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BY TELEGRAPH.
Bombardment of Fort Jackson,
Near New Orleans!
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HEROISM OF THE GARRISON!
A GALLANT DEFENCE I t
Nmw Orleans, La., April 23d.—The follow 1
in g official dispatch was sent from here by Maj.
Gen. Lovell, commanding thia division of the <
Confederate Army, to Brig. Gen. Duncan, com
manding Fort Jackson:
“Say to the officers and men, that their he
roit fortitude, in enduring one of the most ter
rific bombardments known; and the courage
and skill with which they crush the enemy
when be dares to come from under cover, attract
the admiration of all, and will be recorded in
history as splendid examples for patriots and
soldiers. Anxious but confident families and
friends are watching them with a firm reliance,
based on the gallant exhibitionthusjar made of
indomitable oourage and great military skill.—
The enemy will try your powers of endurance,
but we believe with no better success than .
that already experienced.’’ [Signed]
M. Lovell,
Maj. Gen. Commanding.
Gen. Duncan’s reply runs thus:
“I have to report, this morning, the same as
previously. The bombardment is still going on
furiously. They kept it up by reliefs of their
divisions. One of their three-masted gunboats,
painted grey, came above the point this morn
ing, but was struck and retired. We are
hopeful and in good spirits, and I cannot speak
in too high praise of all the officers and men
No further casualties to report. Let the peo
have faith and fortitude, and we will not dis'
grace them. [Signed] J. R. Duncan,
Brig. Gen. Commanding.
[second dispatch.]
New Orleans, April 23d.—The following
dispatch was received herefrom Fort Jackson
to-day:
There was a heavy and continued bombard
ment all night, and is still progressing. No
further casualties except two men slightly
wounded. God is certainly protecting us. We
are still cheerful, and have an abiding faith in
our ultimate success. We are making repairs
the best we can. Our best guns are still m
working order. Most of them have been dis
abled at times. The health of our troops con
tinues good. 25,000 thirteen inch shells have
been fired by the enemy, thousand of which
have fallen in the fort. They must soon ex
haust themselves. If not, we can stand it as
long as they can.
Brig. Gen. J. K. Duncan,
Commanding Fort Jackson.
FROM RICHMOND.
Richmond, Va., April 23d. —All is quiet on
the Peninsula to-day.
There is no news here.
FROM THE THIRD GEORGIA REGIMENT.
[We are permitted to publish the following
private dispatch from an officer in the -3d Georgia
Regiment to a relative in this city :]
South Mills, N. C., April 21st. —via Norfolk,
April 22d.—In the battle of the 19th, five men
were killed and fifteen wounded in the Third
Georgia Regiment. Os this number, two of the
Confederate Light Guards were killed and five
wounded, viz: killed, Thomas Wildner and
Samuel May; wounded, William Champlain, K.
Robinson, Mac Daniel, D. Fountain, and William
Cauley; all slightly.
The number on our side engaged was three
hundred and fifty ; on the enemy’s, six regiments,
besides artillery. The killed and wounded of the
enemy, over one hundred. Col. Wright acted
with great gallantry. C. S.
from the Savannah Republican.
UTEST FROM THE WEST-
Memphis, April.2l.—Late accounts from Missou
ri say that General Seigle died of pneumonia, at
Keitville, some days ago.
The Louisville papers admit that General Buell
arrived at the Tennessee Sunday evening of the
battie, and crossed the river with his forces that
night, and that the whole were engaged is tbe
tight of Monday.
Reliable accounts from Nashville say that four
thousand Kentucky troops have quit tbe army and
gone borne in disgust, on account of Lincolo’sab
olition policy.
There are nine thousand sick troops at Nashville.
Tbe Federal* are reported to be moving their sick
and stores from the city.
Tremendous rains hare fallen here for tbe last
four days; the country is flooded and land opera
tions have become impossible.
It is believed that tbe Federal forces at Madrid
'have abandoned tiie place and gone round up tbe
"Tennessee to reinforce tbe army in that quarter.
P. W. A.
Ntom IM Savannah Republican.
LATEST FROM THE WEST.
Mavphis,i April 22.—Late northern papers have
been received at this point, and I annex a synop
sis of their news
The enemy are concentrating an immense force
•on the Tennessee river, with tbe view of another
attack upon Beauregard. The roads are tn such
a wretched condition that it wili be impossible
for any forward movement to be made by either
army for tea days or a fortnight tc come.
