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6Y K,& J.E. CHRISTIAN. j|j { gates on (SReehla Journal, Published Every Friday. r & J.~e7 CHRISTIAN, EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. — T fjt.lfS— Strictly Em Advance. Three mouibs f> ™ si * ino ;; hB ::::::::::: oo Ooe y»» r •' " . .. , Haiti* of Advertislny : n p doll.r per square of ten liDes for the first tlon Htid Seveuiv-five Cents per square for subsequent inanition, not exceeding three. L.mnre three months I 8 OO n c e square Six months 12 OO Dm ,qu»re one year 20 OO 1, 0 squares three months 12 00 two squares six months 18 00 )«o «qiitree one year... 30 00 Fourth of» column three moths 30 00 Fourth of a column six months 50 00 Half column three moths 45 00 Half column six months It) 00 d m column three months 70 00 0,. column six mouths 100 oo Job If *orh of every description executed , it h neatness and dispatch, at moderate rates. maco.y hi si.yi.ss cahmis. ’ LITTLE, SMITH & CO., JVCacon, Ga., DEALERS IN Saddle Bridles, liar- HfS9 —Harness and Saddlery Ware, Leather 0 U!! kinds, Shoe Finding, Carriage Trimmings, &c. 0- HARNESS MADE to order. 2 3m* PATRICK & HAVENS, Wboleeale and Retail BOOKSELLERS. STATIONERS, And Genera! News Dealers—Triangular Block, Cherry Street, JTlttCOtl, Ga. 2 ts CHSH D. riM't.AY. ®i A - kxsuh a. FINDLAY & KENRICK, AVCTIO.YEERS A.YU Commission Merchants AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Triangular Block, o :im MACON, OA. JONES & BURNETT, auction and Commission IVlerchants Cherry Street, .Baton, Ga. At the old stand of H. B. Clayton k Cos. J. E. JONES J- C. C. BURNETT, 2 3 m JAMES H. ANDERSON, LOCiS F. ANDERSON. J, 11, ANDERSON & SON, FACTORS AND COMMISSION MCII ANTS, Corner of Third and Popular Streets. Macon, : : : Georgia. WE arc «till enntinueing the WarollOUMi W and C'oniiniNstoii Business, and will receive and null Cotton and all Produce entrusted to our care. Prompt re Wins of all Pal’ 3 W *D Le iude. We are also pf< pared to fill orders for PLANTATION SUPPLI P'S, We solicit consignments of Tobacco, Corn, Flour, Bacon, Lard, Sugar, Coffi'O, Iron, Si eel, Yarns, Sheetings, Osnaburga aud Produce gener ally. % 3m* H. SHAW &. CO., DEALERS IN HATS, GAP S, Straw Goods, See.* WHOLESALE AM) RETAIL. \ i ’ E luive constantly on hand the largest stock ' r f huts and caps in the oitv of Mv on. inducements iPffered to Morchattts :'1 [ ters. VVe have huts which we are off ring ic*s trangi; g from sl2 60 to $l2O per dozen. Cten-v Street, >IAtOS, iIEORGIA,- a ‘!»e store of T. W. Freeman. 2 Dm* y>. R. SINOLKTON, W. C. SI NO LUTON, T. J. HUNT SINGLETON, HUNT & CO., (orPo.sitE usiir housi.) n.ICO.V, : : : GEOBGI.I. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, HATS*, UMBRELLAS, ETC. ■ No2-8m THE LADIES, 5 visiting Macon will 6nd many KOVEL »nd beautiful articles for dress and toilet at the NOVELTY STORE, No. 11 Cotton Avenue a few doors above Mix od Kirtlande. Ko2 8m LONGLEY & Y/ALSH, Auctioneers AND GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Cherry Street, Jttacon, t*a. 1 the Store formerly occupied by E. Bond & Cos. REFERENCES: A Kirkland New York. Hodgkin, Scott A Cos “ “ .■ F. Wood & Cos , .Boston tirke, & Anderson, “ o’ Chamberlain, Memphis, Tenn. „ U Wood, A Cos., Nashville, •• annon, OlTut & Cos., New Orleans. tane, Johnson & (iraybill,., Savannah, Ga., “‘an, Smith & Cos. Augusta, Gt. Bowers, Columbus. 44 J R- Wallace, Atlanta, “ attention given to the purchase, ‘“e and Shipment of Cotton, Cotton Yarns, Usnaburgs, Sheeting", Ac., Ac., «?vt ’'ir Late firm of K. Bond, A Cos. t \ ALSH, Late firm of Horne A Walsh # « b - ’Oth, lies. 3m. THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL, JlAtt'SO.Y HI SM.YESS C A HUS. W( X I'i’lNX IIOYL,~ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 2 ly Dawson, Ga. F. HI. 11/IIIPFR, ATTORNEY AT LAW. DIWSOX, TERRELL CO., GA. Will give prompt attention to all business en trusted to his care. 2 ly. STIAM.QN& & COKER, Attorneys at Law, D.ftrs O.Y, « E ORGMA. r r. siMMONS. feb‘23 ly w b c. cokkr. JAMES SPENCE, attorney at Law, . , MIA It'S O.Y, GEORGIA. • VW Office at the Court House. feb23 1 y DR. C.T. CHEATHAM, DAWSOS, OEORUIA, Office, South West corner of Public tquart. C CONTINUES the practice of Medicine in all its J branches. He pays special attention to the treatment of all chronic affections of eit her sex ; and to the treat merit of all secret diseases. He may be consulted by letter, describing ape, sex, occupation, and habits ; and giving an accu rate, description of all the symptoms, duration of sickness, etc., etc., And enclosing Tctl liol m By return mail he will forward all of the □ecessarrv medicines with full directions. 