The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1861-07-16

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h The women in this house had rushed TO I'll
IS woods in the beginning of the action, but re
turned after the battle and checrrullv assiste
the wounded, making mattresses and banda
gcs for them. Further on five miles fror
!, tho Potomac) they reached Porterields farm
! the battle-ground proper 1t seems that Ger
Patterson and staff, Majors Claig, Bddle an
r. b. Price, Col. VIM. G. Patterson and Cap
tain Newton, with the First Wisconsin Rcgi
ment and the Eleventh Pennsylvania Regi
mcnt (Col. Jarett) preceded bv the Cit,
Troop and Doubleday's battery, the who'll
led by Captain McMullin and the Independ
ent Rangers, reached this farm at seven o'cocl
in the morning The enemy were drawn II,
behind the house, in line of batt, order, will
their park of four guns directly upon the turn
pike, bearing upon our ranks.
McMuIlin's men were some rods in advance
ard they first opened fire. TIE first cannon
shot OF the enemy passed over the heads of
our men, single ball striking the ga5lo eI
PorteniieId's dwelling, and passed out at the
peak Of the roof. They fired badly, not a
single cannon bali during the whole ac ton OF
a half tour's duration inhctiug mortal
wound. One bail passed between soldiers
musket and his check, aud almost simultane.
Gus second shot struck his gun. bending
the tube double and sending the splintcrs in
to his face and breast. The man will proba.
bly, lose an eye. Their first discharges of
musketry Were aimed too high, but subse.
qucnty they aimed low, and most of thc
wounded upon our side were struck below the
knees. Our men advanced continually, load
. p, trip II D
had approached to within three HUNDRED
yards, and McMullin's men were less than one
hundred yards from tie rebels advance lines.
They must have lost, from all statements, at
least one hundred in killed and wounded.
Their ambuIances were ordered TO the front,
and our men sa them h"nrine !" ,h- f"llon,
to be IN time for retreat. After firing for an
hour or less, they retired at rapid trot and
IN great disorder, seeming to labor to overstrip
each other IN their tllghty purpose. Porter.
field house Is a two story frame dwelling.
with frame kitchen attached. Porterfold is
a Union man, who hl been run off. lie
had taken his family to the woods for securi.
ty, but returned at once and gave the woun.
ded every assistance. His family soon follow
ed him, and the dwelling became a hospital
where the wounded lay most of them seeming
TO suffer no great anxiety beyond the event
Of the fight, and their own hard fate at no,
being engaged. OF all the wounded upon
oul side, Lot one will die. At iiainesyiIlc,
three miles beyond, they made a second futile
and shorter stand, but were driven back with
renewed loss. This latter place had been
the site Of their cLcampment. Our inform
ant reached it before noon, and found the
.own and suburbs occupied by our regiments,
with the rear regiments fast hurr,ug in.
Our troops had 10 sooner reached the vii
age thau they scattered on pleasure excur.
ION. Ons OF the tirst places t. which they
'ald their respects was the store aud post Of
lee Of one Turner, the Secession postmaster
# the village. This man had partic lariy :
lgnaIIzed himself for partizln mcauness. He I
ad been an applicant for the postma,tcrshp, i
ut Mr.. Myers, an opponent, was appointed,
'hereupoh Turner received the appointment
trough Mr.. Jefferson Daviss covciumcnt.-
lie latter procured the arrest of Myers upon /
he charge Of treason to Virginia. He was b
brown into prison, and condemned to die, but O
.as released few avs before the battle. @
Being thus particularly iuimica o the sol. h
lers and the Cover ment, Turner'S house |,
as at once visited 10y the troops. They a
mashed his furniture and tipped open his l.
eds, flushing the work ly ,piinteriug the "
ID family clock. Turner himself was arrest. V
/ in the woods ana brought into town, fol t.
'wcd by his daughters. He looked very W
leopi,h, and was at once put under guard e
secession flag was found in bis place, md t,
reat Humbcr' Of envelopes marked "Confed- /
ate States of America - ci
His daughters-waspish young ladies' B
cmcd solicitous only for their dresses. One Il
them, standing amid the wreck of her a
'usenoli goods, made pitcous inquiries for NJ
r;aln new bonnet that she hal left in a band CO
'X IN the second story. 1t being found that te
soldier had put hs toot through both band p
x and bonnet, she burst into a flood of pit re
us griet, and said: "They might have left OF
at; none on EN- could wear it" C
With the exception Of these yaung ladies'. S
} females were seen in the town, all Of the er
ftcr sex having fled 10 Martin,burgh end Il
iucLcster. -..-- w
Mr. Myers, the legal postmastcrof the place, pr
turned in time 10 save his futqturc, which II
g troops had mistaken for that Of a "seccsh