ESTABLISHED 11,809- 1 Volume LXXXVII roar DONELSON. , Twentyefifth Anniversary of the " Great Siege. m smear TOLD orcunons, ' essence: highest in rank and momma. When, Where and How theFamous Battle Wes Fought. Ion Who Afterward Became Died-4 gnlshod me Took r... In mun..-- oal Leaders, Senators. Governor-stand ‘ Presidents That Were to Be—‘fllthor . Side Ready to Give Unfit—From. Henry to Donelson—The Sortie That range. Blue and Gray. Once again the young people gather around and listen while veteran lips tell the-mot. For-t Donebon. That story was made twenty- fivc years ago this February. ' The writers and raconteurs have preserved the history more faithfuuy than the 'map makers have. Neither Fort Henry nor Fort DonelsOn is marked upon the newlst' atlasm. Nature herself hasnot obliterated their traces suspeedily. The trees .yet stand as scarred veterans of the mighty fight. Bullet'ina'rk',“ stump and broken limb are yet to be seen when in winter they are unclad of 'kindly Inf and vine. THE PREPARATION. . Turn to your map. You will see that the ' Tennessee and Cumberland rivers run through the state of Kentucky side and side, like twin deters. They empty into the Ohio not far apart. They come near together first inside . the Tennessee line, and flow through that state close beside each other. The Tennes- see forms part of the boundary betweenthc - 1)” two states for some distance. 0n the Ten- « nessee side, just opposite where the corner or Kentuckybegins, was "Fort Henry. Twelve miles acres from it, slightly north of cast, was Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland. Henry was on the right bank of' the Tonna- sse, lshile Donelson was on the left' bank of the Cumberland. ulnar arm Donansou. Henry and Donelson were important Con- federate stations. Henry was captured Feb. 6, 1862. A rising young brigadier general, named Ulysses S. Grant, was at the head of the force that took it. The victory «lied for the first time the attention of the- country’ to this ofiicer. The victory’at Fort Scary, too, was, strictly speaking, the beginning of the turning of the tide in favor of the north. A gloom like the fog of a winter‘s day had been onthe country till then. Men in the north were sighing for a hero—a man who should be strong enough to take the head of affairs and turn heart sickening failure into victory. The hero was developing, though they knew it not. He who waste lift the cloud was the silent man that, even in the midst of the victory of Fort Donelson, was “too busy to write a word.” , A notable point is the shortn. of Grant‘s dispatches at alltimes. Afew messages, of not many lines, to his superior officer tell the story of both Henry and Donelson. Gen. Halleck, then at St. India, was in command of the department of the Mimouri. Grant dispatched Halleck, Feb. 0, that Fort Henry had fallen. He added these words: “I shall take and destroy Fort', Donelson on the 8th and return to Fort Henry.” But he had undertaken a larger contract than even he could fill in the time be pro posed. The freshete and overflows, which al- ways work such mischief in the south and west, prevented, for one thing. The roads leading to Donelson were a sea of mud. By the backwater of creeks on each side of the fort therewasaseaof water twomilee in- land from the fort. The Cumberland runs north at the point selected for Fort Donelson. About a mile south of the fort, up the river, is the little town of Dover. This hamlet was the head- quarters of the Confederate general, Gideon J. Pillow, during the siege. It was in Dover that the last Confederate council of war he- tv‘nen Gena. Floyd, Pillow, Buckner, Col. N. B. Forrest and others took place, previous to the surrender of the fort to Grant. Below Fort Donelson, on the north, Hickman’s creek emptied into the Cumberland. It was overflowed for miles, the water. up to a horse's breast. Grant could not attack the fort from that side. On the. other hand, however, in case the Confederates, being hard pmed, wished to make a sally outfrom the fortandescape bythe‘Foi’t Henryroad,as, in fact, they did wish to do, - this :overflowed crock would prevent them. So, on the whole, the backwater of Hickman’s creek'was an ad- vantage to both besieger and besieged Above Fort Donelson, and between that and Dover, was another stream of water, Indian creek, also overfiowad. Mud! There was never anything like it. It was “half leg deep," as specially mentioned in Confederate ofiicial dispatches. Grant’s sol- dicrs fairly waded in mud “up to their eyes" when they marched from Fort Henry tobe- siege Dover and Donelson. ‘It new from the horses hoofs like rain and pe pered man and beast, when the cavalry sp __ hither and thither, in the. vain fancy that' they were j . It failed from the, gun carriage when: and fell. in huge masses , fit every turn the 'ertillery' made. ' It must be remembered that it was Grant, brigadier general, who had urged the reduc- tion of Forts Henry and Donelson. The ob-‘ ject to be gained by it was the clearing of the Crimberland and Tennessee rivers, and the occupation of Tennessee and its lines of rail- way. Grant was at Cairo and repeatedly urged Halleck to let him visit St. Louis. leave was at length given Grant visited his superior and began to unfold his plan for the capture of the two forts. But Halleck silenced him at once and snubbed him sharply- . Judge Force, in his book, says that Grant “ret‘rrrned to Cairo believing his commander thought him guilty of proposing a military blunder.” And yet he persisted, importun- Ingagain and again. Flag Oflicer Andrew H. Foote, of the Mississippi squadron, urged the same, and begged Halleck's permimion to let him and Grantrnove on Henry and Don- elson. it was at length given, and Feb. 8 Foote and Grant, infantry and cavalry forces , united, started up the Tennessee to Fort Henry, with 17,0“) men and seven gun- boats Fort Henry fell on the 6th. The Sunday after Commander Foote took his place in the pulpit of the Presbyterian church at Cairo and preached an eloquent sermon on the text: “Let not your hearts be troubled. Ye beheve in God, believe also