pi ‘All the VOI rt NO. 16 7 MOUNT JOY. PENNA, WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 1: , 1411 THE WEEKLY BULLETIN $1.00 A YEAR — 159’ Annual Reunion of the Central Penna. G. A. R. Association Will be Held at Mt. J oy, Sept. 14 d. A. R. Reunion Tomorrow Will Be The Greatest Event In The History of Mount Joy Everything Is In Readiness for The Reception and Entertain- 1 ment of The Old Veterans---The Town is Beauti- fully Decorated---The Complete Program For The Celebration Follows: Unturl Old Glory Tomorrow Only the weather man will effect the success of one of the best plaincd [to Railroad street, to Market street, | and arranged programs ever attempt- | to Frank street; east on Frank street | ted on occasions of this kind in the Weeks, yes months ago the various committees began their earn- est task in an endeavor to make the Market street and dismiss. 15th annual reunion of the Central R. Association in Mount | held | arrangements | State. Penna. G. A. Joy the most successful ever preliminary have been perfected and all is in read iness to show the old veterans the time of their lives tomorrow. The town is very beautifully dec- | Chorus. orated, many bands, lodges, fire com- | and S. of V.|Miss Esther Ebersole. panies, G. A. R. Posts Camps have expressed a willingness | | Music—Band. | Recitation—*“Drummer Boy of Mis to attend, a choir of over 100 voices has been thoroughly rehearsed and bad weather only will prevent a rare | sion Ridge,” Miss Mary Eshleman. treat for the thousand of visitors that are expected to be with us on this occasion. A large stand has been erected in, the park from which the choir will All the hotels, private citi- discourse its music. restaurants and many zens, have prepared eatables. There will be refreshment stands at many places thruout the town and an effor{ will be made to entertain all visitors in a most royal manner. Following is the program of the day’s exercises: Morning 10.00 o’clock—Assemble at Park. Music—Germania Band. Address of welcome— Burgess Clayton Hoffman. Response—J. B. Patrick. 10.30 o’clock—Business meeting. Afternoon 1.20, o'clock—parade—Chief Mar- shal, HH. C. Schock. Aigs—David Wagner, J. Fred Fen- stermacher, Dr. F. L. Richards, C. N. Mumma, B. WL. Brown, Geo. Cun- ningham. Formation—Form on Main street, west of Market; on North and South eitiket and streets adjacent thereto. at R. de moves east on Main street, ery otiHaven street, to, West Done- Exam: to, Market street, to Main only the best | {and audience. Mai et to, R. R., tassf'sf" ain sy et to, ’ | Cy ra countermarch to Manheim street, lto Barbara street, to Mount Joy street, to Jacob street, to East Main ‘8 | street; Main street to west on, East Presiding officer—Thos J. Brown. 3.00 o’clock—Music, band. Rev. F. G. Bossert. “America.” Schools and Prayer Music audience. | Address—Dr. G. W. Berntheizel. i Music— ‘Flag of Freedom,” Mixed Belle” Recitation “Kentucky Address—Edwin W. Jackson, Esq. Music—*‘Star Banner,” Male Chorus. Music—Band. Spangled Evening 7.30 o’clock—Camp fire. Music—Band. Prayer-—Rev. C. Address—J. B. Patrick. Music— ‘Medley’ Mixed Chorus. American Patriotic Songs. Address—Col. John M. Groff. Music—Band. Reminiscences— Comrades. Music—*‘Our Soldier Heroes Sleep- ing,” Male Chorus. Address—Hugh R. Fulton. Music—‘“ “Auld Lang Syne,” Band E. Berghaus. Mr. T. J. Brown will preside at the afternoon and evening sessions. Five thousand 4-page programs will be printed for gratis distribu- tion tomorrow. Following is the parade forma- tion as given us by Chief Marshall, Mr. H. C. Schock: First Division Form on West Main Street. Mounted Constabulary. Chief Marshal,—H. C. Schock 3 Asst. Marshals,—Geo. Cunning- ham, B. W. Brown, David Wagner. Bugler,—Arthur P. Schock. Speakers in Carriages. 4th Regiment Band. (Continued on Page 8) Aviator Mr. M. B. Cumbler Will Fly Yesterday the Bulletin completed arrangements to have that expert avi- ator Mr. M. B. Cumbler appear in Mount Joy in a biplane flying ma- chine of the Glenn Curtis type. This will be the first ‘““air-bird” ever seen in this town and we feel certain that nine-tenths of the citizens of our town have never seen a real Aero- plane. This daring aviator will fly from Conestoga Park, at Lancaster, to Island Park, Harrisburg. The event will take place about Thursday or Friday of next week but definite in- formation and full details as to time place, ete., will be announced in next week’s Bulletin. Mr. M. B. Cumbler, the aviator, and Mr. Wellington G. Jones, sport- ing editor of the Harrisburg Tele- graph, came here by auto yesterday noon when arrangemerts were com- pleted for this big event. Mr. J. E. Schroll of the Bulletin, will select a place near this borough upon which the event will take place and the location will be such that ev- erybody can see by close observation, the mechanism of a flying machine. The aviator will, land, stopping long enough to give the spectators a good idea of an aeroplane, and then con- tinue on his journey to Harrisburg. The event here will be given en- BI-PLANE IN MT. JOY One of the Curtis Type Will be Here Next Week From Lancaster to Harrisburg and Will Stop at Mount Joy Through the Efforts of The Mount Joy Bulletin---Everybody Invited to See Him. Mount Joy Bulletin and we extend a most cordial invitation to everybody to attend. Don’t fail to read next week’s Bulletin. EL bhTS-°- A Lady Wanted And this isn't a matrimonial bu- reau