The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-06-11

checked, for he was fairly stopped In the
swampy ground near the Nine Mile road;
but he had gained too much 10 give II up
easily. and he tried again; and again our
line gave war. The FIRST Long Island broke;
but $40 OF Jamison's regiments. the 57th
aud Odd Pennsylvania, would have more than
retrieved IL. Col Campbell. of the 57ih.
was soon down, but Col. Hayes, of the 63d,
by his heroic example and desperate endeay-
or kept the me1 in their places, and inspired
all around him with a noble emulation; vet
tue IRE was fearful, the regiment seemed
TO melt At this point It was that the brave
Devens received his wound. Hardly man
remained mounted. for every horse was shot.
and the regiments were thinned-thinned
terribly: bat few brave men stood there
Tor their country, and kept their places.
WHERE WAS nIRNKYy
Birney's brigade Of kearney's division.
when Birney advanced, had been ordered 10
advance BY the railroad la full time 20 have
reached this point of our hardest fight Had
he reached il, his fresh troops, poured in af-
ter this hard fight already made. must have
turned the tide, and the enemy would have
been routed thea. But he did not reach i.
He halted Pat,erson's brigade, ordered IN
10 B;mey's LETT, went through the swampy
woods aad almost impossible thickei, and
pushed on still. while BiIuey. with fair, dry
road. and the fight not r,ile away, halted
and sat down.
Our MRS ORDERED rAcE--TnEl gKrp ~ coon
ohnER.
Ii is not certain that our men would not
still have held the point. but now they were
ordered 10 fall back, rallying and forming as
they went so that they gave ground and
kept their orner The fight in that part OF
the Held on the Williamsburg road for that
day ended few hundred yards further
For hour after hour the enemy. with contin-
ued accession OF fresh troops, had pushed us
on, and now. after he had pushed ns mile
We still went fighting him. step by step. and
in good order. His. impulse was spent and he
stopped. lie occupied our camps that night
with troops that had not been in action.
oEN. c0ucH crr or.
When the enemy finally forced our posi-
ton on the Nine Mile road the greater part
Of COUGHS division fell back in the direction
} | OF the Williamsburg road; but the General
himself, with n smaller body, being nearer
TO Far Oak station, fell back across the rail-
road. and was thus cut of from the army.
5 As soon as this was ascertained he prepared
to make the best oft lie examined his po-
sition carefully. sent men TO beat up all the
roads, and especially along the New Bridge
, Rad, TO see il Sumner might not be near.
The force with Couch was found to consist
: of four rcgiments--the First New York
u Chasseurs Col. Cochrane; the CID New
York Anderson Zouaves), Col. R:ker; the
9Th Massachusetts, Col. Russell, and the 81 81
0 Pennsylvania. Col. Williams. aud Brady's
battery of four pieces. His position was in a
la ~ ~. L. LAt. a..
u railroad and road that runs from Fair Oak
c Station northward toward New Bridge. On
: the west was dense wood. from which the
enemy might emerge AT any moment. and o.
: the south was the railroad and n fringe o
wood through which they could cross for q
flank attack. Whether he had any road fol
retreat, the General did not vet know, so h,
n formed two lines of battle lone towards the
4 railroad, with section of Brady's battery
q supported by the Massachusetts Seventh
4 and toward the wood To the west. with th'
= other section of the battery supported by tn,
!. Anderson Zouayes. with the 3lst Pennsyl-
= vania and the / It Chasseurs formed close il
|. the edge of the wood, under cover of raj
q fence.
sEpGwIcK's DIVISION COMING.
Lieut. Edwards, who had ridden down I'll,
: New Bridge road, came back with work tina
: Sedgwck's division was only two miles away
Couch knew that he could hold his grounl
a till they came, so he was saved the misfor.
e tune of defeat. They hurried on and CAM
a up ut half past five o'clock, Gen. Sumne
a with them. No change was made in Couch
Is dispositions. save in the comparative strengt
D. with which either line was held. The Is
e Minnesota, Col. Sully, was formed on TN
Is right of the Chasseurs, and Ricketts, batter,
| Of Narolonpo e., thu loft N tho ct q
>. rest OF the division was formed on the lin,
u toward the railroad.
"a THE REBELS AGAIN ADVANCE.
is Shortly after six o'clock the enemy ad
vanced through the wood on tho west, wit
W what force cannot be said with certaint,
III Prisoners report Il at eight thousand A
4 we caught two Brigaders, the numbers ar
ID perhaps not over-stated
ir AS soon as the line Of the enemy advanc
I. was known. Ricketts, battery opened an
y, threw grape and canister into the wood wit
ID great effect. Brady was not idle either
Dr. One wounded man of y forth Carolina reg
&c iment, taken from the field the next da,
n. says that he fell at the first fire. aud that hi
&c regiment only went dozen Yards beyond tn
= spot where he Tell, until IL broke. Ii coul
Of not he rallied But the line kept Oh until
At was in the edge of the wood, and within &c
ne PAGES OF were the 3lst Pennsylvania, the l.
ne Chasseurs. and the lst Minnesota lay o
re their faces, between the rebels and the bai
Ia terry The rebels could not see them, an
o as they came TO the edge of tho wood the
h. delivered one volley at the Anderson Zot
= ayes in the field further out.
!. That volley killed Col. Riker, and tn
Zouavcs broke and ran Yet they only ra
= twenty yards. when they were rallied. an
!, went right up to the edgc OF the wood an
- opened their FIRE.
- No sooner had the rebels, Ia thst toile,
!. cuptied their guns, than the three regiment
y that had been lying down arose % their fec
:" and poured volioy in at almost no di~tanc
at all That yolley settled that fight =
~ Through the wood in front of that line IN
n' rebels lay dead and wounded in heaps. Bris
y !, Gen. A. &. Davis was found dead there, an
~ Brig Con. Pettigrew. wounded and his hors
- killed, was there taken prisoner
y When the rebel line advanced In the wood
= Germans brigade. from the line Of battle o
- tho railroad. was thrown forward on the rgl
/" flank of the rebel line 20 turn L., but whe
- the musketry broke that line. and rebels fe
" into coniufion, the brigade pressed forward
= and so cut OF aud drove in a large numhC
OF prisoners
ctost 90 rHr fIrsr pAY $ Fionr
So closed the battle Of that day, and Ger
r. Couch than whom he country have no bel
. ter. drawer 80 more earnest soldier slcr
:, that night further forward on the road /
Richmond. nearer % Tire rebel capital tia
!, he had done any night before.
I. a, night both armies lay upon the field -
- Narv rro..u1a rara fr.szaH a