Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-06-18

a.stisg Of a battery Of one howitzeF, supported
BY Colonel stuart's battalion entrenched on the
! right, and q company OF North Carolina in
faEtry entrenched- on the left. The hawitzsr
becoming spiked BY tbs breaking Of a printing
wire, was run back into the bushes, and the
infantry supports retired. The outer line be-
ing lost, the u. S. troops approached and OPEN
cd a heavy FIRE Of musketry on the confede-
rates concentrated on the hill at he church;
but owing TO the thick growth Of woods
Intervening, the Ere was not effective, and
AZ the same time the left Of the con-
federates were assaulted by a column which
approached to within nifty or sixty yards
under cover OF woods and depioYed IN front
Of them. This FIRE took the main bate
~ Of the howitzer battalion In the flank,
wounded three men, and killed and wounded
a fne horse; struck their pieces aad mmuni-
tson chests. The howitzer battery could not,
however, return the fire, without firing over ne
North Carolina infantry, entrsnched on The
lefg, and risKing them. The fire OF the bat
terv was, therefore, maintained 20 the
front on the troops and battery II he en-
envy In the road, and the North Carolina in
fantry repulsed the assault on the lett. An
other howitzer arriving from three miles in the
rear, was run out to the outer line on the right,
which had been previously re~ocenpie6 by Con
federGte infantry, the enemy falling back.
The howitzer immediately opened With shell on
a house occupied by the enemy'a sharp shoot
ers, and which also served 10 screen the United
States battery from view. The United States
battery replied with round shot, all Of which
passed over the howiizeT, while the shells from
the hoWitzer fired the house, and ranged on to-
ward the United States battery, and probably
crippled It; foF, after five or six shots on each
side, the FIRE Of the enemy ceased aBd the bat
tie ended"
The fret battle has. I suspect, given the
Yankees a taste Of a very different kind Of re-
ception from what they have suspected. have
not the least doubt that they expected 10 sweep
away our little band at the first onset. and
march on in triumph to this place. II such
were their calculations, never were men more
f~earfully mistaken. They were met at The
mouth Of the cannon, repulssd, routed, driven
of the field with so little hope OF rallying,t that
they threw awaV arms. bsversacks, everything
that could impede their flight. In one instance,
they even left the rsmmer Of a cannon on the
field, snd two medicine chests were captured.
Arms and ac-coutrsments Of all descriptions
were among the trophies gathered from them.
The bossted ZouGves did mo- wait to cross
bayonets with the North Carolina regiment.
They fed upon The first fire, and CO. Il not be
brought to toe the mark a second. An officer
Of the sew nth regiment OF New York was
killed, endeavoring 70 induce a company (not
OF Zsuaves, however, to follsw bin. He
noun ed fence that separated bis company
from or infantry, with great gallsntry, waving
his sword and calling on bis men TO follow bin,
when be received a muskst shot in the breast
and fell dead. His men Immediately fed. The
dead officer bad a fHFlough in his pocket. He
had gone to Old Point on leave Of absence, and
had probsbly volunteered to lead the troops, az
the bead Of which be fell. His rank was as
certsined from bis furlOugh; it was that Of
captain.
Ibave not room in this letter for details. !
will give you enough Of them hereafter. I
would merely mention, here, that one OF our
corps picked up, on the feld OF battle, a mem
orandum book, belonging to one r. n. Parker,
private in the Cd company, 1st regiment YER
mont volunteers, in which find the following
entTv:
"Jane 5h.-Hsrrist L4Re demolished The
battery opposite. Six Mavsachuset's priVates
shot ecidentally-carelsssne 10 an attack
Eight hundred more troops arrived from New
York, Il. Lane t0Gs stTaok-twenty-hve on
board wounded.o
So there Is The truth about Pig Point. We
have punished the Yankees a~wfally, depend
upon it, in every battle We have yet had with
them. ?.