DISCHARGING RAILROAD IRON
At the Battle-of Groveton, Stonewall Jackson tried an experiment which nearly frightened a Federal division out of their boots. Bars of railroad iron were cut up into foot lengths, and fired from some of his Heaviest guns, and the noise these missiles, made as they went sailing through the air was a sort of cross between the: shriek of a woman, and the bray of a mule. The Federals listened in wonder at the first few which banged through the tree tops, and presently one of the pieces fell in front of a Pennsylvania regiment. A captain stepped forward to inspect it, and after turning it over he rushed to his colonel with the news. “Colonel, them infernal rebels are firing railway iron at us.” “No.” “They are for a fact.” “ Captain, advance your company to that ridge and deploy, and the, minute yon find Jackson is getting ready to fire freight cars at us, send me word. I don’t propose to have my regiment mashed into the ground, when it can just as well be decently exterminated in the regular way.” »
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2976, 9 October 1882, Page 3
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185DISCHARGING RAILROAD IRON South Canterbury Times, Issue 2976, 9 October 1882, Page 3
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