3 ly. DR. C. RAU3HENBERG, OFFERS his Professional Services to the citi zens of Dawson and the surrounding country. Office a' D.wson Hotel—up stairs. feb2B 6m dr7d.h. farther, At the late Residence of Cot. II 'tn. MM. Stilts, near Dawson, Ga. W/HTH an experience of 20 years in the prac v V tice of medicine, feel, qualified to treat any case he may he called to attend. feb23-tf DR. J. L. D. PERRYM AN, OFFERS his professional services to the citi izens of Dawson and vicinity as PveSCVib I tiff 'Physician. Office at his Drugstore under the Masonic Hall. Also takes this occasion to say to his old arm? friends, who are constantly asking his advice by letter, to apply to some re spectable physician personal!?, where they can ha?i* their cases properly examined, and ‘-o pre scribed for. marl 6,3 m DR. J. D. HOYLE, MAY be found at my office. In my absence . from office he will ?isit or prescribe for ary case that may require it, and will, in connection with myself, treat any case that niav be entrusted to our care. C A. CIIEATIIAM. Dawson, Ga , April 6th, 186(* j pTallen, WATCH AXI) REPAIR VAje&LitL* KvvE 1 E R * Dawson, Ga., TS nrrn,r»d tn do any work in hia One 'n the very beet style. feb23 ts J. Hi. S. NtllTI!, gun smith and Machinist. DA li'SO.Y, : • Georyia. Repair, all kinds »f Guns, Pistols, Sewing Ma chines, etc , etc. 2 ■ DAWSOX HOTEL, Southeast Corner Public Square DAWSON, GA. Ctl. KAUSHEXBIIHO, Feb. 23, 6:n Proprietor. New Livery aud Sale Stable, TV STOCK BOUGHT D A. AY SO N , Cl A. Dll. W. W. F.\KNi T M f keeps good Block, good vehicles, and good drivers, and is prepared loseud passengers to hdv of the ad joining counties. Hacks at tho Depot on the *r rival of each train. feb 23 ly 1 U 1 YOU WA NT something- c;ooi>a TO EAT, DRINK, OH SMOKE, S~\ ALL ON PStI.YCE X BItO. They V_ keep constantly nn hand a good supply of Fine Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, Oysters, Sardines, etc. Hey have, in connection with their estab liehmeut, a well arranged BILLIARD SALOON, Supplied with-the most popular improved fixtures Dawson, March 2,3 m ATTENTION! CARRIAGE AND WAGON SHOP. JI.IBSH.ILL MI. BISHOP, Is at his old stand again, near the Depot, ready to do all work in hi* line of business. If you want your OLD CARRIAGES AND BUGGIES GOOD AS NEW, bring them in. lie will work at old prices and take provisions at old prices, if pr* ferred, but if I have to pay present, prices for provitious I must have present prices for wo»k. I have with me one of tbe*bcßt wagon makers in the country. April 6tb. 2m. DAWSON, GA., FRIDAY, APIMD 180(1. From Blackwood’s Magazine. A VIVID BATTLE PICTI UE. Memoirs of the “Confederato War for Indepen ence," by IJeros Von Bor. ke, Chief of Staff to Gen. J. K. B. Stuart. EVENTS PRKCKbINO THE BATTLE 0T FREDKR -ICK.SBDRO, December 12. At nn early hour of the mo-ning we wore again assembled on ‘‘Lee’s llill," viewing the plain beneath us from which tlio fogs of the night were just rising, and where the rays of the newly risen sun re vealed many thousand Yankees that had crossed from the Stafford side of the river Hince the previous afternoon. The enemy seemed as busy as bees Long trains of artillery and ammunition and provis : on wagons were to be seen descending the bights on the opposite side, and intermina ble columns of infantry, blue in color, and blurred by distance, flowed towards us like a steadily advancing sea. On and on they came with flashing bayonets and flut ter of flags, to the measure of military music, each note of which was borne to us by the morning hr eze, and we could dis tinctly observe them deploy into line of bat tle. From the many heavy batteries over the river rose, from time to time the little white;puffs of smoko, and the deep dull loom of tiie big gims was almost immedi ately followed by the angry whir of a 50 or 100-pound shell, which tailing in the ma jority of instances, too short, did little or no damage. Our artillery, from different points along our line, occasionally answer ed tiie eunny’s guns with just us little ef fect. and our confident lelief that the groat battle would be fought on the morning of 12th was more and more weakened as the day wore on. About < leven o’clock I was asked by General Stuart to accompany him on a ride along our lino of battle to the extreme right, that we might Icm,k after our horse men, reconnoiler the position and move ments of the enemy in that direction, and ascertain whether the nature of the ground was such that a charge of our whole cav alry division during the impending fight might he profitably attempted. It was u pleasure and an encouragement topasstho extended lines of our soldiers, who were lying carele-sly around their earthworks, or actively engaged in throwing up new ones—some cooking, others gaily discuss ing the the de-igns of the enemy, and greet ing with loud cheers of derision the enor mous shells, which they called 1 Yankee flonr-barrels,” as they came tumbling into