Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-16

l hsTe not room in this letter for details. win
give you enough Of them hereafter / would mere
~ mention, here, that one of corps picked up,
on the field OF battle. a memorandum book, belong
ing to one M. Parker, private in the I'd company,
lst Regiment Vermont Volunteers, in which find
the following entry
June 5th.--Harriet Lane demolished the battery.
opposite. Six Massachusetts, priyates shot acciden-
tally carelessness in an attack. Eight hundred
m r. troops arrived from New York. II. Lane vas
struck-25 on board woundedr
So there is the truth about Pig Point. Ne hay
punished the Yankees nwfully depend upon il. in
every battle we have yet had with them. r.
correspondent Of the Dispatch supplies the fol-
lowing particulars of the pursuit:
Our cavalry. numbering three companies, went
in pursuit and harrassed them down to the edge Of
Hampton. As they retreated, many of the wounded
fell along the road and died. and the whole road to
Hampton was strewn with haversacks, overeoats,
canteens. muskets, &C., which the men had thrown
off in their retreat.
After the battle visited the position they held.
The houses behind which they had been hid had
been burnt by cur troops. Around the yard were
the dead bodies of the men who had been killed by
our cannon. mangled in the most frIghtful manner
by the shells. The uniforms on the bodies were
very different and many of them are ike those of
the Virginia soldiery. A little further on came
to the point which they had carried some Of their
wounded. who had since died. The gay looking uni
forms of the New York Zouaves contrasted greatly
with the pale fixed faces of their dead owners Going
to the swamp through which they attempted to pass
to assault our lines presented another bloody scene.
ldies dotted the black morass from one end to the
other. saw one boyish,' delicate looking fellow
lying on the mud with a bullet hole through his
breast. His hand was pressed on the wound from
which his life blood had poured, and the other was
clenched in the grass that grew near him. Lying
on the ground was Testament which had fallen
from his pocket dabbled with blood. On opening
the cover found the printed inscription, Pre-
scented to the defenders Of their country, by the
New York Bible Society. An Z. S. flag was also
stamped on the title page.
Among the hayersacks picked up along the route
were many letters from the Northern States, asking
if they liked the Southern farms, and if the South
ern barbarisns had been whipped out yet.
The force of the enemy brought against US was
1000 according TO the statement of the prisoners
we took. Ours was 100. Their loss in killed and
wounded must be nearly 200 Our loss is one kill
ed and three wounded. The fatal case was that of
North Carolinian who volunteered to fire one of the
houses behind which they were stationed. He
started from the breastwork to accomplish it but
shot in the head. He died this morning at the
hospital The wounded are Harry Shook, of Rich
mond. of Browns Battery, shot in the wrist; John
Worth, of Richmond, the same Battery, shotin the
leg, and Lieut.. Hudnal, of the same battery, shot
in the foot None of the wounds are serious.