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nT iaiest adjoining States, The island is small—not as large 48 Port Royal Island—and was chiefly of use to us a8 & etepping stone to Cockepur Ieland, lying immediately to ‘the north of it, on whieh is situated Fort Pulaski—s very strong work, that defends the entrance to the Savannah river, and is the defensive outpost of the city of Bavan- mab itself, ‘Tybee Island has been notable chiefly with mariners ©0 account of its lighthouse (Tybee light), one of the ‘most prominent on the Southern ooast. It is a fixed light, 108 feet above the sea, on the northeast end of the island, and in clear weather it may be seen at the dis tance of twelve miles. This beacon was extinguished by the barbarians of Georgia shortly after they had’ se- cedea from the Union, and its absence must have troubled considerably the immense fleet of vessels which Rave run the blockade at this point, Many vessels aro Jost on these banks, and the Southern breakers are dap- gerous. ‘Tybee is long, barrow, and somewhat marshy in tho coast county of Chatham, and in climate and scenery is very much like Port Royal and the other Carolina sea iglands, A small amount of Sea Island cotton ts raised ‘upon it, and ite inhabitants are but few. It has a beau. tiful creek on the weet of it, where aship of any burden may lie ip safety at anchor. THE BATTLE. OF PITTSBURG. The Full Details of the Great Struggle. The Defeat on Sunday and the Victory on Monday. NOBLE VALOR OF OUR TROOPS. THE MORNING SURPRISE. THE BATTLE FIELD PHOTOGRAPHED INCIDENTS, LOSSES, SCENES, &e., &o., &o. [Correspon dence of the Cincinnati Gazette.) Frew or Barriz, Prevesvaa Lanpina, Tenn. , April 9, 1862. Fresh from the field of the great battle, with its pounding and roaring of artillery, and its keener voiced rattle of musketry etill sounding in my wearied ears; with all its visions of horror still seeming seared upon my eyeballs, while scenes of panic-stricken rout and bril- Mant charges, and obstinate defences, and succor, and intoxicating success are burned alike confusedly and in- delibly upon the brain, I essay to write what I know of the battle of Pittsburg Landing. ‘Yet, how bring order out of such a chaos? How deal justly, writing within twenty-four hours of the closing of the fight, with all the gallant regiments of the hundred present, that bravely won or as bravely lost, and with all that ignobly flea in panic from the fieldy How. describe, eo hat one man may leisurely fellow the simultaneous operations of a hundred and ‘Afty thousand aptagoniste, fighting backward and for- ‘ward for two long days, in a five miles line and over four miles retreat and advance, under eight division com- manders op one side, and an unknown number on the @ther? How, in short, picture on a canvass 80 necessari- Jy sma)! @ panorama so grandly great? The tack is im- possible. But what one man, diligently using all bis powers of observation through those two days, might see, I saw, and that Ican faithfully set down. For the rest, after riding carefully over and over the ground, asking ques- tions innumerable of these who knew, and sifting cons’ tent truth from the multiplicity of replies with whatever skill some experience may have taught, Ican only give the concurrent testimony of the actors. THE SITUATION BRFORE THE BATTLE. Our great Tennessee expedition had been up the river some four weeks. We had occupied Pittsburg Landing for about three weeks; had destroyed one railroad con- nection, which the rebels had restored in a day or two, and had failed in a similar but more important attempt on another. Beyond this we had engaged in no active operations. The rebels, alarmed by our sudden appear- ance, began massing their troops under our eyes. Pre- sent!y they had more in the vicinity than we had. Then ‘wo waited for Buell, who was crossing the country from Nashville by easy marches. The rebels had apparently become restive under our slow concentrations, and General Grant had given out that an attack from them seemed probable. Yet we had lain at Pittsburg Landing, within twenty miles of the rebels that were like to attack ‘as in superior numbers, without throwing up a single breastwork or preparing & single protection for a bat. tery, and with the brigades of one division stretched from extreme right to extreme left of our line, while four pe sag bad been crowded in between as they arrived. On the evening of Friday, April 4, there was a prelimi- skirmish with the enem: . Ri ae Beventy-second Obio, and a couple of Lieutenants the y Di return some sixteen, and dr! the rebels back toa they were found such an for event, and 20 the matter was dis- missed. Yet on Saturday there was more along our advanced lines. ens REBEL DFMO. i 4 j : H i But the rebel leaders at Corinth were fully aware that bog largely outnumbered Grant, and that no measures been taken to. strengthen the position at Pittsburg Landing; while they knew equally well that when Buell’s entire Kentucky army arrived, and was added to Grant’s forces, they could not possibly expect to hold their vitally pee etre aged at Corinth inst us. Their only hope, fore, lay in attack rant before Buell. ar- rived, and so defeating us in detail. Fortunately, they timed their movements a day too late. ‘THR WARNING OF DANGER. ‘The sun never rore on a more beautiful morning than that of Sunday, April 6. Lulled by the general security, had remained in pleasant quarters at Crump’s, below Pittsburg Landing,on the river. By sunrige 1 was roused by the a “They're fighting above.’’ Volleys of mus. ketry could sure enouga be distinguished, and occasion. ally the sullen boom of artillery came echoing down the stream. Momentarily the volume of sound increased. tll it became evident that it wes no skirmish that was in , and that @ considerable portion of the army must already engaged. Hastily springing on the guards of a passing steamboat, I hurried up. The sweet spring sunshine “anced over the rippling waters, and goftly lit up the green of the banks. few flosey clouds alone broke the azure above. A light breeze murmured among the young leaves; tho bluebir’s were singing their gentle treble to the stern music that still came and deeper to us from the bluffs above, and the frogs wore croaking their foeb!e imitation from the marshy islands that studded the channe!. Even thus early the west bank of the river was lined with tho usnal fugitives from action burriedly pushing onwards, they knew not where, except down stroam and away from the fight. An officer on board hailed numbers cof them and demanded their reason, but they all gave 1¢ same response: ‘ We're clean cut to pioces, and every in must save Limself.’’ At the landing appearances became still more ominous. {pur two Cincinnati wooden gunboats, Taylor and Lexing- mn, were edging uneasily up aad down tho banks, eager L® put in their broadsides of heavy guns, but unable to ful where they could do it. roar of battle was startlingly close, and showed that the rebels were in oar Yost attempt to carry out thoir threat of driving us into ¥he river. The orgs go bluff above were covered with wowards who had fled from,their ranke to the rear for srfoty, and who were telling the most fearful stories of therebel onset and the sufferings of their own par- joule ek gone 4 ge yA po fugitives oame ck, » aod “al oe ints of thickening disasters in fra pees Horryithg out toward the scene of action, 1 was soon omyinced that there was too much foundation for the lea of the runaway Sherman's and Prentiss’ entire {ailing back in disorder, sharply pressed "3 overwhelming numbers, at all points, : had alread, part of its camps, and #, 7, wan fabing ba Was one conpolation—only ptie—T could Roe just’ then:-—TTistory, so the divines may, Dorltive on the point’ At BO AbLAGK ever made on the Sabbath was eventually a success Nevertheless, the Gians crepe ete Let me reture—premising that 1 have thus brought the reader into the scene near the close of the first act in our Sonday’e tragedy—to the preliminaries and the opening of the agsauit. TOPOGRAPHO. And first, of our ions. Let that the Pittsburg ming ‘s simply & narrow ravine, passes to the river bank, between high bluffs on either side. There is no town atail. Two down which @ road log bute comprise all the i Back from the river is @ rollin; Bumerous ravines, partially under cultivation, but per- haps the greater part thickly wooded with some under- brush. The soil is clayey, and the ing were good. From the Landing a road Jeads direct to Corinth, twenty miles distant. A mile or two out this Toad forks ; one branch is tho lower Corinth read, the other the ridge Corinth road, A short distance out, ano- ther road takes off to the left, crosses Lick creek, and t Hamburg, some miles further up. On the right, two separate roads lead off to Purdy, and iF, & DEW One, across Snake creek to Crump’s Landing on the river below. Besides these, the whule country ingide our lines is cut up with roads leading to our different camps ; and beyond the lines is the most im roads, intersecting evorything which it was ever my 1) for- leads back to the rive: extricable maze of ¢: and leading everywhere, tune to become entangled. On and between these roads, at to four or five miles from Pittsburg Landing, lay five di sions of Major Gencral Grant's army that 1 mAOF- ing. The advance line was formed by three divisions— Brigadier General Sherman’s, Brigadier General Prenties’ and Major General McClernand’s. Between these and the Landing lay the two others—Brigadier General Burl- General Smith’ burt’s and brigade of General Sherman’s ett three or four miles distant from this brigade, on theJower Corinth Yond, and between that.and tho one.to Purdy, lay’ the Yemaining brigades of Sherman’s division, MeDowell’s formivg tho extreme right of our whole advance line, Hildebrand’s coming next to it, and Buckiand’s next. ~ Next to Buckland’s bri » though rather behind a por- tion of Sherman’s, lay ir General MoClernand’s divi- sion, and between it and Stuart's brigade, already men- tioned as forming our extreme left, lay Brigadier General Prentiss’ division, completing the line, Back of this line, withina mile of the Landing, 1a; ing across the Corinth for 4 and W.H. 1. Wallace's to his rignt. Such was the posi- tion of our troops at Pittsburg Landing at daybreak on Sunday morning. Major General Lew. Hurlburt’s division, stretc! lay at Crump’s Landing, some mil ‘ordered up till about halt Tangements, Nearly four miles i different parts of Sherman’s division. Of course, to command the one he must neglect the other. McCler- nand’s lay partially behind Sherman, and therefore, not stretching far enough to the left, there was a gap tweenhim and Prentiss, which the rebels did not fail speedily to find. Our extreme left by led heights, easily approachable from Corinth, arrangement was confused and ill-ad- and the whol Justed. ‘THB REBEL PLAN OF During Friday and Saturday the rebels had marched out of Corinth, about seventy thousand strong, in three | dier; but it was too great divisions. Sidney Johnston had genera] command of the whole army, and ae of the centre. | with a wall of bayonets closing in on either side like | and the constant advance of fresh regiments was at last had Braxton Bragg aud Beau regard wings. Hardee, Polk, Breckinridge, Cheatham and others held subordi- | could they do but what they did? Speedily their resist- | manding the Eighteenth Ilinois, was killed; Colonel Hay- nate commands. On Thursday Johnston issued a pro. | ance clamation to the army, announcing to them in grandilo- | fell back, less and less frequent became their returning quent terms that he was about to lead them against the | volleys. invaders, and that they would soon celebrate the great, ‘The enemy pushed their advantage. They were al- | wounded; Lieutenant Colonel quneoen of the same ie decisive victory of the war, in which they had repelled the invading column, the Southern confederacy, reader will remember, of Prent divisions), pierce the aries then ponr in their | minent danger troops to attack on each side tl would thus cut our army. ‘To accomplish this, tl should have struck the left of | the other side of the rebels, now closely pushing Pren- | question that—but they were ata fearful disadvantage. the three brigades of riba division which lay on our | tiss. Hismen at once opened Mb apr on the enemy, | Gradually they began fal right, and the left of McClernand’s, which came to the | and fora time they seemed likely still to save our im- | Prentiss’ regiments, or part of front on Sherman’s ‘left. By some mistake, however, | perilled division. But coming unawares. as they seem determined, because better organized resistance, o¢ca- ‘alone, and that but a few | to havedone, upon theenomy, their positions were not | sionally rallying and wuising the enemy in turn for a ‘they struck Shermai Toft moments before a portion of their right wing swept up | well chosen, and all had tofall back together. against Prentiss. The troops’ thus attacked. by # were as follows:—The left of She: ‘TROOPS FIRST ATTACKED. Colonel Buckland, was composed of the Seventy-second | retreat too jong. Almost before they were | right swept around and drove the enemy for # consider- Obi tenant’ Colonel 3 4 sighth Ohio, Colonel Sullivans Seheetieahe Obes, Colonel ftom either side behind them, and they stood, | up near the position of W. H. 1. Wallace's division. 