in me.” . Then he came down from the pulpit and made ready his boat: for the expedition against Donelson, which surrendered Feb. 16, just one week from that Sunday morning. Engineers of the Confederate service agree that the site of Fort Donelson was badly chosen. It stood upon a river blufi. The situation was elevated, to be sure, but there was a ring of hills around it, at from one to live miles distance. These hills were higher than the blufi upon which the fort was, _and p convenient for the enemy to plant guns upon. .THE DEFENSES OF FORT DONELSON. The blot! upon which Donelson stood was 100 feet high. The fort itself was what was called in military language a bastioned earth- work, with angles like star points projecting from the main inclosuro outward, and pro- tected by walls of heavy earthworks. It was so situated that its guns the river safe: as they could carry. Two water bat- teries were erected on the slope of the bluff toward the river. The larger battery was the one nearmt the shore. .It'had forarma~ meat a 10-inch Columbiad and nine sit-pound The upper battery was supplied with two 32-pounders and one rifled cannon which carriedaoonicalballofmpounds. The water batteries were built by Lieut. Col. J. F. Gilmer, chief engineerof the western de- t of the Confederate army. They were constructed after the fall of Fort Henry. As soon as that point was captured the whole available Confederate force in that region was concentrated at Donelson. The line of batteries was extended so as to take in Dover, where stores of food and am- munition were. In and out, through salient and rte-entrant. half. the. tracer! of earthworks and 8113' , distance to the mouth "Fort-Dom lson. arrived Thursday evening. .» .tlierPi-ssbyterian fiag oflcer opened fire from angle, for two miles auda- . 9 .1 , .J' ~33 ‘ ‘2... .--- “L'- An Enterprising Republican J ouriiéil', eSpecmlly devoted. to Local News and Interests. ‘ . , ' N_0RWALK,;..QONN., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1887. a'ii riupenmblo’ “ , abatis. To get at FortDon- mm Union troops wererobliged toga up -hlll-overthese ,. T, pointsinthefaceof marksman whose aim'vvas yet'eha‘rper. ' 'On the east, the riverproteoted fireworks. Such were the defenses of Donelson. ~ Lieut.’ Col. Gilmsr' mys’ that-thew“ fighting force within the fort was” 15,000. Uptothetimo the siege begenitwas com- muded by Gen. Bushrod R. Johnson: He was re-onforced" cceslivel'y by Gens. Pillow, men each. Gen. 'J. B.’Floyd' was 1 Clarke, Floyd and Backus, with several thousand .. Foo‘rs's FLOTILLA. The Union boatshaddmre'grcateervice at Henry. shamanism?” Munchies.“ greatly. except by cenvoyins While amt. In IAWM slowed across the mud ace between-Emmanuel baby and.» mm with six new“ .1... .1..." as "a some 1 " 'a .19! .11.: ', do" the of .ltrlre Cumberlpnd to Foote-hl'df' minibus clrcui of .150 miles to go twelve. 1 \ —— ._.——-.- ran canonnnmrr. _ Thecarendeletisagoodillustrationof the old-fashioned gunbeet. It was the first to arrive on the morning of Thursday, Feb. 13. It opened fire. It may be mentioned that the old Carondelot, with the mine commander, Capt. Walke, was also the first to afta-ward , down the river under the batteriesat Vicksburg. The rest of Foote’s fleet with the trans ports, containing six regiments of soldiers, hisficet of six gunboats, four ironclsds and we wooden ones. There was a severe fight of an hour and a half, which did not result in a'b‘rllliant success for the fleet. Theboats engaged were the ironclads St. Iouis, Caron- delet; Louisville and Pittsburg, and the wooden boat: Tyler and Genestoga. - Four of the boats were disabled. The first fire from the Csrondelet had disabled one of the SIS-powders in the water batteries. The same shot instantly killed Licut. Joseph Dixon,a bravo Confederate officer and the accomplished local engineer who had assisted in preparing the defenses of Donelson. That was about the only damage apparently done by the fleet. Then Commander Foote drew off the remain-of it anddropped down out of range. a noa'rsn soar. The mortar boat got its name from the gun it carried. First a, heavy wooden float was built. ' Upon it were erected very thick wooden walls. These sloped inward and were about eight feet high. They were plated with heavy iron. Inside was a single heavy mor- tar, with ammunition below the water line. There was also a tent for the gunners within- the walls. ' These mortar boats were considered for- midable twenty-five years ago. But such is the improvement made since then in destruc- tive warfare that one shot from even a mod- erate sized gun of the kind now made would knock an old fashioned mortar boat into fiinders. One youthful Confederate grmuer dis- tinguished himself gallantly at the lower water battery at Fort Donelson. While Foote's gunboats were peppering the batter- ies to the right and left, this youth, John G. Freqna, stood perfectly straight at his gun, takiugaimaud firing ascoollyas if he had been squirrel hunting. “Now, boys,” said he, “see me take a chim. ney." He aimed at the smokestack of an advanc- ing gunboat. It fell, carrying with it the flag. ,Frequa threw his cap in the air, yelling defiantly. Again the nervy boy took 'aim, clear and straight. Shortly he sent a ball directly through a portbole, and then the gunboat fell back disabled. The portholcs of the boats were quite large. FOUR DAYS’ FIGHTING. To tell the truth, , army officers do not always write the clearest English, not even, alas! regular armyomcers. It is difiicult, therefore, for the historian to gather from the colonels’ and brigadier gener- als’ reporis, just how a battle was fought and how and where the troops stood. Grant‘s re- ports and orders, what there are of them, are models of clearnes, brevity and simplicity. From them we gain more clear-beaded knowl- edge than from most of the rest. ' Immediately on the fall of Fort Henry, Gen. Bullock began forwarding fresh troops and supplies as fast as pouible for the reduc- tionof Donelson. Boys, en whose checks the rose-had not yet given place to tan, regiments, as Judge Force says, “so freshly formed that " they had hardly changed their civil garb for soldisr’s’uniform',” were hurried to the front to help out Grant at Donelson. inn-emu ”I" ‘ PM or arson. ‘ ' Ebb. 11, 1802, the general order was givers Grant‘s mento march from Henry to” Donel- son. There were two roads; one, the Wynn’s Feny.road,leadingto Dover south or Fort Donelson, the otbor'north of it some dis- tance. The two came together not far from the fort, the northern road leading directly to the fort. Along these two roads the men marched, starting the morning of Felt-12. 