Weekly Trinity journal., 1862-05-31
ne journal.
aap FOR THE On1oANs UNDER TIE BANK

Ord FOR THE OHIoANS UNDER THE BANK
Rrv. Robert Collyer, writes from Pittsburg
Landing to the Chicago Tribune, saying:
Among those 2S5 (wounded) men, many of
them officers of intelligence, gathered the only
clear ideas and conclusions | was able to come
10, concerning the battle. will give them as
got them. They so evidently the true
convictions OF the men that listened to them
with the deepest interest, not so much because
they must he true OhOugh think that is great
valuc,) but above all, because that is the way
the fighters think, not individually but in masses
All who said anything about it, said that the
fataj surprise of Sunday morning was the result
of rnpardonable negligence on the part of the
cor lnanders. The men themselves knew that
M woods all about them were swarming with
Il enemy Il quote the exact phrase) but there
no effort made TO get q clear knowledge of
T. real condition Of things, and not even
picket guard sent ont until perhaps, Saturday,
and that this knowledge of a certain danger
was near them, for which their officers made no
provision, made the men feel unsteady and un-
strung If they could have known exactly what
hidden among the trees and ravnes they
would have had better courage TO grapple with
ii when it was sprung upon them. So when the
enemy came, sorming down with fierce deter
mined onslaught almost without parallel, in bat
ties, they were taken at double disadvantage.
They outnumbered and unspirited at the
same time.
Second-The battle on Sunday was badly
managed The men said to me : We would
have fought, we meant TO fight, we wanted to
fight; will fight but outfianked
every time. just as sure as we made a stand,
We had to fight superior numbers, but where
they conld do they liked, and could only
do we could. We did run away, we don't
deny it : we got under the bank, and staid there
could not come out Why: Because il was
no use. If a man gives his life, he wants to get
the worth Of it,"
The army correspondent Of the Cincinnati Ga
.eHe tells the following
"On the bluffs above the river IL a sight that
may well make our cheeks tingls with shame for
some of our soldiers. There are not less than
5000 skulkers lining the banks. Ask them why
they don't 90 to their places in the line 'Oh,
our regiment is all cut TO pieces why don't
you go to where it is forming again p Il can't
fnd it, and the hulk looks as if that would be
the very last thing be would want TO do.
Officers are around among them, trying to
hunt up their men. coaying, commanding
ing, am afraid. One strange fellow-a Major,
il | remember aright-is making sort Of ele-
waited, superline Fourth of July speech to every
body that will listen to him. Men of Kentucky,
plore you, | beg Of you, come up now. Holp US
through two hours more BY all that you hold
dear, by the homes you hope to defend, by
the flag you love, by the State you honor, by all
your love of country, by all your hatred Of trea-
ron. ! conjure you come up and do your duty
now And so on for quantity. That feler's a
good speaker was the only response heard.
ard the fellow who gave il nestled more snugly
behind his tree as be spoke"