it by 1 lie colonel With nineteen 1111 wounded men and his l!.;g intact Col. Ma'till inarched baek before the wavv of enemies pressing up 01: all sides Graham had Ix-en wounded and 1 apt 11 red and the line at the angle was destroyed Gen. Sickles, surprised anil overcome by the sudden and awful disaster, was hasten ing forward into t he very Jaws of death to try and save something l!';t it was too late. Where an hour before t .in lincsofhi troops had shown bold fiont west and south, the Confederates were in possession and were follow ing up their successes by pushing boldly and with all the ardor of 1 ri :i 11 1 pliant soldiers toward l.i'tle Round Top, the key to Gettysburg Seeing Col Madill moving off with his Leggarly hand ful the general pleaded, "Colonel, f rGrd'jt sake, can't you hold on!-" The leader of the once proud One Hun dred and Forty-first cast an c-e along t 'ae ground Stehind his few fol io-.v-r-, as t hough j measuring ghostly ranks fiil'-d by his fallen j heroes, and with a hits!;y voice exclaimed, ' "Where are my men" , Could behave held i with 1'J soldiers I against 10,000? He would have tried j had it leen so ordered, but in nu in slant Sickles was cut do.wi by a musket i ball, and resistance at the p.-acU Orchard and the Wheattield, in fact everywhere in ; front of Little Round Top, was erid-d The One Hundred und Forty first lost , hilled aii'f won n:et. i oc kii.co tii'l mor- j tally hurt numtjered 4'.. Out of 'J oiricers 6 were killed or wounded. The lost amount- i ed to over ."f oer cent, of those engaged , and was exceeded only once on the Union side in the war namely, the First Minne sota, which lo.,t W per cent. Vet the regiment wh not wi-d out. It was t ransferred to t he Second corps in the ' spring of Pio4, and took part in all the Moody charges led by Hancock from the 1 Wilderness to Petersburg Lieut. Col. Watkins. having recovered from his''hau odiorsviile wound and returned froi 1 cap- i Tiviry. wis in command. In the as-iaults at Petersburg. June Is. ly'.4. thi regiment Mtrn;ed the Conf.-d.-r.,!- int reiiclimeiitH, .aid there Col. 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