Boston Traveller, February 24.
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A Brilliant charge.--The most brilliant charge in the entire siege of Fort Donelson, was that of the Second and Fourth Iowa, and the Eleventh and Twenty-fifth Indiana, under the command of Gen. C. F. Smith, who led them in person, amid a storm of balls and bullets, and cheered them through all the terrible strife.
He even rode his horse upon the breastworks, and for fifteen minutes exposed himself as a target to every one of the passing messengers of death.
That he was not killed or wounded is something marvellous, for the brave soldiers were falling all around him.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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