cidedly in a moment. The effort of Captain S---- accordingly seemed to
be directed to first "knocking" the Major "out of time," and then making
a captive of him; while probably the Major had no fancy for that
termination of the affair. At length the rush came from behind and on
either side, and the whole group were irresistibly borne backward. Some
of the Georgia soldiers grasped the Major from behind, and attempted to
drag him off. Some of the Irishmen rushed forward to assist in holding
him. In a minute more, not two men, but dozens, were engaged in a
fist-fight, not a weapon being used. Directly Captain S---- managed to
get in a blow under the chin of the Major, and in the neighborhood of
the gullet, which sent him backwards nearly insensible. As he fell he
kicked with mechanical force, and the kick striking the Captain in the
lower abdomen, "doubled him up" effectually. The Georgians were still
laboring to save their commander from capture, and Captain S---- and his
men to take him, or _as much as they could of him_. The _finale_ was
that the Georgia Major was lugged off and rescued by his men, and that
Captain S----, clinging to him with the proverbial Kilkenny tenacity,
succeeded in dragging off him his coat, sword and belts, and
revolver,--leaving the foe very much in the condition of his own
men--that of shirt and trowsers.

It is a somewhat pitiful conclusion to this little reminiscence of
S----'s odd adventure, that the next morning, in his tent, showing the
captured weapons to one of his comrades, the revolver went off
accidentally and blew the Captain's left arm to fragments! Such are the
chances of war--a soldier escaping unhurt amid a very rain of destroying
missiles, and meeting wounds and disablement from a trifling accident in
a moment of fancied security!

The third incident of that day, and still more notable than either of
the others, occurred on the left while the incidents previously recorded
were taking place on the right and in the centre. When Couch's division
were just advancing to the attack and at the very moment when the
conflict began to grow close and deadly, some of the men in the front,
and the rebels as well, witnessed a spectacle equally startling and
unexplainable. A figure in white burst suddenly through from the Union
rear to the front, prostrating a dozen men with the irresistible
rapidity of the movement; and then it sprung into the very thick of the
rebels and commenced its most