1, thi . cera ine fight of this was colonel Hrideteee's brigade, | Bumber. They threw down their erme,.nd the rebels | were driven back; how, fight aa flercely as they would, Seventy - ith Obi louel 4 vain oh bai ety ns ine Fity wird Tit: | regiments, with a division goueral, ae prisoners, to their | handsof the enemy; and how this whole front line, for Pty! ‘treme right, Colonel McDowell's | Tear. Colonel Mcbowell~ Lieutenant Cole, | Overwhelmed by this fresh disaster, without a general | gone. Fifty-ninth Ohio, Colon noig» And on the brigade, Sixth lowa ( ne! commanding); Fortieth Illinoi sixth Obio, Colonel General Prentiss’ division was Mi an, Sixteenth Wisconsin, Eighteenth Missouri, Twenty-third Missouri, Twenty-fifth | balting, Oring, courting death by remaining in isolal Missouri, and Sixty-Drst Miinois. THE BATTLE ON OUR MEN SURPRISED. Almost at dawn Sherman's p: very little later Prentiss’ w: ance. into the camps almost as s00n as were the pickets them” For the present let us leave them thore. Thoy held | Rodney Mason; the Fifty-fourth Ohio (Zouaves), Colonel . K, y ited along t loomy Sunday afternoon, which, 7, Smith It wan posted slong the circuitous road from | eook, had lett most of ocr army within half a. mile of the Landing, with the rebels up to a thousand yards of selves. Here began scenes which, let us hope, will have no We left Sherman’s brigades maintaining a confused | miles from the Landing, and near the crossing of parallel jn our remaining annals ticularly among our officers, were not yet out of bed. Others were dressing, others washing, others cooking, a | posed it to bea mere skirmish; perbaps even only the | right. In selecting the grounds for the encampment few eating their bronkfaste. Many guns were unloadod, | irregular discharge of muskets by guards and pickets, | of our army, it seems to have been forgotten that from accoutrements lying pell mell, ammunition was ill sup- | of our discipline be it said, was well nigh universal, and | miles above this left wing of our forces. Within a few plied—in short the camps were diagracefully , might be added, unless some one can hero. | Whether firing meant anything at all, after give some yet undiscovered reason to the con- | of musketry soon undeceived them,and almost as soon | It was unfortunate, of course, that Beauregard and John: trary—and were taken at almost every possible diead- | the advance of the rebels pouring’ after Buckland was | ston did not wait for us to perfect our pleasing arrange. vantage. The first wild cries from the pickets rushing in, and | tance in the roar, and with one brigade’ stretching out | brigades (rumored to bo under the command of Breck- the few scattering shots that preceded their arrival: | to the left of Sherman’s line. Properly speaking mere- | inridge), had taken this road, and thus easily, and with- aroused the regiments to a rense afterwards rattling volleys of musketry poured through | werejentirely behind Sherman. But asthe latter fell During the attack on Prentiss, Stuart’s brigade was the tents, while, before there was time for thought or | back, McClernand had to bear the shock of battle, preparation, there came rushing through the woods, with His division was composed as follows:—First brigade, | ford, the right, Seventy-first Ohio, Colonel Rodney lines of battle sweeping the whole fronts of the division | nojs, Eleventh and Thirteenth owa: Second brigade, | Colonel of tho Second Ohio at Manassas,) being nearest camps and bending down on either flank, the fine, dash- | Colonel C. C. Marah commanding, Kloventh, Twenticth; | Prentiss, The first intimation they had of disaster ing, compact columne of the enemy. Into the just aroused camps thronged the rebel regi- regiment”); ments, firing sharp volleys as they came, and springing | Seventeenth, Twenty-ninth and Forty-ninth Tilinojs, | emerged from @ bend in the road, with banners flying forward upon our laggards with their artillery, already in position, was tossing shells experienced troops to the further side of the encampmente, wore | lister's and Waterhouse’s batteries. shot down as they were rapning, without wea- As already stated, McClernand was first called into pons, hatiess, coatless, toward the river. The brigade (Buckland's)—about seven in the morning~by ‘Tho rebel column veered on further to the right, in searching bullets found other poor unfortunates | baving to move up his left brigade to support Sherman’s | Search of Prentiss’ flying reg! in their tents, and there, all unheeding now, they stil) | Tetreating loft and preserve the line. Then, as Sherman's space, though utterly isolated, they were uomolested. slumbered, while the unseen foe as they were disentangling themselves from the flaps | in Hildebrand’s brigade and what was still left to its | Was startled by the screaming of « shell that came di- that formed the doors to their tents; others as they | Tight of were buckling on their accoutrements; otbers as they | in squads and companies, they failed to rally promptly | Opposite, by approaching on the Corinth and Hamburg wore vainly trying to impress om tho cruelly exultant | at the call of their officers.” Ax they retreated ‘the | road, were in full play, and the orehards and open feids enemy their readiness to surrender, Ofters were Dayoneted in thelr beds and left for eee of grape that swept as if on dead, who, through the whole two days’ fearful strug. | diasts of a hurricane among the trees. Lieutonabt Col. vp ligt agony, and on Monday ponte tmnt a Mange was mor. Under cover of this fire le, lay there gasping in their Evening were found ia still able to tell the tale. Such were the fearful disasters that opened the rebel | Continued at the head of his men. onset on the lines of Buekland’s division. Similar, though perhaps less terrible in rome | Wavering retreats, the rebels, by a sudden dash forward, | furiously, the rebels pouring in sharp and quick volleys Of the lotaile, were the fates of Prentiss entire front. | bad taken part of W: Meantime, what they could our shattered regiments | Dand bad sent them over. Beer's battery, too, was taken, | Support them with a destructive fire. Our they gained’ wrotecting. rdpeetts the; & protecting ridge, making what Texletance nen (San situated might Seon the fore = way they came out from the open woods | are teo brave fellows to be killed.’ Almost into je man’s men succeeded in partially checki the enemy long enough to their haat ty For them all was lost, and away went Buckner’s and | first, was shot through the breast. time the other two brigades Fifty-third Obio is loudly compl 4 others are mentioned. It is certain ti be! entirely cut iments, both hore and to other divisions, ren abarte 4 toile right ‘aod rear, among the ravines that border | formed fronting in thy ‘thou SThey | Suake ereck. so astal Kieeeee of ney | And here, #0 far as Sunday’s fight is concerned, the | ite purpose foiled, did fot come within range, anc fally. Yet they were not ey were raw troops, just from “camps of instruction,” hundreds of them had never | yo part of Shorman’s division passes out of view. | they were hard pressed, and heard @ gun fired in anger; their officers, for the most part, were equally inexperienced; they had becn reposing in fancied security, and wore awaked, Lerhon ght from | doubtless kept up along portions and child stunning roar of eannen in thelr very midel, and the | General bore with bim one token of the danger to which burating of a bombshell among their tents—to see only he had exposed himself—a musket ball through the hand. the serried columns of the magnificent rebel advanco, and | It was the general expression smoke, the hasty retreat | lightly was wonderful. Whatever may be his faults or of cornrades and rts, right and left. Certainly, it | neglects, none can accuse hit of a lack of gallantry and