'TheFlrst .and Second divisions moved ferward.‘ The' first division was commanded by Gen. John. A. lchl’ernaud, the Second'b'yGen. C. F. Smith. They moved forward,lchlernand’s division by the right hand 'or southerly road, - Smith’s by the northerly or lefthand m ' They came together two and; one-half mile .from Donelson. McCiernand‘s forces took the right wing south of Donelson, Smith’s the left wing north of Donelson. Later word wassent toGen. Lew Welle'ce,‘who had re- mained at Fort Henry, to bring up the Third division He arrived on the 14th (Friday) auditook position with his divisioninthe center. , Thus the Federal forces invested Donelson in formof a crescent. "Adiagramof their position would show themes follows: Smith's division Wallace's division. Donelson. McCler-nand’s division Therowussomesklrmishlngontheevening of the 12th betv’reenthe of the two armies. On thoISththebattle beganin earnest. wool. Wall. Morrison, ofthe' Forty-ninth regiment of’ Illinois Volunteers, had _ of. a brigadethat day inxhicCler- naud‘s division. Hisbrigadehadsomeof'thc toughest work of the whole Donelson fight. Their work wasto a-ault Nancy's betray, mtbeCmftdetatekfhatonoothemostoon- spicuousandinaocdhlooftheentirellnoof works. They startedmto climb uphill every 1 M” M L: . A ambit-fire of hatteryandlnfann-yraked themforeand aft. 0ncetbeyfellback,and thetsngled and «1mm Fridaymorniug ' omr's nmousarnas. forced their way farther up the abatis, then wavered and fell back once more. A curious fact added to the complications of the fight at Donelson. The Confederate forces were largely uniformed in brown ions. The dead leaves of the scrub oak were almost the exact color of this cloth. The Federal forces, therefore, in climbing the abatis, could not tell what was leaves and what was Con- federate soldiers till alineof-flre in their'faocs told them the difference. The third time Morrison’s brigade stormed the heights. This time they climbed quite to the rifle pits. The line in front of them was one sheet of fire, awful and deadly. Just then a musketball struck Cbl. Morrison in the hip. The future Illinois political leaderreeled inhis saddle and then fellwthe ground. That ended the desperate malt, and Money's bat. mummeduntakem. 1 . - ; - ’Another‘ of the curious incidents of war, and send one, happened here. The flashes from the guns set fire to the thickly cluster- ing dead leaves. They flamed up like (dry straw, consuming the dead, dying ' and wounded soldiers who lay about in some'sp‘ots as thickly as the leaves themselves.- A con- siderable number of the helplem ones were burned to death. Col. Holman, who had dis. tinguished himself at Fort Henry, was in command of the Confederates at Nancy’s bat- tery. Hislnen leaped . over in front of their works, after the amault, and saved such as they could. So the night of Thursday, the 13th. came and were away. Up to the arrival 'of Lew Wallace, on Friday, tlm Federal forces on- gaged numbered only 15,000 men. The enemy did not know it, but they were without sup- plies. Thoreadsweretooheavytotrauspo‘ rt' food and munitions, and these had been sent around by water. The morning of the 14th who... soldiers were absolutely .without came on. It was terrible. The men had not dared to sleep during the night. They could not build tires, for these would have been merely so many targets for musketry and ar- tents for them. Dawn found them-numb and stifi with the cold, their clothing wet through tothe skin and frozen on their-backs. Col. Crafts J. Wright, Thirteenth Missouri, sat upon clog wrapped in hisblankettillso’clock in the morning. ' , So the Federal soldiers stood the night through. At dawn the light began to shine upon a bitterly cold day. Fires were built towilrd the rear then, and companiespln turn relieving one another, went back and thawed their frozen garments 'and made coffee. But they had no food, not a bite. Their 1 only breakfastwas cofiee, and thus theyrnade ready to face the day. For the Confederates in the fort it was not a whit more comfortable. They lay upon yet uobodyon either side was disheartened. and enthusiasm At noon the FederalGon. Lew Wallace and his Third division of rain- gled veterans’and raw recruits arrived into camp in the oeuterwlth,cheers and songs and bugles sounding. Gen. Wallace rode immediately to Grhnt’s headquarters and dined with him on crackers and cofiee. The geireral was nearly as badly off as his men. It was this day that the interchange of courtesies between the fleet and the fort took land. Re-enforcemehts were arriving for Grant, and were being posted. Grant’s troops were distributed over a line nearly four miles long. His own head- quarters were at the log house of Mrs. Crisp, two miles from Dover, at the head of Hick~ manoreek. Itwasalittletothe leftofzthe center of his army. and between the division of law Wallace mm C. F. Smith. So having srra'nged matter's to suit him, Grant sat down in the midst of his blue cres- cent of soldiers to starve out Fort Donelson. On their part, the Confederate generals in- side the fort were quite aware of their peril. The night of the 14th Gena Floyd, Pillow and Buckner held a council and ‘reeolvedto out their way out of the fort through the Federal lines next morning. Ten thousand .