, 1862-06-09

from very early Oh Sunday, it began to look
like what it proved to bean affair Of three
days.
TIE REBELS AGAIN BEGIN TIE FIGHT.
Our frst anticipation had scarcely settled
into the conviction that the enemy intended
to give Sunday to care for the dying and dead,
tban We heard the pickets st it. It Was in
front Of Richardson's division. Richardson's
line ran, as We have intimated, parallel with
the railroad, and was On the northern side Of
it. TIE enemy was in our camps On the
southern side Of it, and in strong position,
covered by swamp. Forces were immedi
ately sent forward to support the pichets, and !
became engaged in It's turn. The enemy
formed his 1u1n in line, and was disposed to |
feel rs again. Our men had arisen from sleep |
in the anticipation Of battle, and their minds |
were ready for it. They were not green |
troops either, and the day gave promise OF !
hard work.
TIE IRIsH AND OTHER BR1G4DES.
Soon the fire became general, and spread |
along the lines ef the Irish brigade, Frcnch's
brigade, and the brigade Of the gallant How,
ard. This day also the enemy's ire was veil
directed and severe. But it was returned with
certainly equal effect, and our men pushed
forward across the railroad and down into the
swamp, and now the enemy in his turn gave
way. 1t was, very. difficult ground. and the
men could not at Ill times keep the line, aud
| we're often up to their waists in water ia the
! advance through the swamp. Yet still they
| kept On. Sometimes, too, there MAY have
been weakness under the fire, but the :,al-
| 1ant1y OF the officers keep the men up to it.
| This was once OF twice the case in Howard's
| brigade; but the young hero, by his Own gal
lantry, gave an example that restored a1l.
| Two horses were shot under him IN this au-
vance, and he received two rifle balls III his
| right arm but he bound up the shattered
| limb in q handkerchief and Kept tile field.
! With the continual din Of tile nlusketry, rs it
pva1ed up and down the lines On either side,
no order could be heard, and only example
served. Thus the mounted officers were COM
| ptlled to keep ahead in the advance to show
tie men What was wanted.
There Was the Irish Brigade in oil the glory
OF tair free fight. Other men go into fight
finely, steruly, Or inditterently, hrit the only
man that really loves it, after all, is the "green
:n1mo1tal' lriEhnan. So there the brave lads
from the old sod, with the chosen Meagher at
their head, laughed and fought and jokcd. as
if it were the finest fun in the world. We
SAW ore sitting on the edge Of ditch, with
his feet in the water-and the sun and water
too very hot-and he apparently wounded.
As We rode by lie called out to know ii We
had ever seen boiled Irl5hman."
HOW HooKE1sss MEN DID.
From Richardson's division the fire spread
around to the New Jersey brigade, on tue
, | 'front.' which the enemy had pushed so far the
day before. Nobly did the Jcrseynlen staud
up to it and pnsh on closer and closer, and the
enemy fell back through the thick swamp,
slowly and steadily. On this front the tirre,
: was not SO severe as On Richardson's, but still
it told heavily OIL our brave follows, though It
did not prevent the advance.
: HOW MICH FASTER THEY WENT on.
! sickles' men apparently lost their patience
r and We suppose the officers did. When men
L advance across 4 battle field, loading ant
/ firing as they 60, they naturally do not &
very fast, and the Sickles Brigade voted ths
Gait 10 be decidedly slow. So the order va:
{1 f1F hntr and HHarIr EnH Hr1
:. did it not mincingly at all but in terrlbl:
d earnest and with glorious cheer. Some Q
:, the rebels stood it and held their places; SOM
S stood long enough to fire their pieces, ant
is pe1ed away through the woods like SO man.
. That ended the fight fo- Sunday in tia
C direction, for It would not do to let the ule
l. 90 rasnly too far into the Wouds. Ne didn'
le Know what little arrangements of artillery
c. &c, the enemy hight have made there i
ot onr absence, so With wise caution, th
k, Sick1es' Brigade was drawn back to tho cdg
d, Of the wood, ard laid away there snugly; IN
I'd there it spent its Sunday ready for visitor
te though noEe came, if We except several il
ID nocuous shell that the enemy threw into ii
N | wood OVER their heads.
It QUIET AGAIN.
