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StIN, LONDoN, FRIDAY EVEAING„TULY 17, 1863

No. 22.169.

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the wome❑ and children particularly, but stalwar,,
ablebodied wretches in men's garments were what
I saw principally on the rear. At about half-past
2 o'clock, while the batteries exchanged a heavy
fire, and some sharp musketry woke up the echoes
on the right, the rebels advancing in heavy force
against the First Corps, but which slowly retreated
trom the hills beyond the valley to high ground
near the Seminary, where it prepared to make all
the resistance it was capable of. It was reinforced
there by some dismounted dragoons, and fought in
the open field ; for, though some wall fences were
thrown down across the front of our line, they
afforded no cover. From the woods beyond the
farm houses, and across the open space a rebel force
of perhaps three large brigades acivaneed hand-
somely in line of battle, while the rebel batteries
near the general centre shelled our position hotly to
cover the advance. On came the line right up within
short range of our position, when it was opened
upon with a fire so sharp and well served as to
s agger and then completely repulse it. Backward
went the line that came forward in such good order,
a mere mass of stragglers, each of whom made the
best of his way across the plain While the mus-
ketry was very hot in front of Gen. Doubleday, a
party of about 100 rebels stole through the woods
well up on Doubleday's left flAnk and fired a large
barn, one of those immense magazines of bread-
stuffs that in Pennsylvania so over peer the com-
paratively small farm houses. An immense black
column of smoke soon began to ascend from the
roof, breaking out presently into a white, sulphurous
cloud, and then into a fierce red blaze. Under
cover of this fire the rebel skirmishers exchanged
numerous shots with a line of skirmishers from the
cavalry en our extreme left. Repulsed, but not
vanquished, the rebel line was refurmed and rein-
forced, and now, for a second time, came on a force
nearly twice as great as at first. Once more, also,
the batteries throwing shells, answered by batteries
of ours on the extreme right, which at this time
throws shell at the position on the enemy's centre.
Once more the packed, rapid rattle of our file fire
broke out, and once more the rebel line was

commands the town, wtaile the fight raged on Wed-
nesday, and at the close of that day's battle the
remnants of the Ist and 11th corps were pasted there
and a little down the live to the right and left, and
there they remained on Thursaay at the commence-

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ment of the seconri. battle. On the open country to
our left lay the 2d and 3d corps, and the sth was
so massed as to fill up the third line. The Gth was
put near to the sth when it came up.

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On Cemetery Hill we had several batteries, and,
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fire was crowned with a battery ; for, in addition
to the guns regularly attached to the corps, we had

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No. 2. The chiefs of the Commissary, Quarter-
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army will make requisitions upon the local author.
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respective departments, designating the places and
times of delivay. All persons complying with
such requisitions shall be paid the market price for
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officer making such payments shall take duplicate
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broken and w'nt to the right about in rout.

There is a mysterious fatality connected with the
,bird line, and so, after a lull and comparative quiet

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of twenty minutes, onward for a third time came
the rebels quite as orderly as before, their line of
skirmishers firing as they came on. In so great
force was this line that it compietely enveloped the
line of the Fiat Corps on both flanks. Two bri-
gades on the right were quite out of ammunition,
and the order was given to retreat on the town;
and our boys accordingly retreated in good order,
while the rebels rushed forward with yells to our
position. On came the enemy's fourth line, further
to the right of the third, in good order, skirmishers
a he-d, until the position at the Seminary was
reached, when they came forward with a rush and
occupied a hill we had deemed it worth while not
to hold after the other was taken. On also came
another line in support behind this, and our cavalry
on the extreme left began to retire.
At this moment the field presented a true war
picture. Across the field to the right came the rebel
line, with colours which fluttered i❑ the pleasant
breeze; in the centre were two farm-houses, out-
houses, and barns in flames ; and on the left the
column of cavalry in ret teat. Beyond all, the rays
of the sun beat down through the showery clouds
and gilded every object with a peculiarly golden
light, and over the heavens to the eastward stretched
a magnificent rainbow. The new position of the
Third Corps was at a line of stone wall south-west
of the town, along the slope of a hill on which is a
cemetery. When the First Corps retired to the
town, the left of the Eleventh was uncovered, and
a heavy advance compietely on its right flank at
the same time compelled it to retire. It affords me
pleasure to say that this corps is reported to have
fought well and lost many men. As I was on our
extreme left I did not see the fight of the Eleventh
Corps, and leave all particulars in relation to it to
the gentleman who was with it.
After our retirement on the town the rebel ad-
vance was not pressed farther. And so ended a
battle that was brought on in a most rash manner,
yet which was well fought against a largely superior
force, and got out of it at last much better than we
could have expected to get out.
The rebel force fought by us was the corps of
General Ewell and A. P. Hill. South of the town
is a high hill, on which is a cemetery, and this be-
came the head-quarters. Its slope to the West was
held by the Ist corps, and a continuation of hills
from it towards each was held by the Eleventh,
while the Twelfth Corps was placed so as to hold
both flanks, the First Division under General Wil-
liams, being on the extreme right, and the Second
Division, under General Geary, on the extreme left.
rho Third Corps, which came on the field just at
nightfall, was massed in the centre, ready to he
used whenever occasion might require. General
Slocum, of the Twelfth Corps, had assumed the
command upon his arrival.

