The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1862, Page 1

. THE NEW YORK HERALD. ~aRe WHOLE NO. 9591. THE DISASTER. Fredericksburg Abandoned by General Burnside. The Army Safely Recrossed to the Northern Side of the Rappahannock. _ ALL THE WOUNDED BROUGHT AWAY. THE PONTOONS REMOVED. The “Terrific Struggle | on Saturday. ADDITIONAL DETAILS. Intensely Graphic Descriptions by Ou: Special Correspondents. The Desperate Charges on the Right Wing. Splendid Field Maneuvering on the Left. THE LAST MOMENTS OF GENERAL BAYARD | Scenes on the Battle Field After Sunset. ‘Whe Valor of Our Troops Praised by the Rebel Prisoners. Our Loss Estimated at Eight to Ten Thousand. Additional Names ef the Killed and Wounded, &e., —_— Wasurneron, Dec. 16, 1862. folowing has been received by the mili- tary telegraph dated ; Farmovra, Dec, 16+-8:45 A. M. {It is raining very fast and the river is rising sepidly. Our troops are all on this side of the river. The positoons are up. Heapquantens, ARMY oF THE Potomac, Faxqours, Dec. 16—1:45 P, M. f During last night the Army of the Potomac evacuated their positions on the opposite side ef the river. The movement was a perilous one, but it was oonducted in safety. ‘The artillery was the first to cross over the ‘The last of the infantry brought up the rear abortly after daylight. ‘The enemy never discovers the movement ‘entil it was too late to do us any harm. Aosoon an the last man had got safely across the river the pontoon bridges were removed, thus off all communication betiveen in ES ae Our wounded are al] safe and on this side of semmageee ie was a heavy wind all last night, ac- companied. with considerable rain, which as- sisted us in our movement, as it prevented the from learning our intentions. Fauepemonsavna, Deo, 16—3 P, M. Jam told that a communication was received on Sun- Gay lost under flag of truce from the robels, stating that Mhey intended shelling the city, and requesting us to re- meve our wounded. aad &o, ‘Wasunnaton, Deo. 16, 1662 From what is now known of the strength and extent of the omemy’s fortifications there seems to be a general approval of General Burnside’s course in recrossing the ‘Rappahanpock. ‘There is nothing known here to show that the rebels wore ‘ficlined to lonve their strongholds to meet our ‘troops on ap open All possible attention i¢ being bestowed upon the ‘wounded, but comparatively few of whom have as yet” arrived in Washington. Although our tons is heavy, it is far below some of the published stavements; but the precise nnmber cannot for Gaye to come de ascertained. : ‘The reports in distant cities that apprehensions are en. Yertained for the safety of Baltimore and Washington ere simply absurd. THE BATTLE OF SATURDAY. eaeaiaanimaaaaaoed Addttional Details of the Terrige str glc—The Graphic Desemiptions by Our Special Correspondents, Faxpwnuckssure, Dec, 13, 1863, Another conflict bas been added to our long list of Partlow, aud to-night sorrow most bitter is gathering round a thousand happy firesides, Men that wero strong and vigorous ten hours age lic strewn in houps of un. Gietinguishodle dead, and the voice of misery resounds onovery hand. ‘Lhe rod feys of the hespitals flap in the Aight wind With x mMoornful found, vhile within shitter. |, od wrocks of hammnity pant and arow faint with agony. ca OPERATIONS ON THE RAP NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1862. PAHANNOCK. Map of the Field of Burnside’s Operations on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday Last. eZ A~Rebel batterice. Lopg swivel guns, eight-inch rifles. The rest are field pieces (about twelve-pounders. \ po WW jobball\ lh y ZZ M RERE)\ KAZE es = ~ WH) mS Moy lf — Mi, = _as = ge LL By I} MASSAPONAY Wild “N\m ) Zp SY a MIG Von y ee van Tare, oa nie NOTES OF REFERENCE. B—Kobel rifte pits. C—Paper mill. . D—Revel rifle pitw. 41—Monument to Wasbington’s mother, i W as ' 2. E—Pontoons. #—Pontoons. G@—Pontoons. Out in the valleys, on the rugged ridges, and down by the babbling brooks, whose solemn song seems but the refrain of the music of youthful days, the dead are lying, staring up into the clear winter sky, while the frost wraps a filmy shroud about them, and chills the ebbing life currents of the wounded. Strange voices are heard all along the Ines, as the soldiers look for the fallen; lights @icker to and fro like ignis fatui, and the pickets pace their weary beats through the soil trampled and torn by contending armies. ‘Weeks ago we looked daily for these terrible realities, and night after night settled down with a vague thought @f the anguish to be borne, perhaps, on the morrow. ‘Yet, with all the bitterness of past experience, few of this army last evening were without the desire for morn to hasten and the struggle to begin. All last night tho troops were pouring across the river, and at dawn this