Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-10-01

gan Immediately sent out companies B. !,
X and @. Captains Gieeson, Dan QuirE,
Fitzgerald and Lieut.. WaIlace.) TO enter
tain the enemy. The enemy's advance
guard, about 5000 strung, were discovered
in corn field on the top Of the bluff near
Old Town. We Immediately fred upon
them six volleys in rapid succession killing
about 600 Of them before they could form
In line. We lost in this part OF the battle
8 killed and Is wounded.
We retreated into our entrenchments.
followed by the enemy, who brought Up six
pieces Of cannon and commenced PLAYING
ing on the college building. where our am
mnnision and all urr provisions were sior-
ed. We replied with all five Of our guns
giving them round shot and shell t. their
hearts content The cannonading com
menced about o'clcck p NJ, and was kept
up until dark. We used up all our shells
before dark. We silencei one of their
guns by knocking it to pieces. and XII led
as We learned afterWPrd about IS of their
men. We sustained no injury at ALL ex-
cept in the using up Of our ammunition
The action ceased at dark
On the morning Of the 18th, we discov-
cred that we were completely surrounded
by the enemy, who had cut US of FROM the
river entirely. His force was. about six
times greater than when the battle COM
menced on the 18th.
The battle recommended at s o'clock pre-
eisely, signal gun being fred at General
Price's headquarters at the court house in
the new town. The firing then recon-
Inenced with artillery on both sides.
The enemy continued fighting from the
18th u the Goth inclusive. night and day,
tnta N III
tins We were without any water, except
about twenty barrels in cisterhs around the
college building. Most Of this we bad to
keep for hospital purposes.
On the morning Of the 18th it rained
heavily for a. out two hours. saturating our
blankets, which we wrung out into our
cs7teens for drinking.
The rebels aimed most Of their shots at
the college building, surprising our maya
sine u he there, which it was at first But
after the engagement Of the 18th we had
removed il to a safer place. During the
nights we continued 10 throw red hot shot
at each other. During the day. the battle
was continued with both cannon and mus
kerry.
During the 18th Tuesday, and the 10Th
The rebels made very poor progress getting
no nearer to US than we fuuEd them when
,he battle begun. On the l9th (Thursday)
they commenced erecting breastworks OF
bemp bales, from behind which they con-
tinued their fire, while they rolled the
breastworks towards Us. About three o.
clock IN the afternoon of that day, they
charged over the entertainments upon Col
Peabody's home guards, and planted their
flag upon the top Of our breastw0rks. The
Irish Brigade were ordered to leave their
position on the opposite side to retake the
ground which Colonel Peabody had lost
We fired on the run ard continued at double
quick. The rebels scattered and fed like
flock of sheep. but left the top # the en-
trenchments covered with their dead We
killed about 500 or 600 in this single
charge. and captured their flag We lost
about 80 killed and wounded. They had
nc bsyonets and most of their weapons
we're shot guns and we did not give them
time 20 make use Of them. They fred at
random. Colonel Muliigan received a buck
thot in the leg, which passed through the
calf, laming bin but not disabling him.
He received Fix or seven balls and bucks
Ihot through the green blouse he wore.-
This was the end OF the action on that day:
except the caDnonadirg which continued
through the night.
% the 10th, the engagement continued
with mu~ketry firing at intervals We fred
hot shot into their hemp bale brea,tworks
hoping TO set them on FIRE, but We found
they were saturated with water, for which
purpOse they dipped them in the river
They came up IN force to the top o" the
hill, when tho brigade left the entrench-
ments, together with company A, Of Col.
Marshall's caval?y, and charged upon them
hp
slaughter. In this charge the cavalry com.
pany was entirely destroyed. both men and
horses being killed. Colonel Marshall
himself was in the college building with
the home guards This charge, like the
one of the day previous. was led by Col.
Mulhgan in persnn. The brigade lost in
this charge about 60 killed and wounded.
The cavalry company received tRe whole
contents of the enPmy's battery If six
pieces, which swept them entirely out of
existence. But we drove the rebels from
their battery and spiked their guns, not
being able to take them from the fld.
On the Goth, (Fritay.) they brought up
more cannon t. their hemp battery on the
hill Between ten and two O'Clock we
made three charges upon this battery We
we're led by Colonel White, Of the Missouri
9th, Colonel Mulligan being scarcely able
to walk. Colonel White. aud his meu
fought braveIy during the whole battle
Colonel White is one of the bravest of men,
Colonel Mulligan relied more upon him
sha1 upon any other officer of his mmaud
In the last charge upon the rebel battery
about O'Clock Friday afternoon, he was
shot through the lungs, ard died on Satur
day morning.
Six different times during the seige, the
rebels were allowed to approach the en-
trenchments on the side next the city to the
edge Of the ditch. When a regiment had
got sufficiently near. our boys inside would
explode mine, sending them up into the
air and hurling them prumiscunusly in
every direction, Strengthening them by hun
dreds. Six mines were thus expl ded un-
den their feet, and they evidently hogan t,
regard that side Of the entertainments as a
dangerous locality.
Immediately after the charge in which
Col. White was killed, Major Baker. Of
Col Peab ,dy's home guards. plante "A flag
OF truce on the entertainments. Col. Null
ligan Immediately ordered II to be taken
down. IL was taken down, and the firing
RECOMMENDED and continued until 4 u'clork
when Captain Graham, OF the homo guards,
again pu. up the dag Of truce, and the
whole furce Of home guards left the trenches,
refusing to continue the night.
We were out of water and out of ammu-
milton, three Of our cannon had been silen,
since the day before want Of sho, our mon
had only six rounds Of balls left The re-
Inducements we had expected had not ar
rived, and we hal reason to believe that
they had been cut of 1t was evident we
could not hold OUT much longer.
When the firing ceased the rebels sent ir
flag from their battery. and Col Mulligan
sent Major Moore to Prices head quarters
Price came up in person and received the
surrender.
A day or two previously. Price bad sent
flag Of truce 10 Us, and offered il we would