The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1862-06-18


Wylic, dated Jun. Ilth.
got leave OF absence this afternoon from
| Gen. Anderson 10 come TO tho city and re
turn before daylight.
BROTHER Tom Is getting along very well
to-day and tonight lie has not done 80
we'll Tor the past few days. The Dr. feared
l's wa. taking Typhoid fever aud this With
| his wound would have been quite danger
ous-his wound is doing finely to night
u II .oPPura,ing and doing as well Us po.si.
BILE; the most s-rious feature about the
~oand is that the ball glanced up af:sr Pen.
etrating ths thigh and lodged somewhere
in The hip. DR.. W. say. hs ont cut dow n
10 hunt for the ball in tho hip. thai IN oil
probability the ball may Ie,nain there dur.
ing his lie and never hurt him. i will b-
some time before no will be able for duty.
John Williams, Esq. died Mt the Globe
Hospital here On the 26,h May. Shaver
and Powell called 10 Sc. hin, nj the uo.pi,
al about the al June. the officer there in.
formed them tha, he had been discharged
and sent home n few days before ! called
there on the ID Juno and they told me the
same thing. ] called there this afternoon
and examined the Books and found ha had
died 26ih May and MAS buried in Oak Grove
Crmctary, with a board bearing III. name
at the head Of his grave. Dr. Foster saw
him few days before he is said to have died
aud he was then doing well. and had rather
| agreed that he ought TO tako n discharge
aud 60 home. lie is gone-no truer, Drawer
or more whole aoul-d patriot ever fell in
the service Of his country. Peace Ls with
| him.
We have heard nothing Cf Tommy Wright
yea. lie Is either killed OF taken prisoner
by the enemy. Grd grant il may u the
latter. ] saw the wound on his chest, the
ball made n severe and painful confusion.
but cid not psnstrats the hollow. Hs VIVA
either BILLED afterwards in ", ing to rrjoin
the company, or, what is moro probable O,
went too far 10 Tho right and was taken
prisoner by the enemy. Wesley Piyler,
McCaskill, and John Sull.va, arc the worst
wounded IN the company. Nil the others are
slightly wounded and will return Ia duty
soon. Plyier's wound (Temporai artery in
head) has broke ou, aud been bleeding bad.
ly. he 10 not doing so well. Sullivan 10
shot near the knee j'int aud has a sc, ere
~oand, but is not considered dangerous .
MeCa.kiIi 10 shot through bath hips. no
bone broken and - doing 6ssiy. Jo. Cau.
then has reiurp.d 10 duiy-Jame. Weanrr
will retsTR 70 morrow or next day-Parks
Moore Is slight, Jack Moor. has gone home,
also Baker Gum Caskey /. doing finely,
also Eli Dunlap.
have not time to say much about the
details OF the fight. Gen. Anderson told
mo to- day that the hve and one half hours
Of hghting done by our brigade was GER
tainiy the hottest and most severe that has
occurred during the war. lle says our Brig.
ade has cavervd itself all over with glory
aGdyipg glory. Our psigads entered lie
hgh, With rot quite 1900 men. (otiiesrs and
privatcs) and had somethipg over TOO killed
! aud wounded 10 the action. This exceeds
any lI.ing 70 III. his ory Of NapoIeon's war;.
Osr Regiment entered the action with 42O
| officers and men, and had 100 killed aud
waNpded. How any man ia our Regiment
ever came through alive and unnurl 10 as-
tonishing. Among the wounded we do uvt
count those who were struck By spent balls