Daring Exploits Of Two Fire Zouaves
The correspondent of the. New York Tribune, de.sonbing ihe movements of the .Müssaehuseiis First at Buil Kun, diifi-L-ssöS to r.u.e the exploiU oi two of the Fite Zouaves as folluws : As ttiey climbed the rail fence wliicli divided the woods troai tho open field they werejoinedby Iwu Fire Zouaves, iha record of whiwe hurdy cxploits 1 must liero introduce, although it wil] sume whut anticípate the ordor of events. These Zouaves had inoxplicably aópeared ut the van a littio whilo biflora tlie period of tha conflict. Their regiment was lar behind, at Fairfax Duurt House, but ihey declared Ibey bad missed it Homo night and were row looking for it with all tho r might I privately bulieve that they seentod the baltlo afar off, and could not control the temptatiou to stap on and tirare tho danger. At ai,y rato, they wero with us, and they pusiied ihemsolvos into a tighling po.si - tioo at the fint opportunity that offered. For nearly an hour they fouglit in those woods with daring mtrepidlty, wholly on tlieir own Bcuount, and conscious ut' no other authonty than their own. Th y were porpatuully in thu advance, until the lïun was reachcd, wlion ilioy were obüged to hold back, like tho Massachusetts companies,. who dashed on at almost tho same time, 'l'heir inanner of' treating the rebel soljiers was ecoentric. They waited patiently until one showüd hirnself toler.ibly near, and then ran forward, chased him down and killed hiin, with out regard to tho number.s by who'n tie wussurroundöd. üne of theri) uetualy pe(jtrated a siuull battery, shekered j by u sido ravint!, bayoneted one ut the gunuers and escaped unliarmed. la this way ihey oucupied thomselves for nearly an hour, towards tho end of whicb they got separated and becanio uneasy on each OlDür'a account. 'íbeÁ both caineout without a wound. One of thüiú was the last man on our side to leave the grouud, and as ho withdrew and wallred up the hill, quite unprctected, ho kopt pausing iotervals, and looking back for minuten at a timo, as in need ot nis comradü, whom ho bulieved to be still among the enemy. líe went along the üne, as our column retired toward (Jantreville, crying bitterly. "I dida't want to have that fellovv shot," he said; that fellow has run in the Fire Department with me throo years ' It was very touching to see tho tender fjrief of this rough and reckless h'reman, and it was oven moro so to witnoíís the wild and overwhelming delight with which he met his coinpanion at Centreville, au uninjnred ns himeetf, filled with an anxiety as great as his own. To-day, I am told, they have rejoined their regiment, which came up trom PairfttX C. Í. last night. Tha N. Y. World says: '-The truth is the conductora of the Tribune are at heart diauniouists, and have beon for the last oight yeare."
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