General Grant, in his official report of the late
*wo days buttle fal-ely estimates his loss at 1,500
killed and 500 wounded besides Prentiss’s Bri
gade, all of which were taken prisoners. Ho
claims a victory on Monday. Borne of the north
ern papers—the most truthful—admit a terrible
defeat on Bunday, and a drawn.battle on Mond
The Federal sick list in the West is very heavy
five thousand were carried into Cairo alone. The
water and climate did the work.
The Federate have rebuilt the railroad brjdge
at Bowling Green, and are now running tbe ears
through to Murfreesboro and Columbia. They
captured two Confederate mails on the cars
at Huntsville.
The Federal Secretary of war, in an official
document presented to Congress, says increased
means of transportation are absolutely necessary
to any further advance into tbe enemy’s terrrito
ry. The Federal war expenses have increased to
the enormous sum of five millions per day ; and
he estimates that tbe public debt of tbe United
States wifi be, by January 1863, fifteen hundred
millions!
The Black Republicans have beeh successful m
tbe general elections in Connecticut, but the
Democrats claim a triumph in the towns through
out the North.
Tbe work on all tbe dock yards and wooden
ship at the north has been suspended.
The ships Adelaid and Mary had arrived at
Liverpool with cotton, and the Rosier, from near
Charleston. P- W. A-
FROM THE RAPPAHANOCK.
Richmond,Va . April 22d.—The Yankee gun
boats which went up the Rappahannock river
last week, passed Urbana yesterday, outward
bound, with three captured schooners.
BOLD ATTEMPT TO BREAK OUT OF THE
PENITENTIARY.
Richmond, Va., April 22d.—There was a
bold but unsuccessful attempt of 30 convicts>
last night, to break out of the State Peniten
tiary.
THE FRENCH MINISTER LEAVES RICH
MOND.
Norfolk, Va., April 22d.—The French
ship Jassendi left to-day, with M. Mercier the
French Minister, on board. He arrived here
to-day from Richmond.
FROM SAVANNAH.
Savannah, April 22d. —Tbe Marshals sale of
the cargo of sugar and molasses of the Santa
Clara has been postponed to Thursday.
The restrictions against shipping produce
from this city to the interior of the State have
been removed.
GEN. FREMONT LEAVES FOR CORINTH
Richmond, Va., April 22d.—The Knoxville
(Tenn.) Register, of Sunday, has reliable infor
mation from Eastern Kentucky, that Gen. Fre
ment has left that section, with his whole force,
some 20,000 strong, for Corinth.
CASUALTIES IN THE THIRD GEORGIA
REGIMENT ON THE PASQUOTANK
RIVER.
Norfolk, Va., April 22a.—There were seven
killed in the third Georgia Regiment, viz:
Messrs, Widener, Dale, Ward, Mallory, May,
and two others whose names were not ascer
tained. The wounded are: Lieut. Wilson in
the knee, severely; Serg’t John A. Nicholson
in the thigh; James A. Robertson, in the head.
Wm. C. Wright, in the face: Jos. Necroy con
tusion from a shell; Wm J.Chamberlain, in the
shoulder ; W. A. Palmer, in the hand ; M. Dan
iete, in the arm; Evans in the chest; B.
Adams, in the thigh. All of these are in the
hospital here.
THE FRENCH MINISTER-
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch, of April 19th,
has the following in reference to the French
Minister to Richmond:
M. Mercier.— Tbe Examiner of yesterday, says:
*• tbe object of the French Minister’s visit has not
definitely transpired; but it is said that outside
of his official communications, he has expressed
great interest to ascertain what commercial trea
ties the Confederate Government was disposed to
make with France.”
Now, we know not what treaties the Govern'"
ment may be disposed to make; but we do know
■what the people would applaud to the very echo
namely : A treaty securing to France for a giv
en number of years an equal right to our enor
mous carrying trade with our own vessels, pro
vided she will raise this blockade, and give us
the same access to her arsenals and founderies
that our enemies enjoy. We waat arms and we
want amunition. Had we possessed a sufficient
supply of those two indispensible requisites to
the successful prosecution of modern warfare, in
the beginning of the war, we should have put an
end to it long ago. Let France raise the block
ade, and we will soon do [it now, and in order to
effect that desirable object, nothing more is ne
cessary than a simple declaration on the part of
France that she Will no longer respect it. It is,
after all, the merest of shams in tbe world. It is
nothing more or less than a paper blockade, such
as England imposed against France by her fa
mous Orders in Council. Already 500 vessels have
successfully elnded it, and thereby established the
fact that it is no blockade under any fnterpreta
tion of the Treaty of Paris. France has au op
portunity now, which will never be offered her
again. She may secure our coasting trade—if our
Government should not unwisely prevent it—for
we have no ships worth speaking of.
