The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-10-18
BATTLE or CORlNTn.
Correspondence Of the Gate CITY.
CoRISrH, Oct

! BATTLE or CoRlNrn.
0orrespondeoce Of the Gate City.
CoRlSrH, Oct s, 1889
i Ed GAIT embrace this, the first onno...
nifty since the close Of the great battle. to .s.
you hurried account Of the two days eng ..'
ment, Of the Sd and 4lh inst. 1t will be MAJ.
stood, OF course, that do not pretend to DIV.
full or general account, as that would be IN +,
possible, out simply to state such facts as com.
under my own observation.
On the morning of the Sd, at dayliob, 49,.
division was leaving camp and marched IN ,Si
west of Corinth. We had been on our vav ~.
half an hour when we heard the roar of c.nnos Nv
apparently four or Eve miles nearly due ves. :.
US, which continued at intervals until We re.oS
ed our line of breast-works, some 81 or mill.
Stseese north west of the town, when our ali.
mishers discovered the enemy advancing rand
ly in front Of the Brigade, to the left Of the o.
and 7th. They came up across hill in snl..
did style, Notwithstanding two batteries vs,.
playing upon them at short range and with ma,
derous accuracy; on they came, appsrepn,
needless of danger and regardless of life. A.
involuntary reclamation of sdmiration burr.
from the whole Brigade on beholding the gal.
iantry and daring of the charge The heroes NJ
Belmont, Fort Donelson and Shiloh had IN ~
knowledge that they had seen nothing equal n
it. Our cannon plowed their ranks. movins
them down, but on they came, shouting and
cheering, stormng and carrying the breastwork,
in less than fifteen minutes from the time tbey
came in sight. Their success in gaining tbs
breastworks fsnked US on the left and caused M
to fall back, which we did in good order, for
nearly a mile, when we formed line of battle.
our regiment, as usual, supporting a battery
the gallant I'd to our right. We had not more
than fairly dressed up in line of battle, when on
| they came again. Then came the tug of war
We we're ordered to fall fiat upon our fscea
which we did, whilst they rained down upon u,
such storm of shot. shell, grape and canister
az nothing, it seemed, for time could resist
Some idea of the force of the shooting NAV be
formed from the fact that majority of nv com.
panv, and, think, of both the Cd and 7th Iowa
were struck BY either pieces of SHE'LL or shot,
or limbs of trees. The number killed at this
place, in the ten regiments, do not know. OF
my company, Corporal John Scott was killed:
Privates Robt Criswell, Peter Miles, wounded;
and Corp. ]. @. Percy, Serg't W. W. Sapp, and
Private P. Cadle were missing-supposed to be
Hackelman, the commander of our Brigade, was
killed-sbot through the neck. General Ogles.
by, COL Baker of the I'd, and Lieut.. COL Mills,
of the same, Major McMullin and Lieutenants
Holm and Irwin of our regiment we're wounded,
and Lieut. Camp taken prisoner.
After our batteries had exhausted their am
munition, and after they bad been gone some
time, we again fell back, being unable to hold
the hill any longer. Our policy was, of course,
to draw the enemy back to within range of our
siege guns and Notifications around the town.
The enemy seemed very willing to follow on,
which they did, but stopped outside of the range
of the guns upon the Notifications We fell
back in town some here about half past three
o'clock. The firing now pretty much ceased
Towards evening it was reported that a flag of
truce had been sent in with q demand for US to
surrender, or remove all the women and child
rem, and sick and wounded out of town, as they
would commence Smelling the town at half past
three o'clock, in the morning. The proposition
to surrender of course was not entertained for q
moment. The sick and wounded were removed
to the eastern limits of the town, the non CON-
batants and what few women and children there
were, retired in the same direction Promptly at
the time the confident rebels opened their bat
teries, which were Immediately replied to on our
part The cannonading was kept up until after
daylight when the enemy ceased, the shots from
our batteries being too hot for them Their
shell struck the Tishomingo Hotel, but did no
great amount Of damage. A few other houses
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could hear of. After We found the enemy had
ceased firing we knew they were either retreat
ing or preparing to storm the forts and batter
les. We did not wait very long when we discov
cred that they were changing their position and
were endeavoriDg to reach point further to the
right and east of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad
A battalion of Sharp-shooters were put forward
as skirmishers and our regiment followed them
for support. We had not advanced far when
We were ordered back to our post near battery.
We were just fairly in position again when the
rebels came forward in great force, marching
straight up toward the cannon, in four different
places at once, they came in sight, so fast and
in such large numbers that We could not GU.
them all down until some of them got into two
OF the forts. Our Brigade charged upon them,
calamity supported by others to our right
and drove them back with great Slaughter
They attempted, and partially succeeded in raj.
lying, but the fortunes OF war were against
them. They were shot down and driven back
very rapidly. Flesh and blood could not with
stand the charge that was made upon them, and
the rout became general. In this final charge
the 18th Iowa came nobly and calamity up to
the work, supporting the I'd and 7th in fine
style In this second days battle Col Parrot,
Lieut.. Gale, Lieut.. Bennet and Serg't Mai. Cam.
eroD, were wounded, and Capt. Smith, of Osks
loosa, young man of great promise was killed.
Of my company Serg't Nathaniel Read, Sergt
G. Hart Corp. Geo. E Humphrey, Private j.
Mccormick, were wounded. Lieut. Bees and
Mccormick both had narrow escapes-one had
his canteen shot through, and the other his hav-
ersack cut off by a bullet The loss of either
side is not known yet, only thus far that our loss
counts by hundreds, while that of the enemy will
have to count by thousands. This is not a vic
tory made by official or any other kind of reDoyts
but by hard fighting, in which the valor of the
Iowa troops was as conspicuous as it has become
proverbiai, as We are still lying out without
tents, camp equipage or anything else except
hard bread, coffee and ammunition, waiting for
another attack from a force said to be advapc-
ing from the east My accommodations for wri.
ting are rather limited, and must close.
We had 345 officers and privates in the action.
100 of whom are killed, wounded and missing
G. F. CoNN.
Niger Offering q Reward for his Mas.
ter.
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