Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-04-23

up our losses. And then there came up the
grand refrain of Whitter's-wristen after
Manassas, believe, bnt on that night appar
emily far more applicable to this greater than
Mahassas-' Under the Cloud and Through
the Sea: ~
Sons Of the saints who faced their Jordan food,
In fierce Atlantic's unretreating wave
Who by the Red Sea of their glorious blood
Reached 20 the Freedom that your blood shai! save
o counfryrncni Goods day is not yet donel
He leaveth not his people utterly!
Count il q covenant, that he leads us
Beneath the cloud and through the crimson sea!
THE BATTLE on MONDAY.
CUR MUSTER ROLL
have given the line Of battle agreed upon for cur
forces on Mondav: Right wing. Major General Lew
Wallace; left wing, Brigader General Nelson. Be
tween these beginning at the left, Brgadier GEN
erals Tom. Crttenden, A. Med. NcCook. Hurlhurt,
McCernand and Sherman. In the divisions Of the
latter three were 70 be included also the renalS OF
Prentlss' and VIM. H. l.. Wallace's commands-shat-
tered, dIsorganized, and left without commanders;
through the capture Of and the prooUiy mortar
Bualls three divisions were not full when the battle
opened Monday noThin & p9s me Tn saT Irfher
delay give here list Of his troops ana d wallace
engaged
BROADER GENERAL NELSON'S DIVISION.
First B,jgpas-Col. Ammon. oath Ohio, command
ing; 36th Indiana Col Cross 9Th Ohio Lieut.. Col An
derson 24th Ohio Lieut.. Col. Frederick c. Jones.
Second Briglis-Saunders D. Bruce. 2oth Kentucky,
commanding: Ist Kentucky, Col. Enyart: ID Ken
lucky, Col 5edgwick; Goth Kentucky, Lieut.. Col. -,
THIRD Br13ade-Col. Hazen 41st Ohio command
Ing; list Ohio 9Th Kentucky and 9th Indiana
3EIGADTEE GENERAL NJ. cRITTENDEs's DIVISION.
Fsrst B,5J1le-Gen. Boyle;. 10Th Ohio. Col Beatty; :;
59th OHIO. Col Pfytfe; 18th Kentucky, Col. Hobson ::
second Brsgad.-Col. VIM S Smith, 18th Ohio, com
Uar&-Hg; 18th Ohio. Lieut.. Col. Hawkins; 26h Ken
jucI:y. Lieut.: Col Maxwell; llth Kentucky Col P P.
Hawkins with Mendenhas regular and Bartlett's
ONO Batteries
BRIGADIER GEN. M'cooK'S DIVISION.
EyrcjD -Rrig 7 II Let
Ohio Col Edward A Parrot 9Th Indiana Col. Crit-
tenden; Sd Kentucky louisville Legion; battaons
Second Br5gade-Bug. Gen. Johnston; 32d Indiana
Col Wiilich seth Indiana. Col Harrison; 10th Ohio,
Third B1iga3c-Col. Kirk, 34th Illinois, commanding;
oath Illinois Lieut.. Col. Badsworh; 29th Indiana 1t
Col Drums 18th Indiana Col. Bass; I7tk Pennsylvania
Col Stambaugh.
GEN. LEW wALLACE's pIvIsIoS-RIGHT OF ARMY.
First Brtgaie-Col. Morgan L. Smith, commanding;
stil Missouri, Col Morgan L. Smith, Lieut. Col James
MctTinnls; 24th Indiana Col. Alvin P, Hovey: Thur
bers Missouri Battery.
Second Brig1Ic-CoI. Thayer list Nebraska) com
lnandlng; lst Nebraska Lieut. Col McCork. command
ing; 25d Indiana, Col Sanderson; 5Sth Ohio Col.
bansenweln; 6Sth Ohio Col. S1eadman: Thompsons
THIRD B,{yade-coi. Chas Whittlesey goth ohio)
commanding; 10th ONO. Lieut.. Col. l., command
ing; 56Eh Ohio, Col Pete Kinney 10Th Ohio Col. Chas
h. Woods; 18th ONO. Col. Lcggett.
NIGHT.