hardly surprising, that under such | energy when the attack was made on bis raw division al sweet droams of home, and wives through the blinding, stiflin is ead enough bu: circumstances some should run. the wild panic at Bull run, for which the nation, as ene man, becamo & loud-mouthed apo! But they ran—here as jo Prentiss’ division, of which | his sending up first his left and then his centro brigade to the enemy did not fail to | support Sherman, shortly after the surprise, As Sher- profit by the wild disorder, As B " prea throw Forwama wgiand’s brigade fell | man fell back, MeClernand Jast more in a momen Meanwhile Sherman was tMdoing troops—dashing along the fines, encouraging ‘them | and everywhere by his presence, and with the same Across the little ravine behind ; but made @ gallant defence, while wha: was failing back in such order as it might, and | MeClornand’s left to take their place andebsex she’ we of rebel advance. CAPTURE OF GRYERAL Genera) Prentiss was faring scarcely #0 well. Most of | to prevent the rebels from coming in farther cut on the his troops stood their ground, to be formed into line but, road: nod turning McClornands right. Prompt to seize strangely Coa og pon ba up in ao open i space, leaving ern over of the den i abandoned from which they could pour tp un clously through the diviefon’s rT camp, pushing sor uF oak in vol AL POBITION OF OUR TROOPE. ti road, just this if-past seven o’clock that day. It i# idle to criticise arrangements now—it is 60 easy to be wise aftera matter is over—but the reader will hardly fail to observe tho essential defects of such ar- ‘Tennessee and preserved Their general plan of silack is aaid dy prisoners to | o'clock, McArthur's brigade of W.H.L. Wallace's divi. | had suifored Heavily. ‘The batteries, were broken up. have been to strike our centre first (composed his Worthin, their gore inside their tents, and sprang bastily to their arms, and had barely done | '0 the en the enemy's lines came sweeping uy inst their fronts, too, and the battle thus opened. fiercely along Sherman’s whole line on the right. Buckland’s brigade had been compelled to abandon | ¢d Our extreme right, and of course had no | abandoning. Ohio lost no braver, truer man, that day. their camps without a struggle. Some of the regiments, | Support there; its supporting brigades on the As they reached the next it is even said,ran without firing agun. Colonel Appler’s m with which he demandod their | bri ing back these troops Offer of theirs, he did much to save the mi i a notte, Hibdebrand wee pd division from | the Fifteenth and Sixteenth lowa, wore brought up; bub pelled to retire their brigades from their camps | was too severe & trial them, and they gave w: jieys in comparative rafety Thy wpe Dal shir POW! ICM Wik Ap pbeusacy sp! Figed Guns $peRgd pp Hew AP YBey paaped, and Wi NEW. YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1862.—TRIPLE | SHEET. THE PITTSBURG BATTLE FIELD. eee THE REBEL PLAN OF ATTACK. to the attacking party. ‘tgninah the" abeolo- the reader und Of regiments were again, much less improvements visible. 1g country, cut up with of their ow | many of them did good service. It was fortunate for us that the aceldental circurn- stance (hat Prentiss’ portion of our line had been com- | TTS! pletely broken sooner than any of the rest, had caused PITTSBURG * the enemy's onset to veer chiefly to our left. There we LANDING + roads on Sunday moi | ing, in the event of an | Landing below. distances of from two nearly if notquite twelve o’clock. tmpzotecied, rh man were both there. a BAN iy bri jallace’s division les below, and was not intervened between the de- rance. 't was commanded ATTACK. adds new laurels to the charactor of the American sol- | fearfa) slaughter—not confined, alas! to one side only— Down on either flank came | drove them back. the overwhelming enemy. Fiercely pushed in front, But the enemy’s reserves were most skilfully handled, the contracting iron chamber of the Inquisition, what | too much for our inferior numbers. Major Eaton, com- unded; Colonel Raith, commanding a shattered that amputation was necessary; Major Nevins, of the Eleventh Illinois, was less obstinate, more aud more rapidly they | nie was se" Pe fir rtp Re feet engi rg Perera peeinphfreng ena its cam) nearly 0} as tho) r z, man— the way to tberiver. Just here, between nige and ten | were wounded, and carried from the field. Line oflicera sion came up to give some assistance to Stuart's brigade | Schwartz had lost guns and sixteen horses, | i#4¢d division was compel of Sherman’s division, on the extreme left, now in im- | Dresser had lost several of his rifled pieces, three cais- of: being cut off by Prentiss’ defection. | sons and eighteen horses. McAllister Jost half bie marehed too far to the | twenty-four pound howitzers. ‘The soldiers fought bravely to the last—let no man , as the ities’ and McClernand’s camps, and to a point wit into which McArthur mistook the way WALLACR'S BRIGADE—THR ‘wings Into which they | Tight, and eo, instead of reaching Stuart, came in on ling back, more slowly than had lace, which included the Sherman’s, making more Ninth hundred yards, then being beaten back again, and re- Brigadier General Prentiss and three. regiments with | newing the retreat to some new position for fresh de- him—the Twenty-third Missouri, of his own division, | fence. ix o’el ‘or before it, | and the Twelfth and Fourteenth ‘Iowa, of those By eleven o'clock the division was back ina line with man’s brigades, that of | that had come to his assistance—delayed their | Hurlburt’s. It still did some gallant fighting; once its ter % Mis<ouri)—formerly With him, too, the fight aware of their danger, the flanking forces rushed in | able distance, but again fell back, and at last it brought perbaps two thousand strong, in the midst of thrice their ‘We have seen how Prentiss, Sherman and MoClernand with but litt! signalized their first attack by marching three Lincolnite | they still lost ground; how thelr camps were all in the which Hurlbart and Wallace were but the reserves, was to the task of conquering any more. . . | to organize them, with still hotter and hotter fire to their | « ‘THE ASSAULT ON SHBKMAN’S LEFT, ure on ee front and flanks, the remainder of the division, wholere. | But the fortunes of the jsolated brigade of Sherman's ‘composed of the Twelfth | giments at a time, gave way in disorder. For a short | division, on the extreme left, must not be forgotten. It Eighteenth Wisconsin, | time a few maintamed a confused defence, retreating, | was doubly loft alone by the Generals. General Grant . did not arrive on the field until after nearly all these dis- squads or companies, to resist a little longer the over- | asters had crowded upon us, and each Division General powering advance; but before ten o’clock the whole diyi- | bad done that which was good in his own eyes, and car- sion was in rapid retreat. Some regiments came off the | ried on the battle independent of the rest; but this bri- field in a degree of order; the most in sad confusion. gade was even left by its Division General, who was four ‘And thus by ten o'clock one entire division of our army | miles away, doing bis best to rally his panic-stricken re- was hors de combat. A deep gap in our front line was | giments there. made, the rebels had nearly pierced through, and were | _ It was commanded by Colonel David Stuart (of late Chi- to charge on them. Each SUNDAY. ickets wi and the enemy were Maimbourg, commanding; Seventy-first Ohio, Colonel the line from this time on till four. SHERMAN’S DIVISION—M’CLERNAND’S. Pittsburg Landing, up the river to Hamburg, some two ofthe war. Many, par. | fight, Buckland’s about gone, Hildebrand’s and Mc- | Lick creek, the bluffs’ om the opposite side of | their position, ¥) Par | Towell’s holding their ground more tenaciously. ‘The | which commanded the position, and stretching e " is . 