Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-04-15
Further Of the Great Battle

Further Of the Great Battle
From "Agate's" correspondence Of the
Cincinnati Gazette, We extract the follow
ing paragraphs, which are Of interest to
our readers:
THE TROOPS OF BUELL's DIVIsIOH.
Buell's three divisions were not full
when the battle opened Monday morning,
but the lacking regiments were gradually
brought into the rear. To save future delay
give here list Of his troops, and Of Lew.
WsllaOe's, engaged;
BriE.-Gen. Nelson's division list bri-
gade, Col Ammon, oath Ohio, commanding
-36th Indiana, Col Cross; 9th Ohio, 1t
Col. Anderson; Oath Ohio, Lt.-Col Fred. @.
Jones.
Second brigade, Saunders D. Bruce, Goth
Kentucky, oommanding-1st Kentucky,
Col Enysrt; I'd Kentucky, Col. sedg-
wick; 10th Kentucky, Lt.-OOl. ---, COM
handing.
Third brigade, Col. Hazen, 41st Ohio,
commsnding-4lst Ohio, 9Th Kentucky, 9th
Indiana.
Brigadier General Tom Orittenden's divis-
ion: First brigade, Gen. Boyle; l9th Ohio,
Col. Beatty; seth Ohio, Col Pfyfe; 18th
Kentucky, Col Hobson; 9th Kentucky, Col.
Grider. Second brigade, Col. W. 8. Smith,
18th Ohio, commanding 18th Ohio, Lieut..
Col. Hawkins; 26th Kentucky, Lieut.. Col.
Maxwell; 1lth Kentucky, Col. P. P. Haw-
kins; with MendenhaIl's regular and Bart
letts Ohio batteries.
Brigadier General Mc0Ook's division: First
brigade, Brigadier General Lowell h. Rous-
seau; Ist Ohio, Col Ed A. Parrott 9Th In
diana, Col. Orittenden; Sd Kentucky, (Lou-
isville Legion); battalions 18th, 46th, and
18th regulars. Second brigade, BFigadier
General Johnston; BAD Indiana, Col. VIII
lich; 39th IndisDn, Col. Harrison; 49th Ohie,
Col Gibson. Third brigade, Col. Kirk, 34th
Illinois, commanding; 34th Illinois, Lieut..
Col. Bsdsworth; 29th Indiana, Lieut.. Col
Drum; 3Oth Indiana, Col. Bass; 77th Penn
sylvsnia, Col. Stsmbsugh.
Major General Lew. Wallacs's division,
right of army; First brigade, OOl. Morgan
L. Smith commanding-sth Missouri, Col.
Morgan L. Smith, Lieut.. Col. James Peek
ham commanding; 11th Indians, Col. Geo.
F. McGinnis; oath Indiana, Gel. Alvin P.
Hovey; Thurbers Missouri Battery. Second
brigade, Col ThaYer (lst Nebrasks) COM
maDding Nebraska, Lieut. Col. McOord
commanding; 23d Indiana, Col. Sanderson;
18th Ohio, Col. BausenWein; 6sth Ohio,
Col. Steadman; ThomPson's Indiana Battery.
Third brigade, Col. Ohas. Whittlesey goth
Ohio) commanding Ohio, Lieut.. Col.
commanding; 56th Ohio, Col Pete
Kinney; 76th Ohio, Col. Charles R. Woods;
18th Ohio Colonel Leggett.
a4a THE NUMBER ENGAGED.
The best opinions of the strength with
which the rebels attacked us place their
numbers at sixty thousand. They may
have been reinforced i've or ten thousand
Sunday night.
Grant had scarcely forty thousand efFec-
tive men on Sunday OF these, half dog.
en- regiments were utterly raw, had scarcely
had their guns long enough to know how to
handle them. Some were supplied with
weapons on their way up.
Buell. passed three divisions that took
part in the action. Nelson's, Orittenden's
and McCook's. They numbered, say twenty
thousand-a liberal estimate. Lew. Wal
lace came up on Monday with, say seven
thousand more. That gives US, counting
the Sunday men as all effective again, six.
ty. seven thousand on Monday on our side,
against sixty to seventy thousand rebels.
1t was not numbers that gained US the day,
it was fighting. All honor TO our Northern
soldiers for il.
GHH BULLS ARRIYAL-HoW DUB ARMY WAS
SAVED FROM BUN.
Looking across the Tennessee we see a
body of cavalry, awaiting transportation
over. They are said to BuelIs advance, yet
they have been there an hour or two alone.
But suddenly there is a rustic among the
runaWsys. Itisl it lei You see the gleam-
ing of the gun barrels, you catch amid tie
leaves and underground down the opposite
side Of the river glinpses of the steady
swinging tramp of trained soldiers. A di.
vision Of Buelps army is herel And the
men who left their regiments on the field
send up three cheers for Buell.. They cheer
inel May it paTch their throats, as Il they
had been breathing the SimOonl
Here comes boat across with hieuten-
ant and two or three privates Of the Signal
Corps. Some orders are instantly given the
officer and as instantly telegTsphed to the
other side by the mysterious waVings and
raisings and dIoppings Of the flag. A steam
er comes up with pontoOns en- board, with
which bridge could be speedily thrown
across. Unaccountably enough, to onlook-
ers, she slowly reconnoiters and steams back
again. Perhaps, after all, it is better to have
no bridge there. It simplifes the question,
takes escape out of the count, and leaves it
victory or death-to the towards that slink
behind the bluffs as well as to the brave men
who peril their lives to do the State some ser
vice on the fields beyond. Preparations 20
rapidly forward for crossing the division
(Gen. Nelson's, which has the advance of
Buell's armp) on the dozen or 80 transports
that have been tied up along the bank.
We have spent but few minutes on the
bluff, but they are the golden minutes that
count for years. Well was it for that
driven, defeated, but not disgrsoed army
of Gen. Grants, that those minutes we're
improved. Col. Webster, Chief Of staff,
and an artillery officer Of no mean ability,
had arranged the guns that he could col.
leet, of those that remained to Us, in q sort
of semi-circle, protecting the Landing, and
bearing chiefly on our center and left, by
which the rebels were pretty sure to ad-
vance. Corps of srtiIlerists to man them
were improVised from ell the batteries that
could be collected. twenty-five guns in
all were placed il position. Two Of them
we're heavy siege guns long thirty-twOs.
Where they came from l do not know
what battery they belonged to I have no
idea; only know that they were there, in
the right place, half mile back from the
bluff, sweeping the approaches by the left,
and BY the ridge Corinth road; that there |
was nobody to work them that Dr.. Cornyn,
Surgeon Of Frank. Blair's old First Mis- |
souri, Artillery, prOfered his services; that
they we're gladly accepted, and that he did
work them to such effect as to lay out am
pie work for scores Of his professional 1
brethren on the other side Of the SIGHT.
Remember the situation. Il was half past |
4 o'elock-perhaps quarter later still
Every division Of our army on the field had
beeu repulsed. The enemy were In the /