In another part of the same paper we find the
following communication f
Count hfereierHave opened negotiations with
the Secretary of State, and Congress have deter
mined to remain at their post during the impor
tant mission of the Minister of the Emperor. Any
kind ot arrangements will be made with the Presi
dent of the Confederacv, and this is a perfect
acknowledgement by France of our independence
from the old United States lam happy that my
article in the Enquirer of yesterday has produced
the desired effect to prolong the Congress while
uegotiat ons with Count Mercier are going on.
Dr. Lamoinr.
This probably accounts for the refusal of Con
gress to adjourn at as early a day as was it first
desired. It is to be hoped that Dr. Lemoine is
correct; but our readers should not deceive them
selves with the belief that the French Minister
has come to recognize the Southern Confederacy,
or to negotiate about raising the blockade.
Extsnbion of Yankee Rule in Virginia.—The
restoration of Federal authority, and its attend
ant advantages, are steadily progressing in the
recovered territory. Postmasters have been ap
pointed for Manassass Junction, Prince William
county, and Fairfax Court House, Fairfax county,
Va. The mails to those offices have been already
restored.
The News.—We have some reports of the
movements of tbe enemy on tbe Rappahannock
Hine, for the entire accuracy of which we cannot
vouch. It was stated yesterday, by some of the
members ot Congress, that the President had
received intelligence of tbe landing of a large
body of Federal troops at Aqtiia Creek on Sun
day last. The supposition is that they came from
Washington. Should the report prove correct, it
would indicate that they intend to make a flank
movement in the direction of Ri:hmond, while
McClellan plays tbe part of a decoy upon the Pe*
ninsula.
Auother report is that General Eweli’s divis
ion has fallen back from the Rapphanock to Gor
donsville. It is inferred from this that a junction
of the forces of Generate Jackson and Ewell is
in contemplation.
Advices from the Peninsular Jinforms us that
the skirmishing continues,, and our troops feel
perfectly confident of a victory whenever the
enemy shall aocept the offer of battle.
[Richmond Dispathc, Apail 22nd.
A Brush with shk Federals. —The Second
Brigade, Fourth Regiment State Troops, under
the command of Col. Neely, had a email brush
with a boat’s crew of the Federate, on Saturday
morning last, at 2 o’clock. On our side no one
was injured, but from all accounts some of the
enemy must have suffered. Tbe affair occurred
on Whitemarsh Island, and the following is the
report that has reached us; While the regiment
was encamped, a report reached them that the
enemy were landing on W’uiteniarah Island, in
force, when they proceeded at once to the scene
of tbe late conflict. Our troops advanced cau
tiously, sending out pickets ahead, who scatter
ed over the island, but found no enemy. Strong
pickets were then placed at various points. At
two o’clock in the monsing firing was heard in
the direction of Oakland, and a messenger ar
rived at the camp of the Second Brigade, stating
that the Federate, in a boat containing some
fifteen or twenty men, ware coming up the riv
er, between Oakland and Whitemarah. Our
pickets, as soon as the enemy came within
range, fired ou them, and from the commotion
in the boat, it is thought the shots were effect
ive. The Federate returned tbe fire, and imme
diately beat a retreat.
Our troops remained under arms until day
light, expecting an attack from the enemy. The
troops engaged in this affair were Company A,
Capt. Bass; Co. B, Capt. Ragsdale; Co. C,
Capt. Rasberry; Co. E, Capt. R. N. Rowland;
Co. F, Capt. Tucker; Co. G, Capt. Lane; Co. H,
Capt. Cameron; Co. I, Lieut. Carmichael, aud
Co. K, Capt. J. Rowland.
Although the affair was a small one, tbe
promptness with which our troops met and re
pulsed what was evidently tbe advance of a
force designed to take possession ot the island,
is highly creditable to both officers and men.