21 on dow to in =sPrentiss’ — division its firing arouged MeClernana’s division. At first they sup- mn joi is on 6 ters:'to try & few parting sho but ‘narrowly to clean out their guns, practice which, to the disgrace | Corinth an excellent road lod direct to Hamburg, a few completely surprised— | rendered it almost impossible at any time to know | dys, the oversight had indeed been discovered, and the | It was recovered again on Monday. Voyond orainury | determination had been expressed to land Bull's forces disorder of our own soldiers. But the continued rattle | at Hamburg, when they arrived, and thus make all safe, has been lost since half-past ten. upon them. ments. ‘The division,"it will be remembered, lay a ebort dis When the rebels marched out from Corinth, a couple of of their peril; an instant | 1 from the location of the camp, MoClernand did not | out molestation reached the bluffs of Lick creek, com- | We have been falling back all Delong to the front line atall. ‘Two-thirds of his division | manding Stuart's position. formed along the road, the left resting near the Lick creek | the enemy would be upon us. Colonel Hare commanding, Eighth and Eighteenth Iii. | Mason, (late Assistant Adjutant General of Onjo, ana be ag: hth and Forty-fifth Mlinojs, Colonels Ransom, | to their right was the partial cessation of fring. laren, Third brigade, Colone! Raittcommanding, | among the leaves, and presently s rebel column the bayonet, for while | Lieutenant Colonels Wood, Farrell and Poase, and Forty. and moving at double-quick down the road toward them. third lilinois,Colone] Marsh. Besides this fine show of | Their supports to the left wero further of than the they had Schartz’s, Dresser’s, McAl- | Tebels, and it was at once seen that, with but one piece of artillery & single regiment could do nothing there. | of soldiers an ‘They ingly action shortly after the surprise of Sherman's left | were reinforced in an orobard near the other regiments. iments, aud for a brief ser bi foll back, McClernand ed 1d Before ten, however, the brigade, which had still aaron ye '. "Ss mm 5 rushed on. Others ell | gwuedaheeneny-in support. Gradually” the reeistanes | stood listening to the surging roar of ‘battle on the left, eom| Bucklend’s, became confused ‘and. ir- | rectly over their heads. Io an instant the batterios of | have always looked to, w Teolute. ‘The line’ wavered, the “men fell back | the rebel force, that had gaiged the commanding bluffs | dier learns, to lead them to battle, looking only for tiov) were swept with the exploding ‘m ual ot Bape the bluffs, the rebel ‘wounded and borne dying from the field. Colonel | rushed down,crossed the ford, and in a moment were Sullivan, of the Forty-eight hoy was ‘wounded, cat seen forming this side the creek, in open Beilds also, | some trap upon them. woods behind them became thinner and there was less | in which they w the enemy must be preparing ite is Gnd bal ater house’ ind their batteries above continuing to | General Grant and staff are in a battery, which McCler- | of musket: to be forced to retire with heavy loss. As | bearers but Colonel Stuart inte’ harp. the heavy weces till | 8nd Taylor’s Chicago Light Artillery was so terribly | shooters wanted to pick off the ony tata Oia color aoe , ihe fi lds, completely raked by the enemy's fire. | fire, Lieutenant Colonel Barton 8. Kyo the Beventy- br ‘Oni a ly ten minnt hen it becam orient weet ite of the di Hildebrand’s brigades, Ohioans and |ilinojsans ther, | scarcely minates, wi it @ evident that its Ho I Tear and right, in such order as they mi me i McDowell's brigade had fallen back less slowly than its | baps a quarter of a mile, to the noxt ridgo; afew of his two companions the fame division, but it | men, at great porsonal risk, carrying Lieutenant Colone) woody ridge, rebel left had gone; ‘through the space they had occupied the | cavalry, that had crossed the creck lower’ down, very last thing he would want to dd, 6 geen coming up on their left; and to re-| jained ‘score, | rebels were pouring: tl were in imminent danger of | w ona cto ae tot, p+ they fell too, stil! Tarther sist this new attack the line of. battle was direction. For three-quarters of an hour the brigade stood here. The cavalry, finding To frout @ rebels, who had follow. ed Prentiss, began to come in on their right. Colonel Stuart bad sont across to Brigadier General W. Hi. L. Wallace, then not |, for support. Brigadier Gene- ral McArthur's brigade was promptly started across, but mistaking the way, and bearing too much to the right, it speedily found itself in the midst of the rebel forces that had poured in aft reotiss. General MoArtbhu: could thus render Stuart's brigade no assistance, but vigoronsly engaged the rebels to bis front and flan! fell back to a good position and held these troops till the rest of bie division came up to bis aid. McArthur was himeelf disabled by & wound in t it ‘at he rode in to a hospital, had it dressed nud returned tothe brigade, which meantime sturdily beld its posi- their men, storming, coaxing, am afraid. One st July speech to everybody that will General himself was indefatigabie in collecting and izing hie mé and a straggling contest was of his new lines, but the scalos of battle. The that you hold dear, by the homer you with little weight in inclin of all that his ese 0 more snugly behind his tree as he if as much caused | that memorabie Sunday morning. ATTACK ON M'CLERNAND’S RIGHT. Nogiet. To return to MoClernand’s division. I bave spoken of tion. ut thie brought Stuart's isolated brigade little help. | eave sii fought the landing. ‘They were soon forced to fall back to another ridge, then to another, and finally, about tw o'clock, badly shat Vered and disordered, they retreated to ther: rear, falling in behind Gea. MeArthu: brig to organiz lone) hee 4) wae himself wounded by « ball through his right shodlder, and the loss of field and com. pany officers was suilicient to greatly ‘iscourage the troops DESPERATE CORDITION OF THR NATIONAL TROOPS, This clears our entire front line of divisions. The enemy bas full possession of all Sherman's, Prenties’ and was compelled to bring in bis brigades again to protect his left against the onset of the rebels, who, seeing how he