‘isoopswere set sport‘for thisgrand clinic. The Confederates too had been rte-enforced. Brig. Gen. Floyd was the last to arrive, on the morning of the 18th, with 4,000 men. THE GRAND SORTIE. In the Confederate council the night of the 14th it was determined that the force in the fort should attempt to cut its way out on the Federal right,through McClernand’s division. Driving this division back, it was to be made to roll over upon Wallace’s division in the center, thus leaving the Wynn’s Ferry row clear. W that road the Confederates were to escape to Charlotte, Tenn. Pillow, with infangy and cavalry, was to make the attack as thew extreme'right, near thaxlver. Wins to followfirrji'n'cdiatcly‘ ,ifter, and do for Lew Wallace’s division in "the calm. That was the plan. GIN. some, 0. s. A. 1 Pillow said he expected‘to “roll :the enemy (McCler-nsnd's division) infull retreatovcr upon Gen. Buckner, when, by attack in flank and rear, they could cut up the enemy and put him completely to rout.” 1 Pillow’s attack was sudden and furious. Reveille was just sounding in McClemand’s camp, and the troops were nethunder arms when the onset was made. There was con- fnsion, there was danger that the whole right ‘wing of the Federal army would be routed. In a ‘few minutes though, in scarcely more time than it tak. to write it, McClernand’s :nen, gun in band, had their faces toward the co. _ The account of the flora onset and shock, and its reception by the Federal soldiers, read like some of Cmsar’s battles with the Genie. Gen. Oglesby, of Illinois, who com- manded a brigade on the right, received the first tremendous attack. His men returned fire till their ammunition gave out. They snatched up the cartridge boxes from the dead and dying and poured their contents into the foe till that‘too “gave Out. Then Cbl. W. H. L. Wallace’s brigade went to the rescue. That 'at’length- quailed before the “trebly thundering” attack. A‘lameuted, eta .seen, distinguished himself gallantly here. 1 He was then colonel of the Thirty-first Illio nois and his name was John A- 7 . He was here and? there and ‘Leverywwie in that panic and a rout early in the day. Dresser’s and McAlllster‘s batteries of light andwell. To the rightof Oglesbystillwas Gen. McArthur, nearest tirexr-iver. Hahs'd been ordered there the night before, with troops who had hadnofood‘all day. They notimetobecomeacqualntedwiththenature of the ground. He only knew that he faced - Fort Donelson» The Confederate dmigu was tornake adashaud getcavalryin his rear, and then with cavalry torearof him, infantry . berm. harem tapered“ . ‘ Soldiers do not always find it easy to fight onafull stomach, but HoArthur’s'men had. fastedthlrty-six hours. In thlsststeof hone,- ger they were when theyheard at 5 o’clock in the morning the firing on“ Oglesby on their left. As soon as it was heard, without wait ing for orders, McArthur formed his empty stomachcd meniu linc'of battle; Theka alively hand in thefight. But may a , worse trouble than empty stomachs con- fronted them, and that wascmptycartrldge hoses. Memwtommmvmw . Duringthe nightc‘stormof anan’dsleet‘ tiller-y from the fort. There were no shelter ' theirarms'all night in' the touch; And The Confederate soldierswere full of fight Mehntime there was not much fighting on 1 who has-lately passed to the realmof the arr->- battle, showering electric words upon. his, means dark face lit ‘with excitement, bn' eyeahining like ancdgle’a Bythema'gneF ismof- his'persoual influence he prevented-a ‘ McClernand'a division, With Taylor‘s,_ artillery, met the Confederate onset bravely ’ passcd'the night in the snow and elect, was» out-fires or shelter: Gen. McArthur kad hall ' powerless, and so the brigade fell back some hundreds of yards to the rear and took up a new position. ‘ It is sufficient to say of them that toward night they got one square meal, and then moved over to the left of the Federal forces to support the troops fighting there. The morning progressed. It began to 1001; indeed as if Pillow was going tocarry out his threat to “roll the enemy over.” McAi-thur’s brigade had crumbled away. So bad Oglesby’s. McClernand’s division was in the gravest danger. In the center, Lew Wallace, with the Third _divisiou,_was lymg' inactive. His orders were to act on the defensive and watch the Confederates to prevent their cs- cuping his way. . Pillow‘s division, indeploying, ' , Spread, ' wider and wider, and more and more.to'vvard Lew Wallace. McClernand’s division began to. waver. Three Confederate-batteries,lfaney's, Porter’s and Graves’, poured asmcdyflre into It. Buckner was advancing, too, with his men, with Forrest's cavalry filtting about the outskirts. ‘ ' The three Federal batteries had exhausted their ammunition. ' Taylor‘s alone had fired that morning 1,700 rounds. Buckner had or- dered an advance of three regiments f- before noon. They had been met with a blinding fire-from Col. W. H. 'L. ‘Wallaoe‘e brigade. Snow flying in the air confused them so that they could not see their [way besides, and they fell back to their entrehchments in dis order. ~ _But.prcsently Buckner 'gatheredhls forces, and came gallantly on again. _ ' McClernand sent word to Low 'Wallace to aid him. In the alsence, of positivp orders from headquarters Wallace declined to move. The place grew hotter and better. Col. John A. Logan was wounded. McClernund again sent word, to Wallace, and this. time Wallace ordered forward Col. ., .Cruft’s brigade, the first in his division. Here an un- fortunate mistake occurred, and several regi- ments of Federal" soldiers fired into each other, doing serious damage. Cruft’s brigade took the places of McAr-thur‘s exhausted men. Cruft’s men‘fOught“ 'gallan’tly, but at length fell back somedrstance and took up positron near the hospital. - 1 When was wounded he suggested to Col. T. E.‘ . Ransom,~of the" Eleventh Illi- nois, to take his placeflwith, the Elegeuth. Ransom,'too, had been wounded; but'hndhad . his wound dremed. Both were heroes that :lay. Logan’s regiment was quite out of am- munition, therefore forced to fall back, when its com ‘ ' .sveiitfi: t‘h‘; have his wound dressed. The Thirty-first marched back. for ammunition, leavin the Eleventh alone~ in the trey. But the eventh was attacked not cal in front.butonbothfi4nks. and finally bro and retreated. , . Gen. Wallace still waited, with bis-division lnline, for orders from Grant. McCleruand’s second message‘hsdbeenlthat his flanks were turned and his, whole command wssfendnn- . It was then that Gel.” Croft’s brigade 'was sent to his relief. But the Confederate billows still swept on. - ‘ ' , fight scattered down the hill , _ ,W'allace’s - divisibn.