either. We want a young lady (a high school graduate preferred) as a linotype machine operator at this office. The work is similar to {that of a typewriter. Steady em- | ployment and good wages. Apply | quick if interested. | er — A Fine Window { The window at Mri Harry Wil- { liams’ tonsorial parlors is very bheau- tifully decorated, the features of { which are many kinds eof fire arms used during the rebellion together with numerous kinds of ammunition lA Qe Sale Was Continued The sale of the real estate of Mar- tin B. Metzgar which was to have been held at Newtown yesterday, was continued until Saturday, Sept. 30. Spm—r A eens The G. A. R. are welcome and so are you to inspect the fine up-to-date line of men, women and children’s wearing apparel at I. D. Beneman’s tirely under the full direction of the Dept. Store. The store LA satifies. i ha ft... ~ 6,000 Troops to Attack The War Fifty Years Ago Fierce Battle at Wilson's Creek In Southwest Missouri. General Lyon Moves Out of Springfield With His Force Routed Early In Fight---Lyon Killed While Urging His Men Forward---Command Devolves Upon Major Sturgis---Union Forces Withdraw to Spring- field---Confederates Remain on Field---Result of { | | { Price Two or Three Times as Strong---Colonel Sigel's | Battle Saves Missouri to the Union. | Enemy Under McCulloch and By JAMES A. EDGERTON, { Copyright by American Pre Assonin. way, and these were without training tion, 1911.) | or arms, hence were useless in the ECOND to Bull Run the battle | fight. The facts seem to be that of of Wilson's Creek was the | ¢ective troops the Confederates had greatest fought in 1861. It between two and three times as many Wis decisive in Missouri ang as the Federals. Lyon had repeatedly y . asked for re-enforcements from Gen sealed the decree that the state was to eral John C. Fremont, then in com remain in the Union. These things mand at St. Louis, hut had asked in mada it important, but the death of vain. In consequence he was far from General Nathanie I n. the Union confident of winning coriander on that field, rendered it Sigel marched due south to strike immortal the flank and rear of the enemy, and After his return to Springfield from Ls Hn i ded Southwest i attack in. the ficht at Dug Sprin Lyon was in Iron ving while it was still dark, | a desperate position The time of Lyon w d tilt dawn He then sur prised the Confederates preparing for | many of hia three months men was about to expire. Ten miles distant was an opposing army outnumbering him three to one. Between him and St. Louis another Confederate army was approaching .o cut off retreat in that direction. If he withdrew he stood a chance of encountering this second with his dwindling force and, army moreover, would discourage the Union men three heat the state and leave that part of Missouri to the enemy. If he waited In Springfield to be at- tacked he endangered his entire force, as Springfield offered no natural ad vantages for defense. There was but one course left, and that was to move out and attaek the foe before the foe moved in to attack Lyon. General Lyon's plan was to make the advance on the night of Aug. 8. His men were footsore and tired, how- ever, and as new supplies were about to arrive some of his officers prevailed on him ta defer the movement one day. The delar was almost fatal, for the Confederates intended to move on Bpringticid the night of the 9th, but were deterred by a threatened thunder- storm The Union troops got under way about 8 o'clock. There were only 6,000 ail told, and part of these were home guards left in Springfield. Lyon divided his force into two columns, 1,100 or 1,200 under Colonel Franz Si- gel, the remainder, something less than 4,000 effective men, under his own com- mand. : Troops Poorly Equipped. The soldiers were underfed, poorly clothed, some of them were in tatters . and, still worse, lacked shoes. The Confederate forces were even in worse condition, however, and were not so well drilled as the Union men. There is a dispute as to the size of the Con- federate army, no two authorities quite agreeing. McCulloch, who was In command, admitted that he had 11,000 men. Northern historians in- sist that he had more than 20,000. At least a part of the discrepancy may have arisen from the fact that Me- Culloch and Price picked up several thousand farmers and others along the { brush | been wounded twice, once in the foot | and once on the head. and had had his opened on him a murderous volley that sent his lines reeling in confusion. Sigel's Division Routed. The deception was caused by the color of the uniforms, which were nearly the sume in portions of the two irmies It was also stated by the federals that the enemy carried a Union 1 until close enough to fire, when they ran up their own colors. Most of the authorities agree in this statement, some of them asserting that this ruse ; resorted to twice by the Confederates that day, As it was a trick often practiced in border war fare, it is credible, although the Con- federate accounts of the battle do not mention it. At any rate, this was the turning point against Sigel. He now sought to withdraw, but nearly all of his troops were ambuscaded and killed or captured, Sigel himself narrowly es- caping. He saved only one gun, his cavalry, dragoons and a part of his in- fantry. The sudden disaster to Sigel left the entire Confederate force free to attack Lyon. This was about 10 o'clock