had weakened himself thore by their recent suceces over Prentiss, hurled themeel against him with tremendous force. To avoid ,* couple of new regiments, left to support his best to rly exposing his own life But suddenly there is a rustle ai is, it ist You see the gleaming of ‘atch atoid the leaves and wi were com- | taking utterly raw on the field, under heavy fre, it bere, for a time. the fusion. To meet the attack, thon the whole di t was left of Buckland’ | joade a change of front, and faced along the Corinth Here the batteries were placed in position, and till ten o’elock the rebels wore foiled in every attempt to gain | McClernand’s camps. By ten o’clock ourwhole front, | it parch their throats, as if they had been breathing the the road. except Stuart’s brigade, Ley ke way, and the burden | simoon. br But Sherman having now failen back thore was nothing luriburt and W. HL. Wal. | Here comes a boat acrore with a Lieutenant and two or of the fgut was resting on lace. fore twelve Stuart, too, bad come back, and for the time absolutely ouly those two divisions stood be- tween our army and destruction or surrender, Still all was not lost. Hurlburt aod Wallace making @ mont gallant stand; and meantime moet of stant! the ot and droppings of wl lage. np with pontoons the advantage, a brigade of them went dashing auda. ‘up the road to cor ove MoClernand , betwee im an@ where Sherman bad been Preseer's battery of She river—some as far as -Crump’s Landipg, and 80 me even to Savannah. These Moore teeaget ae again on transports. Lines of guards were extended to prevent skulkers from getting back to the janding, and to stop the shrewd dodge among the cravens six or eight able bodied soldiers to assist some slightly Wounded fellow into the hospital; and between this cor don and the rear of the fighting divisions the fragments reorganized after a fashion, and sent back to the deld. Brigades could not be got together isions, but the regiments pieced to- gether trom the loose squads that could be gathered and olticered often by men who could find scarcely a soldier commands, were hurried to the frout, and were tolerably safe; and at worst, if the rel left flank, the gunboats could come ind well as to the brave men who peril their lives to do ti State some service on the fields beyond. Preparations Ko rapidly forward for crossing the sion (Generar Nelgon’s, which has the advance of Buell’s army,) on the dozen or so transporte that have been tied up along the have spent but few minutes on the bluff, but they are the golden minutes that count for years. Well was it for that driven, defeated, but not disgraced ar: of General Grant’s, that those minutes were improved. Colotiel Webster, Chief of Staff, and an artillery officer of no mean ability, had arranged ‘the guns that he could collect; of those that remained to us, in a sort of semi. circle, protecting the Landing, and bearing chiefly on our centre and left, by which the rebels were pretty sure to advance. Corps of artillerists to man them were improvised from all the batteries that could be col- into play. Our weakest point was the right, and to turning thie the rebels do not seem to have | attention on Sunday. According to general understand- tack at Pittsburg Landing, | Major General Lew Wallace was to come in on our right and flank the rebels by marching across from Cramp’s Yet strangely enough, Wallace, though with his divl- | sion all drawn up and ready to march anywhere at a mo- | ment’s notice, was not ordered to Pittsburg Landing till ‘Then, through mis- direction as to the way to get on the new road, four miles of marching were lost, and its circuitous route made it twelve miles more before they could reach the scene of battle. Meantime our right was almost wholly Fortuvately, as 1 said, however, the rebels do not geen: t» have discovered the full extent of this weakness, and their heaviest fighting was done on the centre and left, where we still preserved our line, MURLBURT'S. DIVISION. Hurlbort’s division, it will be remembered, stretched across the Corinth road, facing rather to our left H. LL. Watiace’s other brigades had gone over to assist Mc- Arthcr, and the division, thus reunit the line, where Prentiss’ division and in their retreat, bad left it open, To Huriburt’s right the lines were patched out with the reorganized regiments that had been resent to the field, McClernand and Sher- steadily closed art's brigade, Hurlburt bad been encamped in the edge nearest the river ofa stretch of open fields, backed with heavy timber, Among his troops were the Seventeenth and Twenty-fifth Kentucky, Forty-fourth and Thirty-tirst In- diana, constituting Lauman’s brigade: Third fowa, Forty- first Illinois and some others, forming Colonel Williams’ de. ‘ds PrentiseYell back Hurlburt’s left] aidod Wallace in sustaining the rebel onset, and when McClernand gave way the remainder of the division was thrown forward. The position beyond the camps, however, was not a good one, and the division was compolied to fall back through its camp to the thick woods behind. Here, with open flelds before them, they could rake the rebel approach. Nobly did they now stand thoir ground. half-past three they held the enemy in check, and through nearly that whole time were actively engaged. Hurlburt himself displayed the most daring and brilliant gallantry, and his example, with that of the brave of- ficers under him, nerved the men to the sternost endu- ‘Three times during those long hours the heavy rebel masses on the leftcharged upon the division, and three times were they repulsed with terrible slaughter. Close, sharp, continuous musketry, whole belching tireon the rebels as the leaden storm swept the fields over whicn they attempted were too much for rebel disciplitie, though the bodies left scattered over the fields, even on Monday evening, bore ghastly testimony to the daring with which they had been precipitated towards Sur lines. But there is still much in the Napoleonic theory that Providence has a tendency at least to go with the heaviest battalions. The battalions were against us. ‘The rebel generals, too, handled their forces with a skill that extorted admiration in the midst of our sufferings. Repulse was nothing to them; if @ rush on our limes failed they took their disordered troops to the rear, and sent up fresh troops, who, unknowing the ful tion awaiting them, were ready totry it again. Tho i led to yield, and after six hours’ magnificent feiine, is foll back out of sight of its im halfa mile landil LBADER WOUNDED. Let us turn to the fate of Hurlburt’s companion division—that of Brigadier General W. H. L. Wal- Second and Seventh Iowa, ‘and Twenty:eighth Illinois, and several of the other rogiments composing ‘Smith’s old division. Wallace had also batteries—Stone’s, Richardson's and Weber’s (all from an artillery battalion, under th general management of Major Cavender. ‘Degan. about ten o'clock, as already described. From that time till tour in the af- ternoon they manfully bore up. ‘The musketry fire'w: absolutely continuous; there was scarcely a moment that some