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N. 6. If any person shall remove or conceal pro-
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By command of General K. E. LEE.
H. H. Chilton, A.A., and J G.
Lieut.-General R. S. Ewell, Commanding 2d
Army Corps.

BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
DESPATCH OF MR. G. W. 1-103 MER.

WEST OF GETTYSBURG, July 1, 10 p.m.

General Buford's cavalry had previously driven
the rebels to the west of the town, beyond the
Seminary, and between 9 and 10 a.m. the iebeis
gave his pickets a pretty sharp brush, and drove
them in. Gen. Reynolds, with the Ist Corps, was
on the read from Emmettsburg to Gettysburg, en
route to the latter place, which the road approaches
through the very scene of the conflict.
General Reynolds at once threw forward the
First Division, under General Wadsworth, which
began to drive the enemy from the start. Very
soon after the Second Division of the same curs
went on the right of the First Division, the Third
Division on the left of the First, and the whole line
began to advance. Nearly west of the town, just
in the outskirts, near the Seminary, of which I have
spoken, is a large brick edifice. Southward from
this runs a piece of woods, and the Seminary stands
on a ridge, which slopes to the west into a little
open valley of ploughed fields and meadows, rich
with grass and grain. Beyond the valley is a ridge
of higher land, thickly wooded. The valley runs
in a south-westerly direction, and at its lower ex-
tremity is a large farm house, near which the Bth
Illinois Cavalry was drawn up in the field, and
formed our extreme left. Several farm houses
dotted this same rich little valley. Across this
valley General Reynolds' line advanced somewhat
hastily, almost before it was well formed, and in that
condition did not go far until against it a heavy
force of the rebel infantry was immediately thrown,
and Gen. Reynolds was in turn driven back, but
his troops retired step by step, and in excellent
order. Forward, with the utmost enthusiasm,
pressed the rebel line, eager now to turn Reynolds
retirement into a rout. Some of the rebels
had too much energy, and got too far;
for, while they pressed too closely on
the right of the centre division, the left of the same
division was suddenly swept around, and tl- en en-
closed in the handsome manner an entire rebel bri-
gade under Gen. Archer. Gen. Archer and his
whole staff were taken. About 1,500 of the enemy's
me❑ thus fell into our bands, and went to the rear.
Small regiments were the order in this brigade, and
when an Alabama colonel was asked where the rest
pit his regiment was he responded laconically, " Gone
to h—ll, sir." One of these prisoners said to an-
other with some astonishment, " Heb ! J.key's
we're fighting the Army of tne Potomac n Av." They
seem to have thought they had hold of the militia.
The regiments which made this capture were the
6th Wisconsin, the Brocklyn 14th, and the 95,11
New York. Though the Ist corps still continued
to retire, the rebel advance was broken soon after
this, and Gen. Reynolds now prepared to go for-
ward in earnest.

July 2.

