Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-04-23

The correspondent of the Cincinnati Ca
Eette furnishes that paper most thrilling and
graphic description of the great battle at
Pittsburg Landing. The account is long, and
as we have already published some particulars
of the fight on Sunday, we confne our ex-
tracts to a resume of the results on that day
and to the full details Of the battle on Monday.
Correspondence of the Cincinnati GazettoI
FIELD OF BATTLE, I
PITTsBURG LANDING, Tenn, April 9, 1862 !
Fresh from the field of the great battle
with its pounding and the roaring of artillery
and the keener voiced rattle of musketry still
sounding in my wearied ears, with all it's vis-
ions of horror still seeming scared upon my
eyeballs, while scenes of panic-stricken rout
and brilliant charges. and obstinate defences
and succor, and intoxicating success are burn
ed alike confusedly and indelibly upon the
brain, | essay to write what | know of the
battle of Pittsburg Landing.
Yet, how bring order out of such chaos !?
How deal Justly, writing within twenty four
hours of the closing of the fight, with all the
gallant regiments of the hundred present,
that bravely won or rs bravely lost, and with
all that ignobly fed in panic from the field
| follow the Simultaneous operations of hun
dred and fifty thousand antagonists, fighting
backward and forward for two long days, in
five miles line and over four miles retreat
and advance, under eight division comman-
ders on one side, and an unknown number on
| the other? How, in short, picture on a can
vas so necessarily small panorama so grand
| " great? The task is impossible.
| But what one man, diligently using all his
| powers of observation through those two days,
| might see, | saw, and that | can faithfully
set down. For the rest, after riding careful
| ly over and over the ground, asking questions
| innumerable of those who knew, and sitting
| consistent truth from the multiplicity of re-
| plies with whatever skill some experience
may have taught | can only give the concur
rent testimony of the actors.
THE CLOSE or SUNDAYS FIGHT.
! We have reached the last act in the tragedy
of Sunday. 1t is half past four o'clock. Our
! front line of divisions has been lost since half
! past ten. Our reserve line is now gone, too.
The Rebels occupy the camps of every divis-
ion save that of w. II. L. Wallace. Our
whole army is crow ded in the region of Wal
lace's camps and to circuit of half to two
thirds of a mile around the landing. We have
| SSSA AehiAIbS DtOh dlI W Z Odd uO IL uO
more. The next repulse puts us into the
river, and there are not transports enough to
cross single division till the enemy would
| be upon us.
| Lew Wallace's Division might turn the tide
for us-it is made of fighting men-but where
is it? Why has it not been laundering on
the right for three hours past? We do not
know yet that it was not ordered up till noon.
Buell. is coming, but he has been doing it all
day and all last week. His advance guard is
across the river now, waiting ferriage but
what is an advance guard with sixty thou
sand victorious foes in front of US
| We have lost nearly all of our camps and
camp equipage. We have lost nearly half our
field artillery. We have lost division Gen.
and two or three regiments of soldiers as
prisoners. We have lost-how dreadfully
| we are afraid to think-in killed and woun-
ded. The hospitals are full to ovsrfowing.
A long ridge bluff is set apart for surgical
uses. 1t is covered with the MANNED, the
dead and dying. And our men are discour-
aged by prolonged defeat Nothing but the
most energetic exertions on the part of the
officers prevents them from becoming demor.
allied. Regiments have lost their favorite