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EW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 10,081. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, APRIL ..24,..1864—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. PRICE FOUR CENTS. action Decame general. Stauth THE VICTORY IN LOUISIANA. [erasers tnery wos, bet ite paren ane end ‘The battlo Geld was » large common just ea the outside tthe town of Pleasant Hill, eo the Bhreveport road, ble The extent of 11n 0o-operation depends on the depth | Jacob of water in Red river. pam orth Other betties mast e000 follow, and glorious victories rebeis. ‘oyened om the esemy with shot shell; but deepite ‘The ground was open and roiling, and sacended both from | wii be won over the trans-Mineissipp! ecpb Co. 1. the storm of Bullets neried against them the rebels (he pide of the towa and the side on which the The enemy appears to have moved his whole forces Balog, Cs. J. almost | near bere tocrush out the Union army. According to Fletcher, Oo. B. pore Apa yh gm timber extending ene noes the re.orts of prisoners, Kirby Parr, Peek Taylor, Joua P. Richards, Oo. B. Gener ’s division wae drawn up ip line of bat- | Green, Magruder and Price ai “eer jer al ice are all in The Battie at Sabine Cross fo great danger of béing tarned Geweral Lee, at this stage of the action, arrived on the te va the side of the bill, Dis right resting acrase the ke his commai rio Roads. gibend, aia he ieich Giecthicke Laas, easepaadeng road General "9 beigade formed The rebel loss in the battles of Sabine Cross Roads and | 4 o°Ve. Nana V4 tem usw vOam, » ders Stay the tte Plossant Fill wan three to our one. The lack of water | imam Coneiine Co! Hy Bip. Detween Pleasant Hill an ° fo fall back 10 Grand Boore, wore uew suppticn wil be Ri dcedel anet Oe jesund for & long and uninterrupted forward | Jaimeg I yuch, Uo. FE. thigh 4 Joba fi. Braboontiac RCo. E, thigh. Gaawn Koons, LA.. April 14, 1964. | 0,,U2. MoCormor, Co. A detachment of the third cavalry brigade, under | W\!/iam Niokiey, command of Lieut, Col. Kieb, of tho Kighty-seventh | Corporal Kiward West, Co. H. Re ere ‘BALLANTRY OF GENERAL BANKS, contest mow raged with renewed fury, and the pluck die Plain like a beaom of destruction. Hundreds fell dead and dying before that awful fire. Bcarcely had the seething lead left the guns when the word ‘‘charge” was given, and seven thousand brave men Precipitated themselves upon the shattered ranks of the enemy. Emory's division, which had only yielded to 80 nombers and remained uobroken, now rushed soraet and see ae ee ‘corps, Aisne the rebela rapidly dows t! woods, where they broke and * fied In the greatest confusion and disma: at every step, and drove the enemy inte the timber. Ly! ‘vat wae THE STRUGGLE AT PLEASANT BILL, | 7"?! stemvtea.s coarse, vot wore ropeieed with | cxiricated and made, he quape c0, «rebel horse elamsennaniiomninremtan Seeerandatenes yeslsr. | Hk SURENEE Sea eae Seed . ri 1 a rent gallantry by our troepe. Generate Leo ‘and Cameron dielayed great gelantey daw (0 tha Deahio Weldae, twenty mies ee i Co. b, arm and bead, COLONEL ROMNSOR’S CAVALAY—~I® GALLAWTRY, ‘hronghout tbe action, riding wherever the shot wards Pleasant Hill, Eight miles out smal! party of the | Se Joao Thomus B. Lawson, Co, A. * 18 was Dow discovered that our ammustion was giviag | (bickest, and by their example cheering the mee to desde qnemy, fifteen or tweaty in number, ware seen, wun | Corporal Jasoa Cannaed, Co out and that the enemy was mecsing On the right of our b fled precipttately. From the bridge, scouting partics were | ONR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-PIRG? MEW YOR, VALOR OF THE TROOPS, | ins, oven resonance win syst veer, com | whoressnveethine arm ua te seoly oS, sent out, who touched thelr plekote, but diwcoverot no | Halon Menard U Gulon, Dreant pelling our force to slowly retire seme hundred yards. Iiday rev ew, encouraging the men {o stand up to fadications ef the enemy in force. One of these sooutlog | Jacon Swartwood, Co. ‘G, groin, 3 b ‘The ection now became lively, and the lean of the day po lynest ‘The mea aro full of adustration (or tele a Ca . Sest brignde on | parties, led by Lieutenant K. V. Hitch, Assistant Adja- | Lieutooant James’, Cadmus, Go, D, Doth thighe: “ys fi é pine ‘ebeered on the poke, Lagi the gallant fellows, | Many a ei cane ee eh Tae Sire or : was ole ia ike oa prtacaee Hiteh pen ode oe jenna Toes Bovnton Co, Bshouler THREE DAYS’ DESPERATE FIGHTING. | *. ne tial whinean ant for. | S0arpassed by any auything im the annals of history; Vi f of the Righty-ninth | or and leaves for Ni Tice tate Sergeant desrge®8, Preatas Co, A, shoulder, 4 # air pad, Fated ut there is mot time to enemerate them now. One Je ate ingiens, Brown's) was in | S7m, and leaves for Now aa Lieutenant Joho Gibson, Co. A, thigh. ward and drove the enamy into the woods and off the tof artillery, however, deservea eapecial mention. on the right of The Missouri |” Our troops are tp excellent spirite and gaxions for | Arnett Onarien H. Beyer, 02.1 . field, The day was won, bat with severe Koes ia Bote Fils rave flog wound ot lenve bo gen, tegh cooupled ground on the right of tho Eighty-ninth | anotner advance, They ean whip the enemy in any | Waldo W. Brocts, Oo. 1, shoulder, officers and men, Captain Mens, ef the Fires Louisiana Perr a ‘Chior taslerien were but neither the stand up fight, unless a much saperior force ie encoua- | Herace Ciarit, Co. C, hand, When General A. J. ‘Smith Came Into | covairy, and Liewtenasts Graham snd Meader, of” the Parte rags in tompie Dy Bally and be = oceunied trite met C sha oomatere fered, of whieh Lhere is no fear whatever. Geores W, Eget, Oh, Kara. Action and What Ho Accomplished, | Pevtgrem.vesecmanaten cite pines | Ser sery termi taetiner | Reagemrasriceet tn egies ms | woe ore tna Sy coeene, oe | Eeorues te Lae Sree Le ease bin Teed curator talgndo, eieaaiy q@omy: but a was opened for eecape. . Faget ib ise, that sabe it commanded by | a6 the victories which afterwards followed, When Win. Kahaton, Co, 8, Dace sat re followed hy Colonel Robinscs, with Third eavairy Our troops well, and ealy yielded the whee Hil. Emory’s division came up the enemy was pressed hard, | sergeant Jono H. spell, Co. 3, armms Darsced the enemy several miles, aa far ag Car. | out to pieces overpowered by numbers. General Mower commanded the second brigade, and Wm. Woodhouse, oo. ‘ Polls Basil; where’befeuea ahem sdrawa upton | rals aod their staf oficers daservs. much oredit Ecce: | was fly im command ef the whole force, while | Sad hie oases must have been terrible, as that division, | Wem Wendnows: ite (Mime, The Grand » weeded bill, with four guas. Heavy infan ral Banke’ steff was io the thickest of the fray, end | General Commanded the corpa a6 a separate com. | though fighting almost alone, punished the rebels se- b reed ingen hy Charge “and Over- sed artilery Stag cortineed ntl ‘ightfal, when, fa | Colnmels Clark and Wilson, sabre ia hand, rallied the men | mand. sama verely and forced tnem back with fmmense slaughter. | Henry Brown, Co. D, bruise. threw ef the Enemy. on the Eighty-soventh, coming ep io within. too foot" of TF areny waited the ap- | Or lossen ia the earty part of the action thet day meet | Frankia Hommes, Co, B, bleh. thet lime ang Gring . The gallant Righty-seventh day wore away many | have been equalled by the enemy's lees at Ite close, | wiiam teary Garvey, Co. A. leg. bold