in the morning and shortly after Price had been beaten back. Fresh Confed erate troops now moved to the attack, and Lyon ordered up the Second Kansas and two companies of the First lowa to charge the enemy's line, was partly concealed in. the The Union general already had which horse shot under him, but this did not GENERAL NATHANIEL LYON, KILLED AT FIRST UNION GENERAL TO FALL IN WILSON'S CREEK, WAR—-PILE OF STONERS ON “BLOODY HILL” MARKING SPOT WHERE LYON FELL (FROM (breakfast. Frying pans were hastily {thrown aside for muskets. A flying picket warned General Price (“Old I'ap™), who commanded the line where {Lyon attacked. { Leading Lyon's advance was Cap- tain Plummer’s battalion of regular in fantry, two companies of volunteers and Totten’'s battery. These struck Rains’ pickets about 4 o'clock in the morning. The Union forces at once formed in a skigmish line which ad- vanced a mile and'a half and pushed the Confederate skirmish line up the slope. A large force of Confederates was then seen on the hilltop, which was attacked ‘by two regiments and Totten's battery and driven to the slope of tho mext hill. Hot Fight In. Cornfield. Plummer’s regulars became separat- ed from the rest of the Union troops and crossed to the other side of the creek, where they suddenly faced a large body of Confederates in a corn- field. The fight here grew hot until one of the Union batteries, that un- der Du Bois, took position on a hill- top and opened so hot a fire on the enemy in the cornfield that Plummer was enabled to withdraw his men. At this juneture the firing grew heavy at the other end of the line, where General Pri®é attempted to turn Lyon's flank. The arrival of the Sec- ond Kansas frustrated this attempt, but Price's troops stil charged several times only to be beaten back. Tot- ten’s Union battery had taken posi- tion on a nearby hill and heljed to re- pulse the Confederates. This was one of the fiercest actions of the day, the firing becoming an unbroken roar. An interval here ensued during which Price brought up fresh troops and started another attack all along the line. The Confederates charged many times and the lines reeled back and forth in a flerce struggle that last- ed an hour. At this time Lyon’s en- tire force was engaged. He had so few troops that he could spare none for a reserve. At last the Confed- erates temporarily gave way. In the meantime Colonel Sigel had | gained the rear of the enemy and be- gan an attack from that side, driving in some scattering troops of the Confed- erates and following them for a long distance. At first he met little re- gistaace. Sigel could hear the roar of Lyon's guns and expected the victori- cas Union troops soon to break through and join him. At this june- ture General McCulloch's men ad- vanced in considerable force, and Sige! thought them the Federal troops he had been anticipating. He therefore directed his men to withhold their fire until suddenly the supposed friends BA RECENT PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERTUS LOVE). gaged, while at Wilson's Cr 15 per cent, and the Confe i was 10 per cent at Bull ¥ per cent detor him from personally leading this charge. swinging his hat and cheering on his men. General Lyon's Death. The charge succeeded in dislodging { the foe and driving him back to the next ravine, but Lyon fell with a bul- Jet 1: his left breast. Nsthaniel Lyon was perhaps the mot promising general developed on the Union side during the first year of the war. He was born in Connecticut in 1818. graduated at West Point, served with distinction in the Semi nole and Mexican wars, was in the early troubles in Kansas, where he wrote vigorous articles for the news papers, and at the beginning of the civil war was assigned to Missouri, where his career became one of in- creasing glory. It is not too much to say that General Lyon held Missouri in the Unfon and sealed the pact with his blood. His will left practically all his property, $30,000, to the cause of his country. He died unmarried. The d»ath of the general did not end the battle. The chief command now devolved on Major Sturgis, who knew Lyon's plans and continued the fight on these lines. For a half hour longer the engagement continued, when the Confederates once more gave way, It was only a lull, however. Suddenly they reappeared along the entire front and for the first time began an effec- tive assault from a battery. The fight once more became general, the Confed- erates attempting to turn the Union right flank and assaulting Totten’s bat- tery at the center. The Federal line now stood like a wall of steel. Several times the enemy charged forward al-: most to the muzzles of the guns and J as often were driven back. { At last Major Sturgis decided thay’ he had too few troops to try to hol¢ the field and determined to retire t Springfield and thence to Rolla. T¢ Confederates admit that they wr “glad to see him go.” Nor did tF attempt pursuit. re Losses on Both Sides Heavy og. The battle had lasted till 11 o'c and for the number of men eng and the length of time consumes one of the fiercest in the history war. According to the sapus cyclopedia of that year, the as follows: wounded and 292 missing: Cc ates, 517 killed, about 800 woume semi- 80 missing. Creek was even bloo Bull Run, for at Bull Union, 223 k. The battle of tha,, uy. un t loss was only 9 per cent of Wilson's .
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