Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-11

whole column. a. they re,rea,ei They vent In
excellent order. battling at every advantageous
point, and delivering Their FIRE with considerable
effect but from all the divisions OF our lines thew
were closely pursued, CALLING fire being kept up
ON their rear.
The enemy had now been driven beyond our
former lines, and were in fun retreat Tor COrinth.
pursued bv our cavalry.
The forces engaged on both sides in this davis
battle are estimated at about seventy thousand
each
CAIKo, April l0.-An arrival from P,,sburg
saws the enemy in making the first attack on
Sunday morning carried the starr and stripes aud
wore Federal uniforms
Gen. Bragg is reported killed.
The Provisional Governor johnson OF Ken
lucky Is wounded and prisoner.
Ii is stated Gen. Prentss escaped in the confu-
sion OF the retreat of the second days fight.
Our loss is about 1000. This is the estimate
of military commanders who we're in the engage
ment. OF these about 1900 we're taken prison
ers. The balance were killed and wounded in the
usual proportion.
Gen. Wallace. Of Illinois, was reported dead.
a. it was thought imnossible he could live: he
was. however living Wednesday aud improving.
He was shot back OF the ear. the bullet coming
out al the nose.
Gen. Halleck passed Cairo to-day on his way
to PIttsburg.
/ Five thousand prisoners are expected TO night
/ from Island No. 10.
| Every preparation is being made for the recep-
ton Of our wounded from Pittsburg.
! CHICAGO. April l0.-A special to the Tribune,
| from Cairo. SAYS:
! We are just beginning to get some reliable de
tails from the great battle at Piitsburg. From
several gentlemen who on the held after the
/ fight. the following is gathered:
Gen Premises brigade. consisting of the 6lst
/ Illinois, l7th Wisconsin. 24sh Indiana. and list
/ Ohio were attacked while eating breakfast by
what seemed TO he The entir0 rebel force. Gen
! Preutss had no artillery. and his brigade was cut
TO pieces and forced % retire. Prentiss and many
men were taken prisoners.
At twelve the entire line was fercely engaged.
but in foil retreat. At four the enemy had taken
Schwartz's battery OF six guns, Deesden's bat
terry OF four guns. Warehouses; battery, also.
two Ohio batteries, names unknown.
Thousands OF soldiers had taken refuge
under the bank Of the river and utterly refused TO
fight in fact they could hot as officers aud men
were mixed up IN inextricable confusion. The
army at this time seemed utterly defeated.
AZ this juncture the gunboats Lexington and
! Tylor opened tremendous fire with shot and
shell upon the enemy and kept it up every half
hour during the night
Some shells set the woods on fire, and many
dead rebels were found burned
At Z O'Clock in the evening the firing had gen
orally ceased, and about midnight the rebels Mt
tempted 10 plant battery within 800 yards OF
DER siege guns, but were driven away by the
gunboats and siege guns supported by three reg-
nents of Mitchells division which had arrived
and crossed the river about in the evening. ~
Our informant PERSISTS in estimating our loss
on Sunday ut 5000 killed and 5000 wounded as
n low figure.
During the night the rebels were reinforced by
Van Dorm and Price from Arkansas with "A large
for, e
Gen Lew. Wallace came up with the tn and
Odd Indiana, i4th Illinois, oth Missouri. and
Willard's battery, and in the morning hercely at
tackled the enemy's lett wing. They went into
fight double quick with tremendous shouts, and
did terrible execution. BY 10 o'clock they had
driven the rebels back two miles. About 10
the rebels were reinforced. and for a few minutes
our men were forced TO yield.
The other divisions of Buells army now APP
peared, at once became fully engaged, and for
two hours all the destructive elements on earth
seemed striving for mastery on the fatal field.
At last the Southern chivalry broke and fed in
all directions.
Gen. Buell. followed the hying rebels without
$4,000 troops, mostly cavalry, 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.
The rebel troops were mostly from Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, with many from Georges
and Alabama.
Our informants say one could ride through the
bate field where our forces had beei posted, but
the dead were so thick in the enemy's lines thai
they could not DO it. They assure US that the
rebels occupied our camps Sunday night and tool
care of our sick and wounded and destroyed
nothing, expecting confidently to have our entire
army the next day. They thought the battle hae
already been fought and won.
Or Sunday General McClernand cut his wa,
through the enemy that had surrounded him, anc
, most of his troops behaved with great gallantr,
with the exception of the SD Ohio. which he or
dered the in disgrace, for refusing t.
, fight.
Our informants state that Jonn c. Breckin
: ridge was taken prisoner. They say they saw
him pass to General headquarters.