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(LATE OF NSW YOKK,)
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MACON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL :*O, 18C:>.
The fhUowing detaiia ol the gieat battle of the
West, were prepared for our last issue, but delayed
lor want ot loom. They are among the most im
portant chronicles of the day :
UATTM) or Sill I.oil.
Tilh: SECOND DAY’S WORK.
Correspondence of the Mobile Kegi-ttr.
Battik Field ok Shiloh, i
(Near the Tennesfie River,
Monday Night, April 7, IS»>2. )
We have had another day of battle and blood.
The tight waa renewed this morning ut 8 o’clock
by the enemy, who had been reinforced during
the night; and with the eireptlun at xluu-i i
npellw, H «t«h tveftiendous violence and
lury until night separated the combatants. The
apprehensions expressed in nty letter of last night
have been realized. Buell did come this morning,
and with him came large reinforcements. But i
am anticipating the events of the day. Let me
resume the narrative where mv last leiter left it,
and rehearse the varying fortunes of the day in
the older ol their occurrence. This is necessary
to a proper understanding of the buttle; and until
this general sketch or outline is drawn, it will be
impossible to enter into those minor details which
constitute an interesting feature.
Night alone prevented us from reaping the fruits
o( our brilliant victory of yesterdav. It was quite
dark when we chased the foe back to Pittsburg
Landing, where he sought protection from Ins gnu
boats and river works. Hr.d Beauregard possess
ed the power ol Joshua to command the sun to
stand slilj in the heavens lor the space of an hour,
our victory would have been as complete us that
of the great Hebrew warrior. As it was, we ex
pected to t>e able to capture so much of the Fede
ral army this morning as could not be transferred
to the other bank ol the river lust night, unless
large reinforcements should come to their relief.
The enemy received the most important aid
from his gunboats. Indeed he is indebted to these
gunboats lor his escape from certain destruction.
They, together with his river works, answered the
valuable purpose of fortifications, to which he
could retire when beaten on the field. With only
our light field pieces, it was impossible to operate
at night w ith any hope of success against those
boats und w'orks, or to piosecute during the heavy
stoim that followed the work ol completing the
victory. Our forces hud reached the liver in one
or two places as night came on, and in this way
had gained some knowledge of the ground and
the position of the enemy’s defences. With ibis
knowledge, and the enemy driven into close quar
ters and caught between our lines and the river,
there was every reason to believe we would be
able to capture the larger part of his forces this
morning, provided they wete not reinforced during
the night or transferred to the other bank of the
river.
Ihe boats kept up a constant fire during the
night trout the if heavy guns. It appears that the
enemy did not seek to reeross the river. Know
iug that reinforcements were at hand, lie held his
position on the liver bank until this morning.—
Gen. Beauregard knew there was a division ot 7,000
men at Crump’s Landing, a few miles below f’uts
burg, and he gave orders last night to proceed
against them this morning, and to capture them,
l'his division succeeded, however, in ioiming a
junction with the forces at ■J’iiifburg, and at 8
o’clock this morning the federal?, thus reinforced,
moved out from the river and ottered us battle.
Hiey must have known that oilier reinforcements
were at hand, and that they would arrive upon the
field at an early hour. The fight was renewed
about a mile and a half from the river, or midway
between the river and the Federal encampment.
The enemy came up to the work with great
spiiit and resolution. Appeals had doubtless beeu
made to ihe men during the night, and the tepos
sessional their camp represented to them as a point
of honor from which there could be no escape.
Ihe attack was directed against our centre ; and
though vigirous and spirited, and not expected, it
was repulsed, and the enemy driven back with
great slaughter. He rallied again, however, and
this time he moved with an increased force upon
our right wing.. 11,-re, too, he was tepulsed and
forced to retire.
His next attempt was directed against cur left
wing, his attacks growing more vigorous and his
iorees increasing with each succeeding movetuent.
