The daily Wabash express. (Terre-Haute, Ind.) 1857-1867, 1862-07-01

The Infantry fight was then renewed and
according 90 the statement OF nv Informant.
Surgeon Humphrey. The rennsylsa,,i.
Bucktail Regiment continued till about A .
M. when a retreat was ordered. very much
against the will OF the Pennsylvania bows
who begged to be allowed 10 bold their posl.
ton The outer forces then began 10 fan
back. Poriers corps was some distance be
low DR. Gaines residence.
Ofthe next days battle. the correspondent
saws the cannonading was terrific.
Duryea's gallant Zouayes were living upon
the ground for twc hours. while our batteries
were shelIing the woods over them. Finally
towards night the enemy attempted 20 brs ak
the centre line in front Of Duryea's Zouaves
The musketry firing became terrific. lasting
ID or 30 minutes.
Shortly aiterward an attempt Was made 10
break through the right. which was repulsed
and half an hour later another attempt was
made on the left with the same result
The battle had been raging for some
hours without any apparent change or adj
vantage on either side. Reinforcements of
artillery aud infantry then came steadily
along over the bridge TO the field Of battle.
The enemy then seemed TO make their
last desperate and determined effort, and
ground between the hill and the bridge
where they could have been slaughtered by
tens OF thousands before they could have
crossed that long narrow bridge. Wagons,
artillery. ambulances and men were hurry
ing towards the bridge. and panic was al
most inevitable when a strong guard was
placed across the bridge. at the time when
the enemy had almost reached the main hos.
pital. half mile from the river.
Thomas Francis Meagher's Irishmen came
over the hill. stripped To the bare arms, aud
we're ordered 10 60 in. They gave a yell
and went 10 work, and the result was, that
the enemy fell back TO the woods. and thus
matteas stood up TO II o'clock yesterday,
Sunday morning.
AT dark an attack was made along the
front OF the entire line. and was renewed at
A. NJ. in front OF Generals Hooker Kear-
Dey aud Sumner, without material result.
Another correspondent SAYS of FRIDAYS
battle, twice all along the front did the reb-
els attack our lines, our rife pits and re-
doubts. Porter with 80 cannon, and Sum-
ner's Hooker's and Ayres' guns moved them
down with death harvest.
Their loss in killed and wounded was her-
rible
Under date OF Friday. midnight. the same
correspondent SAYS:
Ten guns were taken from u by a sud.
den flank attack, covered by the thick smoke
which hung around.
Count De Paris captured q rebel Maier
who belonged to Jackson army. He said
he had been in the valley of thy Shenandoah
all winter, and come here yesterday with A
part ofJackson's army. The rest oft ar.
riyei this morning. and the whole Of il was
here. llc said that in the attsck on our
right. the rebels had froia GO 900 TO 20 900
troops This viii explain the enormous fire
under which our men were horne down and
swept away, precisely as some Of the regi.
ments were swept away at the Seven Pines.
Yesterday the Pennsylvania reserve drove
the attacking regiments OF Jackson's com
mand. To-day they were overpowered by
the same troops reinforced Sykes' regulars
were called up and proved unequal to the
task OF stopping them. Slocur,s command
was added to them.
Count de Paris testifies To the remarkably
good conduct of all the regiments that sus-
tanned this unequal attack on Porter. They
gave way indeed, but not one OF them ran.
Their losses are enormous. The Regular
llth Infantry is about annihiated nearly. ey-
cry officer in II is killed or wounded. The
18th suffered also severely.
Major Rossellc of the regulars, kinsman
OF Gen. Mcclellan, was killed Col. Pratt.
OF New York Regiment. was also killed.
and Lieut.. Col. Black and Sweitzer Onr
loss in officers is very marked indeed the
disproportion In numbers was so extraordi-
nary and the ohstinacy Of troops so unyield-
ing, that the loss Of our troops was large
The artillery in both Portsr's and Smiths
Divisions piled the rebels In heaps; the fire
was terribly effective