the woods around them, and to read in every bronz'd face of them all eagerness for the conflict, and confidence as to the result. * * * On the left wing of A. P. Hill’s division we had to pass a small piece of wood, extending in a triangular shape about six or tight hundred yards outside of our lines, with a base of about half a mile offering, in my opinion, a great ad vantage to thd enemy, and I remarked to Stuart that I tlought it ought to be cut down. He did not regard this as necessa ry, as he did not believe that under the sweeping cro-s-fire of our artilleiy, the Fpderals could ever advance so far. The events of the following day proved, how ever. that I had been right, as, undercover of tiiis identical piece of wood, a ho,tile dixision approached so rapidly and unex pectedly that here alone our line was brok en, and we suffered swere loss before the enemy could be driven tack. Wo found our horsemen in good spirits and occupy ji g their position on the Port Royal road, where the right wing engaged jn a live ly skirmish, with a bod}’ of Federal cav alry which headed iu tie withdrawal of the latter. A sluggard Artillery fire which had lasted all day grevvArhout one.o'clock, into a spirited cannonaileVll along the linos, in which the Federal li<At batterries on our side of the river tool to part, it bWng altogether maintained bV their heavier guns on Stafford Hills, vhis ■continued until two o’clock when the king slackened again to the occasional boom of the larg est pieces of ordnance. On the road between llami!tin’s Crossing and Fredericksburg, thousands if Yankees were working like beavets in digging rifle pits and erecting works for their arfllerv. SUiart being anxious to discover exictly what they Were about, T rode with him. in that direction to a small burn, where vo dismounted and tied our horsee, and then® carefully approached the hostile lines b* creeping along a ditch which led into the main turnpike road, constituting the boun dnry of an inconsiderable plantation.— And i^OTT) Thus we proceeded until we reached a s'ight eminence only a few hundred yards from the Yankees, where two big posts, the remains of a dismantled gate, conceal ed us from their observation. Our own view was so satisfactory that, with our field glasses, we could distinctly mark the fea tures of the men. It was evident enough to us that they were engaged in convert ing the simple road into a most formidable work of defense, and that, in Jackson’s front they wtre massing large forces of in fantry and artillery, of the latter of which I counted thirty-two guns in one hatteiy Quite content with what we had seen, wo returned to our horses, and I received or ders to ride at once to General Lee to make a report of ocr reconnoisnnce, Gin Stuart'himself galloping oVer to A. 1\ Hill. After a rideof a few minutes, I met Gei ends Lee and Jaekjon, who were tak ing a turn to inspect our lines, and to re connoiter tlv se of the enemy. Upon hear ing what I had to tell them, both generals determined at once to repair themselves to the point of lookout from which we had just withdrawn ; and leaving their ntliner ons escort behind, accompanied only ly an orderly, they rode forward under inv guidance to the barn already mentioned. Here the horses wire placed in charge if the orderly, and we made our way on ford to the gateposts, Fearing to augment the danger of thejr situation by my presence, 1 retired to the roadside some twenty yards distant, and left tho two great leaders to their conference and survey. I must con fess If h extremely nervous as regards their safety so close to the enemy, who surely little suspected that the two great est heroes of tho war were so nearly at their clutches. One well-directed shot, or a rapid dash of resolute horsemen, might have destroyed tho hopes and confidence of our whole army. The sensation of re lief on iny part was, therefore, great, when after many minutes of painful anxiety and impatience, the generals slowly returned, and we reached our horses without acci dent. Wo were soon joined by Stuart, and all except Jackson, who parted with us to re gain the troops under his command, rode back to Lee's hill, from which a desultory fi e was still kept up. Here we found that one of our 32-pounder Parrot guns had burst only u few moments before—a disas ter which was foi-tunalely not attended w ith loss of liie, but which came very near proving fatal to our English friend, Captain Philips, who was standing at the instant of the explosion quite close to the gun, huge fragments of bi?