Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-09-26

Ionged to. him 10 win IL. IL was nine
o'clock
The fight had been furious since FIVE.
A large part of his command was broken,
but with his right still untouched, and
with Crawford ) and Gordon's just up
above all, with the advance Of the whole
central. line which the men had heard
ordered with cheers. AS it was i'm
possible to hold the position Gen. Sum
ner withdrew the division to the rear,
and once more the cornield was aban-
doned to the enemy.
French sent word he could hold his
ground. Richardson, while gallantly
leading a regiment under heavy fire,
was severely wounded in the shoulder
Gen. Meagher was wounded at the head
of his brigade The loss in general
officers was becoming frightful.
At one o'clock affairs on the right
had gloomy look. Hooker's troops
we're greatly exhausted, and their Gen
eral away from the field. Mansfield S
we're no better, Summers command had
lost heavily, but two of his divisions
were still comparatively fresh Ar
tillery was yet playing vigorously in
front, though the ammunition of man
Of the batteries was entirely exhausted,
and they had been compelled to rotire.
RE-ENFoacEMENrs ARRIVE.
AT this crisis Franklin came up with
fresh troops, and commanding QUO di-
vision of the corps, formed on the left!
Slocum was sent forward along the
slopes lying under the first ranges of
the division of rebel hills, while Smith
was ordered to retake the cornfieids and
weeds which all day had been so hotly
contested. 1t was done in the hand
soonest style. His Maine and Vermont
regiments and the rest went forward on
the run, and cheering as they went,
swept like an avalanche through the
cornGelds, fell upon the woods, cleared
them in ten minutes, and held them
They were not again retaken.
The field and its CHASTITY harvest
which the reaper had gathered in those
fatal hours remained finally with US
Four times it had been lost and won
The dead are strewn so thickly that as
you ride over it you cannot guide your
horse S steps too carefully.
General Smith 5 attack was 80 rdden
that his success WAS accomplished with
no great loss.
Up to three o'clock Burnside had
made little progress. His attack on
the bridge had been successful, but the
delay had been so great, that to the OBJ
server it appeared as if Mcclellan )
plans must have been seriously disar-
ranged
Finally, at 4 o'clock, Mcclellan sent
Simultaneous orders to Burnside and
franklin; the former to advance and
carry the batteries in his front at all
hazards and any cost; to the latter to
carry the woods next in front of him
to the left, which the rebels still held
The order to Franklin, however, was
practically eountermandel, in conse-
Guence Of message from General Sum
ner, that if Franklin went on AID was
repulsed his o En corps was not yet suf-
fciently rcorganized to be depended on
as reserve.
Franklin, thereupon, was directed to
run no risk of losn. his present posi-
sition, aud, instead of sending his in
fantry into the woods, contented him
self with advancing his batteries over
she breach of the fields in front, sup
porting them with heavy columns. OF
infantry, and attacking with energy tn e
rebel batteries Immediately opposed to
him. His movement was success, SO
far as it went, That being once &C.
complished, and all hazard of the right
being again forced back having been
dispellcd, the movement of Burnside
became at oace the turning point OF
success, and the flte Of the day de
pendent on him.
Generals Hooker, and Sumner, and
Franklin, and Mlns6eld were all sent
to the right, three miles away, while
Porter seems to have done double duty
with his single corps in front, both sup
porting the batteries and holding him
self in reserve With all this immense
force on the right, but sixteen thousand
men were given to Burnside for the de-
cisive movement Of the day.
Still more unfortunate in its result.
was the total failure of these separate
attacks on the right and left to sustain
or In manner cooperate with each
other. Burnside hesitated for hours n
front of the bridge which should have
been carried at once by coup de main
Meantime Hooker had been fighting
for four hours with various fortune, but
final success Sumner had come ur
too late to join in the decisive attack
which his earlier arrival would proba
bly, have converted into complete
success; and Franklin reached the scene
only when Sumner had been repulsed
SPLENDID EXPLOIT OF BURNSIDE.
Attacking first with one regiment
then with two, and delaying both 70,
artillery, Burnside was not over the
bridge before two o'clock-perhaps no,
till three. He advanced slowly up the
slopes in his front, his batteries in the
rear covering, to some extent, the move.
ments of the infantry. A desperate
fight was going on in deep ravine or
his right, the rebel batteries were in
full play and, apparently, very annoy
ing and destructive, while heavy col
umns of rebel troops were plainly visi
bic, advancing as if careless of conceal
ment, along the road and over the hills
in the direction of Burnside's forces
1t was at this point of time that McClel,
Ian sent him the order above given
Burnside obeyed it most gailantly.-
Getting his troops we'll in hand, and
sending portion of his artillery to the
front, he advanced them, with rapidity
and the most determined vissr, straight