New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-30
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scott's Louisiana Regimen
THE BATTLE OF SHILOH,

T. scotfs Louisiana ~RerInenr -!
TaE OF SHILOH gsssss
We take the following interesting letter from the
correspondence Of the Baton Rouge Advocate:
This is along after the battle ana and Y ls .55g
sunpu9n lss. our readers have enfeyed the
tWiee tasI, told tae before this However
| Scott's Regiment made asforced marcp, ~ ,,irat,
miles 10 two days in order to get here in fine
Sunday morning, while men and horses were rssr
ing from their long tramp, the deep boom Of the
enemy's artillery, some thirty miles saw away an an
honnceo that our boys were cup and at them"
| we marched down to our position ON the ex-
treme right OF the army, one mile from the Ten
nessee river, and at least twelve mites from
where the engagement was general Suffice il to
say OF us that we lay in that little valley without
tents, under heavy drenching rans for three days,
homgn.a,y ,honah. at expeehng an enemy that never
| notice more than the sending of an old putting
| gunboat to watch US. 2
| Our army advanced through the mud Sunday
morning and were greeted with raking fires from
lnnumerable masked batteries that crowned eyery
Hill. The enemy's position was very strong one.
| They occupied succession of ranges of hills,
s eaeh successive =. range commanding the position
oefore It, Our troops attacked POSITION after posi-
| uoe, charging bayonets and yelling like demons, y
ahday Sunday we drove them before our army
ana IN We evening drove them from their camps
and Qualifications to the waters edge Here, under
the protecuon OF their guuboars their grand army
| Of $1,000 picked Western men covered under the
!lver banks until sun a rise. whilst boys reveled
| IN the Injuries OF their magnificent encampmens.
The next day, with their forces increased to
50, 900, they attacked our wearied troops, who,
without reinforcements, fought them back and to-
wards evening again drove them to the rivers
edge The resultsRof this victory 500 prison
| ers, many pieces of fine rifed artillery, many
thousands Of muskets and rifles, etc., and the COM
piete generalization of BueIl's army.
oor meu have ascertained two facts by this bat
| western M hatt duhf
than Yankees, and that in the main their small
arms are not superior to ours. Many thousands
OF those captured are contract mnskets. rough,
unvarnlshed, with barrels like gas pipe. and in
descrbable locks; to cock one it requires all a
mans strength. and 10 pniI the Trigger q man mas
to make an energetic effort that endaBgers the tree
who threw away old hlnt-lock guns and picked up
these specimens of Yankee rascality, considered
the emselves swindled by the exchange. The En-
/ field rifles captured are fine, and our army GER
tainly has enough of small arms to arm MANY
thousands. e-e-r-=s
The most ludicrous idea is that the enemy had
ground all their bayonets to keen point and
then never stood one single charge from our regi-
ments.
THEIR CAMP Was q splendid one, and was
stocked with Injuries Of every ydescrpton-hquor
books, embracing those Of religious as well as
the most immoral character. These camps were
burned with most Of their contents. Tie scene Of
the sacking Of the camps. as described by particle
ming from camp to camp, some decked in fnery,
others dropping arms full of cheese and sausages
to pick up cigars and fancy articles. whilst others
were burning and destroying everything they came
across Thousands of our men lugged off loads of
e'ceteras, and large blae overcoats figure every
where.
The PRISONERS. = One entire brigade was
marched IN together with files composed OF tens,
iftes and hundreds. proportion of them were
foreigners, few were Irish. They would drop their
arms and hold up their hands. and shout 'prs-
denly upon them. Some were depressed, few de-
fant, but most of them, after getting over their
fright were pretty merry.
Gen. Prentiss, upon delivering his sword to
flower Of the Northern army" The Creole hero
replied. If we had been defeated you would still
have to had met the flowers Of the South, for onr
women and children would have resisted you to
the last" One of the prisoners asked old Irish
gent, who was seated on log cheering the pro-
cession:
'.What great things have you southerners done
| that you making such fuss about?u n
| The old fellow replied:
"We've sent half of you to h-l and the
other half to Corinth, which do you like the best,
be jabers."
All of them desired to know why our men yelled
on the field of battle. 1t intimidated them much
and whenever their lines began to waver the thun-
dering shout that went up from our whole line was
sure to them to scatter They fought in per-
feet silence and performed their evoiutions spend
idly, bat disorganized mass of our men, COM
posed of few hundred of the scattered would
often pile in upon one of their regiments drawn up
in as fine order as when on parade, and whip them
in few minutes. Many of the prisoners confessed
that they can never stand before our troops.
LOUISIANA TRoops Not a Louisiana Regiment
was in this fight but what fought herocalty.
The Baton Rouge boys in the various regimen is
fought the entire two days without faltering
Hundreds of acts of heroism were perform ed by
them but there is not space here for lengthy
and necessarily invidous record. Hardly one Of
them but what received some proofs of the \ene-
my's tpious regards'ln the shape OF balls thrbugh
their clothes, muskets shot in two pieces in their
h nds, etc.
Many of the Fourth fought with other regiments
and ELECTED the admiration of the Texas, Arkansas
and Tennessee Colonels who commanded. Co..
leaderless Arkansas regiment, and put it through
in gallant style. A memory incapable of contain
ing the names of all of those of our town boys
who distinguished. themselves by deeds of extra
ordinary daring is catching scissors u from your
correspondent, but in yisw df the circumstances 1
will not attempt record now.
Breckenridge covered himself with glory; his
horse was cut through by cannon ball-he ten
with his rider and shout ran through the waver-
ing ranks of his brigade, Our General is killed."
He rose and shouted, Follow me, men,, and
they did follow him through fire and flame to VIC
tory. Nearly all of our Generals had their horses
shot from under them.
Johnston led three charges before he fell.
Our are full OF confidence in the fiual re-
suit. r."
We have their artillery and their infantry are
not very fearful to encounter. SIR.
MYSTERIOUS VISIT OF FRENCH DIPLOMATIC
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