The New York herald., 1862-04-16
THE BATTLE OF PITTsBuRe.

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Drum; Thrtieth Indiana, Colonel bAss SeNenS s'''A
Pennsylvania Colonel stamoangn. - ..
Major GENERAL wAIlAcEs DIvsoS-kicn or is AsnI
Mr. Brioaae-Coonel Morgan l.. Smith commanding
Eighth Missouri. Colonel Morgan L. smith lleuisnAhs
Colonel James Peckham commanding Eleventh indiana'
Colonel George McGinnis Twenty onrth INDIANA ooo
moi Alvin p Hovey; Thurber's Missouri battery
Second Brigade-Coonel Thayer Frst NeorA Askal ooin
mAnding; First Nebraska Lieutenant Soonsl sMc.ora
Fifty eighth Ohio Colonel Bausenwein sixty-eighth
OHIO Colonel steadman; Thompsons Indiana battery -
Third Brioade-Coonel Chas. Whittlesey (Iwentieth
Ohio1 commanding; Twentieth Ohio, Lieutenant Colo
mel commanding Ely, Pfysnih Ohio, & Colonel w0os fs.e
Seventy eighth Ohio Colonel Lsggett.
THE WORK OF SUNDAY MGHr.
With the exception Of the gunboat bomoardment the
night seemed 10 have passed in entire quiet heavy
thunder storm had up about midnight, and though
we wero all shverng tho ducking, the surgeons
sured as better thing could not have happened
The ground tney said, covered with wounded not
yet found, whom were unable to bring from the
neld The moisture would to extent cool the burn
ing parching thirst, which is Of the chief errors
ying wounded and helpless the battle field and the
aning water was the best dressing for the wounds
The regiments Of Buell's divisions still dsem
Barking at the Landing. Many had taken their places
the rest hurried on out they landed and fell in
70 the rear Of their brigade ns for reserves stood
for o few moments at the Landing, curious 10 see
now these Rne fellows would march out to the field where
shey knew rcverses had crowded thcky upon the
day before and where many OF them must lie down to
sleep last sleep the then rising should sink
again There little Of that vulgar vanity of alor
which was SO conspicuous in all the movements Of our
rawer troops eight nine months ago. There
noisy and senseless yelling shouting Of boasts,
calling lockers TO "show us where the cowardy
yecesh is and we clean em out double quick" These
men understood the work before them. They went it
ss brave should determinedly, hopefully, calmly.
IL became evident that the gunboat bombardment
through the night had without most mportant
effect in changing the very conditions under which
renewed the struggle The had gone down with the
enemy's lines casping tight the centre and left,
pushing 10 the river, and leaving little half
mile cut into all the broad space had held in the
morning The gunboats had cut the coils and oosened
The construction. AS learned, their shells had
made the old position Of extreme left which the
rebels had been pleasantly occupying utterly untenable
Instead Of being able to slip through the night
~ they had probably intended, they compelled TO
fall back from point to point; each time they had
found places they thought out OF range, shell would
dropping in nowhere within range could they lie
and to end the they fell back beyond inner
cape and thus lost more than half the ground they had
gained by four O'Clock retreat the afternoon befsre
Less easily accounted for movement Of theirs
right. They had held here steep bluff, covered
with underbrush as their advanced line. Through the
night they abandoned this which gave them the
best possible position for opposing Lew. Wallace and
had fallen back across some open fields TO the
scrub oak woods beyond The advantage Of compelling
our advance unprotected openings. while they
maintained sheltered position, was obvious, but
n1 su 80 a a e as
many fort. Nevertheless they 'ell back.
WANT SYSTEM ON OUR
Tha reader who s patient enough wade through this
narration viii scarcely fail to observe that thus far
have said little nothing Of any plan Of attack de-
hac
have failed TO any evidence Of such plan
10 me 1t seemed Sunday if every division general
die-mitaed the good old Israetsh plan Of action by
which every did what seemed good in his own eyes
There may & have been an infinite amount Of
Tious defeats and reformations and retreats, but
70 me il seemed Of that microscopic character
that required the magnfyIng powers OF spe-
cia permit for exclusive newspaper teleRraphing on
government lines to discover.
Sunday night there was has been said, council OF
war, but if the Major General commanding developed
plans there beyond the simple arrangement Of
line Of battle am very certain that some of the divi
alone delayed our losses on Sunday; stubborn fighting
alone saved us when we had reached the point beyond
which came the chid's t jumping off place." and stub
born fighting, with such generashp individual divi
sion commanders displayed, reganed on Monday what
To those had looked despairngy at the prospects
Sunday evening" seemed strange that the rebels did
fore the bombshels Of the gunboas however explain.
cd the delay Our own divisions were put in motion
almost. almost simulssnscS.ly BY seven sn o'clock Lew
positions he had selected the night before,
the rebel battery Of which mention has been made-a
brsk artillery duel rapid movement Of infantry across
shallow ravine If TO storm, and the rebels emf
laded and menaced in 'front.' mbered up and made the
opening of their Mondays retreating.
NELSON'S ADVANCE.
To the left slower in finding the enemy. They
had been compelled to travel some distance to get out Of
sunboats range Nelson moved his division about the
time Wallace opened on the rebel battery, forming
in line Of battle, Ammon brigade on the extreme left
prnrn IN fha nanfr and HQ IN tha a-rfph
mshers thrown out, and for nearly quite mile
the division thus swept the country pushing few
lying rebels before it, till il came upon them in force
Then general engagement broke along the line
again the rattle Of musketry and thunder Of artillery
echoed over the late silent fields There was strag
Cling this morning. These men were better drilled than
many OF those whose regiments had broken 70 pieces
the day before and strict measures were taken at any
rate to prevent the miscellaneous thronGng back out
ofharms way They stood up TO their work and did their
duty manfully.
Il soon became evident that whether from change OF
commanders some other cause, the rebels pur
suing different policy in massing their forces On Sun
day the heaviest lighting had been done the left This
morning they seemed to make determined resistance
here, while toward the centre and right the ground
obsnaasy contested and the struggle longer pro-
ienged.
Until half past ten O'Clock Nelson advanced slowly but
steadily sweeping his long lines over the ground Of
dead rebels, resstlsssly pressing back the aded aud
wearisd enemy The rebels had but few rein
with their desperate contest day before and mani
festy dsprtsd BY the evident fact that notwthstand
ing their well laid plans OF obstruction In detail they
were fighting Grant and Buell. combined.
Gradually, Nelson pushed forward his lines under
heavy nuskstry the enemy fall back till about
Ten when under Of the heavy timber and furi
cannonading, they made general rally Our forces,
flushed with their easy victory were scarcely prepared
for the sudden onset where retreat had been all they
had been seeing before. Suddenly the rebel masses
hurled against our lines with tremendous force.
Our halted wavered and fell back Al this critical
uncture Captain Terrys regular battery came dashng
up. Scarcely taking time 10 unmber he was loading
and sighting his pieces before turned
and instant tossing in shell from twenty four
pound howitzers 10 the compact and advancing rebel
ranks.
Here the tursng point Of the battle the left.
The rebels were only checked, not halted On they
came Horse after horse from the batteries picked
OF Every private at one OF the howtzers
fell, and the gun was worked by Captain Ter.
ry himself and corporal. The rebels seemed
advancing. A rsgimens dashed up from our line and
saved tho dlablcd piece Then for two hours artillery
and musketry at cese range At last they began
yer Our men pressed On, pouring in deadly voleys.