New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-16
Gen. Hoeker's Earncst Hsasemens-New and
Most Interesting Incidents-The Rebels
twice showed White Flags, and then
Fired on us-They Cut on = Wounded
New.Jersey Captains Ears.
ondepoe OF The ". Y. Tribune.


New.Jersey Captains Ears.
Cesrespondence Of The N. Y. Tribune.
RoPrR's CHURCH, Va, May 10, 1862.
The smoke Of falsifed and blundering History rs
npidly clearing off the battle-swsmp of Wiliams-
burg. Gen. Hooker commander with as Wise q
head as brave heart, heard TO declare ye.ter-
day: History will not be believed, when 1t tells
that the devoted officers and men of my Division
were permitted to carry on their unequal struggle,
from morning until night, unaided, IN the preseuce OF
more than 80, 600 of their comrades with arms in
their hands. Nevertheless, it is irne y AT Adams
farn-bouse headq quarters by turns for everybody on
the day of the battle intermtted the occasionally
privileged labor of dryiu my feet at wretched fire
IN ar Internal CO liar, with inprecations upon horse
thieves and the copying of wet document, stained
by dragoOn's gore, and lying open in the empty
parlor. 1 thought il Was abandoned. l now pub
bsh j, as Exbioit No. in support of my first aid
second letters descriptive of the battle.
"Is FRONT OF WiILIAxsBuRe.(
May 5-ll :l0a p, 1862
"corl CaAuScEr AcKREvEK 4yi'ant hdJrtan' Gear9L'
Exhausted ssS ,Si''''' wy '''' "''' " WIN
the Yol.Own /. clear Of The enemy B.erie, ss,.y
and infantry can toie poet BY the de Of ~ns to whip Tie
"J. HOOKER Brit adierGenerai, &c"
Heinizslmap had gone when the dragon spurred
up 10 Adsms's house. The note was handed TO Gen
sanner He read il, and made the following reply,
T. il upeu the envelope and handed it back 20 the
@ras00Ds
S"Opersd srd read by the senior officer this held'
Col Blaisdel Of the llth Massachusetts,, is said TO
be the officer who secured the woods between
Hooker and Sumner, in obedience TO the former 8
command, snd found clear way only a mile and a
quarter long-not n Rebel IN II.
Hooker commenced the attack on his own author
iy, and upon the true military principle attack
r,ating arrnv regardless of its bers, but with
care TO avoid unnecessary loss Of he" General
Mcclellan, 1T the 'ime was attending TO his duties
al Yorktown. He did not reach the Adams
House mile and quarter away from the battle
6,n lilI o'clock in the afternoon. Kearney's and
Bsrrys arrival had al that time turned the battle
into decisive victory. Hooker and Heinizelman
had previously saved il from being disastrous
defeat.
Hooker's own lose was follows:
ofFCEhs r,
Killed 2l Wounded d...........::. s.
Total '"'
PRlvATss ~,
aed ,.;.'''''''''''''''' va ''i''Ns
i WOUE Ecrd sbSfi
Total
......s..........'''.'''.'i'
Many, very many Of Hookers men depended for
bours for cartridges which they took from tie bodies
Of their own dead and wounded.
| The enemy oppesite Hooker we're commanded by
Gen. Long.reet srsisted by Gems. Maguder, VIII
coz NcLaws, Hiil Stewart, and Picket. The pns-
Mers taken ia the evening by Col. Averill 81 Penn
iylvania Cavalry every inch OF him soldier! con-
fe.sed thst their numbers all along our line were
from 80 coo 70 ~, ,0t0-that their works and position
made them ss good d. 100 C00-tbat their fe-eniorce.
ueuis we,e coming up IRON Williamsburg as late as
5o'clock, aud thai, at ttat time they had no 'ded
Thatecer u rctreafi"g.
Wades' son, a cavalry lieutenant, of re dis
unglshed himself. Brave en- do gender cowarGs.
Tne let Massachusetts, Colonel Cowdin, marched
lO miles through the mud and rain before a. N.
weIe drawn up in the abattis, received orders TO
move forward as skirmirhers and clear the enemy 8
caunObiers from t0er pieces; did 30. seDcng four
guns stood Ia return Il fire from a redoubt which
could not be picked of--lby the by, they bad pre-
v'ously nice taste Of field artillery and musketryJ-
ehd alter the redOubt got through with them the
lseippi sharp-sboOters took ,urn on them from
'te rIe-piss- Sufficient, would suppose, for any
eenoatlve stonaehs. But in war, " enough is not
a. good as ssast.' They sent TO the rear now
IA summation, were relieved, and rat down IN the
ai1 ~ eploy themselves; were ordered up aud back
~ .nen Viu Positlon TO support the New-York I'D
oiacIea 70 ia back to the road, and were raked
'ney went, losing many; were ordered across the
,S"I iIo lne "ooos; were ordered back 10 the edge
.N~Nt "N -. r. H were ordered hall q nile
away, to camp. Amid all this moving. no. one of
the tiave Massachusetts men tLouobt of moving
!aeI previous resolution They were gritty TO
the last "''' eJ ="
Tue number Of the Rebel killed opposte Uooksr
son Ss oogoie bis own. OF their wounded thew Ief,
CIV IN the several Williamsburg hospitals. Others
we're distributed among the private houses In the
S'yi All the available buildings near the field Of
oa'ue Were crowded with them. Hooker took 300
pr -oDers WIN wv
,.w ow again to the disgusting duty Of proving the
oarism, tIeacLery, and radical cowardico Of thee
neoes. mayor kyerson OF New Jersey regiment
NUM- 70 the yroand by wound, fell into their hspds
~ Tue eoo and now OF the fight. When his BODY
vas recovered On Tuesday, it was found TO be
osyoneted, and fhe sacages had cut the gentieadns
eors of close 10 kis head
Ihurston, Colonel Of the I'd New.Hampshire.
fca,es with oeep feeling that one Of his captains,
Drown, in the most critical roch Of the battle,
galtsred large number of scattered men Of bis own
Ano s,her regiments, and led them on to a body of
tte enemy, firing wi his revolver as be went, and
eoeenng on bis new battalion. The Rebel III COM
mAnd waved white flag, and CRED OUT, "Don I
nre don ! hre We are frends,' and II the same
cDe ordsred his men 10 trail arms Too success
tai u'ekl Drown commanded bis men not 10 fire.
a. .ne word, tie Rebels poured volley upon them
A'nng many, and among them one Of the best Of
"'Av fern Of sddIsssiss Asts te 0sa. HsDtsslnaa.