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VOLUME XVHL FOR THE "WEK ENDING SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 18 79. NUMBER 35. G. PENNYPACKEH. The end soon came.

The battalion Summit Hill Nursery, The enemy opened with artillery upon the center, while with loud yells their infantry charged upon the right and left battalions. Our meagre line 11 7 Mii laety-Seventlfc Pennsylvania Volni tera In the History of the First Artillery U. S. Army. We know that oar subscriber will thank us for nuhlishincr the fnllawinc r-jf I i it Hi, orimng ana graphic accoaott of one I ilAaf tne mo8t glant fights of the late tffJrar, particularly when it la known 1 JL uat the hero mentioned therein is the ijble General Pennypacker, the pres- colonel of the Sixteenth U.

S. lfifantry and commander at Fort The general is one of the most $gr'vaable, honorable and popular gen Cjtjedian connected with the military vice, and his crippled form is evi Jence that he possesses a heroic and viable war record. Editor a. rom a history of the first regiment arimery, u. compiled by irevet Major William L.

Haskin, ei oaptaia of first artillery, we extract frthe following very just and favorable a mention of the 97th regiment Pennsyl- Tuia voiuuieerH.in an article prepared ror me nisiory, oy brevet Col. lioomis L. Langdon, 1st artillery who as first lieutenant commanded batterv auu participated in tne memorable actions at Foster's Place and Green Plains, on May 18 aud 20, 1864. It is with something of pride that the survivors of that blood varuage may now read in tbis historv I Uof the First artillery, a participated with them, j. 1 Jantly supported their ad part of whicn and so gal Ivance.

word a (of such just apnreciatiau of rhir 1 efiorts in testimony of their darineand their faithfulness to duty amid that wild tempest of battle, from their 1 comrades of the Fist artillery who were a pari oi tne iorce that saw it all. liu uuujjjrtjueuueu Dom tne daring iuq courage, as wen as tne inlaatinrn- 'henslou of the situation, that so cruelly piuugeu a nanaiui or crave and faith Iful men into that awful holocaust. 'ACTION AT FOSTER'S PLACE, MAY ia, Joo4. Almost immediately in front of th (position occupied by batterv M. 1st Jjartlllery, was a farm known as LWI "Foster's Place," where our picket "line ran just beyond this farm; the 1 I a i grouuu was neid by a detachment i from the 8th Maine voluuteers.

On lthe morning of the 18th May, 1864 ijeauregaru-8 iorces, having advanced to within a short distant of rhnmnbat I (line, assaulted this portion of the line drove in the 8th Maine riefanh liW. a. nil iiF iueui. me position was retaken at a. by, the 97th PenRrylvania 3- i I) A 'C T.

5l i 1 i 1 1 1 ct.umanaed by the then vi. vi. i euuy pacKer, and tne 'A Pmy dven beyond the liue, which tuw re-estauiished and held through uunug me morning, captured the force at the front with the helpless wounded on the field. To the effective A. 1 service or tne artillery, thus com manded and posted.

th writer fnii believes is due the safety of the entire tuai was mar morning engaged uuiBiue me entrenchments, as this was the only support received rhiH the day, except a single detachment of oi saarpsnooters of the 13th Indiana, that being a reserve, came up during COMMERCIAL. JUNCTION CITY MARKETS. Joscnox City, December 26, iS79. Pyg Quotation. GRAIN.

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Is was being annihilated. At the rate the men were going down no one in that disproportionately small force could live to get to the position. Before it reached within a hundred yards of the enemy, more than half the number who bad started on that terrible charge, less than five minutes before, lay writhing or motionless along its blood sta'ned track. Still the the remnant kept steadily on with its daring leader, who twice in rapid sue cession fell wounded, and twice springing up hurried forward, encouraging nis soioiers in tneir desperate effort to reach the rebel line. Soon shot down a third time and more seriously hurt he lay helpless on the ground.