General Reynolds, it seems more and more clear,
fought rashly on Wednesday, and very probably
against the wishes of the commander of the army ;
yet his battle, which lost us many men, gave us full
information of the whereabouts of the enemy's main
body, and committed the enemy to the position
north of G. ttysburg, or perhaps led him to believe
that we had a greater force in his front than we
then bad, and so made him fear to make any such
considerable movement as would be necessary to
take up a new position in presence of this army. ,
At Gettysburg all the good roads i❑ this part of the
country converge. All the other roads, except those
hat meet here, are mere byeways for the use of the
neighbourhood, narrow and soon cut up, and thus
rendered unfit for the movement of an army. North-
ward from Gettysburg run roads to Harrisburg,
and southward from it run three good roads, the
principal and best of which is the Baltimore turn-
pike. For any movement towards its own border,
therefore; the possession of these roads which run
to the south was necessary to the Southern army,
and these roads once in our possessio❑ the position
of the Southern army became critical ; for should
Lee attempt to retire by any other roads than these,
we should have a shorter line to any point on his
route, and could consequently hit him wherever we
choose; while if he should fight us without these
roads and win, he would win but little more than a
way to get out, and if decisively beaten his defeat
would be very disastrous.

Apparently forgetful that he had at fist only '
gone to support cavalry, he was very like to bring
on a general engagement with only one corps.
Formed as before, his line went forward, drove the
enemy across the valley, Pod over the ridge at the
further bide, but it wrts at great expense to us,as the
fire with which they received our fellows was ter-
ribly severe. From the hill the line of skirmishers
was thrown out some distance, and Gen. Reynolds
went out to the line to reconnoitre when he was hit
by a musket ball in the back of the neck and killed
instantly.
In rather less than an boilr after the fight began
the 11th corps came up the same road by which the
Ist had approached, and Gen. Howard at once as-
sumed command of the whole field, while
General Schurz assumed the command of the 11th
corps. General Doubleday had already assumed the

General Meade, therefore, began from the first to
mass his forces in such a manner as would enable
him to hold those roads to the best advantage.
South of the town the country is generally hilly ;
but there are three hills that deserve especial men-
tion, as they form the points on which our line is
drawn—Cemetery hill, in the southern edge of the
town ; a nameless hill halt a mile to the east or
Cemetery hill, and Sugar Loaf hill, directly south
of Cemetery hill and about two miles distant from
it. Between Cemetery hill and Sugar Loaf hill the
country is open and level, and our men in that
position faced directly west from Cemetery Hill to
the nameless one; we faced to the north, and be-
tween the latter and Sugarloaf Hill you looked to
the southeast. Our position was there a somewhat
irregular triangle, and its peculiarity was that,
practically, it had no flanks ; for in case of necessity
the line could have swept around so that the ex-
treme right and left would meet on the turnpike.
Our line from Cemetery Hill to the right was on a
rocky ridge, very thickly wooded ; and here, during
the early part of the day some defences were con-
structed under the direction of Generals Williams
and Geary, of the 12th corps, which was posted at
this placed. Though many of those who helped to
construct these defences thought that they
would,
the
,ike couttless others, amount to very little when the
fight come, they proved eventually to be of the
utmost rattle.
which
Gen. Steinwehr occupied Cemetery Hill •

command of the First Corps. Across the north side

of the town runs a creek. on which shortly after
noon it was reported the rebels were massing troops,
apparently to take the First Corps on its rear. To
guard against an advance from that direction Gen.
Howard sent forward the First and Third Divisions
of the Eleventh Corps, which moved across the rear
of the First Corps, and through the town, and took
up position with the First division on the right.
Gen. Stein wehr's division, the second, held as a re-
serve. _ _

Meantime two or three of our batteries held a
sharp parley with the rebel batteries posted on the
hills that encircle the town, and their balls overshot
our batteries somewhat, and threw several shot in
iniong the solid people of Gettysburg. Whether
it frightened them or not. 1 can hardly say. I doubt
if they could experience so Lively an emotion as that
of fear, but they began to get out of the way, not

