Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-06-26


TRENCH cFFIcIsL ACCOUNT
Special dispatch to til. Cincinnati Gazette.
BALTIsIoRE June 2s.-ThC Paris Mozitenr Of Jun,
10th has the following:
HEAD-QuARIERs. SAX MARTINo. >
Sunday, June s.
The French army assembled around Allessandris
had greet fieulties 10 overcome. fit marched a.
Plscensa il would have had 10 beseee the fortre =
and force passage over The Pc, there 900 metreas
in width. and thar 81 1ut operation would have had
10 be effected in the Prestnse Of hostile army OF
200 600 men
If the E nperOr crossed the river at Valena4, he
would ba7e found the enemy concentrated On the
left bank of Martlra, and he could only have at
tackled him By sererste columns. m4ueuverinr in
the mds. If country interseeted by canals aud rice
! fields
On both sides, therefore. there was an almost in
surnoubtable obstacle. The Emperor resolved 10
obvate it, and he deceived the Austri,n4 By
trating his forces the right, By occupying Cas-
teggia end even Robbie, and the Tribbia.
On the 3lst Of May, the srmy received orders to
march to the lefi and crossing the Pc at Cassle the
bridge Of which had remained ir our possession it
at once took tke road to Vercel where the passage
Of the Sesia was carried out to protect and cover
our rapid march on NOVaPa. The efforts Of the army
were dret ted or the rigAt Robbie, and two com
bats, glorious for the Sardinisn troops fought on
that SIDE, made the enemy believe that We were
marching on MUt4ra.
Meantime the French army was advancing on No
Vara, and it took its position On the very same
ground where ten years preVit usy the King Charles
J Albert gave battle Here it was able to meet the
! enemy ii necessary. s-
Thus this bold march had been protected by the
| 100000 men encam2ed on hight flank at eogo,
ia fIoLt of Noyars. Under these circumstances it
was then TO he reserve that the Emperor had to en-
trust the execution of the movement taking place
behind the line Of battle. On he I'd of June a d.
vision of the Imperial Guard was advanced toward
TuIbgO, the TicinO, ard not finding any resis
lance, it threw three bridges across The Emperor
having received eonfI matory intelgeLe e that the
enemy had withdrawn to the left hang of the river
ordered The TcnO TO be crossed st this point by the
corps arms Of Gen Mcmahon, followed on the NOR
row by Il vision of the Sandman army.
Our troops had scarcely taken their position on
the Lsmbardy bank when they we're attacked by
an Austrian corps from Milan, brought up by the
railroad They drove it back victoriou,ly in the
presence of the Emperor. Oh the game day, June
I'd, EspiDasse's division having advanced on the
road from NOyara to Milan, ss tar as Trecste from
which place II threatened the bridge at BufalOra,
the enemy hastily evacuated the entrenehment it
had thrown up at this point and retired 10 the left
bank, attempting blow up the stone bridge across
the river the attempt was not successful. and the
two arches attempted not sufficiently destroyed
to prevent the passage
The 4lh Of June had been fixed by the Emperor
for the dfnitive occupation of the left bank OF the
Tcino. Gen. McMshon's corps darmee Strengthen
ed by the division of the Veltiguers of the Imperial
Guard, and followed by the whole army Of the King
of Sardinia, was t. advance from Turbigo But
falora and Magenta, while the division OF the Gren
adiers Of the Imperial Guard was t. carry the tss
de front of Buff l1ra the left bank, and Marshal
Canroberl's corps fGrHEs to advance along the
right bank to cross al the same point.
The execution of this plan was frustTGtsd by one
Of those incidents which NUT always be expected in
warfare The army of the King was delayed in
crossing the river, and only Of his divisions
able TO follow the corps Of Ger. Mcmahon at a
defiance. The advance of Espinasse's division vas
also delayed and on the other hand, when Marshal
Canroberis troops left NOyara TO join The Emperor,
who bad proceeded in person TO the bridge al Buf8-
lore, II found tae road so eBcumbtred that it only
ariyeG very laie on the banks of the TIeino.