Savh. News, 22d Inst.
from the A tlanla [tfa.] Southern Confederacy, April 34.
GEORGIANS IN THE BATTLE OF SHILOH-
Corinth, April 10,1562.
Editors Confederacy : It may be of some interest
to the people’of Georgia to know that a company
from Gwinnett county, commanded by Capt. J. C.
Thrasher, and attached to the 35th Tennessee
Regiment, discharged their whole duly in the
great battle of Shiloh, or the Bend of the Tenx
nessee River. The Captain and his whole com
mand were at all times at their post in the thickest
of tbe fight. Georgia may well be proud of her
brave and noble sons.
The following is a list of the killed and
wounded:
Adam D. Brown, killed.
Joseph Bailey, wounded in the thigh.
W. G. Pepper, do. do. do.
J. L. Pierce, wounded in the leg.
S. R. Street, missing; also, one negro boy
missing. Shiloh.
We received the foregoing without a responsible
name accompanying, and therefore we do not
vouch for its correctness. There are circum
stances, however, which cause us to believe it is
correct, and on account of the interesting in for
malton it contains, we waive our usual rale of
requiring all communications to be accompanied
by the name of the writer, but deem this expla
nation necessary fur our own vindication should
the foregoing information turn out not to be true.
—Ed. Con.
CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH THE GEO. RE
LIEF AND HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION TO THE
HOSPITAL AT AUGUSTA-
From Mrs J R W Johnston, 1 quilt, 1 vest, 1
hdkf, 3 shirts.
From Mrs Stephen Jones, 1 comfort, 1 pillow, 1
sheet, 3 vests. 2 shirts, 1 handkerchief, 1 bdl
rags.
From Mrs Ruffin, 2 pillows, 2 pillow cases, 2
sheets.
From Mrs Sumner Brown, 1 counterpane, 1
quilt, 1 blanket, 1 towel, 1 undershirt, 2 hdkfs, 6
pr socks, 4 pr drawers.
From Mrs E J Carter, Burke county, 2 shirts, 2
pr drawers, 1 bdl rags.
From Mrs Robert F Poe, cash |lO.
From Mrs Kinchley, spr drawers,.2 pillow cas
es. 2 shirts.
From Mr E L Watley—Beech Island, Cash,
J 31.50.
From Mrs Ann Anthony, 5 shirts, 4 p cases, 2
towels, rags.
From Rev S S Davis, 1 bdl tracts.
From Mrs Augur Martin, Miss M Martin, and
Mrs T W Coskery, 12 shirts, 6 pillows, 7 p cases,
6 towels, 4 sheets, 1 spread, Ipr socks, 3 cups
quince jelly, 2 jars pickles, 3 bots catsup, 2 boxes
mustard, books.
W. J. Ansley Auditor.
——
Brilliant Achievement in East Tennessee.—
Another Ashby in the Field.— April 18 Cap-
tain Ashby, comotanding three hundred Confed
erate cavalry, encountered saven hundred and
fifty Lincolnites, who were stampeding for Ken
tucky, on yesterday, near Jacksonborough Ten
nessee.
A hand to hand fight ensued, which lasted for
two hours. Our men succeeded in killing about
75 and taking 500 prisoners.
Our loss, none killed, and about twenty-five
wounded; none mortally.
No less than 5000 Lincolnites have left East
Tennessee for Kentucky since Governor Harris’s
proclamation calling on the militia, etc.
Petersburg Express.
News fßom the Fbderal Fleet.—Capt. Kroeg
Mr. Dequar, end two other prisoners captured by
the Federate a short time since, have been releas
ed by order of Commodore Dupont. They reached
Caper’s Island Saturday, and this city Sunday
morning.
The Fedeaal report of the bombardment of
Fort Pulaski states that seventeen of their own
number were killed, and but one ot the garrison
of the Fort. The Fort was shelled from the weak
est side. The walls were not breached, as re
ported by the Savannah papers, but the garrison
were completely shelled out by the tremendous
fire brought to bear upon them. The Federate
ridiculed the fact of the Confederate garrison at
Fort Pulaski allowing them to erect their batte
ries so near the Fort and at such commanding po n
SltlODB.
Capt. Magrath and son they intend to hold
prisoners.
The officers say that four iron-clad vessels were
nearly ready ; with which and a land force of fif
ty thousand, assisted by their other gunboats,
they designed to attack Charleston. They assert
that they receive the Savannah papers nearly
every day.— Chas. Courier April 21 st.