part of the line was not pout een volleys,and the artillery was admirab) Je intermission through the entire time. Once or twice the infantry advanced, drive the continually increasing enemy; could hold what they had, their numbers were not equal General three excellent Four separate times in turn .the rebels attempted time the infantry poui Ats quickest volleys, the artillery redoubled itsgex: and the rebels retreated with heavy slaugh' vision was eager to remain, even when Hurlbart fell back, and the fine fellows with the guns were particu- larly indignant at not being permitted to pound away. But their supports were gone on either side; to have re- mained in isolated advance would have been madness. Just ag the necessity for retreating was becoming ap- pt General Wallace, whose cool, collected bravery ad commanded the admiration of ali, was, as it was only held back by McArthur’s brigade, and the rest of W. | cagodivorce cage fame, and ex-Congressman), and was | thought, mortally wounded, and was borne away from driven in a " is _ Fifty i the field. At last the division fell back. H. L. Wallace’s division which hurried over to its assiat- | composed of tho Fifty-fifth Illinois, Lieutenant Colonel claim—justiy, I believe—the proud distinction of being the last to yield in, the general break of our lines that at half-past four Captain Stone could not resist the temptation of stop- ping, as he passed what had been Hurlburt’s headquar- He did fine execution, guns by having bis wheel horses shot down. Captain Walker did lose a twenty-pounder through some breakage in the carriage. Josing some ‘THR CLOSE OF SUNDAY’S FIGHT. We have reached the last act in the tragedy of Sunday. It is half-past four o’clock. Our front line of divisions Our reserve line is now gone, too. The rebels occupy the camps of every division save that of W. H. L. Wallace. Our whole army ts crowded in the region of Wallace’s camps and {p a cir- cuit of half to two-thirds of a mile around the landing. We can do it no re. The next repulse puts us into the river, and there 0t transports enough to cross a single division till jaynie and Smith (the lat the ‘Lead An instant afterwards muskets were seen glinting | last week. His advance guard is across the river now, athird ‘brigade: Onbeel Rane. man coinmne, | waiting forriage; but what is an advance guard with six: ty thousand victorious foes in front of We have lost nearly all of our camps age. We have lost nearly half our field artillery. have lost a division genoral and two idly back toward afraid cniek—Iu kiled, and rapi toward the ford, and | we are wo G hospitals are full to overflowing. A long set apart for surgical uses. It is covered wit! maimed, the dead and dying. And our men are longed defeat. N 2) gets arto ts aro te oboe preven musketry or the heavy booming of the the that is to crown the day's suecoss Southern Confederacy, or they are last retreat, and are moving cautious); us Let mpany officers fell | and within close musket range. Their color bearers | and look about the landing. We pass the old log house, erman id were from the| . A stepped defiantly to the front, as the engagement opened | lately Post Office, now full of wounded and surgeons, brigade, in Sh 's | am carried away ‘irmen. At one of our iy. 9 pres stitutes the™*Pittaburg’” part 1 General is confident. ‘‘We can them iy | fresh tt 2? a came is collect rst | building, all in uniforms, most of them with yot we are needing troops in the front 0 COWARDS. On the bluffs above the river is @ sight that may well ition was untenable, and they fell rapidly back, per- | make our cheeks tingle with shame for some of our sol- diers. There are not less than threo thousand skulkers = lining the banks. Ask them why they don’t go to thei was now left entirely alone. It had form | Kyle,in a dying condition, from the field they were | places in the line: ‘Oh, our regiment is all cut to pieces. “(Why don’t you go to where it is forming again?” ‘‘T can’t find it,” and the hulk looks as if that would be the pificers are around among them, trying to hunt uj ‘command! fellow—a major, if | remember iperfine Fourth of listen tohim. He moans well, certainly; ‘(Men of Kentucky, of Illinois, of Ohio, of Towa, of Indiana, I implore you, come up now. Help us through two hours AD honor, by all your aright—is making a sort of glevated, su the flag you love, by the States you love ofeountry, by all your hatred of t1 you, come up ‘and do your duty now.” quantity, ‘That feller’s a good speaker,” was tho only response I heard, and the follow who gave it nestled T knew well enough the nature of the skulking animal jo anarmy during @ battle. I hadseen their perform. auces before, but never on so large a scale—nevor with such an utter sickness of heart ae I looked, as now. Still, Ido not believe there was very much more than the average per centage. It was a big army, and the ARRIVAL OF GENRRAL PUELY. Looking across the Tennessee we see a body of cavalry, awaiting transportation over, They are said to be Buell’s advance, yet they have been there an hour or two alone. the runaways, It th down the oppo ite side of the river glimpses of the steady, swinging tramp of trained soldiers. A division of Bueli’s army is here! And the men who have left their regiments on the field send up three cheers for Buell. They cheering! May three privates of the Signal Corps, Some orders are in ae officer, and as instantly telegraphed to by the = wayings and raisings ef A steamer comes ° *# on board, with which @ bridge troops from the three driven divisions were still to some | could be epeedily thrown across. ailabie. Many of phgm pad wandered gown | enough, (0 oplovkers, ebe slowly reconnolters lected. Twenty-two guns in all were placed in position. Two of them were very heavy siege en Jong thirty-two’s. Where they came m Ido not what battery they bel tol have no idea; only know that they were there, inthe right place, balf a mile back from the bluff, sweeping the approaches by the left, and by the ridge Corinth road; that there was ices that they were gladly accepted, and that hedid work them to such effect as to lay out ample work for scores of his professional brethren on the other side of the Remember the situation. It was half-past four 0% perhapsa quarter later still. Every division of our on the fleld had been repulsed. The enemy were in the camps of four outof fiveof them. We were driven to within little over half a mile of the Landing. Bebind us was a deep, rapid river, Before us was & victorici enemy. And still there was an hourfor fighting. “Ob, night or Blucher would come!” Ce that 38 , end through smoke came whistling the leaden hail. The rebels were making their crowning effort for the day, andas was ex pected when our guns were hastily placed, they camo from our left and centre. They had wasted their Gre at 1,000 yards. Instantaneously our deep-mouthed bull- dogs flung out thelr sonorous respon$e. rebel artil- Jory opened, and shell and round shot came across the open space back of the bluff. May I be for- given for the malicious thought, but 1 