The Maine bugle ... campaign; 1-5 Jan. 1894-Oct. 1898 - Maine.gov

280 THE MAINE BUGLE.
bloody, but the most important of its hi^h achievements. On
the morning of April 9th, 1865, when the van of Lee's command
rushed, with courage and spirit momentarily revived, upon
the dismounted cavalry of Sheridan, whose terrific energy in
those last days was never excelled in military conflicts, and his
forces first checked the morning attack and then withdrew to
the right, and the rebel advance saw the infantry of Ord and
Gibbon and Griffin, whose night's march, a terrible and almost an
impossible one, had placed them in solid column directly across
the rebel pathway; instantly the captains of that advance real-
ized that the end had come; they gave their last rebel yell, and
then up went the white flag, and the rebellion went down for-
ever. The whole Confederate army of northern Virginia sur-
rendered to the Union Army of the Potomac." Senator Chan-
dler s letter.
In Memoriam.
CHARLES TREICIIEL.
Charles Treichcl was born in Germantown, a suburb of I'hila-
delphia, in 1841, his father being a very prominent physician
and thorough student. Deep sympathy with the ills of his
kind was a well-known family trait handed (.lown from father
to son.
In the summer of 1861, not yet 20 years of age, Charles
Treichel went into the service as second lieutenant of cavalry,
attached to Gen. Fremont's body-guard. His first engagement
was at the battle of Springfield, in the fall of that year. The
cavalry charge in which he then took part is known as
"Zagonyi's ride to death." The enemy numbered five to one.
At the word "Forward," however, the body-guard was off on a
charge that proved irresistible; the shock was terrific, but the
field was won by the gallant three hundred. In this charge
three men won national fame for extraordinary bravery
Maj. Zagonyi, Lieut. Newhall and Lieut. Treichel. He was
discharged November 30, 1 861, and again entered service as