*l J .As*en scattered with i art'll] violence all around him. The witnesses of the scene were full of admi ration at the coolness disj layed by our vis itor on this occasion, and none of us could fail to remark tho soldierly indifference to danger he manifested under heavy fire throughout the day. These Parrot guns had been manufactured in Richmond, and the iron of which they were cast was so deleotivo that the second gun burst the same evening, wounding several of the gunners severely. At dusk the firing ceased altogether, and we returned to our little military family, officers and gueHts gathered around the glowing fires of Stuart's double chimneyed lent to recite the adventures of the past and and scuss the chances of the coining day. TIIE GREAT BATTLE OF FHEDFRTCKRBURQ. December 13, 1862. The darkness of the night was just giv ing way before the doubtful light of morn ing, which struggled with a dense, all-ab sorbing fog, when the bugle sounded to horse at our headquarters. In obeying this summons, every men girded his sword more tightly around Tiis waist, and looktd w ith a greater care than usual to the sad dling of his horse and loading of his re volver, feeling well assured that the hour of the momentous conflict had indeed ar rived. Our guest, Captain Philips, believing that lie could obtain a more extended view of the engagement from Lee’s hill than from the position of our cavalry on the right flank, c nclmled to separate himself from us for the day, and at au early hour w e parted with this portly grenadier, whose engaging manners had endeared him to us , all. Our parting had just that little ad mixture of sadness in it which came from the involuntary migiving that poe-ibly we w ere bidding each other a final farewell. Captain Philips had worn in camp a nar row- red and blue striped necktie, consist ing of a bit of the ribbon of his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, whi h at the mo ment of leaving us, he handed to Pelham, with a request that be would wear it as a talisman during the batt'e, and reltirn it afterwards as a re’tque. The boy bero, with the blush of modesty aud pride suf fusing his fair cheek, readily accepted the compliment, and, tying the ribbon around hfs cap, galloped ofl’ with us to tho front, where we hastened to take our position on the extreme right. On our way we met General Maxey Gregg, a gallant officer from South Carolina, w ith whom lexoheng ed a few words of friendly greeting for the last time, as a few hours afterwards he was a corpse. Jackson had chosen his own position on an eminence, within a few’ hundred yards of Hamilton’s Crossing, which rose above the general elevation of the ridge in a sim ilar manner to Lee’s Hill on tho left, and whxh has ever since borne tho name of ‘•Jackson Hill.’’ from its having been rm dered liisto ical by the presence of the great warrior during the fight. Tlero wi first directed our horses, and h re we found Stonewall and A. P. Hill, with tbeir re spective staffs, looking out through the white mists of the morning into the plain below, from which arose an indistinct mur mur, iike the distant hum of myriads of bees, vaguely announcing to us its hostile occupation by thousands of human beings. Jackson and Stuart concurred in the opin ion that it wou'd be the best plan to make a sudden general attack upon the enemy under cover of the fog, which must have prevented tho fire of the numerous Fcder l al batteries on 'lie other side of the Ruppa hunock, or cause 1 that fire to be ineffec tive; but General Lee bad decided in yunoil of war against any offensive move lent, preferring to fight behind his in tinehinonts and to inllict a severe blow Uj«p the enemy without tho risk of fearful losmf life, even should tho material result pitA a less decided one. Aer remaining for half an hour upon Jack, ids Hill, wo rode down to the lin s of on cavalry, and found our sharpshoot ers all dong tho L’ort Royal road, well posted t rifle-pits or behind the high em bankini ts of the turnpike, tho regiments a li'tle further back in t|, o re . serve, ari Pelham’s eighteen pieces of In rso artilry in favorable position, the young leadr longing for the combat, and anxious toipi.n the bail wi h some of JfiV light guns. Nine ovli'k came and still the vapornui curtain oviffung the jliteau, still tint brooding sileae prevailed, which always. seemed tire <le»>«r just before tho furies of war wer eto bvunehaiuoi, and wo sl.wly returlieu 10 tin Crossing, almost despairing that the decisiw.action w> uld be fought' on that day. lire we dismounted, to rest our horses, and found a convenient seat on a large box, .