The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-03-29

cover Tue WHEREABOUTS OF the enemy during tn
night. He was furnished with horse, citizen
saddle complete suit of butternut clothing
taken from dome Of their prisoners, and dis
patch purporting to be written by General Var
Dorm to Gen. McCulloch, and Was started oul
on the Fayetteville road and made q circuit
round to the Bentonville road. He relates tha,
when near Bentonviile he deserted a courier
dashing along on horseback, when he reined uu
to the side OF the road, and cried out Halt
who comes theres" The usual reply Of "a friend
was given, when the courier advanced and whis.
pered the countersign Lexington" "Ail right
said the scout, and was sooa on his way with the
magical word which was to pass him through the
camp Of MeCulloch. He rode along the entire
line, being asked several questions, all Of which
he answered as best he could, and in the gray cf
the morning he returned to our camp with aceu-
rate information Of the position and strength Of
the enemy. NcCulloch, Mcintosh and Pike it
appears were along the Keetsville road, with
Price on the left resting on Sugar Creek Van
Dorm was at Prices headquarters
BATTLE FIELD HORRORS
The appearance of the hill and woods shelled
BY Gen. Sigel's Division attests the terrific show.
er OF missiles that fell upon them. Walking
| over the ground immediately after the flight Of
the enemy and the pursuit by our forces, found
it thickly strewn with dead and wounded, most
| OF them having fallen by the deadly artillery
| proiectiles. Tree after tree was shattered or
| perforated by shot and shell, and many were
! filed with grape and canister balls One tree
was pierced through and through by solid shot,
its top shivered by shell, and the base of its
trunk Scared by II canister and rife balls In
one place lay the fragments OF a battery wagon,
wherein shell had exploded, utterly destroy.
ing the wagon and killing two mules which had
been its motive power
ruined caiss9n and five cannon wheels were
lying near il Two dead artillery men we're
shot, and by their side was third, gasping his
last, with his side laid open by fragment of a
she'll On the hill, where the cannonade had
been severe, trees, rocks and earth bore witness
to its ierceness. Fifteen wounded Rebels lay
in one group, and we're piteously impioring each
passer by for water and relief for their wounds.
few rods from them was another, whose arm
| had been torn off by q cannon shot, leaving the
severed member on the ground few feet dis
tant. Near him was The dead body of rebel
whose legs and one arm had been shattered by
single shot
Behind tree, a few yards distant, was stretch.
ed corpse, with two-thirds of its head blown
away by the explosion of shell, and near it
musket, broken into three pieces. Still further
along was the body of rebel soldier, who had
been killed ny grape shot through the breast.
| A letter had fallen from his nocEet vb;cb nm
examinst;on n,ovad m ha a lon, an, VIII ,,-;t
ten love en;stie from bis batrotbed In East Tan.
nessee II was addressed To Pleasant I WI
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| kansas. Around him in all directions were his
dead and dying comrades, some stretched at full
length on the turf, and others contorted as If in
extreme agony The earth was thickly strewn
with shot and fragments of she'll
THE WOODS ON FIRE
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STRIPPING THE DEAD.
The Rebels, in nearly every instance, removed
the shoes from the dead and mortaily wounded
both OF their own army and ours. OF all the
corpses saw, do not think one-twentieth had
been left with their shoes untouched In some
cases pantaoons were taken, and occasionally an
overc0st or blouse was missing. large mum.
Der Of the killed among the Rebels were shot
| through the head, while the majority of our dead
were shot through the breast. The Rebels,
wherever it was possible. fred from cover. and
as often as head appeared from behind a tree or
bush, it became mark for our men, The Union
troops generally stood in ranks. and except when
skirmiahing, made no use of objects of protec.
ton.
sokTIE ON THE LEFT.
| Col Osterbsus was sent with his bripsde in
the morning along the high land, in the direc.
ton OF Leestown, for the purpose of intercept
ing the re'nforcements OF the enemy, and to dis.
cern his strength along the line OF Sugar Creek.
| This was one of the most spirited and success
ful attacks OF the battle, and resulted in COM
| pete diversion OF the enemy from the overpow-
ed forces OF Col. Carr, on the Fayetteville road.
Our cavalry penetrated along the main ridge
beyond the road by which the enemy had come,
and were on the point OF seizlng some OF the en-
emy's wagons when brigade oil rebel cavalry
ana infantry attacked thein Then followed one
| OF the most sangulnary contests that has ever
been seen between cavalry. Most OF the fghs-
ing was done at close quarters Pistols and
carbnes having been exhausted, our sabers were
brought INTO requisition. The rattle OF steel
against steel, our sabers against their muskets
ana cntasses' was terrlnc. Nothing Ike II It mas
Deen heard Detofe. ihe repeis were ie4an
rangers ana iought ilke demons Ihe siaugh'
Ter was AWFUL our missouri cavalry cieaVing
rls"' anu iei', waving III iron' oi 1 nueif HORSES
,sm mnho~s ns,s VI usau auu wounueu ine sneniy
! ,lona tho road ~. ohort ,,,;Ia uhan .ho, orar-
ed a battery upon the mass of friend and foe
blowing through them with solid shot and she'll
| Colonel Osterhaus had succeeded in his attempt
and retired bringing off his dead and wounded
in safety.
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