South Mills, N. C., Charters Dawson Grays, i
3d Regiment, Ga., Vol., April 15th, 1862. j
We are again called upon to mourn the loss ot
a companion and fellow-soldier, Georgs Rai den.
an esteemed and venerated member of our coni',
pany, expired on the 18th of this month in the
59th yea: of his age. In view of this dispensa
tion of Providence, it affords us a pleasure at once
tnealanoholy and consoling, to testify our regard
for our comrade in the following resolutions:
Ist, That we contemplate with admiration and
pride the example and conduct of our deceased
comrade, who, in his advanced age, when others
are about to retire from the toils of life,was among
the foremost in devoting himself to Lin country’s
service.
2d, That the unwavering kindness of our lost
companion to tbe sick of the company, and the
marked faithfulness with which he always dis
charged his duties, command our highest admira
tion and heartfelt thanks.
3d, That tbe relatives of the deceased have our
sypatbies in their loss ; and that we join them in
deploring the death and cherishing the memory of
him, who gained tbe affection and esteem of all,
showing himself well worthy of the sacred cause
which be upheld.
4th, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to
the familv of the deceased, and also to the
Augusta Constitutionalist and Georgia Temperance
Crusader for publication.
F. L, Hillyer, 1
A. T. Johnson, >Committee.
C, B. Mitchelb, )
NORTHERN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE OF
SHILOH-
We take the following extracts from Northern
accounts of the battle of Shileh, published in the
Richmond (Va.) Diepatch, ot April 22nd :
THE CLOSE or SUNDAY S FIGHT.
We have reached the test act in the tragedy of
Sunday. It is half-past four o’clock. Our front
line of divisions b»s been lost since half-past ten.
Our reserve live is now gone, too. Tbe rebels oc
cupy ihe 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 of a mile around the land
ing. We have been falling back all day. We
can do it no more. Tbe next repulse puts us in
to the river, aud there are not transports enough
to cross a single division till the enemy would be
upon us.
Lew. Wallace’s division might turn the tide
for us—it is made of fighting men—but where is
it? Why has it not been thundering on the right
for three hours past? We do not know yet that it
was not ordered up till nron. Buell is coming,
but he has been doing it all day and all last week.
His advance guard is across the river now,
waiting ferriage, but what is an advance guard
with sixty thousand victorious foes in front of
us?
We have lost nearly all of our camps and camp
equipage. We have lost nearly halt of our field
artillery. We have lost a division General, and
two or three regiments of soldiers as prisoners.
We have lost—how dreadfully, we are afraid to
think—in killed aud wounded. The hospitals are
full to overflowing. A long ridge bluff is set
apart for surgical uses. It is covered with the
maimed, ihe dead and dying. And our men are
discouraged by prolonging a defeat. Nothing
but the most energetic exeition on the part of tbe
officers prevents them from becoming demoral
ized. Regiments have lost their favorite field
officers, companies the Captains whom they al
ways looked to, with that implicit faith the sol
dier learns, to lead them to battle.
Meantime there is a lull in the tiring. For the
first time since sunrise you tail to catch the angry
rattle of musketry or the heavy booming of the
field guns. Either tbe enemy must be preparing
for the grand final rush that is to crown the day’s
success, and save the Southern Confederacy, or
they are puzzled by our last retreat, and are mor
iug cautiously, lest we spring some trap upon
them. Let us embrace the oporturnty, and look
about the tending. We pass the old log house,
lately Post-Office, now full of wounded and sur
geon-I which constitutes tbe |“Pitisburg” part
ut tbe landing. Gen. Grant and siad are in a
group beside it. Tbe General is confident. “We
can bold them off till to-morrow; then they’ll be
exhausted, and we’ll go at them with fresh troops.”
A great crowd is collected around the building, all
in uniform, most ot them with guns, Ana yet
we are needing troops in the front so sorely 1
cowards.
On the bluff abeve the river is a sight that may
well make our cheeks tingle with shame for some
ot our soldiers. There are not less than three
thousand skulkers lining the banks. Ask them
why don’t they go to their places in the line!
“Oh, our regiment is all cut to pieces.” “Why
don’t you go to where it is forming again ?” “I
can’t find it,” and the hulk looks as if that would
be the very last thing be would want to do.