He was caught up by one of the men near e9t him and hurried to the rear. The others hesitated an instant, and then tuined and broke for the ridge and hollow that sheltered the dispersed picket line. Of the two hundred and ninety officers and men who began the charge one hundred and seventy five had fallen. Of these nearly a third were killed outright, and of the wounded a dozen unfortunates dropped so near the position that they were captured by the rebels. The commander, Lieut.

Col. Penny-packer, when brought within the in-trenchment, was found to be bleeding from three severe wounds. From these wounds he never wholly recovered, but nevertheless, he resumed command of what was left of his regiment three months afterward, and was soon after assigned to the command of the 2d brigrade, 2d division, 10th army corps, which position he held tili the end of war. Col. Pennypacker at the date of his gallant charge was a youth of nineteen years.

He won his way by hard work from the position of captain of volunteers to that of brevet sreneral and brevet major general of volunteers. and was subsequently appointed a colonel of infantry in the United States army. He now commands one of the best regiments in that service, having also received confirmation bv the senate of the United States as brigadier and brevet major general in the United States army, which is his pres ent rank. Nearly every officer in the charge was struck. Three of them fell, mor tally wounded, near the contested line.

Every attempt to aid these poor men was prevented by rebel sham- sharpshooters, and they died there within and of tfceS ftiends to whonjit was cercaln death to attempt to reach them. The eighth and last of the color guard, Sergeant John A. Russell, of company himself wounded, brought in the regimental flag. It was pierced by over a hundred bullets, three of which had struck its staff. The dead lay unburied where they fell in the space from which our men had been driven and which was now between the lines.

Every effort was made to recover their bodies, and as the enemy refused to allow parties to move out for the purpose even under a flg of tiuee, each night two or three bodies were brought in by their comrades of the 97th, until all were secured that the daring men could reach by creeping stealthily over the field. 'lhe ravines and raise of ground behind which the men Had secured cover were rapidly intrenched and became the new picket line in that part of our defences, and it was held until our general advance the follow ing spring. During this magnificent charge, and the fighting which preceded and and followed it, battery was almost constantly engaged. Lieuts. Bickley anu need were conspicuous through out the entire engagement for their zeal and gallantry.

The charge made by the y-tb alone was a brilliant if a diastrou8 affair. To have been as sociated with such heroic deeds reflects honor on the 1st artillery, and it is for this reason that so much space has oeen dedicated to the exploits of an organization with which it had the good fortune to have one of its bat teries engaged. xiui even mis account would never have been written, and the -engagement would perhaps have been for gotten, or only noticed amongst a row of dates generally enumerating affairs in wiucn tne battery nad been nnder fire, had not two of the field officers who participated in it taken occasion recently, and in the unexpected manner, to recall the services of the bat tery, which, they were pleased to say tney rememoered, with the most lively gratitude. It is not claimed that no other artillery was posted in the line, but battery naturally felt a pardonable pride in snaring the few honors of the day, and that its claims to such was not unfounded is evidenced by the unsolicited testimony of those engaged. Uen.

Fennypacker in commenting on the charge of his command, says in a letter to the writer "What was left of a brave and bleeding regiment was saved by the rapid and skillful firing of your battery. It held the enemy in check ail the time the poor wounded men were coming back out of the enemy's fire." Colonel Price, the hitorian of the 97th Pennsylvania volunteers, who wa3 present and wounded there, in the narration of the, events of the day, thus speaks of the battery iBattery 1st U. 8- artillery, commanded by captain, now arevet Lomis Langdon, had taken position, and wneti tne brigade -moved out was lantly operating its runs aDd.eivine serious trouble to the working: parties engaged in reconstructing the lines of tne enemy, and also in keeninein check any further advance of ibt enemy who might otherwise have. CENTRAL DRUG STORE! Special Announcement invite the public to cull and aiamlne oor stock of beautiful Holiuav Prwnia, coaUtinc of new designs of Degut ToOet Sets, Yases, Eonqaet Holders, Bod Holders, Mapk'Q Holders, Finest Got Glass Coloiines, Jewell and Pnff Boxes, Ladies' and Gents1 Traveling Cases, Cellnloid Set', Toys, New and Elegant Perfumes, Handkerchief and Fancy Boies, Fine Meershaum Pipes, Beaotifal Cigar Cases, Cigar Holders, Etc. Feeling confident that we hav the hhust Selec- tionjof these Goods ever bioutrlu Junction City, your atteatiou l.efore elsewhere.

