The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-01

and bursting shell, and crashing limbs
over the open field beyond and straight
into the corn-6eld, passing as they went
The fragments Of three brigades shattered
by the rebel fire, snd streaming to the
rear They passed Nv Hooker whose
eyes lighted as he saw these veteran
troops led by q soldier whom he knew he
could trust. a. think they will hold IT,"
he said
Gen. Hartsuir took his troops very
steadily but now that they were under
lire, not hurriedly, up the hill from which
the corn-neld begins 60 descend, and
formed them on the Forest. Not
nah who was not in inli yiew--nOt 0ne
who bent before the storm Firing at the
first in volleys, they fred then at will
with wonderful rapidity and effect The
whole line crowned the hill, and stood
out darkly against the sky but lighted
and shrouded ever in flame and smoke.
These were the 18th and 18th Massaehu-
sets and another regiment which can
not remember old troops all Of them.
There for half an hour they held the
bridge unyieldink in purpose, exhaustless
in courage. Their General was wounded
badly early in the fight, but they fought
on. Their supports did not conc they de-
determined TO win without them. They be-
gan TO go down the hill and into the corn;
they did not stop to think that their am
munition was nearly gone they were
there TO win the field and they won it, The
rebel line for the second time fed through
the corn and into the woods. cannot
tell how few of IIartsuirs brigade was
left when the work was done, but il was
done. There was no more gallant, de T.
termined, heroic fighting, in all,this des-
perate day. General llarisutf is very
| severely wounded
The crisis of the fight at thispont had
arrivcd-Ricketrs division yainly en-
deayoring TO advance, and exhausted by
the effort, had fallen back, Part OF
| Manslield's troops came back again, and
their General was mortality wounded
| The left nevertheless was TOO extended
to be turned and too strong to be broken
! Ricketts, sent word he could not advance
but he could hold his ground. Double
day had kept his guns to work on the
right, and had finally silenced q rebel
battery that for half an hour had poured
in CALLING enfilading fire alol 9 Ilooker's
central line
There was woods in front of Double
days Hill which the Rebels held, but 5,
long as those guns pointed that way they
did not care to attack With his lei
then able to take care of itself with hi,
right impregnable, with two brigades of
Mansfield still fresh and coming rapidly
! nd MD ts,.,.
victorious, GenCrul Hooker deicrmit ct
to advance. Orders We're sent 10 Craw,
ford and Gordon-the two Mansliclt
brigades--tO move directly forward n
once, the.batteries in the center wer,
ordered on, the whole line was call
ed on, and the General himself went for
ward
To the right of the cornheld and be
yOnd ii was a point of woods One
carried and firmly held, it was the ke,
of the position. Hooker determined e
take it. He rode out in front Of his fur
thest troops on the hill 20 examine tn
ground for battery. At the top he dis
mounted and went forward on foot, com
pletcd his reconnaissance, returned an
remOunted. The musketry fire from tn
point Of the woods was all the while eX
tremely hot. As hc put his foot IN Ia
stirup a fresh yOlley of rifle bullets cam
whizzing by. The tall soldiery figure o
the General, the white horse which h
rode, the elevated place where he was
all made him most dangerously con
spicuous mark. So he had been all da
riding often without a staff officer nor a
/ ~ ina, al "a
duty-visible everywhere on the fclC
The Rebel bullets had followed him q
day, but they had not hit him and h
would not regard them Remounting O
this hill he had not ridden five step
when lac was struck in the foot by
ball.
Three men were shot down at the sam
moment, by his side. The air was aliy
with bullets. He keep on his horse for
few moments though the wound was Sc
we're and excessively painful and Woul
not dismount till he had given his lai
order 10 advance, He was himself in Oh
very front. Swaying unsteadily on h
horse, he turned in his seat 10 look abOl
him. "There is regiment TO the RICH
| Order it forward! Crawford and Gordo
are coming up. Tell them to carry thei
] works and hold thcm--and it is OF
d fight"
twas found that the bullet has pas
r. ed completely through his foot M
? surgeon who had examined il ON Il
, spot, could give no opinion whether bon
81 were broken, but il was afterwards a.
b certained, that though grazed, they we
s not fractured. OF course the severity
the wound made il impossible for him
!, keep the field which he believed alread
s so far as it belonged TO him to win it,.
4 Ii was nine o'clock The fight had be-
furious since five. A large part of h
G command was broken, but with his rig
a still untouched, and with CrawtOrd's al
3 Gordon's Brigades Just up above a
Y with the advance of the whole cent?
a line which the men had heard ORDER
- forward with cheers.
Il sumner arrived lust as Hooker W
T. leaving, and assumed command. GRAY
n ford and Gordon had gone into the WOO
d and were holding them stoutly again
{ heavy odds, AS J rode over toward I
3 left met Sumner at the head Of his 90
umn advancing rapidly through the On
y bee, opposite where Crawford was tigl
10 ing The veteran General was ridi
It alone in the forest tar ahead Of his lea
g ing brigade, his hat or his gray ha
.r beard and mustache, strangely contra.
20 ing with the fire in his eyes, and
ii martial air as he hurried ON 10 win
N the bullets were thickest
IA Sedgwicks division was in the adyan
IS moving forward TO support Crawford a
.- Gordon. Rebel rcinforcements were d
- preaching also, and the struggle for
g roads was again 10 be renewed Sum-
Re sent forward two divisions Richards
aud French ou the left srdHWick mo