Identifier: modernstoriestapp (find matches)
Title: Modern stories
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Tappan, Eva March, 1854-1930
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Publisher: (Boston, New York, etc.) Houghton Mifflin & company
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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f by General Amesand captured. Among these were Lieutenant P. Whit-comb (who had no business to join in the charge, beingweak in the knees), and Captain Fred Langdon, ofGeneral Harriss staff. Whitcomb was one of the mostnotable shots on our side, though he was not much toboast of in a rough-and-tumble fight, owing to the weak-ness before mentioned. General Ames put him amongthe gunners, and we were quickly made aware of theloss we had sustained, by receiving a frequent artful ballwhich seemed to light with unerring instinct on anynose that was the least bit exposed. I have known oneof Peppers snowballs, fired point-blank, to turn a cor-ner and hit a boy who considered himself absolutelysafe. But we had no time for vain regrets. The battle raged.Already there were two bad cases of black eye, andone of nose-bleed, in the hospital. It was glorious excitement, those pell-mell onslaughtsand hand-to-hand struggles. Twice we were within anace of being driven from our stronghold, when Gen- 80
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THE SNOW FORT ON SLATTERS HILL eral Harris and his staff leaped recklessly upon the ram-parts and hurled the besiegers heels over head downhill. At sunset, the garrison of Fort Slatter was still un-conquered, and the South-Enders, in a solid phalanx,marched off whistling Yankee Doodle, while wecheered and jeered them until they were out of hearing. General Ames remained behind to effect an exchangeof prisoners. We held thirteen of his men, and he elevenof ours. General Ames proposed to call it an eventhing, since many of his eleven prisoners were officers,while nearly all our thirteen captives were privates. Adispute arising on this point, the two noble generalscame to fisticuffs, and in the fracas our brave com-mander got his remaining well eye badly damaged.This did nt prevent him from writing a general orderthe next day, on a slate, in which he complimented thetroops on their heroic behavior. On the following Wednesday the siege was renewed.I forget whether it was on that afternoon

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