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After what had taken place on Wednesday, and
with the knowledge of the force that had come up,
there was good reason to believe, and all in camp did

believe, that the day would be ushered in with the
noise of battle. Day broke in quiet, however, and

breakfast was taken at ease. Now and then there

were little disputes between the enemy's pickets and

ours in the streets of the town, for we held part and

'hey part, and sometimes a gun in one of our bat
eries would send an experimental shell towards

the enemy's lines. The enemy through all this
kept marvellously shy with his artillery, and did
not fire a shot, which it was thought indicated that
heavy ammunition was scarce in the rebel camp.
During all the earlier part of the day very little
was known in respect to the enemy's movements,
but it was thought to be clearly made out that he
was massing his forces on our extreme right. In
view of this additional preparations were made to
meet whatever might come in that direotion. But
there were some who thought from the first that the
movements of the enemy towards our right were
made only for a show. and to distract attention from

more important points; for such was the nature of
the country that, had the enemy really wished to
mass his forces there, he could have done it without
making a man visible.
Ail day more or less picket firing had taken place
on our left, and it became pretty sharp between 2
and 3 p.m. Some movements were in progress be-
hind this fire, and to develop these General Sickles
was ordered to advance with the whole Third Corps.
rhis advance brought on the general engagement.
Under cover of a fire from the eight brass pieces in
battery on the open field, the corps went forward
in line of battle, corps and division and brigade
colours all in the air, and the men in excellent
spirits. Then the enemy's artillery, so long silent,
began o❑ our left at the pieces in the field. In turn
our pieces on Cemetery Hill opened on those of the
enemy in the field; other batteries of the enemy
nearer our centre opened on those on Cemetery Hill,
and so it went around until our guns on the
northern face of the hill engaged the enemy's
batteries two miles across the country on our right.
The whole valley in which Gettysburg lies was one
immense network, with the trace of shells from
battery to battery. Such a concentration of fire on
our position naturally necessitated bOlllO move •
went of ambulances and ammunition waggons, and
in ten minutes after this extensive duel began the

Baltimore turnpike was lined with vehicles

in motion towards safer places, All sorts
of shaky fellows also improved this op-
portunity to effect a slight skedaddle, and
soon the column of men in motion towards the
rear became more considerable than the column of
vehicles. When men once begun to go each addi-
tional shell that explodes in the air above them
makes them want to go faster, and owing to this
peculiar constitution of the human animal, a stam-
pede down the Baltimore road was imminent, when
a line of men was established and every fellow dis-
posed to retire was forced to the front.
By this shelling the Cemetery Hill was cleaned.
All day it had been occupied by lines of men, and
there groups of officers gathered together, inspected
the position, and canvassed the possibilities. Many
men sat upon the graves, leaned against the tomb-
stones, and recounted their various mischances.
Orderlies came and went incessantly, for there
Generals Howard and Steinwehr had their head-
quarters. Altogether the City of the Dead was a
very lively place; but very soon atter the artillery
fire became warm, it was deserted by all but the
generals whose headquarters were there, and the
men necessary to hold the place.
Meantime the musketry fire on our left seemed to
become every moment more and more fierce. Already
the Third Corps had once been driven in disorder
from ground it had won, but rallied by Gen. Sickles
in person, it had again gone forward, and now held
its place with desperate tenacity against a very
heavy force, for this advance on our left had de-
veloped that the enemy's force were in reality
massed here; and when the Third corps took the
initiative, it only precipitated an attempt on the part
of the enemy which might otherwise come when we
wer not so well prepared to receive it.
Hard pressed on its whole line, the Third corps
called for support, and at five p.m. the Fifth corps
was marched from its position on theßaltimore turn-
pike, by a little cross road right across to the little
0111 just north of Sugar Loaf Hill, and went into
action on the left of the Third corps. The advance
developed still further the intention of the enemy,
which was to get around our left flank, and so to
get at the Emmettsburg road, and perhaps at our
ammunition waggons near it. As the division. of
regulars and Griffin's division of the Fifth corps
went forward, and before the fire had opened in their
front, some fire swept from their left down the line,
and the right brigade of the division of regulars
was wheeled so as to face that way. No sooner had
it done so than the fire in front opened, which then
came in the rear of the right brigade and threw
it into some confusion ; but it was rallied and went
on again, and the line of the two divisions drove
the enemy before it until it had taken the position
previously occupied by one of the enemy's batteries.
Here a fire was concentrated on these two divi-
sions from batteries further to the rear, and at the
same time the enemy was reported on the left.
At once the line was ordered to retire, and went
back steadily to the crest of the hill. This hill was
not particularly precipitous, but on the front it
was very rough and rocky, and the crest Ras
covered with a growth of scrub oaks.
It was half an hour before sunset, and now came
the final great attempt with which the rebels
usually endeavour to close up great engagements—
the attempt which certainly has in the larger num-
bers of instances been crowned with success.
.Here,
however, it met a different fate. Two divisions,
which proved to be Anderson's and McLaw,i
this ..seat
Longstreet's corps, were formed for
in e agb_„.
attempt, and came forward in theirusuaelom
over;
cent style. They had difficult ground to
h the low
but on they came over rocks and
throng
when they made
wood, until within a fair distance
a rush with all possible yells
even, but they
:oyared out in one.
They did not keep their lineu as a
mass than they
were scarcely less killed men on the
impetuous as
would have been in line. T
crest, and men were even
crest of the bill, over the crest,
other side ; bat these ral-
lieddriven well down on
h
on
tbcse that held their places, and 'pullets were
the rebel mass by volleys. Checked,
poured into
oscthatetelereftd,
broken, beaten back by this one Titanic effort of the
Fifth corps, the attacking column waso
Was over
and the battle
down the hill,
with the enemy completely beat.
In 20 minutes after the heavy fight was over on
our left, the last vestige of daylight was gone, and
the moon was so much enveloped in l d
c ou s that it
was scarcely possible to see at all. Just in this im-
penetrable darkossa the fire of pickets began across
on our right, and in a little while swelled into a

