Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-19

SATURDAY. April 10Th. 1860. (

PnTsBuHG LANDING,
Saturday, April 18th. le62.
Our first introduction 70 this now celebrated
locality was decidedly gloomy one. Our boat
arrived in the night. On going out on the guards
we found the rain pouring down IN torrents, aud
those peculiar drizzing sort of torrents that seem
TO indicate a long dreary rain. The landscape
itself was most uninviting. II IS triangularin
dentation In high range Of hills. The size OF
the triangle nearest the rver j. probable two hun.
dred yards long. The hills are from seventy 10
one hundred and twenty feet high. A score Of
steamboats, lie With their noses to the shore
Freight Is being discharged Soldiers and officers
marching IN every direction, while long trains
of army wagons wind slowly up the hills, taking
every course from the river to the camps which
extend back from il five miles, and four miles
along IL. Shouting teamsters, swearing wagon
masters, braying mules. mingling their discord-
ance With the whistlihg of the incoming and de
parting steamers, make, combined, such Devil
dering din as, am sure. never greeted my
before. The first question stranger asks him.
self h. chow is IL possible to evoke order from
this confusion worse cOnfoundedE" IL he goes
out on the landing, and among the wild disorder
of boxes, army stores, officers trunks, army
wagons, and all the necessary baggage and stores
ola great army, his wonder will increase Should
he go up into the camps, travel for hours. as |
Hboftt TIC NbHbl r'ludlt ONtt WHICH our
troops are scattered, see the apparent want of
concert and system on every hand, he would re-
turn, as did, dumbfounded.
BY the vigorous exertions of Secretary Hollo-
way, the steamer Charley Bowen was loaded
with Indiana wounded to-day. The cabin floor
il covered with them. The state rooms are
crowded with them. They even all over the
upper and lower decks. and out on the guards
IL is difficult TO get from part OF the boat to
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everywhere with MANNED, pale, emaciated. silent
accomplishing Indiana soldiers. IL was enough
to make nm lndianian shed tears OF joy To stand
among these wounded braves and hear them IN
cheerful tones relate the many thrilling events Of
Sunday and Monday last
No less than ten thousand Federal troops fled
panic stricken and disorgauized on Sunday, and
stopped not until they crouched beneath the
river banks. No importantly or imprecation
could drive them forth to battle, though the rebel
hosts advancing on all sides through the
woods, though Grants entire army was in immi
nent danger of destruction, though the hopes of
liberty and union were at stake. though Buel's
army fast advancing and reuorcements were
certain on the morrow There not an In
dianan among them all. Scores of men were
drowned IN the Tennessee in their efforts to reach
the steamers, which had moved out into the river
TO avoid being sunken by the frightened crowds
OF soldiers that poured pell nell over and down
the hills
IL will be long time before the history of
the battle of Shiloh, as Buell. calls it, can
be written. i do not how it can ever be
written correctly, 80 contradictory are many ac
counts of parts OF the two days engagements.
In brief, it may be stated that Grants army rum
bering probably forty thousand, was surprised on
Sunday morning soon after daylight 10y the ad-
vancihg enemy. We were surprised All ac-
counts agree in saying. strange : it may seem,
that We we're surprised. The enemy was in our
camp in battle array before We had notice of his
coming General Grant at Savannah and
did not arrive the battlefield until the fight
had been raging for three hours. His negligence
and carelessness have damned him. OF mere
bravery on the field he undoubtedly has enough,
but have no doubt we owe to his inefiicency
the loss of thousands of our IL is sad TO
know that such things are true, yet true they are,
/ think. hey ond all question.
Nothing but the knowledge upon the part of
our troops that Buell's army was fast marching
to relief. together with the almost accidental
presence and and OF the gunbOats; prevented the
loss To Us OF Grants entire army. Ii is useless TO
speculate upon what would have been the result.
Dying treason would have sprung up TO new life
and vgor. We should have loss Tennessee
again The lurking rebels all over the country
would have sprung upon our divided columns and
the Dattie OF SuilOn WOULD nave been more dis
graceful To our national arms than that of Bull
Run, and infinitely more disastrous in its conse
quences.
APRIL BIN company with Capt. Carroll, of
the 10Th Indiana, we visited the camp of that
regiment To day. Col. Kise is still under arrest
Ii Is most astonishing how many OF our officers
under arrest, most of them for what seems
very trivial oifenses No matter how small the
ofiense how purely technical it may be- or how
dangerous disastrous the consequences, the
red tape gentlemen of the regular army school
insist most pertinaciously in visiting upon our
volunteer officers all the lncony eniences and pen
alties of arrest
Col. Reed, of the nth Indiana, who performed
prodigies of valor on both days of the late battle
and whose regiment now numbers less than three
hundred effective men, was under arrest when
the battle of Shiloh commenced for some such
trivial matter As giving soldier "A furlough.
Col kise however. was in good spirits He
regretted that the 10th did not get i'm until a few
hours after the rebels had been driven from the
field. but feels sure of being found in the right
place in the next battle now expected daily. His
regiment Is here without tents blankets, cooking
utensils or even oyercOats. The regiment came
in on the double quick, having thrown away
knapsacks and blankets in order To be up in time,
but in win. The boys suffer considerably in
their present condition, as they have been sleep
IN now several nights IN the ram with almost
nothing to eat aud protection from the wealth
er. Their baggage wagons are expected soon.
Since the foregoing was written, the 10th In
diana has been sent up the river with several
other regiments, for what purpose Is unknown, as
is also the destination. | parted with several
officers of the regiment at 10 L. NJ, tonight at
which time they had received no intmaton OF
the order To move Standing on the deck of the
steamer at L. saw long line of troops. cavalry
and infantry filing silently down and embarking
on adjoining steamers That nearest Us received
the 10th with others Some of the bows recog
nizei Us in the moonlight, and many were the l.,>t
messages shouted over to Us for friends At home.
After two or three hours all were aboard. One
gunboat took the lead, ten crowded steamers fol
Lowell and another guuboat brought up the rear.
\ band ON the deck of one OF the steamers PLAYED
Dixie Is the procession sailed of in the moon
hight There they 20 deeper and deeper into the
heart OF Dixie When shsli we hear from the
glorious 10Th again. Ii is surnisei by some
that the expedition Is sent UP TO destroy the
bridge az Florence Others say that it Is 70 clear
out battery fifteen miles above All agree that
it i To- operate with reference To an early attack
on Beturegard ut Corinth.
Extracts from southern Papers.
ANNOUNCEMENT Or Tile DEATH or A. SIDNEY JOHN e
SION ~ THE REBEL CONGRESS
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