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Elegant line of Jet and CUk Dresannges. MBS LiKrEat 8eventh 8L, near Washington, Jcaettoa CStj. couia not stand against such odds. The 9th Maine broke, exposing the nans or tne retiring found shelter with the detachmant of the 4th New Hampshire in some shallow ravines and behind a low ridge about three hundred yards in rear of the lost position. Oar artillery now began firinur.

Bat tery M's pieces were at first employed against the guns in the rebel em erasures, Hut as the field became cleared of our people, the fire was directed on those of the rebels who. having halted on the ground whence our picKets nad been driven, seemed arranging to remain there. The battery was thus engaged till 11 a. but as its shot necessarily passed over our men, who had got under cover, there occurred many short intervals during which the firing was suspended to enable wounded men to come in who made signs of a disposition to risk crossing the field. The officers and men of our dispersed Pickets, who found shelter from the enemy flre behind the knolls nearest wff wmu BCc tun reueia rapiuiy Intrenching themselves in the position tIiev nad soured.

In their new line there were at least six field nieces aIready placed, and the observers knew 1U BUUlk nmw ii wouiu ueuome ble loss. These facts never could have been correctly transmitted to headquarters, where a most eroneous impression of the condition of affairs must have been produced. All that seems to have been known there was that the positions re-captured on the mornibsr of the 18th, by the 97th Pennsylvania volunteers, had been again lost. What wa9 more natural then than to order that gallant regiment out again on the same errand. Anyhow it soon came to be noised about that such orders were issued, and that to re-establish the line it had been deemed necessary to send in only, "the plucky regiment that Bad proved its efficiency and valor on the same crround.

oriA which they knew the way so well." Jt was nearly noon when Colonel Cyrus I. Dobbs, with three hundred of the 13th Indiana, and Lieut. Col. Pennypacker, with about the same number of the 97th Pennsylvania, began marching out of the intrench-merits through an opening within a few yards of battery M. The 97th was lean in tr and Co Dobbs Jn of thtrwhoIe detachment.

At first the artillery hardlv comnre nenoea tne movement, but when it was realized that this brigade was actually being sent out to recapture the lost ground now held by such a large and determined force, there were of incredulity and amazement uieu me oiucers anu men Wltn one AUZ "I accord began cheering the small and devoted band. Having cleared the intrenchmentH the command was halted, and there ensued an unaccountable-delay of over tnree nours. during which the task i. ucjure grew every moment more driieuit. it was not till nearlv 4 tnat the column again marched on.

ery soon it became a target fnr the rebel artillery. It was moving a Jittle to the left of our line of fire aud our guns were able to play on those of the enemy and thus cover the advance. Arriving at the point from which the charge was made, there was a halt and brief rest. Here the rebel missile were seen bursting over their heads. aud under the shell-wreaths of smoke iuc ioiu iuu ana was nin in ro serve, aud Col.

Pennvnacker nrrWeri Co1- obbs to his regiment "ue Ul uae across tne open field auu cnarge tne rebel line on the right, a ine center was already taken This laa was, to put it mildly, evidently an erroneous assumption. But with a few words of atirrine- Col. Pennypacker called on his brave Pennsylvanians to follow him. xvrspuuuiug witn a cneer tney dashed forward. They were instantly met bv crushing fusillade of musketry and a A.

rt suaiiering nre or canister from six field pieces, ine line was pierced by cruel gaps, duc it never wavered, as the brave fellows with bent heads and trailed muskets pressed on at a mn. The men were falling fast: some rose ana staggered a Tew steps forward.only littleDea down for ouui a ume ami aint a nearer their foes. The flag went moment, but it was seized by other bands and carried on in the line. Again and again it was seen to go down until seven of the color guard borne it in turn were r.e1tchPe(,1 OD1 the Th incessant uu ui icau anu iron tore through their rauks aud marked the path of the intrepid battalion with the bodies of its slain and wounded, but the fragments of the broken line drew nearer and nearer to the color, torn nn Kv many a shot, and 'pressed steadily forward. It was a brief and awful drama and played in full view of two onnnsfnc armies as spectators.

