Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-10-24
THE BATTLE OF PERRYvILLE.
A TERRIBLE FIGHT.

There has been no battle in Kentucky
since the battle of Perryville, on the 9th,
where our men met nearly double their
numbers, and not only held their ground
but made it necessary for the enemy to re-
treat during the night. The report that
Bragg and Cheatham were killed is not
confirmed. We take an account of the
battle from the correspondence of the Gin
cinnati Gazette
After brisk engagement in the morn
ing, in which the enemy were driven from
a hill overlooking the fields, at about |
o'clock, a. M, artillery firing commenced.
All LOOMS pieces were now in position
and laundering away with sharp, quick,
deadly report which rihed Parrots always
make. TO the extreme left another bat
terry Immediately opened, and the enemy
replied from at least dozen different pos
itions, and shot and shell Of every des-
cription flew in all directions. 'Ghe ene-
my's artillery seemed very badly managed
Their missiles struck everywhere except
where they intended them to strike and
it actually seemed that the safest points
which could be selected for circuit of 2
or three miles were in the very midst of
our batteries. In fact there was lull
in the battle about this time all over the
field, but it was the lull which follows the
first blast of a tempest and indicates that
it is gathering its forces for more terri
bic onset. Capt. Loomis' battery was now
moved down the hill which lay immedi-
atcly behind the one from which he had
Just been fighting. At the same time the
infantry was moved nearer the crest of
the latter, and there lay down awaiting
the onset which the enemy were about to
make.
1t was nearly 2 o'clock when the can
nonade commenced with terrific fury along
the entire line. Several of the enemy S
batteries had evidently been moved much
nearer, although still under cover of GER
tain necks of wood which extended into
the open ground toward our position.
Strange discharges Of musketry began to
be heard and the enemy's legions, hither-
to concealed, emerged in long and formid-
able lines from the cover of the woods.
In half an hour atterward, the discharges
Of musketry we're sharp, quick, and terif-
ic from our right to our left, where Jack
sons division was now fully in position,
was gallantly sustaining the battle. 1t
was o'clock when the rebels, hitherto
unable to cause even wavering in any
portion of our line of battle, collected his
chosen bands, and under the leadership Of
Bragg himself, advanced determinedly to-
ward our center, in order to break, if pos
ible the line which our gallant soldiers
Everywhere so stubbornly maintained. In
vain their artillery thundered within a
hundred yards of us; in vain their caval-
ry came forward with loud shouts and in
magnificent order. Their artillery was
silenced by the murderous fire of our own
batteries, and their cavalry advanced on
ly to strew the ground with their cOrpses,
and then retire in confusion.
But the attack which began upon Jack.
sons division, about 20 minutes after that
upon Rousseau's was more successful
Here the infamous Buckner brought an
immense force to bear against the two
brigades of which Jackson's division is
composed-the SD, commanded BY Gen.
Terrlll, and the 34th, by Col. WeDster 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 Perryville
where the rebels had their force posted
in the morning. This strip of timber
formed a covered way by which the reb
els stealthily advanced until they were
near our lines, when suddenly deployine
to the left, they occupied the whole space
in front of Jackson's division, and rush
ed upon it with demoniac yells. The sol
liers Of the Union fought with courag