The Nevada Democrat., 1862-04-17
Additional Particulars Of the Battle at
PittsburQ Landing

tie Of Pittsburg Landing, whlcn ls as lon0ws'
"The disposition ofthe Confederates IN their
attack was in the form Of the letter Y. The
noint penetrated Prentiss' division, which con-
sisted of raw recruits, who could not stand the
shock and fell back, causing great confusion
among our troops on the left. This charge
would have resulted in turning our left wing
and the capture of large portion OF PrentIss
and Sherman's divisions, but for the gunboats
TYLER and Lexington, which beat the enemy
back by firing into their ranks shot and shell.
Great blame is attached to Prentiss and Sher-
man. who. it is said, had no scouts out, and
only a very small picket guard. Information
of the approach of the rebel army Is said to
have been given these generals by persons from
the country, but it was disregarded. NO pre-
parations were made to receive the enemy
The onset was terrible. BY ten O'Clock A. NJ
our whole line from right to left was engaged
Onr line was five miles back of Pittsburg. We
were driven back to the river. The slaughter
was great. Officers who participated In the
Fost Donelson fight, say that fight in no way
compared with this in ferceness. The gun
boats continued firing all Sunday night. AT
four O'Clock on Sunday afternoon, General
Buell. marched to Pittsburg from Savannah;
About this time a great part of his command
reached the river opposite Pittsburg and rent
the air with cheers. This inspired our men
who had been driven back with fury during the
day, and the tide Of affairs changed. a large
body of Buells forces were crossed on sunday
evening and night, by fifteen or twenty trans
ports. Sunday night Gen. Lew: Wallace got
np from Crump's Landing with $4,000 men:
With this reinforcement the fight was renewed
Monday morning, and ragged the hottest from
to 2 o'clock, by which time force Of 4,OOO men
from Buell's army had crossed the river at
PittsburQ. One ravine between Hurlburts and
Prentiss' division is said to have been literally
filled with dead rebels. The rebel prisoners
saw they had orders to kill as many OF our Of
6cers as possible. Their officers fought IN
diso1ise. ours in uniform, which caused their
having been distinguished and so many OF them
killed."
CAIRO, April 10tb.-A man who arrived
here to-day says the rebels adopted rnse
TO surprise our forces at Pittsburg Landing.
In making their first attack their head col
umn not only carried the stars and stripes
but wore the U. S. uniform. General A.
S. johnson is certainly killed. Persons
saw his body and heard the fact comment
ed on through the camps. Gen. Bragg Is
reported killed, aHd John Q. Brecklnridge
a prisoner. but this is unreliable. ProVi-
sional Governor johnson of KY, is mortal
ly wounded and taken prisoner. 1t was
reported that Gen. Prentiss who was taken
prisoner on the first day, escaped in the
confusion of the retreat the next day. Our
total loss in killed. wounded aud missing Is
seven thousand. This is the estimate OF
military men who we're in the engagement.
OF these about 1000 we're taken prisoners.
The balance of killed and wounded in the
usual proportions. Gen. Wallace of Otto
wa. ill.,. was reported killed. as it was
deemed impossible for him TO live after the
close of the fight; but on Wednesday be
was improving rapidly.
We are just beginning to get reliable de-
tails of the battle at Pittsburgh Landing.
From gentleman who was on the field af-
ter the fight we gather the following. Our
informant left the field at five o'clock on
Tuesday morning:
The battle commenced on Sunday at
six A. NJ. The rebels attacking PTentiss'
Brigade, consisting of the 6lst Illinois, l7th
Wis, oath Ind, list Ohio. The enemy
were said to be 10000 strong, Prentiss
had no artillery, his brigade was cut to
pieces, and forced to retreat, and Prentiss
aud number of bis men were takea pris-
oners. AT twelve O'Clock, noon, tAe en-
tire line was fiercely engaged, but were in
full retreat at four O'Clock. The enemy
had taken Schwatzs' Dresden's, Water
house's andtwo Ohio batteries. Thousands
of our soldiers had taken refuge under the
bank Of the river, utterly refusing to fight,
in fact they could not, fer men and officers
were in inextricable confusion our army
seemed utterly demoralized. About this
time Gen. Mitchhels Division, $4,000, ar
rived on the opposite bank of the river and
were feFried across during the evening aud
night.
The guubOats Lexington and Tyler open
FIRE on the enemy and kept it up every half
hour during the night-saving the army
from utter ruin. Their shells set the woods
on fire, and many dead rebels were burned.
At seven in the evening firiOg ceased. At
midnight the rebels attempted to plant bat
teries within 800 yards from the siege guns.
but we're driven away by the gunboats, and
the siege guns, supported by thsee regi-
ments Of Gen MtchelI's-division. Our in
formant persists in estimating our-iAss, on
Sauday, at 3,0o0, killed and s y900EVesRded,
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