Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-05-16

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any norton Of the G000 exhausted and now
Substantially unarmed mrn TO lace 2o'ooo
comparatively fresh troops, pouring IN upon
them with iierca and steady Increase. BM
Massachusetts regiment (Gol bless that
state. and Col bless her people) greatly /
assisted this devotion by fixing bayonets on
their empty muskets barrels and standing
still for the Gaming avalanche. TWAS now
that death passed fastest through our ranks
Officers fell thiekly and men went TO ear'h
in heaps. Ten minutes more would nave
ruined rs---for temi-go1s could not have
sustained such an inequality as 5000 10 2o'-
600 Ten minutes more would have saved /
the rebellion and caused the recognition OF
the revoted states ten minutes more would
have crushed military reputation, and dr'v-
EN- q political party ont of power---and It's
administrators perhaps out OF HE. But now
Brigatlier Berry OF the stout state OF Name
--wadinc throueh The mud and rain at such
speed that Ire actually overlook aud passed
three other brigades came in sight. Heint- |
zelman shouted with gratitude. lie ran TO
The nearest band and ordered it 10 meet the
coming regiments with Yankee Doodle, |
and to give them marching time into the
field with the Star Spangled Banner. a |
wild ahurrah y went up from the enemy, /
and with yell that was electric three regi-
ments of Berry's brigade went to the front,
formed line nearely half a mile long, and
commenced volley firing that no troops on
earth could stand before--then at The
double-quick dashed with the bayonets at
the rebel array, and sent them flying from
the field into their ear,hworks, pursued them
into the largest of them, and drove them out
behind with the pure steel, and then Invited
them to reiake it. The attempt was re-
peatedly made. aud repeatedly repulsed.
/ The count OIL the rebel dead in that battery
at the close OF the fight was CD. They
were principally Michigan men who did this
work.
"The equilibrium of the battle was re-
stored. IL was now A o'clock, ,Jamison and
Birney came up with their brigades, cover
ed with mud and steaming 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 entitled 10
both gratitude and honor, saved the day.
At dark his troops were in unreslsted pos
session of the battery they had captured
The rest OF Heinzelman's force was well
placed, and in full front OF the enemy's line,
while the enemy themselves had with drawn
from the plain to The cover of their works.
We we're ready for the renewal of the fight
on the morrow. They were whipped. Our
men lighted their fires, and cooked their
coffee, and tried to dry their clothes. Theirs
we're Swapping their knapsacks on their
shoulders for flight. They had met the
Yankee on an open field, and knew that at
last they had met their masters. So, through
the mist Of the rainy night, the confederate
army of the Po'omac stole out of taeir in
trenchments, and obeyed the order to re-
treat. Ball Run was avenged. The Will
liamsburg Run began at 3 o'clock in the
, evening, and now, so hours after. is In full
, panic and disorder, under the sabering Of
our cavalry aud the Smelling Of our artillery
far away here toward Richmand. 1t was
not till after sunrise that the last of the re-
!, bel army. composed of cavalry, passed
through Williamsburg. They left one large
Gun in their works abandoned splendid
brass piece on the road, with two caissOns
e strewed every rod Of their path, with musk.
G cts, bayonels, knapsachs, blankets, and over
0 coats Uttered the way with all the wrecl
. and ruin of beaten and demoralzed arm,
in full flight from imaginary as well as yea
} terrors. There was harvest for the black:
) who had not been driven 10 cofsles by the
e owners to Richmond. From all parts theJ
0 alighied upon this abandoned property
much of it new and valuable, fresh from th,
commissarys stores, and left upon the road
side in wagons, only because ii impele,
flight. The blacks Of williamsburg are ricl
in portable property to-day
j. From another correspondent we take th
$ following:
n In that mile depth Of thick woods, Heint
zelman and Hooker, and their brave com
rades, fought the principal part Of the bat
'e lie. 1t was principally there. that in thu
long struggle from 8 o'clock in the moruin
re till o'clock in the afternoon, 5000 me
I'd held their own against $4,000. But tn
" battle ragged with desperate courage on th
Y. edge of the woods, in front Of the abatii
at in the internal abattis itself, and through
e. up to the rife pits, and beyond them, an
of finally, with triumph, into one of the fort
RI The only ground on which we could use al
ic tillery was a small angle Of the corn-felC
SIS where the road debouches upon the plaiI
as and which cur infantry had clear ed of tn
Ds. rebels to admit of our gunners wading wit
in their pieces into position. No sooner wer
st, these numbered, than men and horses bt
he gan to fal-the recoil Of the guns 500
IT. buried them almost to the hubs in the so
lid earh--down went more men and MOI
II, horses-ihe enemy made dash at the ba
Il teries, and they were lost. The assistanc
as Heintzelman received from Kearney's d
& vision enabled him to do what he had vair
Id ly tried and no ed to do, all day--to attac
ly in flank. The 3Sth and 40th New Yor
N charged through the abatis upon the riff
re- pits and threw the rebels out with the
&C. 5ayonets in double quick. Berry's charg
on at the same time all along the from, settle
he "a part of the dispute between the Mort
anu the South. The rebels were whippe'
Ut Now this was purely an infantry figh
Ter And how well Hooker's division did fight
o. Those much abused-those wronged, deri,
ed ed, and suspected Fire Zouaves-the Sicl
eff les brigade--fhey were heroes all. Ever
sp man of them had reason TO be proud of III
sir organization. / have just reformed froi