|ie of many filled with boats and uniform for our soldiers, which had been near tho station for distribution i imnj the respective com mands o' our armt [ had been settled but a f w moments,Yhen suddenly it seem ed usthojgh a treimdous hurricane had burst upon us, and %■<> became sensible upon the instant of fowling tempest of shot and shell hur'ed feainst cur position fiorn not fever than pieces of nrtillery, which had opened all along tho hostile lines, with a roar more deafening than tho ’oudest thunder. II mdreds of missiles of every size and description crashed through the woods, bruakiug down trees ami scattering branches and splinters iu all di rections. I was just calling out to tho or derly who held my linrso and who had been walking the animal up and down at tho dis tance of a hundred yards, to return to me at onee, when, about thirty paces from me, a young officer of artillery, struck by the fragment of a shell, fell with a groan to the earth. I immediately rushed to his asris tance, hut reached him only to receivo his parting broath as l lifted him from the spot. This incident, sad as it was, saved my own life, for, a few sooonds after I had left my seat, a huge shell falling into a pile of b x es and bursting there, shattered them to atoms, filling the air with the debris of wood, leather and olotbiog. As this can nonade was to be immediately 1, llowed up, in all probability, by a general attack, we gwll«-jed*sjp to our \v -,t with the cavalry, which as yet had suffered not at all from the heavy fire of the enemy, this being concen trated chiefly on our main lino. And now the thick veil of mist that had concealed the plain from our eye rolled away like the drawing up of a drop-scena at the opera, and revealed to u«, the countless oorj s, divisions brigades and regiments of the Federal army forming tbeir lilies of attack. At this moment I was sent by Btuart to General Jackson with the message that the Yankees were about commencing their ad vance). I found old StooewtJl utamiing at ease upon his hill, unmoved in the midst of the terrible fire, narrowly observing the movements of the enemy (Lrougli his full glass The atmosphere was now perfectly clear, and from this eminence was offered a distinct view of more than two-ihirds of the battle field and the larger part of the whole number of the advancing f..e, extending as far as the eye could reach—a military pano rama, the grandeur of wl ieh I had never seen equalled. On they earn a, in L -autiful order, as if on parade, a moving forest cl steel, their bayone f s.gls!enitg in the bright sunlight ; on they came, waving their hun dreds of regimental flags, which relieved with warm bits of coloring the dull blue of the columns and the russet tinge of the winter landscape, while their artillery be yond the river eontinu and ibo cannonade with unabated fury over tbeir heads, an 1 gave a a back grouud of white fleecy smoke, like midsummer clouds, to the animated picture. I could not lid mysi If of a feeliug of de. pressioo and anxiety as I saw this innumer able host steadily moving upon our lines, which were l.i Iden by the woods, where our artillery rnrintaiued as yet a p< rfeet silence, General Lee having given orders that our guns should not open tire until the Yaukees had come within easy canister range. Up ou my mentioning this leeling to Jackson, the old chief answered me in his character istic way : “M j r, my men have sometimes failed to take a position, but, to defend one, never ! lam glad the Yankees are coming.” lie then gave me orders for Stuert to em ploy his horse artillery, and open tiro at once on the enemy’s flank. Pelham was accordingly directed to pre pare for aotjgp, but, being exceedingly anx ious to go to work without a moment’s delay, ho begged Stuart to allow him to advance two of iiis light pieces to the fork of the road where the turnj ike branches iff to Fred ericksburg, as from this point tbe mastics of the enemy offered him an easy target. The permission being given, P.dbarn went oft’ with bis two guns at a gallop, an- ii t iLe Pud chccrir g of the cannoneers, and iu a few moments his s li 1 shot were plowing at rhort range with fcaiful effect through the dense columns of the Federal*. The bold ness of tbe enterprise ifn 1 the fatal accura- cy of tho firing seemed to paralyze for a time and thru to stampede the whole cf Ibc extreme left ot the Yankee army, an J tc ror and confusion reigned there during some minutes; soon, however, several batteries moved into position, and uniting with gev oral of those on the Stafford llights, con centrated a tremenduous fire upon our guns. The rest of the horse ariilbry bad in tbe meantime j n ified in the cannonade, and tbe thunder sion rolled along our tiues, while from the continuous roar the car caught dis tinctly tho sharp, ripi ', rattling volleys of musketry, especially in tbe immediate front of Gen. A. P. Hill, where the infantry were very hotly cngigcd. The batile was fully develope.il, and tho mists hf the morning were presently succeeded by a dense c! ud ji [owdur smoke, out J which arise ever and anou the dark column from ari exploding caisson. At intervals, above tLu fimmlt of the conflict, we could hear the wii i hurrah of the attacking host of Fed, rals, and the