Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-04-02

from them Is 236 These figures are Ince-
pendent of what they have lost, and VIII lose
in the pursuit. The regiment which lost
most on the side os tie rebels was the flitn
Virginia.
Our loss in killed so fsr as ascertained Is
less than 100 and about 800 of eur meA are
wounded Though the enemy had much
larger force, four pieces Of cannon more than
our army, the selection of fighting ground
| and every other advantage, yet all the troph
les of the occasion belong to the Union army.
The loss on our side was heaviest in the
| Eighty fourth Pennsylvania regiment OF
the f7e companies of less than three hundred
men, engaged, they lost Col Murray, as dash
ing and brave an oEicer as ever drew sword /;
one captain. one lieutenant, twenty three
/ priYates and non commissioned officers killed,
and sixty three wounded. The loss IN the
Eighth and Fifth Ohio regiments is about
seventy FIVE and sixty, respectively, killed
and wounded.
Lieut.. Gel. Thuburn, Of the Third Virginia,
! is among the wounded on cur side These
are the only field officers Killed or wounded
in the Union forces.
4ihe IRISH Batta!toa.
The rebels had an Irish battalion of one
| hundred and fifty men, Of whom forty were
/ killed on the field and nearly all the rest
wounded. Captain jones, who commanded
! the Irish battalion in the rebel army, is a
| prisoner in our hands, with both his eyes
shot out by one bullet.
EIGHTY FOURTH PENNSYLVANIA.
The following is the surgeons return of
killed and wounded in the Eighty fourth p.
Regiment:
KrLLEn.-Col. VIM G Murray, Capt. Pat
rick Gallagher, Second Lieut. Charles Reem,
privates Paul McLang, Job Miller, John Gil.
more. Aaron b Wayght, James Myers, Leo
! keech, Wm. Fowler, John Kelly, Jeremiah
Gates, Thomas Hancof, Simon kcrscher,
Joseph McCiaren, Jacob Wainwright, James
Graham, and Daniel G. Smith
WoUNDED.-Privates Wm. S. Davis, (mor-
tally) Thos. Raveahill, Daniel McLaue, Pc
ter Miller, Saml. Burk, Adam Frank, (slight
ly), James Barn (mortally). Michael Forney
/ Severely, First Lieut.. SamI. Bryan Corpor-
ais Peter Lines, 4no. Shaiden Alfred Crague,
Charles Parker, T. S. Simmons, Mack Saxton,
Alexander Warn Slightly, Private Reuben
Killiam. James Kurtz. Terrence Kinney,
Isaac Johnson, Abram Hcrtzler, Jacob Spi-
die, John Jennings, First Lieut. B. Morrow,
(slightly,) Sergeant Henry Fink (seriously),
CUrporals James VI. Price. Charles Mummy.
I. G. Fowler, (slightly) Prirates G. u. Bow
~ -
er, Jay Holcomb, tslighty,) Corporal En-
anuel Brubaker, lseriously,l Alexander Tay-
lor, James GALLAGHER, (sightly,l Privates 2.
r. Hawkins, Thomas Gornan, slightly Cor.
Shumaker, slightly >Privates John ToIbert,
lseriously,l Daniel Beitler, Sergeant Sanford
johnson, VIM. Z. Stead, slightly Sergeant
Franklin Houston, Privates Henry Strickler.
Slightly VIM. Cassidy, (mortalIy,) Christie
pher Smith, (seriously,) John Lacree, Abra-
ham Hertzler, slightly.
Gen. Shields, In letter 10 friend in
Washington, after referring to the events
of Saturday, gives the following account
of the fight:
Knowing the crafty enemy, however, had
TO deal with, | omitted nc precaution. My
whole force was concentrated, aid prepared
to support Kimbalps brigade, which was in
alvance About half past ten o'clock, it be-
came evident We had considerable force before
u.s. but the enemy still concealed himsclf so
adroitly in the woods, that it was impossible
to estimate it. ] ordered a portion Of the ar
tillery forward, to open fire and unnask them
BY degrees they began to show themselves
They planted battery 2fter battery in strong
position, on the centre and On botE 1anks.-
Our artillery responded. and this continued
until about half past th:.e oclock i;I the af
ternOOn when | directed column Of infan
try to carry battery on their left flank and
to aSsai, that fant, which was done promptly
and splendidly by Tyler's brigade, aided by
some regiments from the other brigades-
The fire Of our infantry was so close and de
st-uctiye that 1t made havoc in their ranks
The result was the capture of their guns on
the left and the forcing back of their wing
on the centre, thus placing them in posi-
tiol to be routed by general attack, which
was made, about FIVE O'clock by all the infan
try, and succeeded in driving them in flight
from the field. Night fell upon us at this
stage, leaving US in possession of the field of
battle two guns and four caissons, three
hundred prisoners and about one thousand
stand of small arms. Our killed in this en-
cagement cannot exceed one hundred mer,
wounded two hundred and thirty three. The
enemy's killed and wounded exceed one thou
sand. The inhabitants of the adjacent vii
lages carried them to their houses as they
were removed from the field of battle. Houses
+ between the battle field and Strasburg, and
even far beyond, have sin ,e been found filled
with the dead and dying of the enemy
Grayes have been discovered far removed
from the road where the inhabitants Of the
country buried them as they died. General
Banks, in his pursuit of the enemy beyond
StFasburg, afterwards, found houses on the
road twenty-five miles from the battle field
filed in this manner, and presenting the most
! CHASTITY spectacle. The havoc made in the
ranks of the rebels has struck this whole eregion
of country with terror Such blow had
! ! never fallen on them before, and it is more
! crushing because wholly unexpected. Jack
, son, and his stone wall brigade, and all the
; other brigades accompanying him, willneVer
Ivss hat N
| the night they managed to carry off their ar
t tillery in the darkness. We opened upon
= them by early light next morning., and they
! commenced to retreat. Gen. Banks returned
J, from Harper's Ferry between nine and ten
/. o'clock A. NJ, and placed himself, at my re-