Incidents of a battle.
--Among the incidents of the fight in
Berkeley county, on the 21 inst, the Staunton Spectator mentions the following:
‘
James Brooke, of this place, made a very narrow escape.
He was at a fence firing away at the enemy, when a cannon ball took off the two top rails.
He stooped a little lower, and continued to return the compliment with his Minnie.
Little Charley Turner, a boy about fifteen years of age, insisted so strongly on going with the
Augusta Guard that his father finally yielded to his importunities, and all wed him to go. The result shown that little Charley went to perform service, for he made one of the enemy bite the dust.
’
A correspondent of the same paper says:
‘
Our men were fighting under a heavy fire all the time, and it is wonderfully remarkable that our loss was not much greater, only two killed, and three or four missing. The balls were whisting all around us, and shells bursting over our heads all the time.
We had three of the West Augusta Guard slightly wounded —
Jack Doyle,
Kennedy and Maphia — who were sent to
Winchester.
The boys fought like Trojans, and never fell back till commanded two or three times to do so.
’