difiant yell cf tho Cnnfe ’erat s, as tho as sault was repulsed. Directly in i ur own front the cavalry sharpshooters had l’come ecu pied with long lines of hostile tirailurrs, and a vivid fnsifade raged all al i g the Port Riyal road, the shot and shell t.f our horsq ar’.iilery, which was in position in our rear, crossing in their flight the mb ilea t.f the j enemy’s batteries, high in the air above the ’ heads of tur men. The filing grew mi/o an- j iniated near a number of stacks of straw, which a body of Federal infantry had taken possession o', and which offered them so efii cient a shelter that ill attempts to di,-lodge . them had j roved in v .in ' [ Fa.J just’teen ordering our men not to wa t: thiir aruinu tition, and to lire only when thiy sa.v the person of a Y.nkie completely exposed,, when close at hand 1 h'ard the dud thug of J a bullet striking homo, and turning round, saw one t f our soldi r<, a gallant young fob j low whom 1 know well, throw up his arms I ami fall hex-, ily to the ground. Dismounting 1 st otter, I bastcce I to big side, but finding I that the ball bal struck him right in the | middle of the fore heap I regal Id him as a | corpse, an 1 deemed all further as-is’scoe as wholly unnecessary. Nut many minutes bad elapsed, In wc-ver, before tho apparently dead man b gan to move; and wh~n the surgeon who bad already arrivt and poured some brandy down his throa', to our infinite armament, he opened hi< eyes. A few hours later, miraculous to relate, when the bleeding from the wound had ceased, he had recovered tuf ficioi.tly fr im the severe sF c’.t to return t > ! his {Ojt f du'y. Acemiirg to the physi- oian’s statement, tho hall striking obliquely, had glanced, passing through tho cuticle amj skull all around tho head, emerging at lasi from tho very place it had first entered ! Tho fury and tumult of tho battle lasted all tho forenoon and until 2 o’clock in the afternoon, along Jackson’s lines. A com parative quiet then snoooeded, tho infantry fire lied away, and only a regular intermi’- teot oanuonade was kept up in our immedi ate front; but from the loft, Fred- I crieksbnrg, there came to us the heiixy boom j of artillery and tho distant rattle of small arms, and we knew the fight still raged i there with uodiininished fury. So far, all j had gono favorably to us. The division of A. I*. Hill bad sustained tho first shock of the Federal attack, which for a whilo had promised success to the enemy. On the left wing of this division, undercover of the fog, and protected by a triangular piece of wood, already described, tho hostile oolumu had fallen rather suddenly upon our mon, tho first lino of whom, c- nr-isting of a brigade of North Carolina couscripts, gave way, reaching the second lino in their rotreat at the same momeut nearly with their pursuers, with whom they became indiscriminately mingled, whereby was caused inevitable con fii-iou and greet loss of hfo on our side.— Here the gallant General Gregg fell mortally wounded, while attempting to rally his men. Our reserves speedily coming up, however, with the right wing of E. rly’s d.v si >n, tie Yankees were repulsed with sevrre less, and pursued far into tho plain. ’] ho whole of Lilly’s and Hood’s divisions now soon be came engeged, and after a short but sanguin ary contest, succeeded in driving bark the enemy in like manner with fearful slaughter. Again and again, with the most obstinate courage aud energy did the Fedorals renew the attack, bringing mere and more fresh troops into action; but their dense lines were so much shattered by the appalling fire of pur aitilllory that upon ooming within rango of cur infantry, and being there ro ocivcd with a withering bail of bullets, they broke and 9 and time after time, leaving the ground slrcwn with hundreds of their dead and wounded. Our men could with difficul ty beheld back in tbeir intrenchmeuts, and more than onee followed the flying host far out upon the plateau, until the sweeping fire of tho Yankee battery put an end to tbeir pursuit. Immediately in front of Jackson’s bill tho fight bad, for a considerable period, been li reest, and our antagonists, repea iug the onset with the greatest bravry, bad, on sev eral occasions, come up to tho very muzzle of cur guns. Here, opposit > his great name sake, foil the Federal General Jackson The troops under bis command broke into disorderly flight, after his death, and one of his regimeO'a, from the State of Pennsylva nia, was captured to the last man in the railway cut. iu the front of our position, where j they sought, shelter from tho tremendous lira of artillery and mu-ketry that poured down upon th tn. Wbilo the Yankees were thus Buffering roverscs in tb : s portion of tho fi Id, larg" masses of their troops bad been c. Dcentra’e •’ at Fredericksburg, ofposito Mary’s