Indeed, it was now evident that he had teceived
large accessions to his ranks, aid that we had fresh
troops and heavy odds to contend against.
But l lie Confederates nobly did their duty, and
the attack ou the left was also repulsed. The ene
my again retired, but only for a time ; for Bueil's
forces had now come up, and the attack was re
newed all along our lines, on the rigid, centre and
left. .Simultaneously with this, an attempt was
made to turn both our wings.
The battle now raged with uudescribable fury.
I have never heard or imagined anything like the
roar of artillery, ami the incessant rattle of small
arms. The deep thunder bass of the one, and the
sharp, shrill tenor of the other, intermingled with
the shrieks of bursting shells and the whizzing ot
cleaving tilled cannon balls were grand beyond
description, it was the awful Hymn of Hattie,
rolling upward to the skies and literally shaking
the earth beueath. It was a solemn anthem, and
uttered from bazett throats, that might have satis
tied Mars himself.
The Confederates stood their, ground against the
.vyt, and for the fourth time the enemy
|3fci t(,To ,-eiire.
: kimselt to .. a thousand waves—
inn- *» nerfeetl yochu
L. if ay. vi j° *.T Our men were greatly
ings with yfefought eighteen hours, and
fatalist, as n ,iule - having been engaged
that he can ‘ s '» l !'^ L “* out and
. ...e wounded, it was evident, too,
K e iS cfiemy hau been largely reinforced, and
unit each succeeding attack was made by fresh
troops and overwhelming numbers. In view of
these tacts, and in order to rest his men, and to
prevent an unnecessary loss of life, Gen. Beaure
gard availed bin self of the falling back of the
Federal.-? to withdraw his troops to the enemy*
line of encampment, where we rested last night.
This was about a nolle and a halt front the point
where the tight commenced this morning.
The enemy hesitated for some time, but finally
came up and lenewed the conflict, lie was met
with undiminished courage ami resolution bv the
Confederates, who displayed the greatest possible
gallantry. The battle raged on, and night alone
separated the combatants. At length the enemy
fell back, and so did the Confcdeiates, both sides
badly worsted and severely punished. Hardee,
who commanded the front liue or corps, held his
ground until the enemy withdrew. Our teserves
had been engaged throughout trie day, and Poll:,
Hragg, and Hardee, each in las proper position,
were in immediate command upou the field, and
noblv co-operated in the work ol the day. They
deserve great credit, as do the brigade and regi
mental ollreers, and the gallant spirits whom they
fed to battle, lien. Breckinridge particularly dis
tiuiroished bimsell. Though uot a military man
bv profession, Gcti. Beauregard is reported to have
said that he displayed great aptitude and sagacity,
aud handled his brigade with skill and judgment.
Having said this much, I feel it to be my duty
as a faithful chronicler oi the times, to refer to a
matter here which had a controlling influence upon
the fortune of the flay*
n ur attack yesterday was so sudden and suc
cessful. that the enemy found it impossible to re
move foe quartermaster and commissary stores, or
even to the baggage of the men.
file temptation ihus p. evented *a-» too great for
our troops to resi-i. Bund , „>)„ |«rg,- numbers
*'• * mm, '.uppiemg thete w utdd » «- no more fight
tng tel to work in gather up such spoils as the
F ederail eoi ampmtui contained. There were arms,
oieri oata, raps, shoes, collee, sugar, provisions,
|itini.s, blankets, liquors, prirate letters, and num
beriess other things which the enen.v had been
compelled to abandon. Such of our troops as were
engaged in sea.thing out the wounded and dead,
or v.i ie not ieslrained by a sense ot duty, wan
dered ft ..hi their respective camps, and spent much
of the i.igiip in plundering. Order* bad Wh.
•e-rvv-,1 uy General Beauregard positively prohibit
ing anything ol the kind, but many of 'the troops
are raw, and officers and men were alike elated at
our success; arid consequently the necessary steps
weie not taken to eulorce the orders of the com
nmuder-in chief.
