St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1862-11-27

MeCoak. md MitahelIs aisi1iaaass 49,
come forward and formed in line Of bat
10. 4 With Mitchell our other two sssiop,,
got int4 position, abobt !. mile and ar
10 our 1ght, and NJ tho direction 4 tho
town osPerryvips, rvhere 4 y afteFx 81
did god executlpn d yill Be seenGby The
Report seA citing Dry: Gen. C.rlid
did not see anything Of them until next
While lying n wait, the ene-
h'ya opened on US from masked battery
with Parrot guns; being unable to reach
them with our hovitzcrs, we were ordered
70 fall .badk;, and 2 section. Of Looms Par
fetts took ou-- place. We raemnainedA in IN
piece Of woods On the .ishs ct Nc * :.
Division, looking on, until neal sunset
when Ne were again ordered FORWARD a
short distance, BY the side Of q house fl:
the purpose Of breaking the rebel lines
The action, had become general along the
entire line, the enemy forcing McCook's
division back, while Mitchell 10 torn was
driving then, IN the right This was
critical moment, and here it vas: tnat forty
thousand men who lay in iodfr rear, from
halt to four niles back might have been
u'cd with telling effect. -: For three hours
the :hslt ragged With" fury. - The, long
lines Of infantry s~aying to and fro as each
regiment in turn drove the other: on
the left .at"niehttall the enemy occupied
our ground lhl'aaying forced McCook back
aboutihree quarters If u mile. 49,, a.s
The eth regt. Of Mississippi troops
charged upon the howitzers aud forced us
from our position, because the 18th Ken
lucky broke and ran, leaving US unsup-
ported, bat befoe quitting our ground
aud while alone We fired sixteen rounds
Of canister with murde,ous effect, the ene-
my near enough for US to plainly distin
guish amid the smoke their peculiar but
ternut dress. There were twenty:six ,uen
with the two piece, twelve Of the number
being drivers out Of the number we had
only four wounded, one horse killed aud
Eve wounded. Three Of our men: we got
off Of the Geld, the other had to be left
being shot twice through the body. The
rebels after carried him, into the house
with their own men and gave him water
to drink, we found him there the next
day. 1t is surprising to me II at ne &c were
not all killed. The musket balls passed
over aud around US keeping ,ap iucessant
whizzi. & noise. Our carriages were struck
a number Of times, the spikes and fellows
carry the marks Of the battle. A cannon
ball passed. so near to one of our drivers
heads as 70 give him very painful head
ache fl fSr $, seycr"! days. In fact the '"hair
breadth scapes i the imminent deadly
breach" are too many to particularize.
We quit Grab Orchard aud marched
in the direction. Of Perryville, passing
within six miles Of the town. Saw citi
zens who told US that the dead were 10,
all buried, leight days after the battle)
and that our soldiers had buried twenty
one hun lred rebels 9s; and nd, were still At that
work. :. T.. H..
= 0" the morning CT the twenty-6fth Of
October it commenced to snow whicL fell
to the depth Of several inches. The
nights are quite cold, cold enough to max.
ice. ...:
We reached Bowling. Green Nov. 4th,
southern locking place Of no great mo
ment. whore we lay in camp two days and
again moved in the, direction Of Nash
vile. Just beyond Bowling Green is a
curious stream called the .'Lost Greek. .
The road crosses i several times it is to
be seen, noW as stream running through
u deep gourse called Hvne Cave Z where
It disappears after passing unier ledge
of rocks for about twenty rods, again sou
might see what appears to be pond. but
on Inspection it proves To- be running wa
ter coming in aid goiug eut:--assin it is a
spring forcing itsel: out crevice in the
rocks aud disappearing in deep hole ;
what seems curious too is that the couo.
try IS qnite level where the creek is seen
the earth has probably cAved in, exposing
the water with the excention of tho rav;na