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heavy continuous fire. This was at the post where
the Twelfth corps hod been placed early in the day,
but when the battle becamee doubtful on our left all
the Twelfth corps but one brigade had been sent
over there. The brigade thusa left was the Third,
made of General Geary's division,—th offi7ve New
43d13
York regiments--the 60th, 78th, 1
rigadier- andth,
1491 h—and was commanded by
George S. Greene. Though the force was so slight
era I
the command was in worthy hands, and thus our
brigade was enabled to hold a line which had pre-
viously been held by a corps. General Wadsworth
sent down a few men from the First corps, and Col.
David Ireland, of the 137th New York, gathered
together some loose men on the road, and eompelled
them to take their places behind the field works
against General Greene's position.
The enemy advanced in two lines. Our men held
their places well, and repulsed at this point four
charges, when the enemy gave up all further efforts.
Though I recount General Greene's victory thus
briefly, the fire on his front was continuous for 30
minutes.

BATTLE FIELD SOUTH OF GETTYSBURG,
July 2—Midnight.
For seven hours without cessation the army of
the Potomac has been tried by the fire. It has
suffered terribly, but has beaten the enemy in the
hardest fight it has yet seen.
General Meade, once fully aware of the enemy's
whereabouts, determined to take his own time and
mass his forces properly before fighting the great
battle, and in that view did not assume an offensive
attitude, but merely occupied a position and watched
the enemy. Meanwhile corps by corps our forces
came up, until by noon to-day we had on the field
the whole force with which we fought this battle.
But the enemy had other ideas as to the time when
the battle should take place, and this afternoon some
extensive movements towards our left were disco-
vered, and General Sickles was ordered to advance
his whole corps, and was engaged from 3 to 5 p.m.,
and behaved admirably. Though driven back once,
it was rallied by the general in person, and went on
again, giving and receiving a very heavy fire.
Soon after 5 o'clock the Fifth corps went into
action on the left of the Third corps. At that time,
as for three hours previously, the cannonading was
very heavy. Besides the guns in batteries regularly
attached to different corps, we had on the field many
batteries of the reserve artillery, posted on emi-
nences at different points in the field, and these,
with our guns on Cemetery hill, thundered trernen-
dcusly. Rebel batteries were also at work in every
direction, and as our lines form nearly a circle, shells
tram the rebel batteries on both our flanks exploded
near the centre of our position continually, and made

it a hot place.
But, as usual, the fighting at close quarters and
the musketry fire were infinitely the most destruc-
tive, and this continued along our left for four hours.
About 7 p.m. one of those magnificent charges of
infantry so much favoured in the rebel tactics, was
made by the divisions of M'Laws and Anderson.
This advance was made by about 15,000 men,
formed in columns of divisions, and was directed
against our extrtme left. Both columns, after they
had almost grasped the victory, were repulsed by
the Fifth corps
After this terrible fight on our left, and while all
were glad enough that the day was over, a sharp
musketry fire suddenly broke out on our right, at a
point that had been held by the Twelfth corps; but
the greater part of the Twelfth bad been withdrawn,
and the place was held only by General Green's
origade, which almost alone repulsed the night
attack.

