Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-05-12

ing no aid within miles OF hsEn, took his es-
eort Of 81 Pennsylvanians, commanded BY
Captain J. O. White and persuaded them 10
return 10 their ranks and resume their old
ground. II was heroic OF any portion Of the
8. coo exhausted and now substantially uu-
armed men 70 face %, 900 comparatively
fresh troops, pouring in upon them with q
herce and steady increase. But Massachu'
sstts regiment (GOd bless that State, and God
bless her people y greatly assisted this devo.
ton by 6xing bayonets on thsir empty mus
ket barrels and standing still for the coming
avalanche. Il was now that Death passed
fastest through our ranks. Officers fell thick
ly and men went 10 earth in heaps. Ten
minutes more would have ruined us-for
demi-gods could not have sustained such an
inequality as 8, 900 to %, 900, Ten minutes
more would have saved the Rebellion and
caused the recognition of the revOlted Statesi
ten minutes moro would have crushed mill
tary reputation, and driven q political party
out Of poWer--and its administrators perhaps
! out of life But now Brigsdier Berry Of the
stout State of Maine-wsding through the
mud and rain at such speed that he actually
overlook and passed three other brigadeB,
came in sight HeintzelmaR shouted with
gratitude. he ran to che nearest band and
ordered il 10 meet the coming regiments with
1Yankee Doodle" and to give them march
ing time into the field with the Star Spsngled
Banner. A wild "hurrahl" went up from
the army, and with q yell that was electric
three regiments of Berry's brigade went to
the 'front.' formed line half mile long, and
commenced q Volley firing that no troops
on earth could stand before-then at the
double. quick dashed with the bayonet ct
the rebel array, and sent them flying from
/ the field into their earthWorks, pursued them
into the largest Of them, and drove them out
behind with the pure steel, and then invited
them to retake it. The attempt was repeat
edly made and repeatedly repulSed. The
count of the rebsl dead in that battery at
the close Of the fight was sixty three, They
we're principally Michigan men who did this
work.
The equilibrium Of the battle was restOr-
ed. Il wss now 4 o'clock, and Jsmmison
and BirRey came up With their brigades,
covered with mud and steaning with the
| rain, but eager for a share In the blessed
work They went to the front, and soon
the tide Of the fight turned backward. But
Berry's timely arrival, for which he is en-
tltled to both gratitude and honor saved the
day. At dark bis troops were in unresisted
possession of the battery they had captured;
the rest of HeintEelman's force was well
placed, and In full front of the enemys line,
while the enemy themselves had withdrawn
from the plain to the cover Of their WO ks.
l We were ready for the renewal Of the light
on the morrow. They we're whipped. Our
men lighted their fires, and cooked the cot
| fee, and tried to dry their clothes. Theirs
were strapping their knapascks on their
shoulders for a fight They had met the
Yankee on an open field, and knew that at
last they had met their masters. So through
the nists of the rainy night, the Oonfsde=
rate army OF the Potomac stole out OF their
! intrenchments, and obeyed the order 70 re-
treat. Bull Run was avenged. The VIII
uamsburg Run began at 8 O'clock In the
| evening, and now, 80 ho1rs after, is in fah
panic and disorder, under the sRbering of Onr
/ cavalry and the Smelling of our artillery
far away here toward Richmond.
9 It was not till after SUNRISE that the last Of
the Rebel army, composed of cavalry, passed
| through Williamsburg. They left one large
gun in their works; abandoned q splendid
brass piece on the road, with two cassiOns;
strswed every rod of their path with mus
keis, hayonets, knspsscks, blankets, and
overcoats; Uttered the way with all the
wreck aud ruin of a beaten and demoraliEsd
! army in full flight from imaginary as well as
real terrors. There was q harvest for the
blacks whoahad not been driven in CONES by
their owners TO Richmond. From all parts
they alighted upon this abandoned property,
much of 1t new and valuable, fresh from the
! CommissaFy g stores, and left apon the road
/ side in wagons, only because 1t impeded
fight. The blacks Of Williamsburg are rich
in "portable property" to-day.
But as the enemy passed out of Williams
burgh, on the north side, preceded by the
terrified inhabitants, whose fears of rs have
been Systematically aroused and made NOR
bid by the eOntrivers Of this rebellion, they
LETT all the Churches, the College, the
| Court Bouse-all the public buildings
filed with their killed and wounded, Their
ambulances and hospital wagons went out
full also. At the several points Of the fight,
yesterday, they left those victims of our fire.
/ The saddest sight ever saw was the 80
wounded, lying upon corn husks In the TO-
bsccO barn nearest Hsncoeks ground. Be
neath the central window Of the hospital
nearest Heintsleman's hsld, limbs amputated,
were thrown out of the building, and in such
numbers, from the number Of wounded, that
they formed ghastly pile, that soon mount
ed to the sill. Here, in The town, 600 lie In
every form Of physical misery, surrounded
by their own surgeons "Surrounded"-I
| leave the Eord-bUt 30 few Of these officers
had stayed behind, that at o'clock on Tues-
day evening saw, oh, so many who ie-
verishly felt around for their water bottles,
and with all the language of anguish asked,
,5hen the HdoctOrs" would come. Scattered
among these sufferers lay forms from which
came neither movement nor sound. Death
had ended their terment. Lifting a linen
cloth from the face of one Of these, In the
William and Mary College Chapel, / saw the
features of an officers of the common typa Of
Virginia development. mused as l looked
ct the mean mouth and narrow brow, If this
could be one of the Pleasante family, for up
on his breast was pinned label: "ThiH is
Captain Pleasants. Mark his grave" And
l thought Of his father (if be sas the son Of
the progressive journalist who had fallen BY
the bullet Of the duelling, slsYe-driTer Wise, }
and thought the degeneraoy that slavery
and its fruit, seFyility, fastens BY law Of
God upon he stock Of men Of noble minds
and noble nein.
Byan association Of idess, too, spriDgi z
from contrast recalled a muddied figure
| lying In Fort No. from the Rebel left, in
the Well-knoWn dull grey uniform and the
uniform gEaceless slouch not, Of the canal
driving pattern of the New York and Erie
tow path. The Confederate uniform gray
blanket was drawn high up from bis POOR
shoes and his ragged stockings, and covered
the soldiers head Thinking hitn to be dead,
lifted il, and saw beneath head that would
have served for bust OF Attils overlooking
Rome. The brow hsd wOnderfu, force and
infpits will, mixed with the beauty of wo-
man. The most charming clusters Of Jet
black hair, and flowing beard, that shOne