their position, whe the enemy were clcee upon Wane hears of day Uhough the capture of our artillery and trains wae a point | Capsain M. Tiltson, Co. K, right arm ampotated vt fighting eT neemmaninpeiaiben this Mig anny a enamine day's fight at Pleasant Fill uheenemy Jimee Acceso, bs Bare ractared, GUNG LOST AND RETAKEN. EPRI ccs Neecey mark vpen is | sases bane tenk nts battle Male Mecoemiew, Oo. 2. arms ed heed, + Four brigade Med. ‘were being drivea teats tocenene.: Te field, whieh | ‘Tyler Congdon, Co. D, a ~ EEOOND DAY'S BATTLES. the Diulle of Babine Cress Roads, inaas tie em marebing down upeo him in three lines | wo cceupied that night, was strewn with thelr deed and | Filiah Sprague. Co, A- On thie morning of the 8th, at an early hour, the cav- cig ner ei ny a Reo ry oo ane five the on | Wounded, who also dotted the roads by which our victo- Willizes { amg om, Go, Hs East fren y: seoperes ol Renoreenin brights GF SEMIS, A color bearer in Cam<ron’s division foumd | the ‘a the edge of be ‘woods, and the battle com. | Tous army pursued them until night rendered longer romp — Gilea, and West Fight Shoulde division of the Thirteenth corps, moved | nimself surrounded by th ‘qxemy, who quite menced, our batteries opening ‘Dim, with case shell | DUrtuit impossible. : oe Aco ag ody forward, and'siment immediately discovered masses of | rily ordered bim te He did not halt, but ry ate ‘gonk across ine field tothe | , 10 the continued prosecution of the campaign there are | J. M. Burrell. «to: Should ith the coomy im front. Colonel Loose deployed his cxyalry | forward ‘emia. the shower of bulieis ana Aifficalties v0 encounter which General Banks and hie | Franklin Holmes, Co. D. S= e W OW © | \etesco en the let of he toed, and Colonel Rmoraca's | "Te! her Gur et, Colonel Beneait's brigade, came into sation | STOP Neato roree diorandria, mower new’ tous over | Caplan James Gibron, wounded. Yorkand Pennsylvania, —< | rite wes deployed ca theright. Rewle's battery (3) 414 not retire tit the fre. was big hot and | She'batt fod Seventy, 4 afoot | before.atthia season of the year. and st ce posible (Rot (ne | one HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SROOND NEW YORE. Fifth Unied States artillery, position jo the | 4° Or the enemy's iktle too mene for safety. safety of the gunboats and Mon tors above Alezandris will | Oo), Lawia Renedict, commandiog Third brign@®, Firs hes Be. 08. J the | Dy the captare of General Lee's cavalry trate the Hirnacd render the abandonment of military occupa’ion imprac- | qiyisiom, Nineteont bh corps, killed, Foad, and opened on the rebels, who were posted ine | and its correspondent lost several ‘aud other cam. band, and with great desperation, | ticabie. Light dranght ti can pass the falls for | Corporal Heary Beckers, Co. G, leg. With open fields in front. The day was | paigning conveniences, Dageage.and. papers, 1 ‘Nothing could ex tacts some weeks yet, aud the army oannot be cut off from ite | Henry Duettman, Co, B, arm. Deaatiful, and the sen shone warm and from Snecro servant named Willis, supposed to bave been | troops; bat it was ev! supplies. Stitt the supplies wil! not come forward 80 | (orporal Thomas Moore, Co. B, arm, THE CAMPAIGN A UWION SUCCESS hiahs of on | killed, ‘This is the second. servant of the same corres. | the whole army. P rapidly ae if the waters of the Red river were of the or. | petor Jackson, Co ‘m. ‘ r be eaepibartiaiaac Iipes moved forward to the musie | pondent who Bas beeo ‘or killed by the rebele. | numbers, our line fell back up the hill to the Sixteenth Poppiglnigptdbn be ee eee: ee ee John Warnford, € ip. . t boom ing cannon Drisk ratio of mntaketry, Nena? battery, when the time’ was approaching that ich