New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-07-21
.,,xy vOpu D.,ry TpIpINE THURSDAY, JULY 81, Io59.

zenbe rp) advaoced on the biRh road from tom" !"
Ca.tieione BY Gudizzolo, sod tie 9Th (Schss
cot,schel further south toward Nedola. This wing
wss thrown forward So ~ 10 press back the arl'cd
richt. and to offer support TO the 10Th ard IT'D
corps whenever and if ever, they should happen
70 arrive.
THUS the six corps actually engaged snd which
to all intents snd purposes formed the Austrian
fighting army, we're drawn out on line twelve
miles long. giving on an average two miles, ~
3540 yards frontage to each corps There could
De no depth in such long line. But this W ,s not
the only serious fault The Sd and 9th corps adj
vatced from Goito, TO which place lay also their
line e retreat; the lst and 9Th corps, the next
adjoining had their lire of retreat to NalIegio.
glance at the map shows that this gSes an eccentric
retreat. circumstance To which the slight effect
produced by the two corps in the plain is no doubt
mainly TO be attributed.
This faulty disposition being laid out for the
twenty four or if We suppose that Benedeh was
reinforced by some troops from the garrison OF
Pescbiera twenty-five or t~entysk Austrian
brigades. was rendered still more faulty by the
lapgour Of the advance A rapid march on the
23d, when the Nlncio re crossed, would
have brought the concentrated Austrian srmy,
BY noon, upon the advanced positions OF the
Allies about Desenzano, Tomato and Csstlghore,
AID enabled il 10 drive thes back by Dlghttal on the
Chiese. 80 that the battle would have commenced
with preliminary success fer the Austrians. But
the furthest point reached on the bills was Sol.
ferino only six miles from the Minco. In the PLAIN,
the advanced troops got as far as Castcl Gohredb,
ten miles from the Mlncio, and If 80 ordered might
have got to the CHEESE Then, on the 9th instead
Of starting at day break the advance was to begIn6y
9 o'clock Thus it happened that the Allies, VINO
started at O'Clock in the morning, fell upon the
Austrians at between and e o'clock. The conse-
ouences were inevitable. Thirty three strong
brigades against twenty five or twenty-six weak
oues (they had all been engaged before, aud suit
frred heavy losses), could only result in the
defeat of the Austrsns Benedek alone with his
five or ak brgsdes, held ont all day long against
the PiedmonteSe army, of whose ten brgtdes
every one, with the exception OF the guard, was
epgsged aud he would have maintained his po-
stlon had not the general retreat of the center and
left viii compelled him to f, back also. In the
center the 9Th ard lst corps G. brigades) held Sol
ferno against paraguay d'tIilliers's corps 6
rgades) and the guard q brSsdes) TIL after
o'clock, while the 9TH a brig tdes) was held In
check BY the four brigades OF McSlahon. SocIno
beirg at last taken, the guard advanced against
San Cassisno, and thus compelled the Austrian 9TH
81 FINALLY tha fall of
Csvrsna, at about o'clock in the afternoon, de-
cided the fate of the battle in the center and com
pells d the Austrisus 10 retreat Ga the Austrian
left the Sd aud 9Th corps were carrying on desul-
tory fight against Nies corps, and one division
Regnaud) of Canroberts; until later in the after
noon, another division of this latter corps rr0-
chu'.) entered into line and drove the Austrlans
back toward GotO Although opposed from the
beginning to nesrly equal force, these eight Aus
trian brigades might have done much more than
they did. BY resoute advance from Guidzzoo
toward CastigliOne they might have disengaged the
eth corps at San Cassiano and thus indirectly sup
ported the defenders sf Solferib0; but their line OF
retreat being to Goito, every step in advance com
promised it, and thus they acted with caution
which was entirely misplaced in such battle; but
the blame rests with those who ordered them by
retreat to GoitO.
The Allies had every man engaged with the eA-
ception Of three bIigades two Of CanrUbcrts corps
and ole of Pie6montese Guards Now, if the EN-
po, ment of all their reserves except these three
brieades was necessary to win hard-fUugbt
victory, after which there was no pursuit, how
would the battle have stood if Francis Joseph had
been able to avail himself Of his three army corps,
then wandering about far away TO the south
Suppose he had given one to Benedek, placed
another bebDd SOllerino ard San CasSIanO az 8
reserve, and kept one behind Cayrana general
reserve. what would the result of the b1ttie have
been Ii cannot for moment be doubtful. After
repeated ard vain Efforts 10 take San Aartino and
Sol rino the PiedmOniese and the Freuch cen'er
would have been broken by final and vigorous
sdvance Of the whole Austrian line, and instead of
retiring toward tie Mincio, the Austrians would
have ended the day on the banks of the CHEESE
They were beaten, not by the French, but BY the
arrogant imbecility Of their own Emperor.
Overwhelmed by both superior numbers from with.
out and contemplate management within they
still retired unbroken giving up nothing but the
battlefield, and as incapable Of panic any troops
the world has ever seen.
TIN CARRIE az THE lNION.