The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-12-23
accidents of the Battle Of aU.ghs.v.

letter from Camp Allegheny states tina,
| III me pioonI Asat Of the lilh, Col. Johnson
! appeared upon the field in CT items dress gave
| his commands in the most emphatic manner
ab3 'ed the nerce charges in person. After
| me ankees had been driven TO The wood.
the lie" battery of Lynch burg opened upon
| them with marked effect. Capt i. b. Apder.
| son, who commanded this hittsEy SEEING a
| numo"y Of men partially concealed by falisn
imper, Supposed they We're our pickets and
called out To them TO come into the bitches.
| Hardly were the words out of his mouth
vaen shower OF masketry was poured upon
him. and the noble cid hero FIJI from his horse
and died IN about fifteen minutes. The com
| B and OF the battery now deyolyed upon 1t
", W. Hardwicve, of Lynchburg, who Oh
| II cted The shots admirably, ana exhibited
much personal bravery. Capt. Milier's bat
| iefy, from Rockbridse, opened upon the enc
ny IL the thlcAet, With CANISTER shot, and
sept many poor Il essIan 10 his last account
from another letter, addressed TO q gentle.
| man III tlis city, We CLEAN the following in.
cideAts
ii the second charge, while leading in the
front, Lieut.. Lewis Thorn psou received snot
through his body and another IN his arm Just
as he had shouted "Uome on my brave boys,
follow me- lie fell into The @rIns OF Col.
Johnson, who says he was rs brave Il man rs
he ever saw.
Capt. Thompson also behaved with great
gallantry lie Was surrou nded once but e1l-
treated himself, receiving many bullets
| through his clothing, but sustaining no per-
sonal injury.
1t is stated OF Capt. Anderson, the veteran
her yxh all IN no
this was his ..fg-eteh:h battle.
Col. johnson said on the battle field that
he could storm Arlingt ton Heights with Il, 900
such troops rs the boys from the Northwest
johnson was always il the thickest of the
hSht, sometimes with 4 club III his hand, hut
generally armed with d mnsket; and ano thor
ofil-er has since remarked tuaL re could load
and shoot faster than any man he saw.
The enemy. in the early part OF the engage
neut, got between cur commissary stores
ana the Confederate troops, and atlerw wards
TWO dead Yankees were found close To our
tents, who are sa.G 10 have been shot by =
sick rnan laying Ia one Of them.
Many ii cur men hau b uilet holes through
their clothing, and it is miraculous tba: our
list OF killed and wounded is so small Fifty
L se OF the enemy were buried by our troops,
and some of them recognized as Union
men," from Maricn county, by their OLD
neighboIs, It is stated Dy one who saw O.
good many OF the dead Ressians. that none
Of them were shot lower Than the breast, and
iaany through the heart.
AAttle htro named Musgrove, from Richie
county, was shot through the arm by q man
concealed behind L log He immediately got
!. friend 10 load his nusket and jompipg
over pile Of brush shot the rascal who had
wounded him, and scared his oiI-cIoth coat,
WIKI Is name on it.
Every account which We have seen concurs
in representing the rout OF the enemy TO have
been complete, though it is not probable that
we shall ever learn his actual loss.