rncealed ‘reat. fa % 5 + . Fighting contiauea mo Seen i which ia could woke oct bat mile Tooger, loaded cach piece with | “Taylor's battery for et it talo the hada of tne | dered impracticable, tne cereaaty of Boling and'occupy- | en Co'e, Co. H, chon. re throughout , daring 0. case of grape and canister, ‘cage shell, and a | enemy. ing Alexandria and ‘Natebit: ches remains, and so far the | ics waitle, Co H, leg. time the enemy hed been pushed back through dense | sack of bullets contal "Sout three buncred, This AMITH OPENS FIRB—THE CHARGR—VICTORY, forward movement Is « success. ‘A. B Faimatier, (0. H, thigh. INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLES. | piney woods a distance of six miles. Her Sasatt and testrncthn ince theverkeor the éoemy, | General Smith made all preparations te receive the ad. | . Between Pinesant Hill and Mansfield, © diatance of | Corporal Julius Latiges, U0. K; log. “ From almost >i the rebels hurled who wavered and fell back at every discharge of thess | vancing foe, and asthe Raman tide came rolling ap-the | twenty miles, there is = deficiency of water, without C0, G, shoulder, query dillep. their abot | ficed guns The battery lost tweaty one officers and | hill he looked quietly on until the enemy were almost up | Which an army cannot be subsisted or marched. it je, ro. D, thigh. ~ at our advancing columns, but doing little harm. fm one privates, sixty four horses and een mules, to the muzzleof his guns, when a sheet of flame finshed therefore, quite desirable that the movement from one to F, foot, @f these many skirmishes Lieutenant Colonel Webb, com- | Captain Crosby, of General Y staff, had bis hand | along his lines, and, with tbe crash of ten thousand thun, { the other of these points eball be rapid. Corporal Samnel Groeninger, Oo, A. = injured by the jam between the trains and a hurrying | dors, musket balls mingled with grape and canister awopt |. Rebel oltizens und rebel prisoners havo all agreed i | jacoy a, milior, Co K, thigh. WAMES OF THE KILLED ANB WOUNDED, marding the Seventy-seventh Illinois Volunteers, was th the matement that the enemy were determined to dis- | Zorveani-Major Harry Filch, wounded and mifeing, pute this road, and that they expected to fight against there because it was remote from tbe river, and wher we could not receive the oo operation of the gunbonts. ‘The latest advices from General Steele were that he wae within either sixty miles,or one day’s march, of | [eur kcuader, killed. Bhreveport. with fifteen thousand men. (apt Pennk TeJobhoson, killed, ‘Admiral Porter, with two Monitors antl his flagsbin, 3 ‘G, killed, went up the river from Grand Foore a week since, It 18 | joory Miller, (0. H. prem to operate against the rebel seat of government | 5). MoGowun, Ob. A. Co. B, wounded and mixsing. ‘shot through the head and almost instantly killed.. Lisa- ynded and WON WO 8 prisoner, tenant Jones, Sixteenth Indiana mounted infantry, was ‘ also killed, and Captain Merklein, Fourteenth New York cavalry, slightly, and Captain Breese, commanding Sizth IMPORTANT RESULTS. | ‘vicar cavalry, severely wounded. - ke. &0.. &e. ad chide instore tale Wscaiiemainais Lieut. Madisoa K. Fi : foree Cross “aloael Henedict, while gallantly lesdin igade in | in Louisiane. Gotien, Co, B. Tho sieamshio Missenippl; Captain Kennedy, arrived | dogun, which won bepe ep mal tueededh ahs toe toa charge fal donde pireed vbr és allae ue oe es deine Theuts Fife wounded tad & peiaoner, Yosterday mornitg ‘toin' Rew Orleatie, whesice was nolory won. Our troope : » wound : Rae ba ghey edaaresay ns reeee Snape enaie me por. THE VE! Lieut. Gibson’ im that Sau “ee pe Dw pgianbac tig fevtoenme About ett RE RPE over 90. sbaede ot Landrum’s