io oe & morning we found @ line of infantry and batterie, stretching stress the meadows, in Teadiness for the TA. Se, w+ = coming battle, Skigmlshing had Boch continually going onelnce the Trat of our troops crossed the river, and from right to left continual rattle of musketry was Heard, Early in the morning the roar of the gups came rolling up from the left, but the fog bung 5, ‘nedvily that nothing could be seen, GW and hen the musketry broke out Dercely,, and ‘again all would be perfectly ailent, Fredericksburg was thronged with troops, but tht frowning batteries on the hills beyond were as quiet ‘as though no enemy were this #dé of Richmond. Franklin bed hurried over his divisions, New- ton lay close by the city, then Brookes, Howe, Gibbon and Meade, with the cannon in position, ready for the assault. By and by @ robel ‘battery opens on the left, and the Ninth New York Militia are ordered to charge it, Sharpnel, canister and bullets drive them back ; then General lor, with the remainder of the brigade, goes in ; the enemy are hard pressed, waver for a moment and then fel! slowly back, while musketry breaks out all along the line, and the caunon, with thoir roar, drown all but the cheers of our gallant men. Gib- bon hurls his division against tho cnemy ; Meade, with his Pennsylvanians, pushes up and into the mingled amoko ‘and fog where the rebels were last teen, and, as the roar ceases for & moment, the shouts of our troops come cheer- sogiy back on the morning air. Thon the din grows louder, shots begin to tell further around to the right, gun after gun jolos in the cannonading, and the centre eways with the wild excitement of the battle, Thus the morning wore on, the battle raging here and there at intervals along the front, while the troops continued to hurry up to the scene of action, Presently the fog begins to lift @ little, and we seo the gray coats in the woods and behind the cedar hedges, The gans Degin to play above the city; Summer's troops gird them. selves for the fight and slowly press out towards the earth- works, while the left grows hot again with the strife. Reynolds sends word to Franklin that the enemy is orowding an@ be wants help. Hold your position, and push in Gibbon if needed, is the answer; while Newton is sent to the left, Stoneman relteves Meade, and Doubleday Gibbon, The latter is wounded and carried from the | field; bia troops fall back as tho fresh ones go in, and ‘| Stopeman, with Kearny’s old division, and Doubleday, with the shattered regiments of King, stand up to the enomy till night, On the right the battle was terrific, The rebels, having | the advantage of the Bilis, their earthworks and a deop | ditch, sholtored by a stone wall, were enabled to pour a | galling fire without cessation «pon our lines. Again aid again our troops endeavored to carry the batteries vy storm, only to bo repulsed with groat lone, Solid shot | | and shel) from the enemy tore through the town, seattering brick and timbers among the troops, and ‘the infantry kept up a coaseless rattle of musketry, ‘Tho rebeia s2:omed to fluht with utter desperatian, - yet their ranks could not have withstood, more than that endfired by our men in the afternoon, A tempest of iron plunged down upon us, but the lines stood firm ag rock, paying back the mueketry with interest, while our bat- teries struggled to disable the guus on the hills, ‘Thus the battle raged from morning until after dark, neither party yielding, both determined on victory. Night closed the scene, both lines in the fleld, so near each other that the infantry were constantly firing, while the artillery at intervals opened briekly. ‘lo-morrow tbe battle will be renewed. We have the menand the skill requisite for the task before us. Shall we be successful? The rebel prisoners state that Franklidt is opposed to Jackson, with A. P. Hill’s division upon our extreme left. Several hundred have been captured, all of whom concur in the statement that Lee's whole army is in the imme- diate vicinity. The rebels are genora\'y vomfortably clothed, though some are quite destitute. They seem to be in tho best of spirite apd cowfident of guogess, All of Feet pcb anc them, however, wear a er aid yt, Their wounded who have fallen into our suffer much more than our own, heir debility being 20 great as to alinost preclude the ides of recovery. éral hundred prisoners have been captured, most of them belonging to A. P. Hill's command. Their koas in killed and wounded on our left must, undoublediy, have been govere: bul 1% Weir earthworks Dyotected them eed Sxtert. It is impots{iie yot to éetimate our ows loss, We bold the position taken up in the morning, with the left somewhat advanced; but no other portion of the enemy”s field is occupied by us. ‘The most lamented occurrence of the day was the wounding of Goneral Bayard. General