Too distant to distract by sounds of suffering or cries ior succor, it appealed less to humanity than the imagination. And though the roar of the cannon shook the plain, thousands stood motionless, oblivions of all else but that fast diminishing Kroup mnviog witn the flag through the drifting smoke. It was a strange anomaly in that hell of war, that the Peaceful nieaauro of boyhood's years should be recalled. iut itappenened for to every one there, spell bound by that brief and fascinating scene, it seemed less like reality than the memory of some imagined deed of arms, conjured from the glowing page of history long ago atrti in tlje quiet of a student's life. I L.

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The popolar proprietor, never fails to do the square thing. His tables always hare tha eesi tne market affords. The Social Room la ander the immediate managment of the best man in the bnsineas, wbo alwaja has oa hand ef errthlnflr ta eh tw tL jolyl2m Xeep in view these tacta. Holiday ine Uay uuder a constant fire of ZfVfl enemy. The gallant Pennysyl-V; tniaus lost iu this aflair four killed over fifty wounded.

The batterv am ue ui jitue or noservice to them. i. nibu VLIC i Kfiemy and so closely encased that a iVf X01 nre at tne latter eutlangered our flvWtx men aiul after two or three at- i a C3 empts, lurther efiorts to aid them was Mtndoned. inrougnout the 18th aud 19th the emy constantly pressed the cou nted nosition. Unt wpr ua inotu.fi..

i v-w un iwiiiiifirii. IK uj uur uieu. ine yth regi-IJlofent having been withdrawn on ihi of the 19th, the position as attain occupied by a detachment of VU jur companies of that regiment, under fi i ivvi mm iuf viix Maine vlf1n his left, and on his rierht iBell 4th New Hampshire: thnwhniJa being under commRnd nf I fMajor Calvin. anu a uravv uirce oi inn pncmr vau ncentrating in front of th nntnnn Ifeiir operatlons could be very clearly uu me me picKetune; even the uiauus oi omcers engaged in mov- ueavy wagons and battprip nf Hiery were at times ouite distinnf was afterwards stated that th mp. pgera sent to report these Hrniim- to Major Calvin failed to find Mm Two hours after midnight an icriy was dispatched to report all ese facts to headquarters, but no 'Jer was received and at daybreak anticipations of the anxious men yt watched there were fully realized.

atid here it should be premised that iAter'8 was but a small tract and wider field in our front 1 pwn a "Green Plain." Pennsyl-f Attians who fought there remember engagement of the nrevinn. w.v -tZ- first-mentioned locality, but it the latter that was to give it 'Vf ar more gle of the morrow. sanguinary OREEN PLAIN." ipHng the early morniugof the 20th was verv fW, the enemy sent a 4 email parties X.q front of "Fos Jere quickly dis to feel the position oater'8 Place." Th covered bv our mpn I infl dri ven back. The senior officer became satisfied that there at least a brigade in front of the i new Hampshire battalion and a -V iubtscu ui me WOO (J is hoeite the 9th Maino n-iii, jv.the four companies of the 97th 'fsinsylvania volunteers was a force concealei by a house that had their sharp shooters. There vfe seen.

too. throuirh an irr.nrf king of brushwood. fewral for pipers of artillery. The orxtf AiA Vfc. V.JLX.

UUi JJ the commander of the line en bo appeared on the ground at 8 Indeed, he was assuring the ere that the movements seen were usual changes incident to the of pickets when' the hostile i' moved out in perfect order, with flyne and regiments in eschelon. as subsequently ascertained that "nniiai mviu mand was the rebel Gen. Pickett's etii virion..