The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1862-06-20

liable by syllable-of deeper moment to him
and all Others who lean their burden Of re-
sponsibility upon the future. lie further
said that our desperate fighting, and our
presence at every point Of attack in numbers
sufficient to kill them In piles. had 80 i'm
pressed the rebels with sense Of our man.
hood and power. that the feeling Of discour-
agement among them was univeral-that
this, in connection with the now well known
North Carolina Unionism Of feeling, had bro
ken out on Tuesday In open revolt in six N.
Carolina regiments, an entire brigade indeed
from the North Statc-that the brigade was
surrounded by Mississippi and Alabam troops
in superior numbers and disarned, and placed
in confinement. This In the intrenchments
before Richmond, and on the eve Of the bat
tie that is to save tho rebellion, or preseyye
the Union. Wedge OF discord bc driven to
the head.
The delay here since the conflict Of Satur-
day has been necessity imposed by tho
wcather-the weather, which has ever been
the master Of the masters Of the art of war
and which has played part in this Peninsu-
la war which justice to Mcclellan requires
shall be fully set forth by the historian Of
this rebellion. This necessity was seconded
aud confirmed by the disorganiration OF tho
regiments that ran of or were knocked or
the field. Their fragments had to be gath.
cred up. 1t was confirmed by the destitution
Of oil the regiments whose camps were left
on Saturday night in possession of the enc
my. Twenty-ono at least lost everything,
save their muskets, bayonets and cartridge
boxes. Their knapsacks, haversacks, over
coats, blankets, cooking utensils-eyerything
necessary to protect the soldier from the
weather, to feed him, to enable him to sleep,
and to give him his few and simplest com.
forts-was gone. Officers were Us badly OF
as men. The clothes they stood in constitute
ed the whole Of their property in Virginia.
dined on Wednesday with wealthy Coll
oncl. who served me to toasted bacon on the
end of stick. His destitution OF cutlery
and crockery needed no apology. had
passed through his late camp the day before,
and II was as coniusive and rcpulsiye chaos
of ruin and litter as plumber and mischief
could possibly make. Hundreds Of thous-
ands Of dollars worth Of military and private
property went at a blow on Saturday. The
consequent destitution Of large part Of tho
army made necessity for pause here,
which the awful foods Of rain made wholly
imperious. We could not move. He had to
lie and soak.
Sixty thousand men now comprehend
the Niagara roar Of tho musketry before
which some Of our regiments could not be
held fast, and which made conversation be-
tween borsemen whose saddles touched each
other, audible only when screamed. And
my veneration Of the fighting done by the
warriors Of Berry's brigade, and by the men
whom Kearney led up, and by all the Others
who stood by Peck and Couch and Keyes,
and who rallied under the auttering cloak Of
the fiery IIcintzelman, is glowing. Com
panionship in arms with such men would to
Inc be the highest aud most satisfactory dis
tinction. would covet the honor, II usage
would confer II, Of adoption into either Of
the Michigan regiments whom saw on tho
leap through the shot-andshell infested wood
-on the leap to the ruin advancing upon us
from the front to take IL in flank and stay 1t
an adoption with visible sign, 50 that when
asked, "To what service do you belongT'-
I could proudly reply, "I belong to Berry's
brigade" Cromwell never had better troops
than those who, under the command OF this
good officer, swept with fire and steel tho
whole rebel force from Casey's camping
ground and carthworks, piling 1t with mon
un,ents Of their terrible workmanship. They
fred away every one Of their sixty cartridges
to man. and then gathered everywhere tho
unconsumed cartridges from the boxes Of the
dead and wounded, and economically u-ed
them. A North Carolina regiment sent
against the Cd Michigan. had its front flo
wholly knocked down by volley. The next
flo turned to run. A line Of bayonets, de-
pressed behind them. held them FAST
"Charrc." ordered the Michigan Colonel
Over the rail fence leaped our men with
veil that ever smites terror. Their bayonet
points were not waited for. The Carolinians
broke and run. But the character OF sol.
der !, chiefly impressed upon them by their
officers, through the machinery oi discipline
and the personal magnetism Of worth, devo.
ton and courage. The widest differences
have yet seen in the army camped about
the Seven Pines have been the differences in
the character OF the officers. There wero
regiment. which cooked hastily threc timea
dsy-and that summed their life. save what
was spent in picket duty and the crawling
nasty into and crawling nasty out OF ill-smell.
ing shclter-tents. Their officers drew their
pay-langu,dly did their du,ics-and prayed
in dirty raiment for the war to end. Could
not the blind see that when earnest battle
burst upon their camps and dashed with steel
and fame upou ranks not yet cemenfed INTO