At an early hour this morning, the men renewed
their search after the spoils of victory, and many
ot them weie separated from (heir 'commanders
when the enemy renewed the battle. Some of
them had even started back to their camps, loaded
with such articles as they had been aide to find.
Alter deducting the killed and wounded, and
those wbo were engaged in removing the wound
ed, it would be uo exageration to say that ft.ooo
sound and able bodied men had thus wandered
out of line, and took no part whatever in the bat*le
to-day. Ou the other hand, the enemy had been
largely reinforced.
Thus, with a diminished force on our part, we
had to meet hesli troops and a more numerous
army than that we encountered yesterday. And
thus, too, the spoils have prevented us from again
diiving the enemy back into the Tennessee, not
withstanding great odds in his favor.
<4t was well enough, while the conflict lasted,
that our troops should exchange their smooth
bored muskets and shot guns for the splendid arms
thrown away by the retreating foe; but there cun
t»e no excuse ior the disgraceful proceedings to
which I have alluded.
Ihe spoils ol victory are not less demoralizing
tlwn defeat and disaster. Such is the lesson taught
Gv history in all ages ol the world, from the time
w hen Admit was seduced by “the wedge of gold,”
down to the present day. It is hoped that the ex
perience of this day will not be tnrown awav either
by our officers or soldiers. ]\ W. A.
BATTLE OT SMI 1,011.
FEPF.RAr, ACVOUNT.
Asa matter of curiosity, we copy a por
tion of their details of the battle from the
Cincinati Gazette. They admit nothing less
than a disgraceful defeat and a full prospect
ot total annihilation up to the arrival of Gen
Buell on Sunday night—and after that time,
little more than that they saved the frag
ments of a defeated army. They admit more
truth in their admissions than is usual in tin
accounts us their battles.
ATTACK ON M’CI.V.RNAND’?. RIGHT.
To return to McClernand’s division. I
have spoken of bis sending up first his left
and then his centre brigade to support Sher
man shortly after the surprise. As Sher
man tell hack, MeClernand was compelled
to bring in his brigades again to protect his
left against the ones of the rebels, who, see
ing how he had weakened himself there, and
inspired by their recent success over Prentiss,
hulled themselves against him with tremen
dous force. To avoid bringing back these
troops, a couple of new regiments, the Fif
teenth and Sixteenth lowa, were brought up ;
but taking utterly raw troops on the field,
under heavy fire, was too severe a trial for
them and they gave way in confusion. To
meet the attack, then, the whole division
made a change of front, and faced along the
Corinth road. Here the batteries were
placed in position, and till 10 o’clock the
rebtls were foiled in every attempt to gain
the road.
But Sherfiian having now fallen back
there was nothing to prevent the rebels from
coming in Iwrfher on the road, aud turning
MeClernand’s right. Prompt to seize the
advantage, a brigade of them went dashing
audaciously through the division’s abandon
ed camp, pushing up the road to come in
above MeCltrnand, between him and where
Sherman had been. Dresser’s battery of
rifled guns opened on them as they passed,
and with fearful slaughter—not confined,
alas ! to one side only—drove them back.
But the enemy's teserves were most skill
fully handled, and the constant advance of
fresh regiments was at last too much for our
inferior numbers. Major Eaton, command
ing the lSth Illinois, was killed ; Col. Ilay
nis was severely wounded; Col. Raith,
commandi»gc » trail iiis leg so shat
tered that amputation was necessary ; Major
Nevins, of the 11th Illinois, was wounded ;
Lieut. Col. Ransom, of the same regiments,
was wounded; three of Gen. MoClernard’s
staff—Major tfehwat, and carried from the
field. Line officers had suffered heavily. —
The batteries were broken up. Schwarts
had lost half his guns, and sixteen horses.
Dresser had lost several of his rifled pieces,
three caissons and eighteen horses. McAl
lister had lost half of his twenty-four pound
howitzers.