Every one is exhausted, and there is great misery
for want of water.

BALTIMORE, July 3.

During the night of Wednesday Gen. Meade
arrived and commenced fortifying the heights by
the construction of abattis and throwing up earth-
works for a distance of over a mile, in the form of
a crescent, his left resting upon the Emmettsburg
pike and his right upon the hills east of the town,
There was no fighting on the morning of Thursday.
We occasionally threw shell into the woods north-
west of the town as feelers, but developed nothing
but pickets and skirmishers.
Gen. Meade, however, knew that he had a cun-
ning enemy, and relaxed none of his vigilance or
caution.
About 12 o'clock skirmishing commenced on our
left centre, and was kept up on both sides quite
briskly by the sharpshooters. Gen. Robinson re-
' marked that this was only a feint of the enemy—
that he would soon appear in force somewhere else.
True enough, about 4 o'clock cannonading and shell-
ing commenced moderately on our extreme left,
where the Third corps, Gen. Sickles, and Second,
Gen. Hancock, were posted, and in the course of an
hour increased to the most terrific degree, accom-
panied with repeated onslaughts from their infantry,
who yelled like so many hyenas.
Their intention was undoubtedly to turn our left,
to accomplish which purpose they had, as usual,
massed their full force upon our extreme left.
General Lee conjectured that our ammunition trains
were parked in that quarter, and he wished to cap-
ture them, but General Meade had taken the pre-
caution to place his old corps—the gallant Fifth—
there in reserve, to guard against any such sur-

prise.
Between 5 and 6 o'clock the third corps, having
withstood with frightful loss many successive
charges of the enemy's infantry, of many times their
numbers, began to show signs of weakness, and the
Fifth were ordered to charge in and relieve them,
which they did with a will, and forced the enemy
back a mile and a half, making many
prisoners.
Persons who have never witnessed a battle can
have no conception of the grandeur of the scene.
The air was perfectly thick with the bursting
shells, and the firing of the musketry
filled the
space with bullets like hailstone in summer's
shower, scattering death and destruction on every

side.
This was undoubtedly the fiercest contest of the
war, and the loss on both sides must be. terrible.
The enemy were most desperate in their attacks.
Brigade after brigade were marched up against
tv,inthgedyewliovuerldedfathuel'r fire
Generals Sickles' and Hancock 's columns, with the
most demoniac fury,
perform
and
iia
till their strength was spent, down
and let another line march over, and
the
same manceavre, while they would deploy and re.
cruit for a repetition of the same role.
Meanwhile, our boys stood like walls of stone
with interest,
down
and received their fire, returning it ,
while our light batteries mowed theenemy
with grape and canister, till the Fifth corps came
to their support and delivered their fire. Then it
was that with one magnificent, combined, enthu-
siastic charge they dispersed the rebels, and drove
them back from the-
ir designs upon our left.
It was in this attack
Colonel Ed, that the brave and gallant
Dierett Cross, of Arizona, Colonel of
FthierstFbifrgae
tihNdew Hampshire, and commanding the
°.f the First division of the Second
corps, received his
mortal wound. Colonel Cross
was a native of
Lancaster, N H but has been much
on the plains. • e,
He settled in Arizona, and was
secretary of a
silver mining company there. He
Published the Arizonian newspaper, and got
into a difficulty with Silvester Mowry, who
Claimed to be elected a delegate in Congress from
1 the Territory. They fought with rifles, and Cross's
piece having gone off first, he stood while Mowry
took deliberate aim at him, but fortunately did not
hit him. Colonel Cross raised the Fifth New
Hampshire Regiment at the commencement of the
war, and has been in the service ever since. He was
highly recommended for military governor of Ari-
zona last winter, but the office was not created.
He was wounded by a minie ball in the abdomen,
which came out at the spine, at about six or half-
past six o'clock, and lived till half•past twelve last
night. He was cheerful to the last with the know-