division. General Banks ia the mean- time bed arrived on the field, and at once sent couriers ‘The steamship Evening Star, Captain Boll, which otarted | ror Gengral Franklin, who wae some miles-tn the rear, to ‘We next morning, arrived yesterday afterneca, hasten forward with all possible Gespatch. Generale Stone, Lee and Ransom rode to the front and carefully G 8 Ia, April 8, 1864. Teeonnetered the enemy. He was in bis favorite post- Shave Bice particulars relating | $8, om high ground in a thick wood, with open fields in ONS HUNDURD AND SIXTY-PIVTH NEW ORKe Lieut. Colonel Gouverneur Carr, arm. Grawp Foore, April 15, 1864, Sergesnt Elbert 0. Ste 00, B, arm. ATIAON UPON THR STRAMERS—DEATH OF GXNERAL GRKEN. ‘Wm. Ming, 00. B. Ke About twenty-five miles above here, on the left bask | Peter Wagner, Co. ie. of the Red river, the rebels opened on the tranaports peer 5 fresh Nokel Lr a Clara Rell and Rod Roy, and fired twelve shote into them. T Welany, Od. E, thigh. A fores of a thousand mounted infantry, said tobe part of | Wm. Smith, Co. F, knee. the rebel General Greeu’s command, came down tn frout_| Se! of the battery and poured volleys of musketry tuto the | 1 iouteni wes hunéred all the dead and wounded, three battle anda large number of email arms, Qe {he cavalry skirmish on the road from Natchitoches to | ‘P@ form of @ semicircle rumning arcand bis froot. ce steamers, which worst of it, whee ard O'Donnell, Co. B, abou Cie point yoatorday. There are other pointe to be men- | At half past two o'clock all was quiet, and exceptan oo: | t™S'er: Bh beaten ded to end ter enol aca a email gfrorreriyrcs ats ‘aha up. shelled and fervoant Hugh raver, Or. B, am ‘ieeed iutorest to {Re friends of the Four. | ©a#!0na! shot from pickets here and there along the lie ‘clothes and other Sixins, Colonel Briabin, of Geae- % silenced the battery and compelled the rebels to fall back. George W; Rambull, Ce. O, 1aoe. teenth New York cavalry and to the pablic generally. there was no indication of the @rendful scene soon 10 Be | Fal Lee's stall, lost some five hundred dellare worth of " fen. 4. 3: Guntth's Sixteenth corps cudecquentiy errived:| Liccienoce D.¥. H. Thomas, Co. H, enncted. To look up at the clear blac dky and dows at clothing and movey, together with the sash worn by the undergone to pursait of the ol INCTORNTS OF TRE ricHT. the green earth in the sunlight one would have rebel General Barksdale, which was captured at Gettys. | enemy. near the scene of action, having crossed over from Grand o AND SEVENTY-THIRD NEW YORE. At one time, after Rawie's battery had played mis- | thought it im Defore tbe sun fe the beavers | DUPE, ad @ valuable sword, also captured near Gottys. | | This baitle wae soe of the best appoloted and delivered | Eoore, marched up the right bank of the river and again | Lieut Col. Win, W. Green, JF., olbow. invously on the rebels, they attempted » bold charge | weal down the turf beseath our feet would be made | PU'E- >. BORED wae tbe Gull, aad is equally overable te ail whe | eromed over to push aod punish the enemy. They cap | JNM fileia. (0. OSs sarck. Oo, K, head, ‘wpon it; Dut grape and canister were poured into their ‘eevke: Teter Ge bees Tee eked So ea in it tured two guns and seventeen woun4sd prisoners, who | Win fnbear, (oH, heud and shoulders,’ Beaks with such death-dealing fury that, panic strickes, | on ibe ground, the troopers lounge dlacily ik thelr eadaloe, assert positively that the rebel General Green was killed | Andrew smith, (o B, shoulder aud arm, the every retired in the greatest confusion. and the canacniers sat upon their guns, ing the bby ashell from the Rob Roy. Thie te another signal vic- Pateyoke Melua, Oo. Fete ipytabeh woe tens. ‘Major Barsford’s Fourteenth