The soldiers fought bravely to the last—
let no mail ijneilion that—but they were at
a fearful disadvantage. Gradually they be
gan falling back, more slowly than had
Prentiss’ regiment, or part ol* Sherman's
regiment, or part ut Sherman’s, making more
determined, because better organized resist
ance, occasionally rallying and repulsing the
enemy iu turn fur a hundred yards, then
being beaten back again, and renewing the
retreat to some new position for fresh de
fence.
By eleven o’clock the division was back
in a line with Hurl hurt's. It -till did some
gallaut fighting ; once its right swept around
and drove the enemy for a considerable dis
tance, but again fell back, and at last it
brought up near the position of \\ . 11. L.
Wallace’s division.
We have seen bow Prentiss, Sherman and
MoCleranml were dmea b*ek j bow, j
ds fiercely as they would, they -Mill lest
ground ; how their camps were all iu the
hands of the* enomy ; and how this whole
front Imi », for which Hurl hurt and Wallace
were but the reserves, was goue.
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thb assault on siikrman's left.
But the fortunes of the isolated brigade
ot Mierman s division, on ihe extreme left,
must not he forgotten, it was donbtly left
alone by the Generals. General <»r:mt did
not arrive on the field until after nearly all
these disasters had crowded uj»on u>, aud
each Division General had doue that which
was grmd in Ins own eyes, aiul 'carried on
the battle indepeudant of the rest; but this
brigade was even left by its Division Genov
al, who was tour miles away, doing bis best
to rally bis panic-stricken regiments there.
It was commanded by Oolouel# David Mu
art, ( tor late Cbidngo divorce ease fame, and
ex-Oongressinau, l ami was composed of the
Fitty-fitth Illinois, laeatenuut-l'oiouel Malm
botirg commanding ; Seventy-first < Miio, Col.
Romney Mason ; the Fifty-fourth Ohio,
(Zouaves,) Col. T. K. Smith. It was post
ed along the circuitous road from Pittsburg
Landing, up the river to Hamburg, sotue
two miles from the landing, and near the
dossing ol Lick Creek, the bluffs oil the op
posite side of which commanded the position,
and stretching on down to join Prentiss’ di
vision on its right. In selecting the grounds
for the encampment oi our army, it seems
to have been forgotten that from Corinth an
excellent road led direct to Hamburg, a few
miles above this left wing of ourfoieea.—
\\ itliiu a few days the oversight had indeed
been discovered, and the determination had
been expressed to land Buell’s forces at
Hamburg, when they arrived, and thus
make all.safe. It was unfortunate, of course,
that Beauregard and Johnston did not wait
i for us to perfect our pleasing arrangements.
THE CLOSE OF SUNDAY’S FIGHT.
We have reached the last act in the trag
edy of Sunday. Dll half-past four o'clock.
< )ur front line of divij ions has been lost since
half-past ten. Our reserve line is now gone,
too. The.rebels occupy the camps of every
division save that of W. H. L. Wallace
Our whole army is crowded in the region of
Wallace’s camps and to a circuit of half to
two-thirds ot a mile around the landing. —
we have been falling back all day. We can
do it no more. The next repulse puts us in
to tho river, and I Here nre not transports
enough to cross a single division till the ene
my would In* upon its.
Lew. Wallace's division might turn the
tide lui* us-—it is made of fighting men—but
where is ir i Mhy has if not been thunder
ing on the right for throe hours past / We
do not know yet that it, was not ordered up
till noon. Buell is coming, but he has been
doing it all day and all week. His ad
vance guard is across the river now, waiting
ferriage; but what is an advance guard with
sixty thousand victorious foes in front, of ns?
