The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-02-07

most beautiful cOuntenance i ever saw 10
death. No female complexion could be
more spotless. The silky locks of wavy
auburn hair fell in rich profusion upon fair
temples and faultless forehead. Some
friendly hand had parted his garments,
barring his breast, from which the red cur
rent of lille flowed out, and had bathed his
temples, which were still warm, but had
ceased to throb forever. 0, ye winds, bear
these tidings softly to the loved ones at
home. Among the wounded of our men, it
was really comforting to see with what pa
tient heroism they bore their pains. | said
to one poor fellow with shattered leg,
You must be in great pain |; can l do any
thing for you 2" He said, !" There are 9th
ers worse of than me when they are car
ried in, you can tell them where l am, it
you please" Another man had ball
through his right hand, breaking two OF the
bones. He had done it up himself with a
wet bandage, and with his other hand was
carrying one corner OF stretcher with o
wounded man; carrying another corner of
the same stretcher was man with his head
and face covered with blood. He said he
was not hurt at all he had only lost q
large piece of bis hat and small piece of
his scalp.
In the "Old fields" among the rebels,
some of the scenes we're horrid and revolt>
ing in the extreme. A large number of the
dead were shot 10 the head. One was shot
directly in the eye, and the brain was oozing
from the wound. Five dead and one wound
ed lay behind one log; all but the wounded
were shot in the head One rebel had a
ball through his neck which destroyed the
power of speech-though don't think his
wound was mortal. Several of the dead
were old and gray headed men. A dark
comp!eXi0ned man with heavy black
beard lay on the ground with a broken
thigh. He VS. stern and sulen-he had
only one favor to ask-that was that some
one OF US would kill him. l said to him,
ave will soon take you to the surgeon, and
do all we can to relieve you, for we are sat-
isfed you have been deceived by wicked
men, and do not know what you have been
doing" 10 which he meekly replied,
"That is possible" A young man, quite a
boy, begged me not to let the Lincolnites
kill him. An elderly man sat with his back
against stump with ball directly through
the centre OF the head at the base of the
brain. There was CHASTITY grin upon his
CONFERENCE.-The eyes were stretched wide
ly open and staring widely into vacancy.
while bis breath was rapid,de and heavy.
His was a living death, Tor he was senseless
A lad OF fourteen with mashed ankle, pro-
tested his innocence and begged to be taken
care of. He said be was pressed into tie
service ami had never fred gun at a
Union man, and never would. Numbers OF
rebels made in effect the same declaration.
We quote from other letters in the same
journal:
Lieut.. E. u. Jacobs told me be
saw Minnesotian coolly advance from the
ranks some distance, and, placing his rifle
by the side of tree, take long and delib-
crate aim toward the old log house, when a
rebel head, which had been peering from
behind the corner of the house, was sudden
ly discovered to have a body attached to it,
by its pitching at full length from the end
of the house. l found seven dead bodies
in this old building, who must have been
killed by close shooting between the logs.
When lett 100 rebels had been buried in
the old field" and many were still in the
woods. Thirty.eight of our own men had
been buried in the frs. field, near the
tents.
A correspondent of the Detroit Tribune, q
member of the Second Minnesota Regi-
ment, writing from Somerset, gives the tol.
lowing account of the part OF that regiment
in the battle:
When the battle had ragged near two hours,
the Tenth Indiana and Fourth Kentucky
were withdrawn, and the Second Minnesota
and Ninth Ohio were ordered In. Our regi
ment formed in line, and then Col. Van
Cleve, as brave a man as ever lived, rushed
to the front with drawn sword and revolver
and gave the command, "FOrward, double
quick march p when our men rushed to the
front with an Indian war~whoop that struck
to the heart of every secesher, going up to
within fifteen feet OF the enemy, when they
halted and poured most terrific volley right
into the faces of the rebels. This was con-
sidered the most terrible and effective volley
delivered during the entire engagement.
Our boys stood their ground like heroes,
never Ainching an inch, our gallant Colonel
riding up and down the lines through per-
feet hail>storm OF bullets, cheering on the
men continually, and our prisoners state that
the Minnesota Indian boys as they called
them, did more damage than any other reg
iment.
Not one of our regimental officers was
wounded or hurt, but We had eleven brave
fellows killed, and as many more wounded,
one or two of whom perhaps will die. The
fight only lasted about twenty minutes after
our regiment went in, when the enemy re-
treated for their intrenchments, with our
nlne regiments and the artillery after them.
Hon. Jno. j. Crittenden is deeply affect
ed by the news from Kentucky, and has not
been in the House since the report of the
battle of Somerset was received. Although