With the exception of the gunboat bombardment
A
heavy thunderstorm came up about midnight, and
though all were shlvGng over the ducking, the Sur
geons assured that better thing could not have
happened The ground, they sad, was covered with
wounded not vet found, or whom were unable to
bring from the field. The moisture would to some
extent cool the burning pafching thirst which is one
Of the chef terrors Of lying wounded and helpless
the battle field, and the falling water was the best
dressing for the wounds.
The regiments of Buelrs Divisions were still dis
embarking at the landing. Many had taken their pla-
ces the rest hurried ont rs fast as they landed and
fell into the Of their brigade lines for reserves
| stood for few moments at the landing curious to
how those fine fellows would march out TO the
field where they knew reverses had crowded so
thickly upon us the day before, and where many of
them must lie down to sleep his last sIeep ere the
sun, then rising, should sink again. There was little
of that vulgar vanity of yalOr which so conspic-
uous in all the movements Of our rawer tro0ps eirbt
or nine months ago. There was noisy sense
less yelling, no shouting or boasts calling on look
ers on to " show where the cowardly secesh is
and we'll clean em out double quick" These men
understood the work before them. They went nj il
as brave men should-determnedly hopefully, calm
y.
Ii soon became evident that the gunboat lombard
ment through the night had not been without most
important erect IA changing the very conditions u
der whlch We renewed the struggle. The sun had
gone down with the enemys lines ciaspng US tight on
the centre and left pushing to the river and eav
ing us little over half mile out into all the broad
space we had held in the morning. The gunboats
had cut the coil and loosened the construction As we
learned their shells had made the old position
of extreme left which the rebels had been pleas
antiy occupying, utterly untenable. Instead of being
able TO slip up us through the night as they had
probably intended, they compelled to fall back
from point to point; each time as tey had found pIa-
ces they thought out of range a she'll wouId come
dropping in nowhere within range could they lie but
the troublesome visitors would find them out, and to
end the matter they fell back beyond our inner camps
nad tAus lost more than half the ground they had
gained by our four o'clock retreat the afternoon be-
fore,
LesS easily accounted for a movement of theirs
on our right. They had held steep bluff covered
with underbrush, as their advanced line Through
the night they abandoned this, which gave them the
pest possible position for opposing Lew Wallace and
had fallen back some fields to the scrub oak
woods woods beyond. The advantage Of compelling our
advance over unprotected openings. while they
tanned sheltered position, obvious, but certain
ly not so great as that Of holding height which
ullery and infantry would make ,.fcuit to take
many a fort. Nevertheless they fell back.
WANT OF SYSTEM OUR SIDE
The reader who is patient enough to wade through
far have said little nothing of any plan of attack
or defence among our commanders. 1t has been
sipiy oec"tSe nave lalea 10 see any evidence oil
such plan. To me It seemed on Sunday as If every
Division General at least-nOt say in many cases
every individual sodier-intimated the good old Is
reaHuSh plan ot action by which every man did what
seemed good III his own eyes There might have
been an infinite amount Of generalship displayed in
experimenting our various defeats and reformatons
and retreats, but to me seemed of that microscopic
ehsrac1cr that required the magnifying powers of
mt lines to discover.
yoke tght there was, as has been said council
into off the Major General commanding deycl-
fnCo eeans there beyond the simple arrange
1t Iline of battle. l very certain that
parent lone delayed our losses os.e on @ SUNDAY N iG
that the W)ne saved lis when we had reach
which came the chld's Jumping
Every Vlrtuborn fighting, with such general
oot;oo or vision commanders displayed, re-
pidcClce, " what we had lost before
and hap had looked despairingly at the pros
=. ', evening, it seemed strange that the Reb-
tlon open on US by daybresk again. Their re-
mi IRE the bombshelis Of the gunboats, however,
I'D the delay. Our own divisions were put in
OF almost simultaneously. BY o'clock Lew
re opened the ball by shelhng, from the positions
ne mad selected the night before, the rebel bat
:, OF which mention had been made-a brisk artil-
cry duel rapid movement of infantry across the
swallow rayine as If to storm and the rebels enladed
and menaced in front, hmbered up and made the
opening of their Mondays retreatng.
NELSON'S ADVANCE.
To the left were slower IN finding the eneny-
They had been compelled travel some distance tn
get out OF gunboats range. Nelson moved his dvis-
ion about the same time Wallace opened on the Ref-
ell in in e hat