\\ e have lost nearly all of our camp and
camp equipage. We have lost nearly half
ol our field artillery. We have lost a divison
General, ami two or three regiments of sol
diers as prisoners. We have lost)—how
dreadfully we are afraid to think—in killed
and wounded. The hospitals arc full to over
flowing. A long ridge blufl is set apart for
sugieal useg. 11. is covered with the maimed,
the dead and dying. Aud our men are dis
couraged by prolonged defeat. Nothing but
the most energetic exertion on the part of
the the officers prevents them from becoming
demoralized. Regiments have lost their fa
vorite field officers, companion the Gapxain
whoni they always looked to, with tliav im
plicit laith the soldier learns, to lead them
to battle.
Meantime there is a lull in the firing.—
For the first time since sunrise you fall to
catch the angry rattle of musketry or the
heavy booming of the field *_'uns. Either
tfa e enemy must be preparing for the gram!
tiuni rush that is to erowu the day’s success,
and says flu; Southern Confederacy, or they
are puzzled by our last retreat, and are mov
ing cautiously, lest we spring some trap up
on them. Let us embrace the opportunity,
and look about the landing. We passed the
old log house, lately Post-Office, now full of
wounded and surgeons, which constitutes
the u Pittsburg” part of the lauding. Gen.
<*i7iit t urotr Ktarr are m a group Oeslae it.—
The General is confident. “We can hold
them oil’ till to-morrow ; then they’ll be ex
hausted, anil we’ll go at them with fresh
troops.” A great crowd is collected arouud
the building all in uniform, most of them
with guns. And yet we are m oling troops iu
the front so sorely ?
COWARDS.
(hi the bluffs above tin- river is a sight that
may well make our cheeks tingle with shame
for some of our soldiers. There are not
less than three thousand skulkers lining tin*
r
banks. Ask them why don’t they go to
their places in the line : “ Oh, our regiment
is all cut to pieces.” “ "Why d<*n't you go
where it is forming again ?" “ 1 can’t find
it, and tlie skulk looks as if that would be
the very last thing lie would want to do.
Officers are around among them trying to
hunt up their men, sterming, costing, com
manding-—cursing l run afraid. Or<--trange
fellow—a Major, if 1 remember aright—is
making a sort of elevated, s»n*cif»ii<* f iirth
of July speech to every hotly that will lb ten to
hint. He means well, certainly : *• 31-n of
Kentucky, of Illinois, of Ohio, of lowa, of
Indiana, I implore you, I beg of yam, come
up now. Ildp us through two boars uore.
By all that you hold dear, by the homes that
you hope to defend, by tbe flag you love, by
the States you honor, by all your love of
country, by all your hatred of treason, I con
jure you, come uj> and do joufr duty
VOLUME XL—NO '»•
Anil so on for quantity “That f*!!er’? n
good speaker/ was the only rest' tire i
heard, and the fellow who gave it nestled
iuo>t suugly behind his tree as he sp Vm
I know well enough the nature of ti e
skulking auimal in au army during a bat;!
I had soon their performances before, lat
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au utter sickness of heart as 1 looked—as
now. Mili Ido Dot believe there was \, r \
milch more than the average per cents e
It was a big army, atid the runaway- all
sought the landing.
This writer closes the tight ou Monday
with this consoling fact for his friend
‘‘that the fi'jht cm/<■</ > hn- it bujanV This
bears no semblance to a victory on the par
ot the Federal*. '1 he Memphis Appeal cmi
tains a li.-t of the officers captured, now iu
that place, consisting of Gen. I’reuti-s, 7
t olonels, - Adjutants, and Majors, >1 (’:ij tons
and 57 Lieutenants.
The correspondent says:
Here, unfortunately, Sherman s right: ive
way. Wallace’s flank was exposed, lie
instantly formed Colonel Wood’s Seventy
sixth Ohio in anew line of battle, in n lit
auglcs with the real one, and with orders <<»
protect the flauk. The Eleventh Indiana
was likewise here engaged in a sharp en
gagement with the enemy attempting to
flunk, for a time the contest waged flerfce
Hut Sherman soon tilled the place of hi
j broken regiments, again Wallace’s divi-nm
poured forward, and again the enem\ ive
way.