Officers arearound among them, trying to hunt
up their men, storming, coaxing, commanding—
cursing lam afraid. One strange fellow—a Major,
if I remember aright—is making a sort of elevated
superfine Fourth of July speech to.everybody that
will listen to him. He means well, certainly:
“Men of Kentucky, of Illinois, of Ohio, of lowa,
of Indiana, 1 implore you, I beg of you, come up
now. Help us through two hours more. By all
that you hold dear, by the homes that you hepe
to defend, by the flag you love, by the State you
honor, by all your love of country, by all your
hatred of treason, I conjure you, cornu up and do
your duty now.” And so on for quantity. “That
feller’s a good speaker,” was the only response I
heard, and the fellow who gave it nestled most
snugly behind his tree as he spoke.
1 know well enough the nature of the skulking
animal in an army during a battle. I had seen
their performances before, but never on so large
a scale—never with such an utter sickness of
heart as 1 looked—as now. Still, Ido not believe
there was very much more than the average per
centage. It was a big army, and the runaways
all sought the landing.
ARRIVAL OE GENERAL BUELL.
Looking across the Tennessee we see a body of
cavalry, awaiting transportation over. They are
said to be Buell’s advance, yet they have been
an hour or two alone. But suddenly there is a
rustle among the runaways. It is, it is! You
see the gleaming of the gun-barrels, you catch
amid the leaves and undergrowth down the oppo
site side of the river glimpses of the steady,
swinging tramp of trained soldiers. A division oi
Buell’s army is here! And the mea who have
left their regiments on the field send up three
cheers for Buell. They cheering! May it parch
their throats, as if they had been breathing the
simoon.?
Here comes a boat across with a Lieutenant
and two or three privates of the Signal Corps.
Some orders aie instantly given the officer, and
as instantly telegraphed to the other side by the
mysterious wavings, raisings, and droppings of
the flags. A steamer comes up with the pontoons
on board, with which a bridge could be speedily
thrown across. Unaccountauly enough, to on
lookers, she slowly reconnoiters and steams back
again. Perhaps after all, it is better to have no
bridge there. It simplifies the question, takes
escape out of tbe count, and leaves it victory or
death to the cowards that slink behind the bluffs
as well as to the brave men who peril their lives
to do the State some service on the fields beyond
Preparations go rapidly forward for crossing the
division (Gen. Nelson’s, which has the advance of
Buell’s army,) on the dozen or so transports that
have been tied up along the bank.
We have spent but a few minutes on the bluff,
but they are the golden minutes that count for
years. Well was it for that driven, defeated but
not disgraced, army of General Grant’s, that these
minutes were improved. Col. Webster, Chief of
Staff, and an artillery officer i f no mean ability
had arranged the guns that he eould collect, es
those that remained to us, in a sort of semi-circle
protecting the tending, and bearing chiefly on
our centre and left, by which the rebels were
pretty sure to advance. Corps of artillerists to
man them were improvised from all the batteries
that could be collected. Twenty-two guns in all
were placed in position, Two of them were very
loDg Where they
d ° “ ot k , now; whttt batte, 7 they be
onged to, I bare no idea; I only know that they
est snd h? o, Bweß ‘ ,lD K ‘he approaches by tbe
wl« nWt he n L g u Corin,b road; that there
was nobody to work them ; that Dr. Cornyn. Sur-
Droffen i v &nk Blftir ’ 3 First Missouri Artillery,
clnfa d h J 3 . l ßer r ces ’ that U,ev Kludly ac
as P to!nv I® dld , w “ rk >0 *uch effect
-Kinel br«>n t r lUUp e 7 0rk , for bCores °f his profes
s nal brethren on tbe other side ot tbe fight.
