M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1862-06-19


over to the railroad. He subsequent
ly ordered Brpey's Brigade to marcI
right up t the track and save the fight
The brigade did not 20 into action
and Birney is under arrest. McClel
Ian, before this, at his headquarters
twelve miles of, reused by the can.
nonade and by the telegraph, got out
OF his sick bed and put a portion o.
Summers Corps into motion up rhC
railroad Ke arney, too, had come up
the Villa msburg road, and Jamie,
son had gone eagerly forward iLtc
the hell OF the shell and shot and
smoke, as did Berry at the head o
his Michigan men. A ball tore of
his hat, and his manly fight was fought
bareheaded. The line of battle al
this time was nearly a mile wide, and
almost wholly in the woods. The
enemy, in overwhelming numbers,
had forced us back at least a mile
and were piling up troops IN our right
toward TIE railroad. The firing al
this point at about five o'clock was a
marvel to me. 1t is claimed that that
at Williamsb urg was heavier twice
or thrice during the day, but that is
not my judgment. can compare
this to nothing but the roar Of Mag.
ara 1t had no spaces--no cracks.
1t was solid, continuous, deaiening.
Over it the incessant bursting ofshells
and screaming OF solid conical shot
ribbed the racket with great seams of
noise, which compelled men touching
each other in opposite saddles to shout
when they talked. The struggle set
in briskly before this fire. Suporhu.
man efforts, headed by General Heint-
zelman. and aided by his Surgeon,
Milhau, and Colonel Adams, and 9TH
efS stopped full regiment for awhile,
and rallied them around their colors,
but conld not long hold them against
the storm OF whiStlng bullets and
case shot. The crowd rolled of the
field, carrying away some whe meant
to stay. Tony dying day l shalI
have in my cars the wailng shrek
Of private of the First Rhode Island,
shot dead beside my horse with per-
cussion musket ball, whose explosion
within iIs wound | distinctly heard,
and which must have overwhelmed
him morally mort Than it did physic.
ally. Not running, nor terriged--
only unwilling to stay--this crowd
struggled partly in the road, mostly
in the woods, back, back to the line
OF the riAe-pits Coch had made a week
ago. On the way, Hooker's Brigade
was met, and met with the hurrahs Of
applause due to brave men.
Darkness lett Sedgwick on the rail.
road, master OF the ground occupied
in the afternoon by the rebel forces
and from which he had gallantly driv-
en- them. Our extreme right is now
beyond the advance Of yesterday
We are probably behind the morning
position Of our center three quarters
Of mile, and a full mile behind orr
mornings position Oh the Left. The
loss OF property and material is awful,
embracing eight guns and the con,
tents Of at least tour camps. The
loss in killed, wounded and missing
is more awful.
Among the dead is Casey's Com
mander OF Artillery, Colonel Bailey,
and Colonel Howell, OF the Eighty.
Fifth Michigan. The wounded in
clude Generals Vessels, Dcvens, Co.
lonels Campbell, Chaplain, Briggs,
Morris, and large number Of minor
officers. Up to nine o'clock in the
evening one hundred wounde, opera.
ted on, had been cent off by rail 10
West point or tbs nearest landing =
Ills but a tithe Of the whole. The
surgeons are yet at work.
Heintzelmah's horse was shot, as
was Peck's and Jamieson's. Keyes
was wounded, and numerous staff off
GERS were dismounted.
1t is now two o'clock in the nord.
ing, aud Mcclellan is here, and the
best troops in the army are within
short reach, and the sun will set to.
morrow upon great Union victory
or upon the hloodiest defeat that re.
bellion ever gave to Constitutional
Government and its armed defenders.
THE SECOND DAY-CETTER NEWS.
SAvAeE's STATION, Sundayl
Morning-7t o'clock.
While waiting to make up from
the surgeons memoranda a list of the
killed and wounded in the battle Of
the Seven Pines, | listen to tue furi,
ous musketry which this morning re-
news the fight upon the ground where
the combatants separated last nigat.
1t is about a mile off only, aud the
white smoks rising through the dark
pines and oaks marks accurately the
altar on which slavery and rebellion