lights, where that stern and steady fight r, Long street, awaited their attack with bis accus tomed composure, and whero our great leader, Leo himsi If, inspired tho troops by his presence. This portion of our line was unquestionably the strongest, and the filly of tho Federal oimand r in sending his men here to certain death and destruction is cer tainly incomprehensible. All along Mary’s llights runs a sunken read, fenced in with a stone wall on i filter si le, wbiuh in itself con stituted a most formidable defensive work for tropps. , A little higher up tbe hill there wa3 a regular line of entrcnclmionts, the defenders of which might fire over tbe heads of tbn e below them, and the crest was occupied bv the numerous pieces of tho faun.us. Wash ington Artillery, under tbeir gallant com mand' r, Colonel Walton : so that their as sailants were received with a triple sheet of fire, which swept them away by hundreds I'be Fodt-raW certainly behaved with the u'- most gallantry. Line after line moved for vyyird to the a.-uufi, only to recoil again and again from the murderous tempest of that, and shell, anl bullet-, and to at jew yet more thickly, with dead and wounded, the crirc son field, which was afterward most appro | riately caui.d "riic slaughter pi n.” Pick ett's divirion was but little engay and hero, the wide open space cf ground giving au ii'c oppnitun ty to cur artilcry to play upon the , hostile ooliimn.-, ecattering them and throw ing them ii t) disorder, t;veu before they could form tbeir lima of attack. Ab 'iit three o’clock in the afternoon there seetned to boa new movemeut pr. paring on the enemy's left ; and General Stuaif, WJ3 - peeting it might bo :i movement on our right flank, ordered tne to proceed with twenty couriers to our extreme right, recon noitcr the otiperati.ms of tiio Yankees n clnsely as p ossible, and seud him a ri pu t every five tninu'es. Captain IJ’ackf, id who posesseJ a very good fi, ld-glass, velum teered to acoompany me, ami we at oucc trjttcd off leg'thi r upon our h-’z .rdous ix pedition. Near to tho point where the Massvpouax creek firls into the Rappahan nock, and at about one hundred yards’ dis tance from tho larg, r stream, there ri o" a small elevation of ground thickly cuvcrcd 1 with cedar and pine trei s, from w hich we were well assured there might In obtained ] in goo 1 view over the river and ihu whole I 'licit wii gos the Fidervl army. This h ; l flock w.v. n’site outride of our tines, aad there jhad been pushed firwtru toward it only a' -mall ho ly of sharpshooters, wham we found 1 dying q,,uoealvd in the hu .hcs bt io.v f„ r : the Yankees, perfectly a» are i f ti e imp r i l ujc of this pou t of i bs rvttiur, bad e'ear- j rd the summit of its ociu at ts by a ovete: ! firo, whin* ver a ; r.iy naifoi tu had been seen i tbuc Irfavirg the ei’uriers at the foot of I the bill, iilaektord and 1 dismounted and climbed Ci.utiou .iy up to the top, creeping along through tho bushes and ' concealing our olves behind some poo trees that grew on the way. The view wlrch l ere presen ted itself to our eyes tar exceeded our ix ;e aliens. 1 h Yonki e , not mere than a 1 thousand yards dini. ut Irom us, were evi- t dcuily euuogh preparing ft r anew adaance rcicforc m u't were moving up at a dcul 1 -» ! /VOL. I. NO. IS. quick ami forming^ foT'nc of triived; troops that Itjfo been engaged ini , tho battlo ami been ffnnlsed were march jsqjkilv io ho rear; vbMdcd men were being ( oarried off by hundrijjl while there ga’loj* cd up andyfown the # lines general officers (with thfiT staffs, totno of whom we oould | personally recognize tbrouh our glaasos. To j the right we looked down upon tho river for | a oonsiderabio distance, and could plainly see and cojmt the heavy guns on the oppo- I site bank, and could oven Lear oannoneers. (lautious ns we had been, however, the Yan kees quickly discovered our presenoe, and a numbi rof ilieir sbarpshsoters, seotforward to I dislodge us, commenced a sharp firo of ex jploding bullets, which, striking tho objects j around with the n iso poouliar to j these yrfyyn'iU n, and scattered their frag ile DN iii eljnry direction tiko small shot. ell protected by the pine trees, wo paid lvWiC attention to this fusilade, when and «tily Ii bserved two pieces of artillery mov iing into po.