The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-04-29
Correspondence Of the Nec York Times.
GREAT BATTLE AND END OF THE REyOLU-
TION IN PERU.

City OF AREQUIPA, Sunday March 81, 1858
My last, dated the 9th inst, written in a mo-
ment snatched from the heat of the great battle
and informed you that had gained the outer for
tresses and occupied the dominant position of San
Pedro. also told you that we had yet a hard fight
before us, but that, without doubt, the next dav
would find us encamped in the Grand Plaza then
occupied by the main force of the Revolutionists.
under Vivanco. But, although on the 9th we had
lost more than 400 men, L had no idea of the
immense sacrifice we must submit to, before we
should finally plant our banners over the whole
extent of the city. The night of the 9th was a
horrible one for us. With the dead and diving
all around, our force almost without water or pro-
visions, the enemy attacking the positions we had
gained on all sides, waited for the light of day.
which it seemed to God in his wrath had deprived
us of forever, slowly passed the hours
AT an early hour on the morning of the It'll our
decimated battaions renewed the attack against the
redoubts and barricades, which we gained one by
one, walking over the bodies of our dead and
wounded, until more than two hundred strong stone
defences were overcome. Our loss was terrible
We went into battle with A, 800 men, and came out
of it with scarcely thousand fit for duty. Our
dead is calculated at over 800 men and our wound
ed at 1000. Vivanco, who had 900 men, besides
a great number of the citizens enrolled lost nearly
five hundred killed and several hundred wounded
The battle, which had ragged for thirty three
hours, ended at about noon on the 18th, and for
hours after the blood literally down in rivulets
in the cutters of one of the streets in the quarter of
Santa Maria, which was point contested the most
obstinately. Every house, almost, is a hospital,
and the few surgeons we have in camp have been
working day and night, until nature is almost ex
hausted, and they can work no more. An order
has been sent to Lima for surgical assistance, and
we hope to have down in day or two fifteen or
twenty more doctors and surgeons.
Vivanco, in company with Jose Cardenas and his
physician and two or three others, have gone to
the Bolivian frontier. 1t is said he will raise a
force of Disseminated Bolivians to recommence the
war, but / doubt if he gets any more support in
Peru, and, without it, he can do nothing. A report
prevailed few days ago in camp that Bolivia had
disbanded two regiments of her regular force. with
the understanding that the men should join VIVIAN
co. If this be so, we may, after recruiting, be
obliged to march into Bolivia and make a diver
sion in favor of Cordova who was so lately over
thrown by Linares. But doubt if Bolivia will en-
deavor to provoke war with Peru, however strong
ly she may be impressed with indisposition to
do any more fighting.
The Apmimdc will be delivered over to CastilIa's
Government. that the revoY ionsts beaten.
Since writing the foregoing. Y have visited the
temporary hospitals, and find that the wounded
are dying in great numbers 1t is now said our
dead will amount to nearly 20O0