‘ A'r'nounted oflpcer gallopedby. He _ had lost his head completely, and -‘shouted to the general: “We are cut to ieees.” —. Then‘Iew Wallace took responsibility of the order of battle upon his own shoulders. Instantly he ordered up histhird brigade, Col. Thaycrcornmanding, and threw it across be- , tween the broken troops and the advancing Confederates Other ruminants were behln as a reserve. . He had barely‘got them in line when Pillow and Buckner, combined, swept . downufion them. The. brigade stood like a rock. ere was some of the most spleindid - lighting of the war. - The First Nebraska regiment and Wood‘s Chicago light: artille received the shocks first, and here ‘at last e Confederate billows wore thrown back. ..Tbey-had struckasea wall, and could sw no further.‘ “They ' withdrew,” said Gen. uckner, “in some con- fusion, but without '_ tothe trenches” It-wasabout noon.- was‘the end of the ; sortie. Iew Wallace had saved the day at atDonelson. 7 1 ‘ WHERE WAS .GRANTf It may have occurredit'o the’reader that the nameof'the'generalcommaudihg, fireflies” ni.toq)eak,of,themall,hu notbeen mentioned. lathe-naval- fighton thel4th,' ‘- Commander Fem ' had been severely wqunded. He contains-age to Gen. Grant that as he, Foote, was'eeveroly wounded, the . general might perhaps come and se'ehim, and hold a council on board the flag ship St. Louis. Grant did so, starting early on Saturday morning. After this consultation Foote started becktoCairoformortsrboeLihf ' 1 The fieetlay severalmiles down the river and Grant did not get back till about 1 o’clock. The,sound of cannonading that pierced through the woods gave no idea of the seriousness'of the situation. - point "to spouting. matters. His firstthought, whenhe saw his battered bat- talious Wiltofallback-onthodefensive, and w'ait’till Footo came back with a fleet and re.- enforcemenis. At 3 o’clock in the after- 1, ... 9! _1. in ,) gofller for‘counnl. Itwas held wigs-all three generals 'bn horseback.“ Grant defined ax- cited, and as nearly nervous as Grant could be. His face was very serious, almost overcast He held a handful of dispatches and seemed in profound thought. All at: once 3 a fight broke over the commander’s face, and then: all was serene again. ’Of this moment he' told Gen. Sherman afterward: : “I saw that either side was ready to give up; ' 1 the. ether shoved shell! front. and} deter" mined-.tofilothat warning.” 7.: s' ,- _So:_tho’" " hibecamo'strong‘and: serene again, as much instantly there was activity. Gen. .0. F. Smith's forces on the right of the _ Federal line ,had not yet Inken part in the fight. They wore Ordered- up. Gen. Smith himself, with long, gray hair, -, a color bearer by his side, rode along the front ' of hisline‘,a eh-lking, inspiring figure. Ht» 'toldhismenhehimmlfwouldleedthmaud " directed them when near enough to charge bayonetgon the rifle pin. The signal wm given, the column moved forward and was met" by a ,roar of muskeu'y from the rim pits. ‘ . Col. Tattle was in the lead with his Seconr'. Iowa regiment. 'flie advancing line wavered a moment under the fire that mowed it down, then steadied and went irr-htbly on. What- within range of the Confederate muskets Col. Tattle shouted to' his men, “Forward!” Then they made the rattling bayonet charge. It drove the. Caledonia-mus their wash and Smith’s‘unen occupied then“; In the midst qr cheers and shouts fiom'the' Whole division the Stars and Stripes were planted upon the works of Fort Donelson. has it Wasall over with the Confederate right. Over on the Federal right‘MoClu'nand’s di- vision had been swept from the ground it oc- cupied in the morning. Although Lew Wal- lace'smenhadcheckcdtho retr'eat thereand stopped the sortie,.yet the ground held by McClernand in the morning had not been re- takcu. Grant ordered Iew Wallace to retake it. As . «.09- mwbdl‘rbioebesenw movamwss‘ to attaék’ too. Thus the Confederates would be engagedpn both right and left. Grant rode down the river to see cheetah Waywtb’inahrsowmbi Wallace’s niorl execute theiroommand. - At noon itlooked asif victory wssperched on the Confederate standard. The Wynn‘s‘: Ferry road, whlctbsd been coupled by no. , Clernand,-wasopen for the Confederate re- treat. Buckner had accomplished what he *Grant ordaed. _, . ' m " ' the ef- ternoon hddbeénwtlgg ' ‘ moment for ca- cape. - Itwes lat :Bucknc'h‘sd halted, walt- ing for his artilleryaud reservesto follow him out of the inta'enchmeiits. Pillow had folk S; Johnston: “0n the honor of a soldier, the day is ours." , _ All at'onoeflea Pillow sent Buckner-word to come back and take up hh paition within the works. He could onlygobey. Ashe fell, backwithhisrnen he met Gen. Floyd, Floyd, was _' .riied, andashsdwlrat hows-chm. He ordered Buckner to stay where he was till he,1_l'loy'd, could see Pillow. Thus thine was more waiting. Finally Buckner, the fighting 1 ', was ordered to cross'to’theextrue was storming the works. , “useomusrorrsn commas." Col.- federate Kentucky, _led_the_advapoa But "when theymhdfiol'lzhmwwm TheFederalforoeswereelreadyin , _' Hansonwas‘a'brav‘eandacc‘om‘ " can'- Men's pine-r- .1 It 1|. . that he‘ and Buckner,‘both ‘flgh deemed the surrender of Fort Donelson a necesaltvafterthat..:Wsaygfghisre- r In. 1 time whenwe'were . trenches oursuccenwas complete and our mm . - ... 4-.— noouhecalled‘lf’Clei-naud andWallace 'to- 1 1m! mmmiorder cabins ; Confederate rigbtand stop Gen. Smithfivho" wgmnm-er rumou- “lelltakethcli'f condom torts W ...... -....~ v.1... “R is Also my opinion that the exhaustion of the men from labor and loss of sleep. to- gether with the demoralization caused by the loss of our trenches on the right, rendered the surrender unavoidable.” When night closed in Wallace too had done his work—regained the lost ground and cleared the hill. Just when that was done, and he was within a few hundred feet of the Confederate intrenchrnents, he received an order from Grant to halt and fallback. Wal- lace disobeyed the order. He felt sure the general did not know his movement had been successfub So he took hisown head for it, and bivouacked. on the field, just where he was, close to;.