New York cavalry made a | jutm sunenine, while groupe of oflcers around tory. ERG i feries of most brilliant charges wpon the enemy with | carciecs joke, a Pee * ‘The rebels left one bundred and sixty-four of thelr | ove youNDRED AMD SEV*NTY-RIGHTH NEW YOR®, @rawn sabres during the seven miles of skirmisving JER ENEMY IN MOTION—TERY GAIN GROUND. dead on the ficld, slaughtered by the terrific fire of our | Fdward Conwuy, Co, A, hand. esterday on tho road from Nasebitochee to thie polat. | nemoving wowards our right, asd skiembiug’ Decains gunboats and transporte ta tbeir precipitate retreat, | Lieutenant Wiliam G. Trick, Co. I FOR WHAT NATOUITOCHRS 18 FAMOUS lively. At balf-past three o'clock the enemy were Their slightly wounded were taken off. T. Conroy, Co. A. om ate By the death * honocie Green the enemy have lost ene PORTY-REVENTH PENNSYLVANIA, of their moat valuable officers. New Onrzaws, April 16, 1864. ‘Natchitoches (pronounced Nackitosb) is famed a8 the Sa aemeaeaet nee ce ‘Place where one of the Heeatp correspondents was im- | Conceal Franuiiu, nnd the right Jest fall, with several of cers’ tak prigoned together vi eur o! uy, se, ete Same Be iar Gomes Se" teceeenth arany Gorge’ "10'S aise hamnos a vi See Trenidence of at army, carpe. Ieee niee tamed 0® | iodiana and the Chleage Merenntie bel(ory, was posted maypiters bate > c sever O -y ress acti coat nag once | Bent Sepated ty tena Weseny sean mites ely aeons | Q2T%,{"oncre sce cites. Dr Some 8 modo, | Sought heb it avow of t . ‘. ’ . ‘neg : Bares ariy Seventy four votes ageiust secession | fantry. The cavalry brigade of Colevel Incas waa ordered baving been sent 10 convoy the wagon traine to Grand | 1 i a1 Director of General Ransom's detachment of the | Lemellyn 1. S hlepny, Co ¥ lem. Circo the iarce of voting Louisiana out of the Union was | ct upon the right flask, the cavalry brigade of Colonel or amet eR Sea ieancvnree, of the | William Ofibaus, Co. Fy emncted. Jres ordered vo sct'upea the left dank of eur line, Fe ee eae TIME, WAGE Cocteel Macon en | Crt Sem, corns, cone, Sewn Saree NIMs’ BATTERY. ENTITLED TO HORORADLE MENTION. and the cavalry brigede of Colonel Robinson to remain killed by the unerring rifles of the Nipeteenth Wes | wounded on one of the transports. He deserves the | pirat 1 jeutenant W. K. Suow, wounded and a prigoner, Captaio Ennis and Lieutenant Cashen, of the Fourteenth | °nposite the centre, in rear, on the road, and to guard four balls est commendation for the unremitting attention | Beoond Lieutenant Char'es B. Slack, wounded, Wow York cavalry, wore in the edvance, with Major Bass- | Wagon trains, Destowed on those heroes | Corporal C, F Livermore, gunner, wounded, Waa, oe thes vosiasout tnd Major Srecy ot thevcoruing | at (our o'clock, or a little before, the enemy was re- job he demanded should be on Corporal ¥. A. Fellows, runner, wounded, cavalry, one "General A. L. 4 to be [wien Colonel Wilson, of General of Madine Cross Roads and Pleasant Hill. In his estima- | Corporal C. W. Green, gcnner, wounded, the series of brill ke’ staf; Colonel inet Generel Lee's otal, Maker tdi the best that was on board the transport was none | corporal W. D. Bults, gunner, wounded. Lam, of the Fourteenth New York, and Liantenant Wea- Cowan and other staff officers, were sent te ascertain toe good ior the bumbiest soldier under bis care. 0. W. Knowles, wounded, ‘yor, of Colonel Loces’ staf, alee mea. | (ruth of tbe report. These officers seon revurned , and A. V, Heyward, wounded. (Ged for maintaining tho masse position in the advance. Gur ts00pe, ia silence awaited ine. cibecky XW, Roath voontes- _— 3 Orison Littie, wounded. Gaawo Rooms, Ta., April 11, 1964. ion "Bihan hee ptt ne eat Tho ee dachita Metarrow, wm: usded, 3 G.D.ftgeet, wounded. re flowers, wounded and « péleonée.”