The national Republican., 1862-07-02

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Ths l.t that Attracted ~ attention wHs ~
immenee line u baggage end forage eagc4
extending abcut four miles. Next oamsa csv
slcAds Of ambalance wagons, extendiuo as far
a. the eye could reach, and on the next emf
nence the view was changed.
Next came stragglers, who never hspps1 10
be under. 6re, bat can report hairbreadth e.
ospes and personal adventures, with the 6nale
tAat our fskineat 4 ell cut up, and only
about two hundred and my Of Us left" Next
came Aloag he dok soldlse1 On foot, and lastly
. negro, dragging one foot aftsr the other, sp-
parently much frightened, and . soldier By bic
side, damning him for not moying fastsr.
A moment sfter We descended the hill 70 Q
favins known u 0slnsss klllA and halted for
On. artillery battery, which was huniedly cross.
Ing The bridge, and q the last OF the train
passed over, On order was given 10 destroy IL
Az thh moment depleted regiment came over
The eminenoe, and seeing the work Of destruo-
tioa going on, cried out, 'Stop, stop, the enemy
are cl6se upon uf," some Of Them, Of the same
time, glsuoing backward. c.-reb
Passing 10 the open space We saw IN i'm
mense force, some drawn up 10 line Of battle,
and others marching and countsrmsrchlng
These oousisted Of Porter's corps and NoCall'a
Pennsylvania boys, who had yielded sgsiust
thslr will, IE f,'..'NP
Two hours snsrwsrd the enemy came feel
ing their way through the woods, and finally Q
general battle snmed. "Ga
The cannonading vas terrific, and the mus
have heard the crash Of immense trees 10 quick
succession. az HI ".'
Duryea's gallant Zouaves were lying upon
the ground for two hours, while our batteries
were bhelling the woods over chem. 80
Finally, toward night, the enemy attempted
TO break the centre line 10 front Of Duryea'e
Zouates, and the musketry firing became most
terrific, lasting some twenty or thirty minutes;
AFTER which, there was luli. Shortly after
ward an attempt was made 10 break through
the right, which was repulsed,. and half an
hour later another attempt was inaio on the
l,ft, with thu same result. The battle had then
been raging for some four hours without ANY
apparent change or advantage on either side.
Reinforcemens Of artillery and infantry then
came steadily along over the bridge, marching
through the heat and dust over the hill TO the
Geld Of battle. The enemy then seemed 70
make their last desperate, determined effort,
and came near forcing our men back Into the
low ground between the hill and the bridge,
where they could have been slaughtered BY
tens OF thousands before they could have
crossed that long, narrow bridge. Wagons, or.
tillery, ambulanoes, and men were hurrying
toward the bridge, and Q panic was almost In.
evitable, when Q strong guard was placed
acrosS the bridge. . f'... q.
At the time when the enemy had almost
reached the main hospital, one half mile from
tho river, Thomas. Francis Meagher's Irishmen
came over the hill, stripped 10 the bare arms.
and ordered to 60 to work. They gave q yell
and went to work, and the result was that the
enemy fell back to the woods, and thus matters
stood'up 70 eleven O'Clock yesterday tSatur.
day) morning. . a. o.. - ~.
Of the entire line, and was renewed at two q.
M, Id front of Generals Hooker, Kearncy, and
Sumner, successively, without material result.
Col Black, Of Pennsylvania, was killed, bis
head blown of by q shell, When We lost Ea-
tons battery, we lost Its valuable commander
beside Ten guns were taken from us by q
sudden flank attack, covered by the thick
smoke which hung around the pieces aud
slowly drifted to the leeward.
Count de Paris took prisoner rebel major,
who. belonged to Jsoksonb army. He said be
had been in tho valley Of the Shenandoah all
winter, and came here yesterday with part Of
Jsckson's army. The rest Of Il arrived this
morning The whole of II was here. He said
that 10 the attack on our right the rebels bad
from sixty thousand to eighty thousand troops
This will explain the senormous fire uuder
which our men we're bolne down and swep,
away, precisely - some Of the regiments wers
swept away at the Seven Pines. .......
The Pennsylvahis reserve drove the attack
they were overpawcrod by thS same trccps c re-
inforced. Sykes's regulars called up, proved
unequal TO the the tssk Of stopping them, and
Slocum's command had 10 be added TO them
The Count de Paris testlfes to the remarkably
good conduct Of ali the regiments that sus
tained this unequal attack on Porter. They
gave way, indeed, but not one of them ran
Their losses are epormous.
The regular Eleventh infantry is about ami
bilatsd. Nearly every officer In II Is killed OF
wouoded. The Fourteenth suffered also 80
verely. Major Roselle, OF the regulars, a kins-
man Of Gen. AcClellan's, Is killed. Col. Pratt
OF ANEW York regiment, Is also killed, and
Lieut. Colonsls Black and Sweiizer.
Oar loss in officers Is very marked. Indeed
the disproPOrtion In numbers was 80 extraor-
dinary, and the obstinacy Of our troops so un-
Yielding, that our losses were inevitably large
The artillerytn both Porter's and Smiths di.
visions piled the rebels 10 heaps. The fire was
horribly effective. =
AT Savage's station tho wounded already flll
tho great street Of tents in the garden, or d be.
gin 70 pave the grass yard as after the Seven
Pines. The same moaning and shrieklng gil the
night as then, and again bsar testimony sRainst
tho style Of warfare which submits regiments 10
the Are Of brIgades. !.