Franklin’s head- -quarters during the fight were about three hundred yards in roar of our tine, and in the immediate vicinity of the hospital, Several times during the mora fog the enemy's sholls bad passed very near the group of officers, and it was for some time momentarily expected that the revels would shell the plac Bayard was sitting at the base of a large tre with the otti when a solid shot right ride, shattering the hip terrib’ Ho was imme diately carried into the hospital, and, at his request, the leg was amputated; but no hopes are entertained of Lis re. covery. He has been apprised of the hopelessness of his cage, and bis heroic Armavess under the peeuliarly trying circumstances {s most affecting, A feeling of deop gloom prevails among his friends, and few will soon forgot the bravery and highdoned sentin nts of the gallant and unfortunate young general, Tho wounded are receiving every attention, and are being removed from the field hospitals as rapidly as pos- gible, in order to make room for those who may fall to morrow, Troops are hastening over the river, ammuni- tion is being distributed,fresk troops are meving to the front, and there is every indication of another terribl® Pauuirs Hovse, battle to-morrow. Orrocite FREDERICKSBURG, Dec. 13, 1862, } INTERESTING DESCRIPTION OF THR FIGHT AS WITNESSED FROM GENERAL WURNBIDE'S MBADQUARTERS. ‘Tho finest view of the day’s sanguivary conflict was vb. tained from the Philhps House, |. Burngide was here sing, cca aay ie bt Sie saeabent wan ‘and the otner near night—to the House. His posi- tion most of the time was on the balcony, With & powerful glass he was watching movements across the river. It wasatimo of fearful watching for him. De feat was annihilation, ahd ho was fully aware of tho diMoulties to be surmounted to achieve victory. Tho frowning batteries of the enemy, their almost improgna ble position on the long and rugged hillside opposite, the slow and hazardous crossing of the river by our forees, and that river behind them placing retreat out of the question, made him sensible of the peri lous position our men occupied, and how every resourse of military mancsuyre and brave daring was roquisite to ensure defeat of the powerful and devormined foo to be attacked, He had his staff and ovuriors running to and fro constantly. He gave his commaads with promptitude and succinctly, Teco no time,’ was his al most universal injavotion to every courant. A» artillery duel, the same pretty much as yosterdav. was kept up during the forenoon, Its counter ob- ject was to protect and prevent our troops cross- ing the river. A smoky mist obscured the river iu the morning; jt was the hazy sky of an Indian summer day and the same genial warmth to the sun. Not a breath of air stirred the frost-wathered leaves. The echoing rear of the cannon contrasted strangely with the serenity and stillness about us, only interrupted by the tread of passing cavalry and shri!) whisties of passing trains on the raiiroad, ‘The bailoon rose high tn the regtous of the upver air to get a better view of theenemy’s land. The morning mist and canuon smoke caured it tocome down ogain. Af- terwards, when the atmosphere became clear, it was sent upa second tine. This time with better success. Ove of the rebel batteries directed one of their shells at it, The dangerous miesile whistled by its mammoth form in hazardous proximity, but happily did no barm to thy aerial obgeryere or those congrogated in the vicinity. NS we, Noon care, and with it & changg jn the scene. Gar forces across the river had ad Tremy, ' wore drawn up in line of battle and were pouring volleys of mus- ketry into the rebel ranks. A palisade of bristiing bayonets glistened in the noonday sun. Thq volcanic bursts of fire from artillery and musketry wore terrible to witness. Our advancing columos iitha‘eemtre and to the right and left could plainly be seem’ with the naked eye. The strongest point of atteck was in the ceniro and right—that made by the Second Army corps. Nothing could surpass the discipHned courage of our mon. They fought with the desporation of tigers. For atime there would be a cessation in the cannonading; the battle was ono of musketry. Again tho musketry would cease, and the cannon would belch out thelr angry grape and canister and shel!, and then would combine in waging direst confilct. ‘ihus the work of war centinued till dark, The sun set iv golden beauty, Alas, many who saw it rise were now cold in death! The battle field was etrown with the dea ana dying. As darkness shut out the light of diy the scene was one of terrific beauty and sublimity. No pen can paiet it; mo magination can con- ceive it. The flash of the belehing cannon and bursting shells and musketry possessed a brilliant vividness im- possible to describe. At intervals the cannonading was kept up till