, 1862-04-12
!: THE BATTLE OF PITTSBURGG,
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS,
Arrival Of 700 Wounded at Cairo,

mispstch to the Chicago Sanitary Commission. !
CA1Ro, April n.-aeTen hundred Of the
wounded from Pfttsbulg Landing reached
here this morning. Among them were CoIonels
A2ynle, Hfx and Ransom
The Chicago delegation for the Tennessee.
LEFT LAST evening On the Louisiana
~ oEighteen hundred prisoners from Island No.
~ leave here On the cars for the North this
morning. C, FoLsoM.
ADDITIONAL VIA ST. LOUIS.
e. LOUIS, April 10--The Democrat has the
following from Cairo IN relation to the battle
at Phtsburg Landing, TENNESSEE:
The disposition Of the Confederates in the
atack WIS IN the form Of the letter Y. The
point Penetrated Prentiss's division. which
CONSISTED or raw recruits who could not stand
re- re shock, and 1en back, causing great confa-
This charge would have resulted in tnrn;ro
our left wing, and the capture Of Iaree nor,
ton Of PrentiEs's and SherHaan's diy3s1nns
but for the gunboats Tyler and Lexington
which beat the enemy back by firing into his
ranks shot and shell
Great blame Is attached to Generals Preutiss
aud Sherman, who, it Is said, had no scouts
out, and only Q very small picket guard. IN
formation = 1.-THE approach Of the rebel army
Is said to have been given to those Generals
BY persons from the country, but it was disrc-
Eafoeds and no preparations made to receive
the enemy.
Sherman was On the left; Prentiss WIS next
10 him; Generals Hur1but and MeClernand
occupied the centre; General Sherman held
The onset Of the rebels was terrible, It
By 10 O'clock a m, our whole line. ~' rom from
right to left, Was engaged. Our line was fiye
miles back Of Pittsb1rg, and ne were Driven
back TO the river. The slaughter was great,
and officers who participated st Fort DoneI5on
say mat light in no way compares with this in
night.
At O'Clock Sunday afternoon, Gen. Buell.
marched n to Pittsburg from Savannah. About
t e Vef o99ePp P9Ff 1f his aa nd Ffsehea fs
with cheers. This inspired our men who Ind
been driven buck With fury during the day, and
the tide Of affairs changed.
a large body Of Buell's force were crossed
Sunday evening and night, by fifteen or twenty
transports.
" Sunday night Gen. Lew Wallace got up from
Crump'5 Landing with 19, GOO men. With this
reinforcement the fight was renewed on Mon
Day morning, and raged the hottest from to
P. n, BY which time force of 10000 men
from BuelFs army had crossed the river at
Pittsburg.
One raYine between Hurlbut's and and Prem
tiss's divisions is said to have been literally
filed with dead rebels.
Rebel prisoners say they had orders to kill
as many OF our officers as possible. Their Of
fcers fought IN Disguise, ours in their mi
forms, which was the cause Of their being dis
unGuished and so many of them killed.
CHICAGO BATTERY A.
a dispatch has been received here saying
that in the Pittsburg fight Woods Chicago
Battery A lost four men killed and 81 wound
ed-the names Of which are not given.
CHICAGO BATTERY B.
There Has one killed and ten wounded in
Major Te7lor's Chicago Battery. The names
not Jet reported.
CAPT. ADAMS KILLED,
private dispatch has been received that
Capt: Adams, Of the 57th Illinois Regiment,
{col Baldwin, is among the killed in the bat
tie at Plttsburg Landing. He was q son-in-
law Of 2. F. Walker Of this city.