Hy two o’clock the division was into the
woods again, and for three-quarter- of .» iui!e
it advanced under a eontmuou sturm of
shot. Then another contest or two with
batteries, always met with skirmi-hcrs ar 1
sharpshooting—then, by four o’clock, two
hours later than on the right, a general >
bed retreat—then pursuit, recall a: 1 cn
i campmeut on the old grounds of Vhennu'--
! division, in the very touts from which tl
regiments were driven that haple - Suin’ y
morning.
The camps were regained; the rebels were
repulsed; their attack had failed; we *to« 1
where we began; the rebel cavalry wm •
within half a mile of us; the retreating <
uinns were within striking distance. Bn
I we had regained our camp- . A i\d so end 1
the battle of Pittsburg.
Tin: KILK.ED AND Wot NDFD.
I do not pretend to give more than an es
timate, but I have made the estimate with
some cure, going to the Adjutants of diffi r
ent regiments that had been in a* heavy
lighting as any, getting statements of theii
losses—sure to he very nearly, if nnt qi-i
accurate —anti approximating thu* fr m lc
loss of a dozen regiments to the pr
loss of all. I have ridden over th« i
too —have seen the dead and wound <
over the lield—have noted the numi -;■ u,
the hospitals and on the boats. A- the )•
suit of it all., Ido not believe that ui 1
in killed and wounded will number o\ i tin
tydive hundred to four thousand TANARUS! qn,
tion of prisoners is another matter.
Reports that certain regiments < nlv 1 v
half the men answering "ndl c : I imi
notliing. The regiments are all mm <-r
less disorganized and soldiers scattm- t c\
rywhere. Mauy go home with th ,
many ate tiirses in the hospitals, many kc
out of sight, seeing all they «*m.
K\ mf> I ion* i«ii«t«*r flu? 4’oti*rii|i>
lion Law of CongroM..
The following exemption bill was passed
by Congress, and signed by the President
just before the adjournment:
I A bill to be entitled “An act to exempt c r
tain persons from enrolment for servic in
I the armies of the Confederate States.”
Section 1. The ConfjrcKt of the Coufith r
’ afr £statrs of America do enact , That all
persons who shall be held to be unlit lor
military service under rules to be prescri! 1
by the Secretary of War ; all in the si rvi c
!of employ of the Confederate Stan s ; 11 ju
d’vtdal and executive officers of Confederate
: or State Governments ; the members <>f h th
I houses of Congress, and of the legislature*
[of the several States and their respective
officers of the State and Confederate Gov
| eminent* allowed by law ; all engaged in
! carrying the mails; all ferrymen on post
i routes; all pilots and persons engaged in
the marine service, on river and raili ad
I routes of transportation ; telegraphic op ra
tives aud ministers of teligicn, in the regu
lar discharge ministerial duties ; all engaged
in working iron mines, furnaces and foundu
rics ; all journeymen printer* actually em
ployed in printing newspapers;' all pre-i
--dents and professors of colleges and ae: de
mies, and all teachers having as many a
twenty sciiollars ; superinteudauts of the
public hospitals, lunatic asylums, and the
regular nurses and attendants therein, and
the teachers employed in the institution
for the deaf and dumb and blind ; in rath
apothecary store uuw established one apothe
cary in 'food standing, who is a practicable
druggist; superintendents and operatic*.in
wool and other factories, who may be ex
empted by the Secretary of War, shall be,
and are hereby, exempted from military ser
vice in the armies of the Confederate States.
—• J( !< }> moml K < a m iner.
(’ait. Morgan’ Again. —On Thursday
last this partisan soldier accomplished an
other feat, which resulted in the capture f
about fifty of the enemy. He w ; scout it ;
some eighteen miles from Corinth when he
observed a force of Federal cavalry approach
ing. After suffering them to pa>s, he tell
upon the rear and bagged the wholt j-ftrty
almoit without ft strvglta