The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-03-06


again the enemy we're driven back
They, too, speedily received reinforce
ments, and the Union troops retreat
cd.
The Twenty .hfh and Seventeenth
Kentucky were ordered by Gen. Nc
Clcrnand, but from some cause falling
into panic, they fred terrible volley
into the ranks of the Twenty ninth,
Thirteenth and thirty first, which we're
retreatiug toward them. A hundred
were killed or wounded in this FIRE by
their friends.
Col. W. II. l.. Wallace's brigade, con
sisting of the Eleventh, Twentieth, For
ty.6fth and Forty eight Ind, and Col.
McArthur's brigade, were soon involved
in the battle, and fought nobly.
Where all did SO well, distinctions
would be ungenerous. The leaders
were in the hottest FIRE, cheering their
men boldly onward. In this perform.
unce of their duty many were killed,
and hardly m officer engaged escaped
without wounds. For two hours the
fight ragged on the right wing with a
ferceness perhaps never surpassed.
Until nine o'clock it was a continual
roar of musketry and cannon, and in
the pauses could be heard the groans,
curses, and shrieks of the wounded
When firing ceased the enemy had
driven tho extreme right wing from
their first position back to another,
four hundred yards distant. Three of
Schwartz's guns, which were disabled,
and impo 'sible to be moved, fell into
their hands; also three Of McAllister's s
cannon, and one hundred and fifty pris-
oners. The onemy's triumph was short.
Gen. Grant at once ordered up q brig
ade under Col. Smith, of the Eighth
Missouri, consisting Of his own regi-
ment, (the st. Louis Zouaves) and two
others, impossible at this present mo-
ment to learn which ones. Going into
battle to the tune Of Dixie, and with a
cheer, the brigade and the remnants Of
the gallant force first engaged, drove
the enemy within their redoubt after
severe engagement, and themselves took
up positiou nearer than before.
While the last action was taking place
Gen. Grant ordered an advance by Gen.
Smiths division upon the left redoubt.
Those who saw the command given, say
the old veterans eyes (Gen. Smith has
grown grey in the regular service)
flashed with delight as ne rode off. He
Is man Of few words. and "soldicrs
that redoubt must be taken. told them
what was before. The Second aud
Seventh Iowa and Tweaty fftk Indiana
leading, dashed up the hill under a ter
rible fire, and without faltering mo
ment, regularly as if on parade, entered
the redoubt, delivered one volley, and
charging bayonets, drove the whole
rebel force concentrated there, back
three hundred yards to a new position
behind two guns, placed so as to sweep
the interior. Gen. Smith, who had
been the first to enter ordered his men
to fall ont of range. From behind
breastworks and other spots less ex-
posed, the troops continued destruc.
tive FIRE, holding their position for an
hour, repeatedly repellng charges by
the enemy. Shot fell and she'll burst
srouGd from every gun that could be
turned upon them, but after entering
the works, although for an hour op.
posed by double their number, they
never retreated. The standard bearers
crept along by an angle of the wall,
and planted their Gags within three
hundred yards Of two rebel cannon
The secession rage was great-two
, rebel shots were directed at the hated
ensigns, and a dozen bold adventurers
were picked off by the sharp.shooters
while endeavoring to reach and tear
them down. The flags foated unin
jured, not star or stripe being injured,
when taken away and placed upon Fort
DonelsOn itself next morning. Mean.
while renforcements had arrived, and
D Capt. Stone, Of Cavender's Missouri
Artillery, came up with two Of his guns
and placing them within the redoubt
at once opened FIRE upon the enemy
Its effect was apparent by that of the
latter slackening, and had it not become
! dark the enemy would have been com
| pletely driven away, and the main For
: itself stormed. When night closed in
. the army rested on the ground it had
y gained. Gen. MeCleFnard's division or
, the right wing, was ready for an advance
| uext morning, and Gen. Smith wal
} within their works. These advantages
} had not been gained without loss
t Passing among the camps, officers woulc
point sometimes to where a dozen guns
wero stacked, as those Of what had beer
h in the morning full company.
J. On the two battle grounds the scene
r were fearful. The snow was so thor
/. oughly saturated with blood that i,
Q seemed like red mud as You walked
!, around in it. Men writhing in agony
i with their feet. arms, or legs torn of
. many begging to be killed, and one poo
!. fellow / saw delirious, who laughed hid
d oously as he pointed to a mutilate'
Q stump, which had an hour ago been hi
y arm. One old man, dressed in home
r spun, with hair white as snow, was sit
ting moaning feebly against a wall. A
a fragment of shell had struck him upor
/, the head, bursting off his scalp as it de
! tached from the scull by knife, anC
d causing it to hang suspended from, the
n forehead over his face, InstanceA o
q suffering we're on every hand, and adas'
/ to the revolving horrors ofthe two ields
!. 4 young Southern officer who gave hi
IS name as Charles o. Seymour, Of Mem