Remember the situation. It was balf,past
divtetan °f k ~ Pe ' haps t l Uttr,er is l " still. Every
! W l l '“ r&rmyo “ the field had bee. re-
PUteed. The enemy were iu the camps of fonr
little avL e k° f ir hem -i We were dr:vea 10 within
wl- naL h “ f ‘i “ 1,,e of the ’ending. Behind us
tar,™ ? P rapld PT' • Beforfc us
fi£ri»tin.» en8l u?o. 4 nd B, ‘” ‘here was an hour for
m . n ’Bht or Blucher would
rninn’ k D!ght or Lew. Wallace would
On 8 dl . vwioa of Buell’s army evidently
1 ? r L' 88 ln tlme t 0 do much good. We
,y e \ kßOW why Lew. Wallace wasn’t on the
» • ,be j ust ' c e of a righteous cause, and
B# ®i"® ,rc ’ e of twenty- two guns in posi -
‘ lo n, lay all the hope we could see.
buddenly a broad, sulphurous flash of light
eaped out from the darkening woods, and through
hou aßd BHlo ’ ce came whistling the leaden
nu- The rebels were making their crowning ef
ort for the day, and as was expected when our
guns were hastily placed, they came from our left
and centre. They had wasted their fire at 1,000
yards. Instantaneously our deep mouthed bull
dogs flung out their sonorous response The rebel
artillery opened, and shell and round shot came
tearing.across the open space back of the bluff.
, a y * . ® forgiven for the malicious thought, but
1 certainly did wish that one or two might drop
behind the bluff among the crowd of skulkers
hovering under the hill at the river’s edge.
fantrv y bau* < ??,? me w ° L 11 ® res P ODBe our broken in
h’<*
at le Jt stiU iu e th e fr h fr! UT * W * D ‘ ed fir “’
valor that had made u™ 6 *}? 8 llTe<i th ® ancient
cesses already coaTao dear Bhort “ hTed r,,bel BUC '
TH K i TH ,“ 0U " BOA « OFBM FIRE.
The rebel infantry tx-in«ri
furious cannonading g un j d . g [ OUnd > but 1116
Suddenly new on , continued -
Cincinnati wooden gunbJata th? A B ‘^ ge ~ °‘ lr
and the Lexington, had A - Ta y’ or
our old
'br.o,o M.d-..u' r :.™4 h oV7<:?V.?
Eager to avenge the death of their commanding
General (now known to have been killed ar.
of hour, before,) and to com^be! IcVoryZy
believed to be within their grasp, the rebels had
incautiously ventured within reach of their most
dreadful untagonists, as broadside after broad” de
or seven-ineh shells and sixty-four-pound shot
soon taught them. This was a foo they had
hardly eounted ou, and the unexpected-fire In flank
and rear disconcerted their well laid plans? The
buata fired admirably, and with a rapidity that
was astonishing. Our twentymo land guns kent
up their storm of thunder; and thus amid a Sh
and rour and scream of shells and demon-like “sb
Wp b n H id e th a J thUt Sa^ bath eVcnin « away?
We held the enemy at bay; it was enough. The
prospect for the morrow was forebodmg- but
sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof’ We "
?h?» P v7‘ ly ° f eV ‘ th u l da y~ of course, therefore
WaS a PP' ,cab *e- Before darkthe 36th In
-d od f Nelson s advance brigade, had ctossn
ed, advanced into line with Grant’s forces at thp
double-quick, and had put in fourteen rounds al
mo^ow? 8t ° f ’ ‘ ShoU ‘ d be fortbcom ‘ng on the
The enemy suddenly slackened his fire. His
grand object had been defeated; he hap not fin
ished his task m a day; but there is evidence that
officers and men alike shared the confidence that
their morning assault would be final.
ounds ot battle died away and division
Generals drew off their men, Buall bad arrived
and Lew Wallace had been heard from. Both
would be ready by morning, and couucil of war
was held, and it was decided that a. soon as
Bible after daybreak we should attack the enemy
now Buugly quartered in our camps. Lew Wal
lace, who was coming in on the new road from
Crump s Landing, and crossing Snake Creek just
above the Illinois Wallace’s (W. H. L.) camps
was to take the right and sweep back towards the
position from which Sherman had been driven on
Sunday morning. Nelson was to take the extreme
left. Buell promised to put in Tom Crittenden
next to Nelson, and McCook next to him by a
seasonable hour in the morning. The gap be
tween McCook and Lew Wallace was to be filled
with the reorganized divisions of Grant’s old
army; Hurlbut coming next to McCook, then Mc-
Clernadd and Sherman closing the gap between
McClernand and Lew Wallace.
THE NIGHT BETWEEN TWO BATTLES.