~the Confederates, ready in the morning to 'h. up and at them. But when morning came the sun’s first rays shone upon a bugler, carrying a white flag from Buckner to Grant. Bucknor’s memage proposed the appointment of commimioners to agree upon terms of capitulation. Grant’s reply has be- come historic: . “No terms will be granted except an uncon- ditional and immediate surrender. I propose to move immediately upon your works.” Buckner wrote back: “The distribution of the forces, under my command, incident to ‘ uu‘unexpected change of commanders, and the overwhelming, force » under your com- liant success of the Confederate arms yester- day, to accept the ungenerous and unchival- rous terms which you propose.” So oh that Sunday morning, Feb. 10, 1862, the Confederate forces surrendered to Grant, and thestory of Fort Donelson was told. Buckner-had good reason to be in an un- pleasant frame of mind that morning. At midnight the night before acouncil of war was held betfreen‘himself and Pillow and Floyd. Buc ' told them his men could not stand more an half an hour’s fighting. Hunger, cold d exhaustion had done their work at last. Besides, there was no more ammunition. -If his men tried to escape threeqnarters of them mustbelost to save the other quarter. Surrender was the only thing. Floyd and Pillow said they would not sur- render, they would die first. Then Floyd handed over the supreme command of the fort to Pillow, Who in turn transferred it to ’ Buckner, who surrendered the fort. Pillow, with some of his immediate personal com- mand, crossed gihe river upon a scow and made good his escape. Two small steamers from up the river came about daylight to the landing. They took Floyd and some of his men up the river. Forrest and his cavalry (scoped on horseback. The two steamers con- tained Confederate re-enforcements,who were dumped out upon shore. Then Floyd’s men boarded the boats. The conduct of himself and Pillow was regarded as unsoldierly, and , was made the subject of a searching investi- gotten from the Confederate government. In an ofil‘cial letter to the Confederate secretary ; . of: war, Pillow thought that, considering the samfices he had made for the Confederacy, , 'and.“tho' large and dependent family of wn up and unmarried daughters on his as.” he had been very shabbily treated. 0f the farces en intbis great fight there were of Conf , crates, all told, some- thing over. 19,000; of Federals, 27000. The .best estimate of» be Confederate killed and wounded makesthern'about 2,000. Of the Union forces 3:58 killed, wounded and missing ted3. . ilibe' troops of Grant’s army at Donelson were mostly mien; men, many of them from Illinois Indiana. One remarkable fact in this fight isthe number of men who afterward became distinguished that took part in it. Hundretfi of men afterward famous both in ' and civrl life fought there on those fateful ya. .50 .. i "3:. ‘7‘- . I, ,5, :v Illa. “Aha. .liimltii r “some wanna rm mo.” 1 Immediately after the surrender Grant, McClernandand Wallace were made major generals. .- Grant’s commimion was dated Feb. 16, and ”he was immediately placed in charge of the military district of west Tennessee. Numbers of soldiers were buried on the . field'where they fell. Some of their graves are stillto ba‘oeen.- But of the earthworks and lines “of fwtifications. at Donelson thereis scarcely a trace. Even so from the hearts of the contestants thatda have faded out the traces of the lines ch be rated them. Years ago Buckner forgave rant. When the nort ern commander was buried. a year andu half ago prominent amen thepall bearers, who walked with measu tread be- ~slde the honored dead.wereto be seen the aoldierly figure and strong, fine face of Gen. Buckner. [In reparln the etc of Donelson, materials have been gathered frogmany sources. but espe- cially from official documents published by the United States: government. from Jud Force's book, “From Hem-v to Corinth," ug‘s Civil War in America, old files of The New .York Trib- une ,an'd Harper's Pictorial History of the War. The illustrations are chiefly from Ilr. an‘s history] .. Warnings in Dreams. ,hlapy people still believe that-they receive warnings in dreams, and it is impossible to rebut the arguments for sucha belief, but wire may confidently assert that any general reliance on the confused and contradictory indicatlrms, of dreams would involve the most inconsistent vagaries of conduct, whollyun- worthy of a rational being. Our reason and our dreams are often so hopelessly at vari- occur, .todesert the former-for. the latter, would be equivalent to, relinquishing the bright shiningof the sun in order to pursue a treacherous willao’-the-wisp. The writer once had occasion to engages pama‘ge for'a long se'ayoyagefsnd .the only‘vessel available at the desiredtimé was a. steamer whichhad been 'a great favorite in her day, butwas then so old that double were entertained re- gerdingher seaworthinem. In spite of warn- ingsonthispointho engaged_his.berth, and on that very 'n‘lgh‘t he had an intensely vivid dream of shipwreck and drowning at sea. Undeterred, however, he ‘set sail without serious misgivings and had a most agreeable and prosperous voyage. In this case the dream was evidently no supernatural warn- ing but rather the resultof the effect pro- :duoed upon the imagination by the hints :thrown out regarding the vessel’s supposed unseaworthy char-actor. Presentiments of .all kinds are almost invariably groundless, - and when on rare occasions at presentiment is verified by the resultfthe‘explanation is the verysimple and obvious one that in this in- fu'ture. We fear and we hope many things ,m'ore or less probable—All the Year Round. ‘ -.