The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-01-03

baggage for you" He sighted his piece,
and whiz went the bali, with deadly effect,
exploding the magazine Of the opposing
gun, and killed some half dozen of the gun.
ners.
A drummer attached to the Ninth regi-
ment took two prisoners, having no other
weapon but q ID.
After the enemy retreated, two compan.
les of the "Bucktails," under command of
Captain sMcD and Holland, were Or
dered by &c neralMcC Call to scour the woods
to which the enemy had retreated. Capt.
Holland says be counted over one hundred
dead bodies of the enemy on the field. 1t
was a ghastly sight. The groans of the
dying and wounded were terrible to hear
One rebel soldier, who was unhurt, stood
sentinel by the side of bis dying brother.
He said he would not leave bis brother un.
til be was dead. A dying soldier asked
one of our men to take pack of cards
from his pocket, as he did not wish, he said,
to die with them in his possession. One
asked for whiskey, another for water, and
others for surgeons, ministers and Bibles.
It is estimated that the killed and
wounded are fully one hundred and fifty, as
stated in my first report. The bodies of
several officers were left on the field, with
their shoulder straps cut of, and everything
taken from their pockets to prevent recog.
milton of their rank and name. The body
of Colonel Taylor, of the First Kentucky
regiment, who was known to be killed, was
taken away. In the woods adjacent were
found twenty-five wounded rebels. Most
of these, it is supposed, still remain at
Thorntons and neighboring house, where
they were carried after the action. It is
also believed that the bodies of the dead
which our men left lying in the woods were
buried today.
WAsHrNGToN, Dec. 22.-The seven soldiers
attached to the Bucktail Rifles, and Sixth
and Ninth Pennsylvania regiments, who fell
in the battle at Drainesvifle, were placed
today in row on separate biers near Gen.
eral McCall's headquarters Nearly every
soldier of the division called to look at them
1t was q solemn spectacle. Hardy men
shed tears while looking on the inanimate
forms Of their late comrades in arms, but
their grief was alleviated by the thought
that they had met the death soldier loves
best---death on the battle field. Three of
the dead were buried to day, and all belong.
ing to the Bucktail rifes-Corporal
Samuel GaIbraith, company B George
Raup, o. the same company, and George
Cook, Com papy Z. The remaining bodies
are to be taken 10 tneir late homes. No
such impressive scene has occurred the 9th
er side of the Potomac as their burian.
The burial ground Is il quiet, out of the
way place, shaded b. pines and fringed by
brook. OF those severely wounded the
best care is taken. These are in the divis>
ion hospital, where they receive every atten.
tion at the hands of DR.. Shipper, Green
and other surgeons attached to the different
brigades. Several will have to undergo
amputations, but all endure their sufierings
with heroic courage. j. N. Carothers,
Sergeant Sixth South Carolina regiment,
one of the wounded rebels, mentioned in nv
report as having died after his admission to
the division hospital attached to General
McCall's division, came from Chester Court
House, South Carolina. He had in his
possession fiity-seyen dollars in South Car
DINA and Georgia bank bills, and package
which he gave to DR. Shipper before bis
death, with the request to send the same to
his mother when the war ended, and the
statement that be died happy, in the con
sciousness OF having fallen while in the dis
charge of bis duty to his country. F. G.
Alexander, the other wounded rebel who
died, is supposed, from memorandum found
in his possession, to have lived in Harolds>
burg, Kentucky He had about bis neck
in a gold locktt, the likeness of young
lady. On the back of the locket was a
verse OF poetry in manuscript, signed
Henrietta Robinson" which is probably
the name OF the young lady.
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