Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-09-15

but for the moment, and the regiments rslying upon
their supports plunge back again into the tempest Of
FIRE that before swept them down.
Some OF the positions of the enemy were strong a.
Nature could make them, aud we're charged fTs ak
tmes but each lime soldiers we're turned back by
sheer physical inability to the obstacles before
them. Il then grand to witness the moral heroism
with which, though their comrades went down like
swahs Of grass under the mowers scJthe, other men
continued to step into the path OF death with cheerful
aIacrity and still to fall with the battle shou. upon
their p and the proud smile OF conscious vsor on their
faces.
Il was task Of almost superhumsn labor 10 drive
the enemy from those strong points, defended as they
Wee by the best artillery and infantry In the Federal
army but in less than four hours from the commence
ment Of the battle our indomtable energy had
plished everything. The arrival OF X ID. Anderson,
with bis reserves after the engagement was fairly
opened, proved timely acquisition, and the handsome
manner in which be brought hls troops into position
shosed the cool and skiful General Our Gsreras-
Lee LouSstree Jackson Hood, Kemper, Evans, Jones,
Jenkins and others-all shared tho dangers 10 which
they exposed their men. How well their Colonies and
their subordinate Off sers performed thrr duty is best
!ssr6sd by the list of killed and wounded.
Tbs battle ragged in the described until sitter
dark, and when It was impossible to use firearms the
avens were liz up by the still continued flashes OF tho
lery ana the meteor fight OF SHELLS scattering their
iron spray. By this time the enemy had been forced
across Ball Run and their dead covered every acre from
the starting point of the fight 70 the Stone Bridge Had
we been favored with another hour OF daylight, their
rout you'd have been as great az that which followed
the original battle OF MsnAssas As II was they retreat
ed in basic and disorder to the bghts OF Csntrevls
We had driven them up bill and down distance OF two
sld half miles, cBptured between twenty and thirty
pieces of rilery, hundred prisoners, (h1ngh
few soldiers cared 10 be troubled by the latter and
some SIX or eight thousand stand Of arms.
TIE YIELD AYrER TIE BATTLE
II. -
cannot fully described. But II the reader can Imagine
himself siaadir the heights around the old Henry
House. and locking the ccugty in the direction
from which advanced over the gu!!ies rayines and
vaes which divided the opposite hills he will see dead
aud wounded lying by thousands far as the eye can
reach. Tho woods are likewise full OF them. II haa
been remarked by every that the enemy this vast
hetscomb outnumber us FIVE or six to one. They lie
thckest upon the slopes aud SUBMITS where their bat
teres were planted aud the Infantry were drawn up ss
supporters, in many instances as many IS eighty Or
ninety dead, markii tho place were fought single
regiment Ii is OF the singular coincdelces OF ths
strange battle that Hoods brigade encountered on Sat
uray precisely the troops whom they me! st Gaoes
Mil ia the battles before chmond-the Duryea Z1u
evCs fierce fellows in red bsggy brecches red skull caps
and blue embroidered ckes--ani as on that OCCASION
literally moved them Gown. In front OF tie Hampton
L. gon aad Eighteenth Georgia, counted niney-lx Of
the dead say nothing Of two or thr,e hundred wouni
ed who were lying in every attitude, and grooming In
every imaginable key.
In front of the CHM House, which Is hospital,
tie havoc has been terrible. The ground Is srown %:
only with men, bu! arms ammunition, provisions, haver
sscks canteens and whatever else the sftghted Fede.
rails could throw away TO facilitate their ght before or
ons ITS at that print Several cannon broken caisonf
wheels and numbers of dead horses also to be
here
In front Of the POSITION occupied by Jackson's men
the killed more plentiful In many pacea ycu
cannot walk three feet without being compelled to step
over or around corpse. S,me mes they are piled to
gether aud very rarely you zee Confederate SOL
der lying in the midst Of purifying mass. To day
fou1d wounded Federal who has lain for the last two
days and nights where by extending bis hand either
SIDE he could touch the dead bodies OF FIVE Of bis com
paaons. One OF these he coolly using tr PliCv.
How callOus men become by familiarity the scenes
Of war.
do not know whsther you will call the act disgrace
full or not tu there Is not a dead Yankee in all that
bread field Who has not been stripped Of his shoes and
stockings had bis pockets turned inside GU and in
merous cases been left as kei the hour he born.
II you could our blrefooed and ragged men, YOU
nigh! thpk there even virtue in stealing from q
Geunct enemy. Some OF the soldiers, however do lot
crupe taking every valuable thing they can lay their
hands ppon and rob friend and foe, dead and alive,
aika For all such cormoran!s the halter Ia the only
remedy.