Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-11
Later Account of the Great Battle.
More Particulars.

cago Tribune says We are just beginning
to get some reliable details from the great
battle at Pittsburg. From several gentlemen
who were on the field after the tight the fol
lowing is gathered
General Prentiss brigade, consisting of the
sixty first Illinois, seventeenth Wisconsin,
twenty.fourth Indiana, and seventy first Ohio,
were attacked while eating their breakfast, by
what seemed to be the entire rebel force,
Gen. Prentiss had no artillery, and his brigade
was cut 10 pieces and forced to retire. Gen.
Prentiss and many of his men were taken
prisoners AT II o'clock our entire. line was
engaged but in full retreat. AT 4 O'Clock the
enem" had taken SchwartZ's battery OF six
guns, Dresden's battery of four guns, and
Warehouses; battery; also two Ohio bat
teries, names not known. Thousands of our
soldiers who had taken refuge under the
bank of the river, utterly refused to fight
aud, in fact, they could not, as officers and
men were mixed in ineXtricable confusion.
The army ut this time seemed to be utterly
defeated.
AT this juncture the gunboats Lexington
and TYLER opened a tremendous fire of shot
and shell upon the enemy, and kept it up
eyerya half hour during the night. Some
of tile shells set the woods on fire, and
many of the dead rebels were burned. AT
seven in the evening the firing had generally
ceased. About midnight the rebels attempted
to plant a battery within three hundred yards
of our seige guns, but were driven away by
tine gunboats, and the seige guns supported by
three regiments of Gen. MtchelPs division,
which had arrived and crossed the river about
six iii the evening
Our informants persist in estimating that
placing our loss at 5000 killed and 5000
wounded is low figure. During the night
the rebels were reinforced by Gems. Van Dorm
and Price, from Arkansas, with very large
force.
Gen. Lew Wallace came up to us with the
18th and 23d Indiana, 44th Illinois, and 9Th
Missouri, and Wizards battery and in the
morning they fercely attacked the enemy's
left wing. They went into the fight at the
double quick, with tremendous shouts, and did
terrible execution. By 10 o'clock, they had
driven the rebels back two miles. At about
10 O'Clock the rebels were reinforced, and for
a few minutes our men were forced to yield.
The other divisions of Gen Buel's army
now appeared, and at once became fully en-.
gagged. For two hours all the destructive ele
ments OF the earth seemed to be striving for
the mastery on this fatal field, but at last the
southern "chivalry" broke and fled in all direc.
tions. Gen. Buell. followed the flying foe with
10000 troops, mostly cavalry, shifting without
mercy those who would not surrender He
was reported to have taken Corinth, with all
its immense stores of arms and ammunition.
The rebel troops were mostly from Texas,
Mississippi, and Louisiana, with many from
Georgia and Alabama. Our informants say
they could ride through the battle field where
our forces were posted, but the dead were so
! thick in the enemy's lines that they could not
| do it there. They assure US that the rebels
occupied our camps Sunday night, and took
care of our sick and wounded destroying
| nothing, expecting confidently to have our
/ entire army the next day. They thought tie
battle already fought and won.
On Monday Gen. McClernand cut his way
| through the enemy, who had surrounded him.
Most OF his troops behaved with great gal
| lantry, but the SD Ohio were ordered to the
rear in disgrace for refusing to fight
| Our ini0rmants state that John G. Breckin-
! ridge is taken prisoner. They say they saw
him pass to the generals headquarters.
CHICAGO, April 10-The Times special
says :--"Prentice and Sherman with the re-
Inducements from Hurlburt, maintained their
| position. The attack gradually extended to
the center under Gen. McClernand which
soon became engaged with a superior
| force. Up to noon the four divisions held
tie eh'lIe reoel lorce III CHECK. Althoueh
| the enemy was constantly receiving fresh
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