Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-18
Teiegfaphici Correspondence Gin. Commercial.
Battle of Pittsburgh Landing.

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relisbIa Details of the great battle at
PittskATgh, from several gentlemen who
wersoathes. field afterwards, or in the
fig IT, The following are gathered and
lsent Rithont any reference to the agree
mefs otherwise, with dispatches
heretefofe given you. Our informant
tleft The ba ttle field on Wednesday morn
ing a 1ye o'clock.
fehels attacked Prentiss' brigade
lat O'Clock on Sunday morning
i wb ti1g Breaktast. It consisted 81
icen5 4 lslian q u
Tle essls sseze sad TO be 12d, 600
str rehtiss had no artillery.
His gadc was cut to pieces and forced
to Iire, with Prentiss and many others
prisoners
AT IL NJ, the entire line was fercely
eA3aged, but in full retreat. At four
oeloek, the enemy had taken Schwartz
battery C guns), Dresden's battery "a
SINS, Waterhouse's battery G rihed)
18th Ohio C guns), and another Ohio
tbattery, name not given.
Isl Thousands of our solGiers took refuge
4under the bank Of the river, and utterly
REFUSED to fight; in fact, they could not,
for officers and men were in inextricable
acenfusion. The army seemed utterly
8demoralized.
Gen. Nelson's Division, about this
time, arrived on the opposite bank, with
hiteen thousand men, and were ferried
across during the evening and night
The gunboats Lexington and Tylor
Iopened a tremendous fire of she'll upon
1.-The enemy, and kept it up every halt
1hour during the night, saving the army
From utter ruin. They set the woods on
FIRE, and many of the dead rebels were
burned AT Z o'clock the firing gener-
Tally ceased.
i At midnight the rebels attempted to
FLANK a battery within three hundred
yards of our siege gnns, but they were
8driven back by the gunboats and siege
Guns, supported by the regiments Of
NELSON'S Division.
E Our informants persist in estimating
3our loss on Sunday at three thousand
sffki ilEed and FIVE thousand wounded, as a
How figure. It was undoubtedly tre-
4mendous.
Monday during the night the rebels
were reinforced by Price and Van Dorm
5from Arkansas, with very large force.
sGen. Lew Wallace came up from
sCrump's landing with the 1 1th and 23d
5Indiana, 44tk Illinois, 9th Missouri and
kWillard's Battery, and in the morning
1 attacked fercely the left wing of the
FF5.eaeeay. tFfiIey went into the ~'ffglas-on
the doublc-quick, with tremendous
shouts, and did terrible execution. By
10 oclock they had driven the rebels
back two miles. The Battery performed
prodigies of valor. About 10 o'clock
the rebels were reinforced and for a few
minutes cur gallant boys were forced to
fyield. The other divisions of Buells
army now appeared and at once became
fully engaged, and for two hours all the
destructive elements Of earth seemed
striving for the mastery on that fatal
field. Southern chivalry proved no
match for the unhinching courage of
the Western boys, and the rebels fed in
all directions.
With some 10000 troops, mostly
cavalry, Gen. Buell. followed the fugi-
tive foe, taking thousands Of prisoners,
and shifting without mercy those who
would not surrender. He was reported
to have taken Corinth, with all its i'm
mense stores of arms and ammunition.
Carson, the scout, had his head torn
off on Monday, by a round shot
The rebel troops were mostly from
Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi, with
many from Georgia and Alabama
They fought like tigers. Our inform
ants attempted to ride through, the bat
tie field where our forces were posted
but the dead were so thick in the
enemy's line, that they could not do it.
They assured US that the rebels occu-
pied our camps on Sunday night, took
care of our sick and wounded, but de-
stroyed nothing, expecting confidently
to have our entire army the next day
They thought the battle already won.
On Sunday Gen. McClernand cut his
way through the enemy that had sur
rounded him. Most of his troops be-
haved with great gallantry, but the SD
Ohio was ordered to the rear in disgrace
for refusing to tight.
Capt. Harvey, of Bloomington, Hi
) nois, is among the killed. Our inform
ants were assured by those who knew
him, that John G. Breckenridge was ia
ken prisoner. They saw him pass tt
the general quarters.
) It is impossible, as yet, to get lists o
killed and wounded.
The Chicago delegation of physicians
and nurses arrived this morning, anc
have gone to Pittsburgh in the hospita
steamer Louisiana. DR.. McVicker i
} here, awaiting the arrival of Gov Iate
on steamer from Quincy, to se'
, specially to his wounded soldiers. II,
, will establish a depot hospital here fo
our sick and wounded. No official dis
patches received here this morning.
CAIRO, April g.
r Col. Scott, Assistant Secretary o
War. arrived this evening from ISLAM
No. TO- He leaves in the morning o.
the Emma, the fastest boat in port, 70
2 Pittsburgh, in company with Genera
: HalIeck, who is on his way from 81
Louis
The latest news from Gen. Grant
army is that Gen. A. S. Johnston wa
! found dead on the field.
The bogus Governor Of kentucky
johnson, is a prisoner.
Gen. Buell., at the head of a larg
cavalry force, was in close pursuit {
the enemy. He WAS only four mile
from Corinth when last heard from.
= This is considered reliable ie miitar