The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-22

last and best powers of their savage natures 8
with iron hardness by death upon their coar
and brutal faces Not corpse of Union mi
was near them .""-
O. On both sides the fighting was ten times
10 desperate as at Bull Run.
a INCIDENTS OF THE BATTLE OF WILLIAMS
lei BURG. #.#...
There can be no question that the rebel sa'
,r ages bayoneted our wounded. Lieut.. Brush
h the New York Seventy third, was seen to ia
n dead. He was shot through the heart Whe
r his body was recovered next day, it was who'll
e naked, and bayoneted.
v All the wounded Zouaves, all having re
i shirts, who fell on the ground which the rebe
/. pushed us from, were found to have been bay
IS oneted They turned the pockets of their ow
r dead inside out, and took off their shoes an
e stockings.
# Heintzeman few everywhere among the Ne
/ jersey and other troops, who gave indications &
: breaking out of the fight. He bawled himse
h hoarse, and stifened the arm wounded at Blu
A Run, in ordering, coaxing, encouraging, beck
+ oning and waving the out-numbered men int
their ranks again. To infuse enthusiasm int
! them. he wandered around to find band G
E music. He saw three in group, and ordere
t them toplay Yankee Doodle in force The men
professional in the face of defeat and DEATH SAT-
2 that they had not the requisite number OF in
struments to do justice to all the notes of tn
. tune The General then hurried around 70
more found part of another band-unltet
them to the professional three, land electrified thu
worn out infantry with The Star-Spangled Ban
mel, -" Yankee Doodle, and Gem of theOcean.
The effect was that of war magic. 1t is in the
small things as we'll as the great that the true
commander is known.
Il In the 38th New York, Col j. Hobart Ward:
orders to his men were not to fire unless they
could hit" He was through the Mexican war
and describes this as "the most CALLING fire he
ever saw" The stuff he and his men are made
of can be appreciated from the fact that, driven
back three several times, they three times re-
turned to the charge. His Lieut.. Col. Strong,
a man as lovely in his character as heis cour
ageous, led forward three companies under his
command three several times with the bayonet
Fatal number The brave officer was cut down,
with three balls through him. This regiment
lost 1873 men at Bull Run. 1 aa.s
! The Second Michigan took into action only
800 men, the rest being left behind, exhausted
with the quick march through the mud and
rain Yet they lost one out OF every five en-
gagged. The regiment was i'll the hottest OF the
| fight.
BY The confessions of prisoners, 800 of Bar
RVS men (mostly Michigan) drove back, at the
! poiut of the bayonet, 800 rebels.
90 dead rebels were found, every one killed by
the bayOnet.
From The N Y. Worlds Correspondence
CONDUCT OF THE BATTLE OF WILLIAMSBURG
The more complete are our returns from and
understanding OF the positions and fortunes OF
the various corps engaged, the more glarlng is
the fact that not half SO much was accomplished
by us as should have been, and that what luck
b,,j m ha hr1
troops second, to the opportnnn though late
arrival of Gen. Mcclellan on the field ..
The truth might as well be told 1t is lawful,
as believe, to narrate all facts connected with
battle fought.
Cen Sumner shamefully mismanaged the
affair. He must have disappointed the com
handing General. From some unaccountable
apathy he deferred awaiting himself of the gu
600 troops standing in idle reserve. He allowed
Gen Hooker, with not more than tea thousand
effect We men, to maintain a most distressing and
unequal contest against twice or three times his
number from o'clock in the morning, till the
middle of the afternoon. Gen. Rockers regi-
ments expended all their ammunition some OF
them held their positions hours after their car
fridge boxes were empty, and lost scores OF men
with no powder TO iI,j are the enemy. His left
was turned he was forced 10 partially fall back;
he suffered terribly: aud when reinforcements
more than draw game Of our main battle on
the left wing.
On the right-though Hancock s superb cool
ness of movement gave US the victory for which
Hooker had been so bloody contending all day
or the right, say, the management was even
worse. 1t was criminal to send only hive thouS-
and men on flank movement involving several
miles circuit through forests and ravines. If
the enemy had thrown ten regiments around
II ba D1iuh at e would
have crushed us TO powder.
If Hancock had been early and strongly sup
Lorted he would have carried the Entertainments
and captured thousands Of prisoners before noon
of that trying day -.
So much for the chief manager In conse-
quence of his and other draw backs, elimination
aud Iecrimnation prevailed throughout the ac-
ton, between the leaders of the corps dTmeeS
who participated in its conduct,
COMPARATIVE STATEMENTS.
Conversations with many Of the most intelli-
gent prisoners taken by US have Induced meat
least, to fully believe:
First That the forces actually opposed to us
were only Lopgstreet's and Gustave A. Smiths
divisions-together numbering not over $4,000
men-and that only portion of Smiths had
chance to share in the contest.
Second, That theImain body of the rebel army,
perhaps 5000 men, were within league DIS
lance from the field.
Third, That if the rebels, consequently, had
been cognizant of our bad management, they
might have pushed US severely, but that,
Fourth, Their only wish was to make as good
a fight as possible with their rear guard, and SO
fairly cover their retreat.
Finally, our losses in the affair sum up an un-
looked for total Of nearly twenty five hundred
killed, wounded aud missing. The rebels have
lost about three thousand. We have over 700
prisoners, besides 800 of their wounded, on our
hands. They captured one Of our batteries and
made good their evacuation. On the other
hand we have their formidable line of works,
siege guns, and position and are driving them
in some confusion before US.