after eight o’clock. The result of the day's carnage cannot be known util to-morrow. Many a gallant brave has fallen in this day's conflict; many wives have been mado widows; many children orphans, And such is war. The day’s battle has beon as territc ae that of Antietam. Our loss must be heavy. THE RIGHT WING. Operations of the Second Army Corps, Srconp Any Corps, Deo, 13, 1962, Last might was apparently a quiet one, with occaionay picket fring and a gbell or two thrown into the town from the rebel batteries on the hill jn the roar ot the town. Morning dawned with the interminable mist more denso than ever hanging over and shrouding everything dn obscurity. COMMENCEMENT OF THR RATTLE, Our batterigs og se pene and wore responded to by tho enemy at it half-past nine. For an hour or moro the discharge of artillery drowned every othe? sound, roporte avyernging from at to wisly per minute. Heavy muskolY® Wat hoafd nt intervals until half past eloven, when Sumper’s corps moved down the plank road to the left of the town towards its intersection with the Richmond turn. pike, ‘The enemy make a desperate resistance, and tho fighting at this point is fearful. Volley on volley fol- Jow in rapid succession, and the roar of artillery mingled with it renders the noir almost deafoning. It is now two hours since the flerce fight for this road commenced, and it rages unabated, Our brave men have an advance more d\Moult than the enomy found at Malvern Hill, and if they succeed jp carrying the hoights they will have proved thomselvos worthy the name of veterans, and to be ranked anvong the bravest troops of the world, The tow ‘will be fearful on both sides, and, if successfal, the pre- deeds of the Second division, sent fight will go far towards putting down the rebellion. Colonel Snyder, of the Seventh Virginia, Kimball's bri- gade, has been brought in severely wounded in the head, Our gunboats have proved of little assistance, the nar- PRICE THREE CENTS. Howard, late in the afternoon, took the place of the division which had now commenced to fall back, and for the rest of theday sustained the fighting on the part of our corps, which finally, relieved by Gen. Sturges and Gen, Getty, of the Ninth Army corps, now fell back to ite Original position, INCIDENTS, ETC. The color bearer of the One Hundred and Sixteenth Penn- Sylvania was killed twelve bullets perforating various parts Of his person. As he fell he struck the staifof the colors goto the grouna in order that they might not go down: Falling backwards the wind wasted the drooping folde of | the flag over his face, covering him as he lay. The eolor bearer of the Twenty-eighth Massachusetts, in the same brigade, fell mortally wounded, and to pre- vent the colors from being taken threw himself upon them, and they were found grasped frmiy in hie band® after he was dead. Colonel Robert Nugent, Sixty-ninth Now York regiment» was hit in the right side by a Minie ball, which broke off the stock of his pistol, and glapeing, inflicted a wound ‘three inches long. The pistol saved his life. None of the officers were mounted, an order having been \esued pro“ lubiting it. The Sixty-ninth suffered severely, with the exception of two companies sent to occupy a flanking vosition, where they were protected bya hill. Only one officer of thoze who went into the fight escaped unburt. Operations of the Ninth Army Corps, Heanquancens, Nivrt Anmy Corps, Freps1cxsuunc, Va’, Dec. 4—5 A. Me } While General Couch was advancing to carry out the work assigned his corps, tho Ninth corps was disposed in the city in position to support his attack, and though our troops did not become engaged in the fight until the afternoon, a movement to open communication with the left wing was commenced at an early hour in the day. GENERAL WILCOX'S BRADQUARTERS were established iu a building on the main street of the town, in the centre of his command. Here, with his staff, he awaited during the morning the orders to move. Captain Shillinglaw, one of his aids, who, it will be re- membered, was wounded in tho first fight at Manassas, was incapacitated by the soreness of his injured limb from taking an active part in transmitting orders, and dur- jag the greater part of the day was confined, much againgy, his will, to the camp on the other side of the river, ‘The operations of our corps comprised three distinc* movements by division, as follows:— 1. General Burns was sent to the left to open commu- nication with Gen: ra} Franklin. | Sturgis was sent to support General Couch. 