———— Tho Manufacture of Bafrplns. trolledthe manufacture of hairpins and it is only withinthe last twenty years that the goods havé'beenfOrOdhoedfin thiscountry to annextent. The machinery used is of a dell- cate and intricate character, as the prices. at which pins are sold necefitatos the most rapid and cheapest process, which can only be procured by automatic machines. The wire-is made expresslyfor the purpose and put up in hence”. uric?! imagined m, a clamp, whit: r'caifries it to the machine while straightening it; from there it runs‘in another machine,‘which cuts, bends and, by a deli- cate and instantaneous princes, sharpens the points. Banning at full speed, them ma- chines will turn out 120 hairpins every min- .uto. (To economize, it is_neeessary to keep themworking‘night and day. The difficult partof the-work is the enameling, which is ' done by dipping in a preparation and baking in an oven. Here is where the most constant and careful attention is required, as the pin ' must be perfectly smooth and the enamel have a perfect polish. The slightest particles of dust cause imperfectnés's and roughness, which is objectionable—Brooklyn Citizen. ~, -.,, &——s—"——-———-— 1 . , At’dpalod when Mouop,tlio»~’great actor, _‘ wasmanaging the theatre in Smock alley. Dublin, bu'sinesswas bad and his actors were not paid their salaries. One night Monop, .. 1a . , . 1 En i-‘fiuym‘g Kent, 'who whispered to him:.“lf you'don’t give me your honor, sir, that you‘ll pay me my ' this night before I gohome I’ll let you drop.” Mossop, alarmed, besought the man not to talk to , him now. “I will,” said Kent, “I will; I’ll r;._let you‘drop.” .__l_fossop was-obliged to give the im‘d’the actor‘thus got his money; the efiect‘of a desperate though Well timed hint.-—Detroit Free Prem. mand, compel rho.,notwithstanding the bril- ' .._ . . - .._~_.. wonk' packlfig house in stance. our fears correctly forecasted the. For years the 'English and French cono, Ices-,was supported 'in'1the~ arms of r ,. EARI’S “Is-Ir: 'l'l-l I s _ - EVERY TRAD ‘ ,. Wears-rs. chr RINE is a pearly white, semi-transparent fluid having a re- that wxll‘ penetrate the skin wrrnorrr INJURY. Beautifieg the Complexion, Endloatoe all eta, Freckles Tan, Moth Patches, Black onus, Imp-rifles and Die- ooloratlons of every kind, either within an: the skin. It renders the skin pure. clear, Inca th- fnltgnd brillla t, dating a complexion which is ml“ or ell-mic nor t‘einpp‘rarge bu: at ppeg.wgg. a s .su . - Germ": wgegnforp chsfed or'i'ough skin on infants. 11‘ ms (Almost Instantly) Sunburn. Prickly neat, chap- ped. Bough or Chafod Skis; In fact its results upon all diseases of the skin are wonderful. It Never Falls. hits 756. per Bottle Use A150 PEARL'S itmakcs the skin so soft and white. Ask Your For It. After Ullllo "All's VIIITE OHGEIIIE 80.. PROPS. ,IIE' “Ant“. m. SOHWAB. OPTICIAN and ocums'r, w) WILL BE AT NORWALK. February 23 and 24, 1887, A t Nor-walk Hotel. 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B. e m e m be r l The Best Meats in Norwalk —ARE SOLD AT— WIXSON'S llABXE'l', ON THE BRIDGE, —-AND son res—— Lowest Prices for Cash. PLATES OF- BEEE,,5 cents per lb; CORNED BEEF, from 5 to lo cents'per it. I will not be undersbld for theBost'QuaJIles of Meat. Poultry Drawn to Order. _ . _ lyl James E. 'Wiwson. ,2? Wall Street. Eligible Business Parlor For Bent. THE Largest and Most Eligible Front Room on first floor of Gums Building, suitable for abnost any trade or business memes-re «a _ p, . , newest. 8 00" x perhdverfiainsm 1° ),wbere adver- tisingcontracts may as full: Dammit“: :—_ A QUIET STREAM. A quiet stream * ' » Flawed through a level meadow-all day long Its voice was heard in murmurous melody, That half a whisper seemed, and half a song- Yet no one paused to hear Its harmony, Or marked the brightness of its sunny gleam. But where its course Was half arrested by the rugged stone It swelled and bubbled till with new born power It leaped the barrier, all its weakness gone—— Its spray ascending in a silvery shower. Its onward way pursued with added force. Its beauty then The artist praised, the poet sang, until Came many to admire the pretty scene, Half marveling at the strength of such a rill—- A silver ribbon parting banks of green; . Swift as an arrow, deeper than their ken. .. 4 So we in life. ; 1 ' Unconscious of our strength may pass along, Our silent efforts vain—our labor lost— Conteut to rest unnoticed by the throng, Whose paths in life our daily course have crosse , Till trouble comes to rouse us into strife. 1 Then we posses, Through labor, power—from pain and wearinca We learn the lessons that will make as strong. Endow us with capacity to bless-— The world will listen to the stirring song, Born of a soul replete with earnestness. —Frances lee Robinson in Southern Bivouac. RAREFIED AIR AND- MANIA. Blooded People Who Cut Up Strangle Capers in Colorldo.- ‘ “It is strange how some people are affected by the light air and 6,000 feet altitude of Cheyenne,” said Policeman Bean inarecent conversation. - . . . “A short time ago a book agent reached here from Denver. He was rather a cadaver- Thin ' ons looking chap, who didn’t seem to pack around more blood in his constitution than the law allows. As the train neared Chey- enne he began to glare around the war as if he was afraid som‘ebodywas going to slug him, and when the news agent posed through peddling some oranges be fairly yelled for them'to take him away. He was afraid of being killed. When he reached here he got spells in the same way, and I had a good deal of bother in soothing him. “When he wasn’t fiighty he told me that he had often been troubled that way when he reached any tolerably high altitude. The least excitement brought on a fresh spell. I learned afterward that he never had any such attacks at home. In my experience at. the depot here I have known of many people who have been troubled in the same way. This seems to be especially true of ladies. who grow worse until they begin to descend the hill from Sherman to Laramie City, and on inquiring of the trainmen I learn that afterward they go through all right.” “You remember thatTittle fellow from No- vada, who cut up such tantrums at the depot here a few months ago?” asked the Judge. The listener intimfit'ed that