So the matt, stood, and the Emperor awaited not
without anxiety the signal of the arrival Of Geo
McMahon's corps ct BaffaloTa when about two |
o'clock he heard heavy f1ssillsde and osnnonade
in Inst quarter. The General vas ming up. This |
was the mom' mt TO support him by advancing on
Magenta The Emperor a. once threw Wimpfen's |
brigade against the formidable positions occupied by
The AusriaBs in front Of the Bridge. Celers brig
ade followed up the movement. The heights which |
border the canal and village Of Buffsiora
carried by the impeUosiy Of our troops, but they
then fund themselves opposed to formidable bodies.
whom they could not drive back, and who stepped |
their advance Marshal Canrebsrt's column had not
yet up, and on the other hand, the csnnCnade
and fussilsde which had announced the arrival Of
Gen. MeMahOD, had conf lvtey ceased. Had the |
Generals column been repulsed then would the d. \
vision Of the Grensdiers Of the Guard have TO sus-
tain alone the whole strength Of the enemy This |
is the proper place TO explain the RuVer Of the
Ausrians. When they Learned, on the night of the |
ID Of June, that the French army had made itself |
master of the passage of the Ticino at Turbig0, |
they rapidly reerossed the river at VgevanO with |
of this d'aFmpo led the bridCa
behind them.
On the morning of the fourth they we're opposite |
the Emperor, l25, 900 strong sndt against such
disproportioDate force that the division Of the ]
Grtnaders of the Guard, with whom the En- /
ptror, had to compete. At this critical moment, /
Gen. Regnaud de St. Jean, of Angely displayed i'm
mense energy, did also the Generals under his |
orders. General Of DIVISION Milinet, had horses
shot from under him. General Clerc fell, MORALLY
wounded. General Wempfen was wounded in the /
head. Conmendants Desme and Maudhuit, the /
Grensders of the Guard, were killed. The ZJuaves |
lost 200 men, and the Grensdiers suffered loss not
less considerable.
Finally, after long expectation of four hours,
during which Millinets division sustained without
hinching, the attacks of the enemy, Pickards Bii-
gsde led by Marshal CsDrobert, arrived on the field
of battle. Shortly afterWsrd Yinein's division
joined it with Gen. Ners corps, which the Emperor
had sent for and finally ROssians and Trochus di-
visions Of CaDrobert's corps. AT the same time
Gen. McMahon's cannon became again audible in
TIE distance. The Generals corps was retarded \
in its advance, and less numerous than it should !
have been, but advanced in two columns on Magenta
and Bnfalors. ii
The enemy having attempted 10 cut between these
two columns, Gen Mcmahon ordered his right col
umns 10 fall back on his left toward Magenta, and
this explains the cessation Of firing at the commence
ment Of the action on the BuffalOra side.
In fact. the Auslrans finding themselves hard
pressed on their center and left had evacuated the
village of Bufalors, and had brought the gree eli
portion of their forces to bear against Gen. MeMa-
hon before Magenta. TIE 45th of the line boldly
Of the village, which was defended by two Hungar-
ian regiments Fifteen hundred men Of the enemy
laid down their arms and the colors were away
from the Coloners body.
However, MOtteIOuges division found itself hard
pressed ny considerable forces, which threatened to
separate 1t from Espinasse's division Gen. McMa-
hon had placed n the second line the thirteen bat
taioDs Of the VOltigeurs of the Guard, under the
command Of the brave Gen. Clmou, who, sdvane-
lug 10 the front, sustained the shock of the enemy
and gave time 10 MOttiurge's and Espiuassss dVis-
ions vigorously TO resume the offensive. At this
momtnt of general attack Gen. Anger command
ing the artillery Of the second corps, opened fire
with forty guns the railway chsusee, which, tIk-
ing the Ausrians in flank and crOssWays, made fear
ful havoc.
At Magenta the combat was terrible. The enemy
defended the village most obsiinstely. Both sides
felt that it was the key Of the position. Our troops
took it house by house. causing immense loss TO the
Au- TRANS. More than 10 600 were put hJTs de COM