On Richardson's front, also, the fight dfo!
ped oil very much as it had begun. It r;
f. apparently not the design that we shou
re make any general advance on Sunday, 50 p
10 merely dIoye the eneG,y aTa5 As he Isl same
ap Sunday calm.
IT'S REBEL LOSSES OK SUNDAY.
~ ~ The scene in the woods on Sunday told
NJ story that will he beard with sad cars,
~ doubt, throughout the South. There lay
ia ltaps the dad, and those in mortal a==5ol
ed terribly BaiDgled-men, young aud ola-nae:
to ~ 4oung-fom every Southern State.
| IA n1lr n AEf1n M a u
Lce seen to, ne had out parti.s in the woods vi
slretthers bringing in the wounded rebe
and other parties engaged in buryiag the'
Our enemies, tired Of the fight, emplofcd /
as grtatcr part Of the day in til: same way. 4
le so vent out the second day of the battle OF t
ut Of the Seven Pines
~ TIE THIRD DAY-wu4r WAS DONE or Nc
,of ! DAY
m On Monday morning our position con.d
it. summed up about thus Two division
n; much reduced in strength from various cAus
ex- bad been attacked by greatly superior fol
len Of good troops snd driven fully mile fri
in the first point of attack; but By the arri
his arrested, and his purpose to drive US into
ed | Chickahominy decidedly defeated. Tet
cd, occupied our c1lups and the position he /
nts taker.
1eir been compelled to retire with loss. ]
though Richardson's division had driven b
w on the railroad, and the Sick1es' brig;
trough the woods on the Williamsburg ro
a+ be still held nearly all, and certainly much
ere Some nen OF the 10Th Massachusetts regime
M anu went into their camp on Sunday and brous
ase away ham; but II was quoted as piece OF d.
~ tr1ity. so rear were the enemy to the p1sce, S
t, uaa the cAn.pt Of the 10th Was in the rear Of
lul- Couch's division.
nly; So now on Monday morning ne were ap
nas az renuy to begin the week well-to 50 forW
W. and reoccnpy alive or dead the position fr
u u which the enemy had driven us. Resolut
Ky t was on every face, and all bucsled themsel
5n' up with a determination to do ! full share
the work, and not enly to retrieve what
been lost but 10 win m.re.
tion It was still dim and misty when the Ii
t Of were under arms, and but little later when
/ Of advance Of skirmlshers was thrown forwa
iu- Cautiously the men went on; every step =
Fair made completely sure before the next was
and ken, until position Was gained on the T
oou | liamEburg road where battery could be pt
AXE | cd. There battery was accordinyly pla
are so as to command the wholu road, and as
and the men went on. Farther aud faI Thea,
ee If tie Enemy icl1 back his pickets in sight
With | began TO ltaok very much as if the third d.
egi- thu day of freoccnpation-W to be blood
pen | u1e.
70 CAMP REOCCUP1ED.
lion se.;,aooa = ,-,-aa .n,
.mv on ettp by strp, pushing the rebels on befs
-5 49,, with light exchange Of fire, but no seri
ood th. "0'" nc "eao onee Aao1e en1n
at ~E
r,.at FARTHER Still
a'ea Then they pushed on again, through 6
and beyond it, and once more they were
the road to Richmond aud they kept On
the .nd tEat night our pickets were posted Wit
that four miles Of the rebel capital, and neaE I
ray. line Of works that we fancy is, OF represe
und the celebrated last ditch where the rebels
,QQe to make final stand.
p at >, o-rr y. ~, ,r.,4. -z,-z,- 47,.sr
3ith 'D os i01 % LIZ o6 4"N % -' -
spo- Thus the affair became complete We
With lost our camp. the enemy held it, and no'
nne- was rttaken-ours once more. and He fe
It Of satisfaction in the result that would not
ann been greater if ne had retaken the caml
st nf b1oodily as We had lost it. His departure
arla full acknowledgement that be had failed,
was defeated in the purpose for which he ca
WA saltpetre factory at Nashville, Te
aseu Icy. has been libe,ed by the United States Dist
a ra- Attorney. The buildings were erected
1iers psesslJ for the purpose Some of the
chinery il, them was removed to Georgia
IT. before the Federal army reached NasaV
ancs There still remains, however, q good st