{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": ""}
pared for this very thing, shouted. 'wheei
and charge! /,


wheel and charged repeated hundred
voices in our rear--'wheel and charge!


We obeyed--and the snow flew-and the
swords flashed-and the next moment, a
hundred of the enemy-the whole OF hi
front rank were trampled to death before us,
and twenty human heads rolled upon the
ground, among the feet of our horses.


The infantry, under Greene, poured IN
volley after volley, at the same time; and
Knox, having brought round his light held
pieces to bear, as if they had been blunder-
busscs played in upon them an unnterrupt-
ed roll of thunder and smoke.


1t was impossible to stand it--no human
being could have endured the hurricane OF
fire and bullets longer. They threw down
their arms-about one thousand men III all
and then it was-THEN--when IT was
necessary to move about the quletcr oppera-
tions of strife, that we began to feel the
intense coldness of the nght-the. air cut
ting into ourncw wounds, like rough broken
glass;