certainly did wish one or two might drop behind the bluff among the crowd of skulkers novering under the hill at the river's edge. Very handsome was the response our broken infantry’ battalions poured in, The enemy soon had reason to re- member that, if not Still {a their ashes live the wonted fires, at least still in the fragments lived the ancient valor that ee made the short-lived rebel successes already cost 60 lear, ‘TRE GUNBOATS OPEN FIRE, The rebel infantry gained no ground, but the furious caunonading and musketry continued. Suddenly new actors entered on the stage. QurCincinnati wooden gun. doats, the A. O. Taylor aud the Lexington, had been alt day impatiently chafing for their timetocome. The op- portunity, was theirs. The rebels were attacking on our left, lying where Stuart’s brigade had lain on Licking creek in the morning, and st ing thence in on the Hamburg road, and across toward our old centre as far as Hurlburt’s camps. Steaming up-to the mouth of the little creck the boats rounded to. was the ravine, cut through the bluff as if on purpose for their shelie. Eager to avenge the death of ‘their commanding Gene- ral (now known to have. been killed a the rebels had tiously ventured reach of their led antagonists, after broadside of seven-inch and sixty-four it was for the morrow was fore- dodings Dut sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof, fe had plenty of cvil that day—of course, therefore, the text was applicable. Before dark 4 from Ne "es advance vanced into line with Grauit’s forces at the double quick and had put in fourteen rounds as an earnest of what’ should be forthcom ing on the morrow. ‘The enemy suddenly slackened hus fire. His gri ; i E 4 5 ject had been ; he had ‘not finished his task Ina day; but there is evidence that officers and‘men alike atiasod 8. OOM SOE SM their would ‘Ap the sounds of battle died away mene! ; s morning, and council of war was held, and it was decided ys pert Spt hacer adhe we should attack snugly quartered in our camps. ‘Lew. Wallace, who was coming in on’ the new road from Crump’s Landing, cromniee, Snake Creek above the hinois Wallace’s (W. H. L.) camps, was to take the right and sweep toward Position from which herman had been driven on Sunday Nelson was to take the extrome left. Buell to put in Tom. Crittenden next to Nelson, and McCook next to him by a seasonaWle hour in the morning. The ‘between McCook and Lew. Wallace was to be filled with the re- organized divisions of Grant’s old army ; Hurlburt coming next to McCook, then McClernand, and Sherman closi the gap between McClernand and Lew. Wallace. Stealthily the troope crept to their new positions and iy crept to Tew pos: lay down in line of battle on their arms. All thro the night Bue!l’s men were marching up from Sa‘ to the point opposite Pittsburg Landing, and being fer: ried across, or were coming up on transports. an hour after dark Wallace his division in. [ee he had on I. Li the misdirection he had 6 Snake Creek road proper, which would have him in on the enemy’s rear, miles from ty where he would have been gobbled at a mouthful.’ Get- ting back to the right road dolayed him. He at onee ascertained the position of certain rebel batieries which lay infront of him on our right, that threatened abso- lately to bar his advance in the morning, and selected Positions for acouple of his batteries from which could silence the one he dreaded. Placing tion, and arranging his brigades for support, took bim till one o’clock in the morning. Then his wearied men lay down to snatch a few hours of sleep before entering into the valley of the Shadow of Death on the morrow. By nine o’ctock all was hushed near the . The host of combatants that threo hours before od deep in the work of human destruction silently to earth, -‘the wearied to sleep, the wounded to die.’ The stars looked out upon the scene breathed the natural quiet and calm of a ing. But presently there came a tiash that sheet lightning over the ripples of the river current, and the roar of « Reavy naval gun went echoing up and dewn the bluffs, through tho unnatural stillness of the ni 5 Others speedily followed. By the Le ait could just discern the black outline of the pirat! and see how the gunboat gracefully settled the wa- 4 Ls z Ag ergamtellnrny ater ‘Manassas ~ =< one "Under the and Through the Sea.”” ‘Sons of the saints who faced their Jordan flood, He te the Red fee of their glorious blood ho b W Reached to the Freedom that you blood shall savel O count: Bh ene sap He lea nat bin poopie J Count it a covenant, he leads us on : ‘Beneath the cloud and through the crimon seat THE BATTLE ON MONDAY. OUR MUSTER ROLL. Tbaye given the line of battle agreed upon for our forecs on Monday :—Right wing, Major General Lew. Wal- lace; left wing, Brigadier General Nelson. Between these, beginning at the left, Brigadier Gonerals Tom, Crittenden, A. McD. MoCook, Hurlburt, McClernand an@ Sherman. In thedivisions of the three latter were to be included also the remains of Prentiss’ and W. H. L. ‘Wallace's commands—shattered, disorganized, and left without commanders, through the capture of one, and the probably mortal wound of the other, Buell’s three divisions were not full when the battle opened Monday morning, but the lacking regiments were gradually Drought into the rear, ‘To save further delay 7 give here a list of his troops ‘and of Wallace’s engaged:— FRIGADTER GENERAL NELSON'S DIVISION. Fira Brigadtsceayatth indiana, Cool Grom, Sixth Sea teat Galsod Anderson ‘fwenty-fourth' Ohio, Ohio, H ied ‘ Saeere D. Bruce, Twentieth Ken- Second tucky manding; First Kentucky, Colonel Enyart; Second Kentucky, olonel Sedgwick; Twentieth Kentucky, jan jing. Ligut. Colonel cor eel Rorty-first Ohio, com mandings Forty-drst Obioy Sixth Kontucky and Ninth RIAN ENERAL, TOM CRETTENDEN’S DIVIBION. Bow Brigit wi al Boy ly Ninetegnth Obie, Colenet Beatty; Fil y ninth Obie, Cok noe 5 Tasetasned Be ‘ n } _ tucky , Colonel Hobson. ‘ wa e ih ding; Thirteent , Liew Sen? Comey niet Kentucky, Lieut. Colonel Maxwell Hievonth Kentucky, Colonel P. P. Hawking; with Men- dtenball’s regular and Bartlett’ Ohio batteries. BRIGADIER GENERAL M'COOK’S DIVIBION, First Brigads—Brig. General Lovell Hi. Rousseau; First yhio, Colonel Bd. A. tt; Sixth Indiana, Colonel Orit- ten Third Kenuoeky ae Legion), battalions Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Nineteenth regulars. Second Brigade—Brigadier General Johnston; Thirty second Indiana, Colne! Willich; Thirty minth Thdiaue Colone} Harrison; Forty-ninth Ohio, Colonel Gibson Third Brigade—Colonel Kirk, Thirty-foarth iilines commanding; Thirty-fourth Hitnois, 1 ant Cowon Badeworth: Twenty-ninth Indiana, Lieutenant Celune (CONTINUED ON TENTH PAG Wallace would come! Nolson's divi of Bueli’s arm: evidently couldn’t cross in time to do us much . We didn’t yet know why Lew. Wallace wasn’t on the ground, the justice of @ righteous cause, and in that) semi-circle of twenty-two guns in position, Jay ail the hope we could see. Suddenly # broad, sulphurous flash of light leaped out” from the darkening woods, the glare and