1 Getty was sent to suppert General Sturgis. Of the operations of each of thege divisions it will be cessary now to speak in detail GENERAL BURNS? DIVISION, he First division, under General Burns, was ordered » move at nine o’clock in the morning, and accordingly (he brigades composing it, embracing the Seyenty ninth (ilighlanders) and Forty-sixth New York, Forty.f.th> Filtieth and One Hundredth Pennsylvania, Second, Eighth Seventeenth and Twentieth Michigan, Twenty-seventh New Jersey, and the Twenty-ninth and Thirty sixth Mas, sachusetis, defiled to the left of the town, and, reaching the river edge, proceeded along under cover of thy iver bank to take up the pvsition assigned hem, To accomplish this a long march was vcessary through @ locality whicb offered many »bstacles to their progress, not the least of which was the marsby nature of the ground, But they triumphed over all obgtacles, and having erossed Hazel run, a small stream emptying into the Rappahannock, resolutely ad. vanced to the banks of Deep run, a parallel stream, where the column halted. COMMUNICATION OPENED WITH THR LEFT WING General Franklin had before this advanced his right to the opposite bank of the run, and in this way communica- ti n was opened between him and General Samner. From the natuse of its p eition the division was not exposed to | fire, and though the programme of the day did not call it | totake part in tho figuting, it rendered valuable assist- ance in carrying out a movement, the successful aecom- plishmont of which was #0 necessary to the direction of the battle. Battery E,of the Second regular artillery, under Lien- tenant Benjamin, attached to this division, did not cross the river, but had taken up a position behind the earth- works on the opposite side, where it participated in the artillery fre opened on the enemy to cover the geveral advance of the right wing, GENERAL STURGIS’ DIVISION. Thave now to speak of the most gallant portion of the operations of our corps on this eventful day—of the heroia under General Sturgie, which at one time threatened tu pierce the centre of the enomy’s immediate front, and had almost carried the middle of their first line of Gibraltar-like works. At noon Lieutenant Dearborn, of General Wileox’s Fowness of the stream enabling the enemy to pick off | san, commuvicated tho orders for the Second division te pilots and gunners from their cover under the ehore with” out their being ablo to reply with any effect. ‘THE ORNERALS’ MRADQUARTERA. Generals Burnside and Hooker have their headquarters: at the Phillips House, and General Sumner directs the movements of his corps from the Lacy House. Reports just received at headquarters announce that French’s division (Couch’s corps) has just carried the Couch’s flank, encountering, first ridge of hills. 1 hope to be able to apnounce before the close of this letter that the erest of the hil! is_oarried, pGgneray ds ai ee 7 Si * lieve General ready to Couch, and he Is. if with Gen. Burnside anzionr!y awaiting the word Bare. “Tho mint Tas fitted con” Sia¢fably, and the alr is comparatively clear, although a deuse cloud of smoke hangs over the whole line of battle. Four o’Ciocx P. M. THM FIGHT RAGES with anabeted fury, neither side seeming to bave any decided advantage. Prisoners say Longstreet and Melaws are in the rear of the city, aud Jackson on the left is confronting Frarklin, MOVEMENT? OF THE SUPPORTING COLCMN!. Stoneman, Whipple and Butterficld’s commands bavo not yet been engaged, beside this there are soveral de" tached bodies which can be brought up asa reserve if it ye found necessary. Sigel is alse said to be on the way up, and will be probably m time to open the fight to-morrow with fresh troops, ‘The appearance of the sky inlicates rain shortly, although the sun is now shiping brightly ‘and the mist mostiy gove. Srcowp Ansty Conrs, Dec. 13—Evening. ‘The development of the day's engageinont on our right enables me to give you fuller details of the operations of our corps. si ly after nine o'clock the Second corps, General Couch, which constituted the right of the attacking forces, moved out from the upper part of the city between the plank road and westerly outskirts, with strong detach ments of skirmishers in advance, The enemy yielded gradually, though they contested our progress with great stubbornness, and for some time the rattle of muskeiry was incessant. A REDEL RATTRRY SILENCED, At the same time that this movement was commenced the batteries of the corps stationed on the blu‘is across the river opened with shell to aid the exit of the rebels and cover our advance. The rebel infantry having failon back to their firet line of intrenchments and rifie pite, th Datterfes opened with a vigorous and rapid fire upon“our columns, which now had come to a temporary halt, awaiting the rosult of tho artiliery fighting. For some time our artillery on the bluffs kept up ® heavy fire upon the revel batteries with such succers that the ono on Tay. lor’s Hill, nearly opposite Falmouth, and commanding our right flank, was final}, ed During this time the artillery of the rebels was almont entirely deyoted to the shelling of our