he hadn’t for- gotten the circumstances. “Wcfl, that fellow began to show the effect of the altitude as the tr ain neared Cheyenne. By the time he had reached here he had bar- ricaded himself in the retiring room and was about to throw himself out of the window when the trainmen forced their way in and caught him. He was sure somebody was going to kill him. I got him away from the crowd and told. him I’d protect him, and finally got him quieted dewn. The trainmen looked after him until they began to descend from Sherman, and soon after he seemed to be as sane as anybody. ~ “It was only a few days later that an . old lady on the train was taken in the same way. She got it into her head that a colored woman who sat in the far end of the car had foul de signs upon her. Until the train reached Cheyenne the unfortunate daughter of Africa did not dare move a muscle for fear of throw- ing the old lady into convulsions. Cases of this sort turn up often.” “What sort of people seem to be most affected that way?” was asked. “They are generally thin blooded, nervous people, who, if they are in fair health, have got but little vitality back of‘ them,” was the reply. “Very nervous old women are very often the victims. A slight jar or shock sets them going, and then the depot rustler has a picnic on his hands and no mistake. Their mania always assumes the same phase—they always believe somebody is going to kill them—Cheyenne Sun. . , , Eon; answerer-1., ” Thesmking f_ the'big gas well near the ' Frenchcampturnpikecalls tomind the fact that the artesian well in Court House square contains gas, although in small quantities: and this, by-a natural and just gradation, leads toanincident which happened before the Water Works company went to mixing the artmian with other water. When the artesinnwaspipedpurethegu wentwithit; the people didn’t want the gas, but they got it, anyhow. A drunken man staggered into a saloon and called for whiskey. “Better take a drink of water first,” said the smiling barkeeper; “it’ll straighten you n .” l:‘A’right, J obnnie; fetch ’er out I” he said. The barkeeper turned the faucet, at the same time slyly setting fire to the gas, and let the water run into the sink while he went far the glass. The inebriate’s eyes opened wide as he saw the blue flames playing in the falling stream. He shook. He stood silent and white. He shook again. “What’s the matter!” asked Johnny. “D-d-d’yer think I’m goin’ter swaller hell fire?” ' “ “Fire? Hell final—where? I don’t see any fire.” “Why, there—right in that w-w-water!" “Aw, you’re crazy! What’s the matter with you, man!” “Holy heavens!” he yelled, jumping for the door. “I’ve got ’eml I’ve got ’em! Gee whilikens, I’ve got ’em 1” And they picked him off the sidewalk and carried him home in an express wagon.— Stockton (Cal) Mail. Dispensing with the Shirt Bowm. I was standing at a. haberdasher’s window lately, looking at an immense display of fine shirts, when I was joined by a friend who is almost a profefional fop, but who neverthe- less delivered himself as follows: “All my life, until a year or two ago, I was a slave to the shirt bosom. In old times, when the fashion was to display a good deal of it, I used to sit up nights studying the best ar- rangement of the plaits and the best method of makm' g the confounded thing lie smooth. I shall never forget the feeling of triumph I experienced when I first learned that by makingtwoorthreesharp creasesacrossthe lower end of it, the upper end would not flare out like a. scroll of sheet music. “Then they began tocut the vests high: ' and from sheer force'of habit, I kept up all this nonsense for about ten years longer. “F'mally, seeing that my necktie always concealed my shirt bosom, I conceived the sublime idea of dispensing with shirt bosoms altogether. I ordered a lot of short tailed night shirts, and have never worn anything else since. You can’t imagine what a. com- fort they are! They cost only $1.25 apiece. to begin with, the laundries charge only about half price for washing them, they never wear out, and they are the only really comfortable ‘shirts ever worn. I have preserved one or two shirts with bosoms to be used on state oc- casions, but I have never had the courage to put one of them on since I made my new de~ partur‘e.”—Chicago Journal. A Congressman's Troubles. Abram S. Hewitt, the new mayor of New York, when he was in congress, hired the up- per story of one of the houses of Wormley, the colored caterer. He had three bedrooms, and it was his custom to go from one to the other in the hope of finding sleep in the sec- ond or third which he failed to find in the first. The first night he was tormented by dogs. He complained, and Wormley re- moved them. The next night, in bedroom No. 2, he found that the cats kept him awake, and he came down next morning and growled about them to Wormley. The third day he had a complaint to make about the birds, and Wormley was in despair. He said: “Mr. Hewitt, I have killed the dogs and I have hepcs of getting rid of all . the cats, but the birds are beyond me.” The matter was finally compromised. Mr. Hewitt is said to have bought up and killed all the cats and dogs in his present neighbbrhood.—Ben: Per-Icy Poore in Boston Budget. Statue of Victoria. The statue of the queen by Mr. Boehme, which is to be erected at Windsor, will repre- sent her majesty clad in her royul' robes, wemng a small crown and lace veil, and her sash and insignia of the garter, and holding in her right hand a sceptre and in her left an orb. It will be of bronze, on a pedestal of polished red granite—New York Tribune. ‘ . Wit by Absorption. At the birth of the late Count Von Beust, the Austrian diplomatist, the happy father presented the nurse with several bottles of Rhine wine. Being rather simple minded, and'not understanding what the gift meant she gave the infant a wine bath, which ,com- ,pletely inebriated the little fellow. “That’s the way I got my sparkling wit that people ' talk about,” said the sprightly count on. one occasion—Paris Cor. Chicago Inter-Ocean. 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