...cer, more curdling, a yell for vengeance! Before their officers could check the savage impulse thirty guiltless Federals had paid with their lives for the cowardly act of five. As they lay around Mouton , one might have fancied them a guard of honor drawn from the foe to show him reverence. In this charge through the ravine, to end the story, Mouton carried 2,200 men. Out of this number 762 died ...