American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-06-06
very numerous but trudged along quite

mat IN The whole number We did not see
ha I so much complaint as was witnessed
with a small squad of Yankees. who
pitched. and tossed, and howled in An
outrageous manner even intimiIatiny
those of the ambulance corps, who bur
RED 10 their relief "A II right, fellows"
said one of our BOYS. coming from the
front desperately wounded. and laughing
wiihal-' Go in. boys. and fini>h.-we
have driven them As far aS legs wou
carry US. We got hundred barrels of
wi>key. so hurrah for Us -
But while in the hurry and confusion,
incident 10 An engagement Of this nature.
W. must confess that the arrangements
AMI plans of Generals for rtp-liny The
foe were OF the most admirable nature.
and elected hearty applause from all
who observed ; but. then. we know they
had troops. the finest in the whole world.
and men. indeed. who knew not what
danger WAS. To pariculariz-. we can
not attempt Tor want of space and time
->nficient to say. thai Stturdav'S opera
tons ended in another Federal yicto.
ry( J" and that h. foe retired three miles
to emily it undi>turbed
Ex2rcring resumption of ho.tlitipS
on Sunday, every preparation WAS made
therefor, and Al an early hour the ENEMY
commenced to advance down The Yo L
River X abroad bul GIN. III ,hnn+'s BIZ
ade (of Hunters comnand) met them.
and gaIIanry drove them backwa, Dis
again. although m4nfuIy attempting to
regain the position lost the evening be
fore. We are sorry to add that in This
enga cement. the 3 tabama lost Col.
Lomax. and Ali Johnson, while the
IL h Virginia (and Richmond Grays par
ticula,ly J lost many valuable men. The
8 h Virginia did not act SD we'll rs usual |!
The enemy was particularly active with
artillery and accurately Shellei the am
hul4nce train on the York River road
Operations along The line yesterday. wer.
not of a very important nature, The enemy
bling intent upon preparing FIR their
main attack to day. Monday
We are sorry TO say oar officers suffer
ed severely in the two days operations
and among others We wnnld ada that
Gen. Garland had three. horses shot un
der him, and was severely hurt before
relnqni>hing his command in The fell
Gen Pettig'ew was killed, Col Lpm4x
(3'd Ala.,) Col. H4tton. (7h Tenn J
and others. and as 20 the number of
subordinate officers tn | st is lon : and
fearful one. Time and space prrciude>
the possibility of further drtail~-to dav
j. big with Fate ! may Providence all u
IN, md It.r1r,.,,,.,
chronicle a second Marathon.
Later in the evrnin. he enemy appear
ed in force near the battle field Of the
morning which was then heidi BY oar
men. Gen Mahone's brigade sill occu
pied The advance and were drawn uD in
! ne Of battle. prepared 10 meet the foe
Notwithstanding he severe loss it had su>-
rained in the morning NJ my of our dead
and wounded still remained upon the field
aud among them The body of the. lament
ed Colonel Lnmrx An omnibus Wa
sent out 10 get many As possible. buI
this was captured by The enemy. The
\ ankeeS advanced Ia the edge of II piece
of woods. within about one thousand
yards OF our line. where they halted and
remained a dusk GIN. M4hone'> brigade
was soon reinforced by several brigade~
which We're drawn up short distance in
It's rear. while "A large force was placed
near by in reserve. Pr->i lent Davis.
Generals Lee. Smith. Lon .~tre+t Stuart.
and Other 'mmanding Generals. we're
upon the gronnd At This point. showing
that il was an important POSITION in Ih-
affairs of The day. Thus matters Stoni At
snndnwn. A no further attack was an
ticipated dniing The night. our troops pre-
pared to- bivuuac on The field, in readiness
for he events of to-day.
OfcourS- il i impossible at this time To
chronicle but a small portion of the c4>u |
ties and incidents. We give such As We
have been abb TO obtain. The t2 h Vir>
ginla and the 8 Alabama behaved nohly
Both regiments were cut up badly. The
Richmond GraY> lost two killed and five
woanded and missing PROBABLY no reg
iment suffered more. than the 3 Alabama
Besides Colonel Lomax. AdjntanI J"hn-
ston Capt. MAYS Capt Phrlan and Liruf.
Jas Brown were killed. AMI Capt. Ready.
Cart. r ,binSon. Lieut.. Witherspoon. L..
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