The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-06-26
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An extract from a private letter from q men,
Der of Battery A, N, Y. Artillery, in Casey's
| Division, better known as the Eapoleon-guu
battery" in the front line of the first days bat
tie before Richmond, says:
Our spherical case shot are awful
missiles each OF them consisting of clOtted
mass OF seventy-siX musket balls, with charge
of powder in the center, that is fred by fuse
the same rs shell. The missile first acts rs
q solid shot, ploughing its way through mass
es Of men, and then exploding, hurs iorWsrd
a shower of musket balls that mows down the
foe in heaps. Our battery threw twenty-iour
of these a minute, and as we had the exact
range of every part of the field, every shot told
with frightful effect. But the enemy were not
at all daunted.
They marched steadily on, and hailed per
feet tempest Of balls upon us. Why we. as
well as our horses, were not every one shot
down will forever remain mystery to me-
We did not mind the leaden hail however, but
kept pouring our case shot into the dense mass
es OF the foe, who came on in prodigi0us and
e vefwhelming force. And they fought splen-
did!y too. Our shot tore their ranks wide open
aud shattered them asunder in q manner that
was lIightful to witness but they closed up
again at once, and came on as steadily as En-
glish veterans.
When they got within four hundred yards,
we closed our case shot and opened on them
with canister, and such destruction : never
elsewhere witnessed At each discharge great
gaps were made III their ranks-indeG whole
companies went down in that murdcrous fire
but they closed up with an order and discipline
that was awe-inspiring, They seemed 10 he an
mated with the courage Of despair blended with
the hope of speedy victory, if they could by an
overwhelming rush drive US from our position.
1t was awful to see their ranks torn and shat
cred by every discharge of canister that we
poured right into theis faces, and while their
dead and dying lay in piles, closed up and still
kept advancing right in the face Of that fire.
AZ one time three lii IS, one behind another,
were steadily advancing, and three of their flags
were brought in range Of one OF our guns shot
ted with canister.
"Fire shouted the gunner and down went
those three flags, and gap was opned through
those three lines AZ if thunderbolt had torn
| through them, and the dead lay in swathes.
But they at once closed up and came steadily on
never hating or waverng, right throdgh the
woods, over the fence through the field, right
| up to our guns, and sweeping everything be-
| fore them captured every piece.
When We delivered our last FIRE, they were
within fifteen and twenty PAGES of us, as all
our horses had been killed or wounded, we
could not carry off gun. Our whole division
was cut to pieces, with what loss l do not
| know
We fell back to a second line of entrench-
noents and there held the enemy in check till
reinforcements arrived, and then we held our
position till night put an end to the battle.
/ This morning the fight Was renewed, and we
r have driven the enemy back regained possess
, sion of our camp and 1T is reported with whet
: decree of truth / cannot say that our battery
? has been recaptured. The rebels stripped our
: camp thoroughly.