-ition, BEekford fic j filled uttering “Von, the Yank ees are going to shell us out of this,” a mis-' isle, whizzing to|prd us, struck the topmost 1 r niches the.j ines, and, exploding *here, rufffiadown upon ns a shower of limbs and*splinters; Ohcrs followed in ! rapid sue cssiori jjith .iJereßsing accuracy of aim, so that we coneluued to evacuate tho | spot and Ipsoi'e siijfcVhh hill. *’ apeojiirough the bushes, wo thought it wmffil easy matter enough to get a seotlrity, but tho onemy’s gunners follow&l rtiU- movements with a nicety of calculation so admirable that shot after shot came and nearer to us, and at tho that we supposed ije had reach, a shell pass ed so ueaß,o orffr heads that my gallant friend and mystlf were precipitated head long, by the force of windage, at least fif teen feet down the hillside, where wo both lay uiotioi less fi r a brief space, and then rose iu a fit cf uncontrollable laughter, as wo looked each other in tho other’s blank and astonished face. Returning, as soon as the firing had ceased, to the spot we bad so suddenly adandnned, we saw the Federal lines moving forward to their new attact, which was introduced and supported by a earn >ada ot several hundred pieoos, equal in fury to that of tho morn. The balls fired from the opposito side of tho river, howled and hissed in their oourae over our heads, each tliot from the heavy guns reverberating from the cliffs like iolling thunder, while the musketry soon became audible again, giv ing proof, by its increasing vehemence, that the hostile parties wero now hotly engaged. An hour of auxicty and doubt passed away, ’until at five o’clock wo saw scattered fugi tives straggling to tLe rear, their cumbers augmenting every mnmeni, until wholo reg iments, brigades, and divisions, in utter oon fusfiin and bewildered flight, covered tho pam before us. Blackford, as excited as my si If, jumped from bis hiding place, and I throwing his nap in tho air cried out, "Thank God, they are whipped—they are running." . Ye-; there was no doubt about it—they were running; and all tho efforts of their oifiners, whom we could distinctly sec using their rabres against th ir own men to cheek the precipitate retreat, wcie unavailing.— All di-eipline was-lost for the moment, ami those thousands of troops whom an hour b« fore we bud seen advancing in beautiful military order, now presented tho spectacle of a stampeded aud o’emora'iz. and mob. Hav ing kept Suart constantly informed of tho enemy’s movements, l was at this moment more.careful to send courier after courii r to appriso him that the Yankees were routed, anil that in my judgement the time fi r our attact bail arrived ; but my geucral did net fully credit my report until, at my urgent request, he galloped up to us in person to see, just a little too late, bow c< rrect my ae.-ount. ii affairs had been. Off wo now : hastened to Jaekson, who at cnco sent to i fin ti ral Lee the r quest that he might leave ; his eutreuclrirnls without delay, fail upon |the enemy, and render she viotory complete. A single cannon shot, fired from our center, was to bo tie signal fur the general attact by our whole line, at which movement Stu art was to press foward with his cavalry ami horse artillery- vigorously upon tho emmy’d flank. R turn’ng to our position on the Port ; Royal road, we a wailed in anxious silence : 'lie so much desired signal; but minute after minute passed by, and thedaik vail of night began to envelope the valley, when Stuatt, j 1 elieving that the summons agreed upon had , been g ver, issued the order to advance Off wo went into the gathi rirg darkness; 1 n ur sharpshooters driving their opponents , easily before them, and Pelham, with his , gun-, pushing ahead at a trot,fi. ing a few , shots v heoever the position seemed favora | hie, and then ag in pressing forward. This ; lasted about twenty n mutes, when tbe fins |of the enemy’s infan'ry began to bo more ! and more destructive, and other fresh battcr i tvs o|«ucd upon us * 8;iil all remained si-. . lent upon our main line. B'uart himself, as usual was always in the extreme front: exfosing his pen on to tie hottest lire; me bullet had already pi reed his haversack , and another bad tern the fur collar off his cape, an 1 tho wo: and r was tl at any ono of ua bad escaped unhurt. Our situation had become indeed a critical ote, when a courier from General Jackson galloped up at full speed, bringing tbe order for Stuart to retreat as quiekly as be could to his original position. Our commander* in-chief, adhering to his earliest idea, still o'jeered to a forward movement, for which, in my judgement, the golden moment had now passed, had he declined to fave,r i. Under cover of the e’arkness of the eight, wo conducted our re'rograde movement in ‘at ty, and reached our old posit’oa on tho 1‘ rt Royal road with Lnt miall loss. The division of D.fT. Hill had now arrived at Hamilton’s Gri s.-irrr, ami had been placed at once in the open field upon Jackson’s right, where might be teen theglare of their hundreds of camp-fir s, and where they wero busily engaged in throwing up intreneh ments. Ou our left w log the asst ult of tl © enemy had been renewed rt dork, and had been at tended with (he small fatal remit (o than wi h their i fforts elsewhere, and the ground iu fiout of Mary’s lltighta was Leaped with