New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-12
FROM GRN. McCLBLLAN'S ARMY.
The Rebel Force at the Seven Pines 10000
Six North Carolina Regiments Mutt
MED at Richmond-Morc Of the Great
Hattie.

Battle.
correspondence of the N. Y. Tribun.
SAvAGR's STATION, June 4, 1902
TIE victory of the Seven Pines was a victory tha,
Napoleons Old Guard might well have been proud
az The more it is uncovered from the glade, the
timbered thicket, and the swamp, the larger, the
more heroic it is. Why, you men Of the North who
have brothers, sons and nephews here-you Puritan
descended women W hose husbands and best beloved
kindred fought beneath the black shadows of the
Seven Pines-how many Rebels, think you, these
heroes overcame on The evermemorable 3lst Of MAY
Toe number is no longer left to conjecture, nor need
the arithmetic of rhapsody be used to magnify merit
nor TO cloak disgrace. We know to-day the force of
the enemy, flung like a thunderbolt upon us at the
Seven Pines. IL cas sirty tiousondi A lieutenant
of North Carolina regiment walked into our picket
line in front of Sumner, and said that henceforh he
Was out Of this war, and surrendered himself pIis-
oner lie has just passed 10 headquarters in irons.
His information lad startling interest for u.s. He
said that on Saturday morning the Commanders,
Lopesreet Lee and Others told the Rsbel troops that
there were bat 5000 Yankees encamped at the
Seven Pines, and announced that it was The inten
ton to tall upon them with an overwhelming force
kill upon the ground all that could be lied-and
lie said p0sitirely that tie attack upon as made
By CO. 600 mel.-that it was repeled-thst we fairly
and squarey whipped themhat their loss in killed,
wounded and captured wac at least O,0O0-and tba,
the sentiment Of the whole Rebel force engaged was
that the next time 5000 Yankees were to be shot
and drowned Saturday afternoons frolic,
the Job had better be hired ont. This was said seri
ously and not in any spirit of pesceoiering or flat
tery. But what he next said possessed military
interest Of deeper moment 10 Heintzeman, who
stood by nervously weaving his grzzled beard 80
the news delivered, syllable by syllable-of
deeper moment to him and all others who lean their
burden of responsibility upon the future. He fur
ther said that our desperate fighting and pres
ence at every point of attack in numbers sufficient
to kill them in piles had so impressed the Rebels
with sense of our manhood and power, that the
feeling Of Encouragement among them was uni
versal--that this, in connection with the now well
known North Carolina Unionisin of feeling, h0c
br0ken out on Tuesday IN open reroh an six North
Carolina regiments, an entire brigade fadecd from
the North State-tiat The brigade pas surrounded
10Th mississippi and AiaJama troops in superior
nnmJerS and aisarmed, and placed in confinement.
This in tie intrenchments before Richmond, and CT
the eve of the battle that is to save the Rebesn
preserve the Union Wedge Of dscord be driven
70 the head
The delay here since the conflict Of Saturday has
oeen a necessity imposed by the weather-the
weather, which has ever been the master of the
masters of the Art Of War, and which has played "a
part in this Peninsular War which justice to McCel.
requires shall be fully set forth by the historian Of
ihs Rebellion. This necessity seconded and
confirmed by the Reorganization of the regiments
that ran of or were knocked of the field. Their
fragments had to be gathered up. 1t confirmed
by the destitution of all the regiments whose camps
were left on Saturday night in possession OF the
Enemy Twenty-one at least lost everything, rave
heir muskets, bsyonets, and cartridge boxos Their
knapsacks, haversacks overcoats, blankets, cooking
dtepsils-everything necessary to protect the
soldier from the weather, 10 feed bin, to
enable him to sleep, and to give him bis
lew and simplest comforts-was gone. Ofhcerswese
as badly of as men. The clothes they stood in con-
s,ituted The whole of their property in Virginia.
dned on "Wednesday with wealthy Colonel, who
served me to toasted bacon on the end of stick
His desitution Of cutlery and erockery needed no
apology. had passed through lis late camp the
day before, and it was confusing and repnlsive
.baos of ruin and litter plumber and mscef could
possibly make Hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
worth Of military and private property went at a
blow on Saturday. The consequent desttuon Of q
.rge part Of the army made a necessity for pause
5ere which the awful foods Of rain made wholly
nperious. We could not move. lie had 10 lie and
oak.
Sixty thousand men l now comprehend the
Niagara roar Of the musketry before which some q
our regiments could not be held fast and which
made conversation between horsemen whose sad
iles touched each other audible only when screamed
And my veneration Of the fighting done by the war
jors Of Berry's Brigade, and by the men whom
Kearney led up and by all the others who stood by
Peck and Couch and Reyes, and who rallied under
The Tutoring cloak of the fiery Heutzelman, glow
ing Companionship in arms with such men would
70 Inc be the highest and most satisfactory dstinc-
tion would covet the honor, if ussge could con-
Ter it. Of adoption into either Of the Michigan rcgi-
ments whom saw the leap through the shot-and-
shell-infested wooden the leap to the ruin adj
vancing upon from the front TO take II In flank
and stay tan adoption with visible sign 20 that
when ssked "To what service do you belong :"
could proudly reply, 81 belong to Berry's
Brigade Cromwell never had better troops
than those who, under the command of this good
officer swept with fire aud steel the whole Rebel
force from Casey's camping ground and earthworAs,
pilng II with monuments Of their terrible marka-
manship. They fired away every one OF their Sixty
cartridges 10 a man, and then gathered everywhere
The nneons1med cartridges from the boxes OF the
dead and wounded, and economically used them. A
North Carolina reginent cent against the ID Michl-