The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-06-12
THE LOS OF ARTILLERY.

OoI. Ddiiey, Cnlet OF Artillery, was shot
early in the afternoon, The ball strikiug
him in the head, causing his death after q
short period of insensibility. Major Van
VaultenbeIg, the second in command of the
New York Artillery, was killed; Adiuiant
W M. Ramsey wounded, while every battery
but one lost IFS quota of men, and some OF
them lost all their horses. Bates battery
OF Napoleon guns-l2. pound brass pieces
which was 10 the front, thus deprived of To-
comotion and stuck fast in the mud. was
left behind in The retirement of our troous.
but not until Gen. Naglee bad taken it upon
himself to see that several of the pieces
were spiked Ia addition to this, the three
inch Parr0tt gun of battery II was disa-
bled by a shot, and fell into the hands Of
the enemy. The Pennsylvania reserve bat
terry, of COUGHS division, also lost one of
their guns-these eight pieces Of ordinance
constituting our entire loss, so far as could
learn. We can better afford to spare the
pieces than we eau afford to have the rebels
profit by their gain. They show every in
dication of being much in want of artillery,
and the need is evidently stimulating their
efforts to profit by the chances of war 10
possess themselves of our guns.
GEN. SUMMERS ADVANCE.
Meantime Gen. Sumner had succeeded in
bringing his troops across the Chiekahofui-
ny, aud was advancing on the right 10
maintain our position there, where less
ground had been lost. After several DAYS
of labor, General Sumner had throwo w.,
bridges across the creek between Bottoms
bridge and New bridge, where local reports
held 1t to be impossible to find aav E.unda
ton for piles to support the appropriateness
One OF these bridges was some two miles
above BJttom's bridge, the other a mile fur
4 1.o- baC IL
carried away during the heavy storm of
Friday night, and Gen. Sumner was Obliged
to depend upon single shaky structure for
the passage of his troops, who ne4riy all.
however, succeeded in crossing thai nirb,
the head of the column reaching the Nine
milo road, along which the rebels were
pressing our troops, at about seven O'clock
holding the enemy in check for the NIGHT
preventing them from following up in that
direction the advantage they had gained
during the day.
THE FIGHT ON SUNDAY
Flushed with the seeming victory of Sat
nrday, the rebels awoke with confidence on.
to follow up their movements.
sure of driving US this time to the Ohicka.
hominy and beyond. But they had made
the unfortunate mistake of estimating the
strength of our reserves by the weakness
of our advance Most bitterly did thew nav
for their mistake. Pressing eagerly forward
with confidence of victory, they were met
by the trained troops of Heiu lzelman and
Sumner, whose unyielding columns checked
their fierce assaults, turning the tide of bat
Tie everywhere against them and forcing
them at the point of the bayonet on toward
Richmond. It was their turn now to break
and run, and their losses of the Sabbath left
hem little cause for rejoicing over The TIL
ding gain of Saturday. Terribly did the
rebels suffer on this, as well as the previous
lay, from the well-directed FIRE of our ar
.lllery, piling the ground with the slain
terrible also to them were the freoneut
charges Of our solid columns, pressing them
PACK, step oy step, &c the last point of en-
1nrance, when they broke and run. in |
goriously leaving behind them many of
heir men aud officers, as well as priyates.
prisoners in our hands The number Of
'hese 1t is not possible to ascertain. several
lays necessarily elapsing after Every en-
before a full inventory can be
DETAILS OF THE SECOND DAYS FIGHr-rEE
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