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The Daily Dispatch: may 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], The battle of Buena Vista. (search)
The time between our devoted band and eternity seemed brief indeed. But conscious that the eye of the army was upon them, that the honor of Mississippi was at stake, and knowing that, if they gave way, or were ridden down, our unprotected batteries in the rear, upon which the fortunes of the day depended; would be captured, each man resolved to die in his place sooner than retreat. "Not the Spartan martyrs at Thermopylæ--not the sacred battalion of Epaminoudas — not the tenth legion of Julius Cæsar — not the Old Guard of Napoleon — ever evinced more fortitude than these young volunteers in a crisis when death seemed inevitable. They stood like statues, as frigid and motionless as the marble itself. Impressed with this extra-ordinary firmness, when they had anticipated panic and flight, the lancers advanced more deliberately, as though they saw for the first time the dark shadow of the fate that was impending over them. Col. Davis had thrown his men into the form of a re-enter