. Stealthily the troops crept to their new positions
and lay down in line of battle on their arms. All
through the night Buell’s men were marching up
from Savannah to the point opposite Pittsburg
Landing and being ferried across, or were coming
up on transports. By an hour after dark Wallace
had his division in. Through tbe misdirection
he had received, he had started on the Snake
Creek road proper, which would have brought
him in on the enemy's rear, milas from seaport,
and where he would have been gobbled at a
mouthful. Getting back to the right road had
delayed him. He at once ascertained the position
of certain rebel batteries which lay in front of
him on the rignt, that threatened absolutely to
bar his advance in the morning, and selected po
sitions for a couple of his batteries from which
they could silence the one he dreaded. Placing
these in position and arranging his brigades for
support took him till one o’clock in the morning.
Then his wearied men lay down to snatch a few
hours of sleep before entering into the Valley of
the Shadow of Death on the merrovf.
By nine o’clock all was hushed near tbe landing.
The host of combatants that three hous before
had been deep in the work of human destruction
had all sunk silently tc the earth, “the wearied to
sleep, the wounded to die.” The stars looked out
upon the scene, and ail breathed the natural, quiet
and of a Sabbath evening. But presently there
came a flash that spread like sheet lightning over
the ripples of tbe river current, and the roar of a
heavy naval gun went echoing up and down the
bluffs, through the unnatural stillness of the night.
Others speedily followed. By the flash you could
just discern the black outline of the piratical
looking hull, and see how the gunboat gracefully
settled into the water at the recoil; the stnoke
soon cast up a thin veil that seemed only to soften
and sweeten the scene ; from the woods away in
land you caught faintly the muffled explosion of
the shell, like the knell ot the spirit that was tak
ing it. flight.
We knew nothing then of the effect of this gun
boat canuofiading, which was vigorously kept up
till early morning, and it only served to remind
us the more vividly of the day’s disasters, of the
fact that half a mile off lay a victorious enemy,
•ommanded by tbe most dashing of their Gen
erate, and of the question one scarcely dared to
ask himself, “what of tosmorrow ?” Ws| were de
feated ; our dead and dying w«re around us; days
could hardly sum up our losses.
[Th. writer closes his description with a quotas
tion from what he calls a “grand refrain of Whit
tier’s,” written after the battle of Manassas. We
have already devoted enough space for one day
to the Yankee corrwpondent, who, whatever else
mav be said of him, is candid enough to admit
au overwhelming defeat, with a considerable dis
play of cowardice among the “National” troops.
We have the account of Monday’s battle, some
extracts from which we may give hereafter.]
Sveeial Dispatch to the New Orleans Picayune.
LATER FROM CORINTH AND NASHVILLE-
Cokinth, April 12.—Mutual agreements hare
been signed, permitting surgeons and their atten
dants, on both sides, to attend to the wounded
who are not removable from the battle held, and
to be exempt from capture as prisoners.
A gentleman from Nashville says that Yankee
telegrams from Pittsburg bad been received there,
stating their killed, wounded and missing to be
ten thousand—six thousand prisoners. Our loss
in killed and wounded they state at two thou
sand; fifty prisoners.
The enemy being at Huntsville is confirmed.
Two trains they met at the time are captured.
They have possession of the telegraph. Their
force is supposed to be three thousand.
Direct information from Nashville, on the
morning of the (itb, state that Gen. Dumont is
the Military Governor of the post, with a brigade
of twenty five bnndred men. Andy Johnson
wanted ten thousand to protect Nashville. Four
teen thousand are sick (?) All the hospiials and
many private houses are filled with them. Last
Mondy four thousand sick were sent to Cincinna
ti and Louisville. There wus great demoraliza
tion in the Federal army, and thousands had de
serted. Col. Buford’s Kentucky regiment refused
to go into Nashville. Hundreds were deserting
daily, in squads of fifteen or twenty. The people
in the vicinity of Nashville show the greatest loys
alty to the Confederacy.
Ordxancb Mktal. —We invite early attention
from the Ordnance department to the following
letter:
I can get up a large quantity of metal for cast
ing cannon or balls. If you can give me the
necessary information where it is wanted, and
how to be sent., I will attend to it. lam severe
ly taxed with the business of my factory ana
mills. I am selling yarns at one dollar per bunch,
dividing it with the people, who are in attendance
day and night, from one to four bunches each.-
Orders through the mail cannot be furnished. By
yesterday’s mail 1 received twentycfour letters
for yarn. I caunot have time to answer them.
Please let me hear about the metal.
Dawn. McCvm-ocoh.
Gladden's Grose P. Q., Fairfield District, A. G.