Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-10-15

line. The account says:
Several OF the enemy's batteries hat
evidently been moved much nearer, al
though still under cover of certain neck
| of wood which extended into the opeI
ground toward u position. Strange dis
charges of musketry began to be heard
and the enemy's legions hitherto conceal
| ed, emerged in long and formidable line
from the cover of the woods.
In half an hour afterward, the discharg
es of musketry were sharp, quick an'
terrific from u right and left, wher
Jackson's division, now fully in position
was CALAMITY sustaining the battle.
1t was three o'clock when the rebels
hitherto unable to cause even a waverinl
in any portion of our line OF battle, col
lected his chosen bands, and under thu
leadership of Bragg himself, advanced
determinedly toward our center, or rathe
the left of our center, in order 10 break
if possible, the line which our gallant sol
disrs everywhere so stubbornly maintain
ed. In vain their artillery Numbered with
in a hundred yards of us; in vain their in
fantry poured volley after volley into on
ranks; in vain their cavalry came forward
with loud shouts and in magnificent order
Their artillery was silenced by the muir
derous fire of our batteries, and their "a
airy advanced only to strew the ground
with their corpses, and then retire in con
fusion.
But the attack which began upon Jack
sons division, about twenty minutes at
ter that upon Rousseau's, was more sue
~cessful.
Here the famous Buckner brought al
immense force to bear against the two
brigades of which Jackson's division il
composed-the SD commanded by Gen
Terrell, and the 34th, by Col. Webster o
the 9Sth Ohio. A strip of woods lay be
tween the open ground in front of Gen
Rousseau's, and extends very nearly back
to the woods upon the left of Perryyille
where the rebels had their force posted in
the morning. This strip of timber form
ed a covered way by which the rebel:
stealthily advanced until they were neal
our lines, when. suddenly deploying to
the left, they occupied the whole space in
front of Jackson's division and rushed
upon it with demoniac yells.
The soldiers of the Union fought with
courage never surpassed. and again and
again were the ADVANCING feoeis checked
and thrown into confusion. Regiment
We'd with regiment. and man with man,
to see who should longest sustain the re-
peated and terrible assaults of the foe.
Occasionally portions of the line would
waver a little under the murderous fire
which the enemy in overwhelming num-
bers poured upon it; but aver while their
comrads were falling thickly around them.
the men who rally, reform, and again
l,,,a &lo1, H,,l1ot. -, kha fapaos e., 81,
desperate enemies.
Harris, Stones and Parsons batteries
ceased firing shell and hurled into the
very bosom of the advancing host a storm
of grape and canister. until the ground
was literally covered with dead and man.
gled repels.
But with ever increasing strength the
enemy continued the assault. He placed
several lines on sloping ground, in such a
way the whole could fire at once. and al
though this arrangement enabled our
batteries to operate with more deaply eff
feet, it created such havoc in our single
line of battle as no soldiers could endure.
A portion of the Dist Wisconsin, support
ing Stones battery, broke and fed. The
greatly superior numbers of the assailants
enabled them to outfank our line, and
from both front and flank they rushed
upon us, delivering their fire within n
few feet of our lines. and charging up TO
the very muzzles of onr guns.
The S0th Illinois and l05th Ohio gave
way before this mad onset, leaving Capt
Parsons battery exposed. The artillery
men at once abandoned their hitherto
nobly defended peices. and all but a single
gun fell into the hands of the enemy.
Near the foot of the slope of hills, the
wooded crests of which had formed their
position, they planted a dozen
pieces of artillery, raking the Sd Ohio
and 42d Indiana, which now advanced to
lie summit of the hill upon which Loom
$ and Simonson's batteries we're posted
It the beginnining of the action in order
hat they might meet the dense masses
If the enemy's infantry, which were adj
under cover of the fire from their
As soon as these two gallant
egiments appeared upon the crest, thav
salpted with a tempest of bullets !
rom the mazzles of at least 1000 muskets.
t the same time that the cannon of the
nemy Numbered upon their front and
The third Ohio, Colonel John
Beatty sustained the heaviest fire, and as
ong as it remained upon the hill its ranks
Eere continually ploYed by the terrible
discharges from the enemyis artillery.
But while it remained there, land it re-
NAMED until a third ofitanpHber strewed
he field it never for an instant ceased
0 belch forth II volley of flame into the
ice of the foe, nor could the rebel l~egions,
18th all their desperation. summon cour-
ge 10 charge it. Every officer stood like
rock to his post, and the gallant Colo
ell Beatty, dismoqnting from his unman-
geble horse, placed himself cody and
limly in the center of his regiment
heered both by voice and example his
auntless men, and seemed totally uncon-
,ious that death was everywhere around
bout them. I
At last q shell from the rebel cannon
t hire to q pile of straw, the flame of
Inch instantly communicated to a large
lrn upon which the right wing of the Sd
MO rested. In a moment the whole was r
a oiaze the heat became intense and !
1endurable and though some of the .
sroes stood until their faces were blister :
rather than break their ranks, they :
ere compelled at length to retire in con- .
sion upon the centre and left of the reg >
n which they also threw into disor- .
r. Slowly and reluctantly the officers :.
gan to follow their men down the hill. .
the foot of which they immediately re- !,
med the torn and bleeding ranks. .
Another immense body of rebels filed :
to the left, disappeared behind the >
'ods fronting Gen. Sheridan's division. =
d o after c~ommenceda desperate as :
alt apon our right and right CENTER. =
1t Mitchell and Sheridan were ready to !
ceive them, and the high hill to the =
int of the road. occupied by the latter =,
the morning instantly became a huge ~
lcano, belching forth from every quar- u