The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-11 00:00:00

AUSTRIAN ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE

OF MAGENTA.

VIENNA, JUNE 8.
On the ith inst. the following official report was
;elegraphul from Verona to this city :

REPORT OF COUNT GYULAI, COMMANDER OF THE
SECOND ARMY, TO HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR.

" Your Majesty—With the most profound respect
I hasten to forward to your Majesty, by Colonel
Weissrimmel, of the General Staff, a brief account
of the battle of Magenta, which, at a later period,
will be completed by a detailed description of an
action which was glorious for the arms of your
Majesty, though its result was imperfect (gesch-
nzatert).
"At 7 o'clock in the mornino. of 'the 4th June
Lieutenant-General Count Clam, who was in position
at Magenta, with about 7,000 of his own men. and
the 2d army corps, informed me that large masses
of the enemy were approaching the tete du pont
which he a few days before haequitted, as it was
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"At half-past 8 in the morning, the time at
which Count Clam's report reached me, the troops
were thus distributed :—The division Reischach
of the 7th corps was at Corbetto, and that under
Lieutenant-General Lillia at Casteletto. The 3d
corps was at Abbiate Grasso ; the Bth corps was
marching between Binasco and Bestazzo (this place
is not marked on the Austrian ordnanee maps) ; and
the 9th corps was on the Po, below Pavia. I ordered
the corps to advance immediately, and directed the
3ff and sth corps d'arinee to take the enemy in his
right flank should he attempt to make an attack '
from St. Martino. It was already known to me on
the preceding day that the enemy had crossed the
Ticino, near Turbigo, and I expected the main
attack would be made from that place. The divi-
sion Cordon, belonging to the first corps, had been
sent towards Turbigo, and, being attacked there
and subsequently at Buffalora, was obliged to
retreat.

" I ordered Lieut.-General Count Clam to main-
tain his position at Magenta, and desired the other
corps to advance with all speed.
" The attack of the enemy began at noon, and,
being superior in force, he succeeded in obtaining
possession of the dam of the Naviglio (a canal) and
of Ponte di Magenta. He suffered a tremendous
loss, but the dams and the intersected (coupirt)
ground enabled him to establish himself there (at
Ponte di Magenta) at two o'clock. About this
time I had gone with my staff to Magenta, aid was
making my dispositions.
" When the foremost line began to give way the
division under Lieutenant-General Baron Reischach
was ordered to retake Ponte di Magenta. I rode
to Robecco to point out to the 3d corps the way to
the enemy's right flank. Shortly after my arrival
at Robecco the retaking of Ponte di Magenta and
the capture of a rifled gun were announced to me.
" The columns of the 3d corps, which were full of
confidence, now advanced. General Ramming led
his brigade along the east bank of the Naviglio.
The brigade Hartung passed between the canal and
Carpengago, and the brigade Durfeld followed them
as a reserve. General Wetzlar's brigade was
directed towards the road, which is in the low
ground near the Ticino. While these brigades
were advancing, the division under Lieutenant-
General Reischach was again repulsed, although it
—and more particularly the brigade under General
Lebzelter—had gallantly withstood several attacks.
The brigade Lebzelter, with the infantry regiment
Kaiser at its head, made a splendid attack on Buf-
falora.

Although the enemy continually brought fresh
troops into his line of battle, the appearance of the
3d corps on his flank at first produced a very good
effect. The brigade Hartung, being supported by
Major-General Durfeld, several times stormed
Ponte Vecchio di • Magenta. The position was
taken, lost, taken again, and at last remained in
the hands of the enemy, The heaps of corpses'
(Leichen-Massen) proved the determined courage
of both parties.

" After several attacks had been made by that
gallant regiment King of the Belgians, General
Ramming's
,brigade was obliged to fall back on
Robecco,
where it remained. Towards evening
the sth corps reached the field of battle, and
the brigade Prince of Hesse' made several
gallant but ineffectual attempts to prevent
the enemy's advancing on Magenta. This
last place being attacked by a superior
force, and. also by troops coming from the north,
the exhausted troops, under Count Clam and Prince'
Liechtenstein, were at last obliged to evacuate it.
The division under Lieut.-Gen. Lillia then advanced
and occupied Corbetta, through which place the
retreat was to be made.
" As the day had be gun to close in I had
Robecco strongly occupied, and prepared for a
fresh attack in the morning of the sth. The
enormous loss of the enemy led us to hope that he
was much shaken (ersehutter), and the courage on
all occasions displayed by our troops induced us to
believe that a renewed attack would be successful.
"As we have prisoners belonging to nearly all
the regiments of the French army, it must be con-
cluded that all the enemy's reserves were brought
into action. On our side the sth and Bth corps, and
a division of the 3d corps, were not engaged, and
being fresh troops could turn the scale in our favour.
All this I had taken into consideration, and only
waited for an account of the exact positions
of the troops and their losses in order to make
arrangements for renewing the attack.
" I now learn that the troops of the Ist and 2d
corps d'arnzee, which had suffered most from the
first attacks of the enemy, had already moved to
the rear, and could not again be brought to the
field of battle, unless they made a fatiguing
march during the' night. The troops in ques-

‘ The enemy having been driven back to Ma-
genta, an orderly retreat was made. I believe I
can confidently conclude that the enemy, in spite
' of his superiority., paid a high price for the pos-
session of Magenta, and that he will do your Ma-
jesty's army the justice to acknowledge that it did
not yield to a brave and numerically superior force
until after an heroic contest.
i" I am not able to give any nearer details concern-
ing the action, as, under the circumstances, timely re-
turns from the different troops could not be required.
I believe to be near the truth in saying that we had
between 4,000 and 5,000 killed and wounded, and
that the enemy certainly had half as many more.
Lieutenant-General Baron Reischach was shot
through the hip, and Generals Lebzeltern and
Durfeld through the arm.. I will not neglect to
forward to your Majesty a more detailed account as
soon as the separate reports have come in, and to
mention the names of those who particularly dis-
tinguished themselves.

" GYULAI, Feldzeugmeister.
HeP.CI-quarteis, Belgiojoso, June 6, 1859."

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