Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-06-13

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About o'clock, Couch and Peck
came from the left, and passed through
the line Of fire, and went at right an
giles over to the railroad to repel "a
movement in similar direction made
by the rebels away beyond the scene Of
Caseys disappearance. The conflict
they sustained in the woods was bloody
and unequal Peck's horse was shot
through the neck, shot again in the
flank, and soon had both his hind legs
cut off by cannon ball. Re-enforce-
ments were called for, and Heintzleman
/ intercepted regiment moving to the
] front, and ordered it over the railroad.
\ Hessubsequently ordered Birney's brig
ade to march right up the track and
save the fight. The brigade did not get
into action, and Birney is under arrest
/ Mcclellan, before this, at his headquar
! ters, twelve miles off, reused by the
cannonade and by the telegraph, got
out Of his sick bed, and put portion
of Summers corps into motion up the
railroad, Kearney, too, had come up
the Williamsburg road, and Jamieson
had gone eagerly forward into the hell
of shell, and shot, and smoke, as did
j Berry, at the head ef his Michigan men.
! A ball tore off his hat, and his manly
| fight was. fought bareheaded. The line
of battle at this time was nearly mile
wide, and almost wholly in the woods.
The enemy, in everw helming numbers,
has forced US back at least mile, and
were piling up troops on, o III risfS TO
ward the railroad The firing at this
point at about. FIVE o'clock was marvel
to me. 1t is claimed that that at Wit
] liamsburg was heavier twice or thrice
during the day, but that is not my
/ judgment. | can compare this to moth
ling but the roar Of the Niagara 1t had
no spaces-no cracks It was solid,
continuous, deafenipg. Over it the in
cessant bursting of shells and screamin 6
of solid conical shot, ribbed the racket
with great screams of noise. which com
PEELED men touching each other in op-
posite saddles to shout when trey
talked. The Struggling set in briskly
from before this fre. Superhumau' eff
forts, headed by Heintzlenlan, and aided
by his Surgeon, Milhan, and Colonel
Adams and others, stepped full regi-
ment for a while, and rallied them
around their colors, but could not long
hold them against the storm of whist
| ling bullets and case shot. The crowd
rolled off the field, carrying away some
who meant to stay. 70 my dying day
/ shah have In my ears the wailing
shrek of a private of the 1st Long
! Island, shot dead beside my horse With
a percussion musket ball, whose explo-
sion within its wound [ distinctly heard,
and which must have overw helmed him
morally more than it did physically
Not running, nor terrifed-only un-
willing to stay-this crowd struggled
partly ia the woods, back, back, to the
/ line ofthe rife pits Couch had made a
week ago. On. the way Hooker's Brig
l-ade was met, and met with the hurrahs
OF applause due to brave men.
Darkness left Sedgwick en- the rail
road, master of the ground occupied in
the afternoon by the rebel forces, and
from which he had CALAMITY driven
them. Our extreme right is. now be-
yound the advance of yessrday. We
are probably behind the nj hing posi-
tien of our center three krters Of a
mile, and full mile behin pr morn
ing's position on the left loss Of
property aud material is aw embrac,
| ihg eight guns and the contents os az
least four camps. The loss in killed,
wouade1 and missing, is more awfuk
| Among the dead is Casey's Com
mander of Artillery, Col. Bailey, and
Howell of the s5th Michigan The
wounded included Gems. Vessels, De-
vens; Colonels Campbell, Champlin,
Briggs, Morris, and a large number Of
Captains and minor officers. Up. to
nine o'clock in theeyening, 100 wounded,
operated on, had been sent off by rail to
West Point OF the nearest landing
| Tis but 1.-THE of the whole Ike sur
geans are yet at work.
Heintzleman $ horse was shot, as vas
Peck's and Jamieson's. Keyes was
wounded, and numerous staff officers
were dismeuuted.
1t is now two o'clock in the morning
and Mcclellan is here, and the best
troops in the army are within his short
reach, and the sun will set to- morrow
upon great Union victory, or upon
the bloodiest defeat that rebellion ever
gave to Constitutional Government aud
its armed defenders.
THE SECOND DAT-GooD NEwsi
SAvAGE's STATION, Sunday, u A. NJ.
While waiting to make up from the
Surgeons q emoranda a list of the
killed and wounded in the battle eff the
Seven Pines1 listen to the furious mus
kerry which renews the fight upon the
ground where the combatants separated
last night. 1t is about asmile off only,
and the white smoke rising through the
dark pines and oaks marks accurately
the altar on which Slavery and Rebel
i4ion are making choicest sacrifice to
the demon of war. OF the laundering,
roaring volleys, like that which l de-
seribed yesterday, there have been but
two. And well there may have been,
for the men who long face such fire are
made Of cast steel. They necessarily
must be "heroes of hundred fights. !"
We pick up news to-day in fragments.
There were three divisions Of the
choicest Of j ohnson,s troops precipi-
tated upon our advance left yesterday.
Longstreet commanded. IF these diyi-
sions are the average strength of ours,
the enemy's force was 10000. This
number of tle divisions is stated to US
by the prisoners whom we took yester-
day-eyery one of them of the truest
Blaekwell's Island type Of face and gait
and dress.