-~ Tesuiea bol ascent evant oe a. prion, Thomas ou 2 me sta Wm -pending, wounded abd © proener Lieutenant Riordeo,-kilied. > Mi Corcoran, misniog. t wae Ch ve » Pieatenant Roow, rcaderieg Bias surgical i i VHIRD MAFRACI USBTTS CAVALRY, C, finite FOURTEENTH NEW TORE OAVALaY. Jolias P. Geb are and breaat ‘was called by General Banks, and {t was decided to with- Ue, 3 ; draw the army to Pleasant Hill, that plece affording a : ‘* their @ arrival, and bravely indeed did they struggle agaist the masses that con- eae eee es eee ae and im front; but, borne ma by numbers, their shattered ranks were pushed ever the field and into the woods beyond. The enemy had now driven back our left, aed were within sixty yards of Nima’ Lge od whieh was fring double ba 4 Of grape and eauister, sweeping down the that Nim” battery) We ik, were bot reas . morning that be was made aware that our army bad left " would be captured, by direction of Gen: Btone Resgeant Hontery, Co K, back. Yored Colonel Brisbia io‘ have it taken from the nela, | hi immediate front, when hefellowed after with his main Bagier Norman L. Barber, Co, H, leg. et Sp pepe gE Lap A a enee eur whereabouts. But they fafied to come up with oor Cor justavos Wagner, * SCALE OF MILES thick about the gune end dead and wounded rebels a owen, Co. K, arm and leg. Oe ic thnervitee | WW tarowe oocore thom, Two of the gue wore dragned forces until they bad reached Pleasent Rill, General Keay é0, K, back. : off by hand, and Lieutenant Snow was shot dows Emory’s division brought up the rear, and arrived at 8 third. Four of the gues of thie beitery coald | Piessant Mill abowt seven e'slock tm the morning. uee FIRST DAY’S FIRST. be got into the bande of the enemy. ROONRONEANGR AND CaVRITD —PLA _. 2 a Ua ‘man Ti mga red. A. ‘00, K, lon At daylight on the morning of the Tim the army was i ii I fH i il ij and Colonel Gooding, cothmanding the Fifth brigade of the » lon. ‘motion. The caveiry found the enemy to covsidérable | OOF Coutre wre beima pressed back, and finally the airy division, . Co, Cyarm. = perce, but drove him before them with some toss vat | S80 eave way. Si ques of See odio tetlery ‘taro. | CRYST Avision, up soon aa General Emory bed arrived . re thar, Tart ence, slightly. kaw HAMPSRINE CATALAY, wo milen beyond Plensant Hill, whore the rebels wore | wo mrumane hownent ot toe Bath” Miseeer! now'tsst REN, CASUALTIR. sat Beadigomery 3torse, Oo, ©. Corperal W. Colby ,Co. D, arm amputated, frawn up in line and rtrongly posted tn the edge of « four gane of the }iret Indians battery 2D AND FOURTEENTH NRW FORK. Chartes W. Turner, Co, D, breast. rood with open folds fe fremt: ‘The foros covsieted uf Cored i. 36 Moree, right art, Bice imwese, OD. some iwenty-five hundred cavalry, undet the rebel Gene- ©, tas. Rotas fod ho Green, ‘rest C0. ©, Ino. aanTn re , and occupied the of Gbill on the form of Charles Adams, Co. B, groin. Lieut. Wm, P. Freonjn, Co. F, both thighs, De. Wileon, Joneph &. Smith, Co. K, thigh fractured, Jeane W. MoDonald, Co.'D, arm amputated. General A. L. Leo ordered Colonel Rebipeon, com. Lieutenant H. H. Moss. rT... (mawdiog the Third brigade of Union cavalry, to advance DRED AND SIXTEENTH NAW YORE. . ) . ng a eo a8 telnet Sonnets (rented fahniry was accordingly seat forward on foot, wewEehun’ Ste hen Burbank, Co, G» * 4 eon decame heavily engaged with (he enemy, Silas H. Aroold Co, B, chin and left arm, Capt CY 4 el Pigjog them bard pressed, Colones Robinson ordered for - Corperel Fou Leeman, Cs, K, fout. Bergeant G. H. Gordon, we be Loulgigns cavalry to papper’ iby ~— <a oe OONTINURD ON BIGHTE PAGB) i

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