advanced truops. Occastonally they would send «shot towards our batterios, but they fell short or Jodgod In the town beyond. me a gH.» Hancock's division had tho advance, supported by French, while Howard's division wae held in reserve. Fiancock moved forward, ant when the engagement had regularly opened was Joined by French, Tho whole line now advanced to attack and storm the rebol right batter ries, while from all the enomy’s works a terribl i of shell, grape and shrapnel tore through their bleeding ranks, notwithstanding which they sterdily pushed on to the rifle pits, within a short distance of the first line of intrenchments. From the former they drove tho rebe's: making prisoners of some, while the remainder took re fugo bebind the earthworks, This was accomplished | aftor the most heroic and long continued efforta, uorer a galling and murderous fire, “The Irieh Brigade ow ared goveroly, as you will porcelyo by the extensive st of fia | killed and wounded.« right batteries aguinst the last attacking divisten of aw leet advance in snpport of Couch, whose fire was vow b ing feeble. The men, who were waiting under arms is the reur of the city, sprang into line with the greates! en(busiasm as the order was repeated to brigade aud regi, mental commanders, and in a shorter time thay it tues to narrate it the column was formed and moved ¢n echelon on the left of as 1% proceeded, the ep; filading fro which was being directed from the euemy’¢ nd corpl. Gaining an intermediate ground, 4 column opened a fire of musketry at long range, ground slowly to the front as Hancock’s division menced to fall back. Gen. Sturgis supported his lef} with Dickerson’s battery, which took up a position ia & bricks kiln, on an elevation near the raitread. DICKERAON’S BATTERY SILENCED. Sceing this reinforcement, the ememy concontrated @ heavy fire upon Its position, which resulted soon after tp the killing of Lieut. Dickerson, His first nergeant worked the guna until, with a number of his meu, ho was wounded whon the battery was withdrawn, Its place being sup- phed by the Fi'th Massachusests battery, of Griffin's divh sion, Butterfield’s corps, which had Leen moved forward ja support of Gon, Sturgis and the contemplated move ment of Gen. Getty, Captain Weed, of the Fifth reguias artillery, about the same time, at the request of Geo. Wilcox, placed Phillips’ battery iu position to cover the front of Gen. Sturgis, who now fermed his division ip Line of battic. AN ASSAULT ON THE ENEMYS CENTAB WORKS, General Ferrero’s brigade bad the right and General Na gloe’s brigade the left of the line, which, as it advanced. received a galling fire from large bodies of the evemy’s infantry, who were posted behind @ formidable stone wal and in ride pits beforo the first chain of earthworks, The tevel ground outside the city is fret broken by a slope pefore reaching the onemy’s earthworks, To the foot ob this slope General Sturgis had advanced in artmirable or. dor, bat on gaining It be found it necessary to carry the iit by a rapid movement asa preliminary to the! execu Lion of bis {atended object—the storming of the eentre works. By this time Hancock’s divieion had fatem back eptirely, oxposing bis right dank. Against him the fire of all the batterios—right, contro and left—wae concentrated, and the storm of nilaailes paged with terrible fury. Shell and grapesbot tore through the ranks, leaving swathes of dead) @ying ‘ud wounded in their path, while the ground alracss ran with blood, Suatatning bis position by two additional patterios he deputed the work of carrying these heights to General Ferrero, who formed hie Drigade with tho Ele. youth Now Hampshire on the right; the Fitty-first New York, Colonel Potter, 0 the left, and the Twenty-firet Masauchusetts, Colonel Clark, in the centre, with the Fifty dret ounsylyana, Colenol Hartranft, aud the Thirty Afth Massachusetts, Major Willard, on either sid CMABGB OF FRRREXO'A HRIGADE. In this ordor then the men at the pi to ~— dashed up the slope, through the shower of manket which quem infantry poured down from the crest, drove them back in confusion from the rifle pits te the theiter of the carthworks, nud beoume manters of thie po- |. White Geueral Ferrero waa omecuting thi8 moves mont Geeral Nagleo wae ordered by General Sturgis te create a diversion on the loft of the enomy, and, if poq fivie, take a portion of thelr right Dattorles, which had been annoying our flank, Forming the brigade in live of tie, with the Sixth New Hampshire, Colonel Grito, ‘on the right; the Forty-eighth Ponasylvania, Liewte~ pant Colovel Siegfried, on the left; the Nint® Now Hamyshiro, Colonel Fellows, in the — contre, with ‘the Seventh Rhode Island, Colona) ‘ee, 00 their right, and the Second Maryland, Colona von the lott contre, with the Twelfth Rhode Islae (CONTINUED ON FIGHTH PAGE.) Aloré