Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1862-02-26
CLEARFIELD, PA. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 26, 1862.

Lieut.. LcDgI. VI the klueu are LNptNi
: Shaw, Lieutonauts Boyoe, Churchill, Ken
yon, Nohr, Duncan, and orderly sergeant
, Bellard.
? OF the llth Illinois, J. G. Park, Richard
, Woodward, Milton Bags James McCast'
r lin, Simeon Sloan, Caleb Griffith, +. Nor
, ris, all of company G.. were killed. OF the
wounded were 1t. Col. Ransom, Captains
Rose, Andrews and Mckee, Lieuts. Dean,
Wilcox, Murray, Blackstone, ond Captain
Carter, slightly.
OF the Eighteenth Illinois there were
killed, Lieut. Manser, Capt Craig aud Sgt
Peslli! of the wounded were Col. Lawler,
in the arm; Capt. Lawler, Capt. Wilson
aud 1t. Toole.
OF the Twentieth Illinois there were
killed, Lieut.. Colonel Ewin, and wounde
Capt. Kenward, Lieuts. Archdeacon and
King.
Of the 3Oth Illinois was killed, Adjutant
kirkpatrick.
OF the 3lst were killed, Lieutenant Col.
White and Capt. williamson Of the
wounded we're Col. Logan, ball through
the shoulder; Adjutant Capehart, and
Captains McCook, Lummerlell and Doctor
McCook.
OF the 18th Illinois was killed, 1t. Col.
Smith.
Ofthe Forty first was killed, Captain
Truce
The composition Of the rebel force was
as follows: Tennessee, eleven regiments ;
| Mississippi, eight Texas, one Kentucky,
two; Arkansas, one and Virginia, four
There was one battalion Of cavalry to each
of the Tennessee regiments.
ST. Louis, Feb. lS.-The Republicans s
Fort Donelscn correspondent gives the
following account of the fighting OIL Sats
urday.
Yesterday MOI ming, just at daylight, a
heavy sortie was made by the garrison
from the left portion of their works.
This attack was made upon the extreme
right wing of the Union army, where it
was weakest.
A part Of Gen. M'Clernand's DIVISION
under Col. Oglesby, consisting of his brig
ade. was stationed there, and Schwartz 5
and M'Allister's batteries. The point was
upon a ridge leading into the right redoubt
and was situated just above the main fort.
During the night the enemy could be
heard busily at work, but what at it was
, impossible TO tell, as a dense thicllet en-
compassed the Union troops on every side,
rendering view in any direction almost
impossible.
At daylight a large body Of the enemy
suddenly appeared on the extreme right
wing of Col. Ogleby's command, and op-
ened terrible fire with cannon from their
redoubts, playing at the same time upon
our forces from guns which had been
placed in position the night previous.
The camps of the 29th and 3lst were
most exposed end the whole brigade was
formed INTO line, as follows; the 18th IL
linois held the extreme right, the Sth IL
linois next, the Both Illinois next, and
then the 29th Illinois supporting the
right of Captain Schwartz's battery-the
3lst Illinois defending the artillery on
the left.
From the firing of the first gun until Q
o'clock the battle ragged unremittingly,
and with fearful loss on both sides. Again
and again our troops drove the enemy
back, but they were as often reinforced,
while our troops had, owing to the exten
ded lines of the army, and also to their
position on the extreme right, to fight un>
assisted.
More gallant fighting than that Of the
Union troops never took place, exposed TO
the terrible firing OF triple their number.
They stood their ground until in some
regiments every officer was killed or
wounded
At last, and reluctantly, regiment by
regiment, they slowly fell back, leaving
Sohwartz's battery and three of Malls,
ter's guns in rebel hands. Retiring a few
hundred yards, they all then made a stand
and Gen. Smith arrived with reinforce
ments, and at once drove the enemy
again into their works In the first Of the
battle was also Col. w. II. L. Wallace's
brigade-the Ilth, Goth, 4Sth, and 18th
also Col. M'Arthur's brigade; all Of which
troops suffered severely.
Opposed to them were 1000 rebels, sup
ported by guns placed carefully in posi-
tion. Gen. Grant having comma nd of the
division drove the enemy back with rein
forcements, and gained the lost ground.
HI at once ordered an advance by Gen.
Smith on the left. Charging under hot
fire up the steep hill on which was the
outer rcdoubt our troops gained the high
breastworks, and with hardly pause
went over them, planting the stars and
stripes over the walls, under the most
calling fire. They formed and charged
and drove the rebels back until they into
an entirely new position behind some bat
teIies.
When evening came the Union troops
had been victorious at every point, having
gained back the ground lost in the morn
and got within one part Of the enemy's
works. Our troops held their position
during the night, repelling the repeated
assaults of the enemy.
The scene within the captured fort after
the surrender showed how terribly the
rebel garrison had suffered. Everywhere
were lying fragments of shells, round shot
were half buried in the earth, tents were
torn to pieces, gun carriages broken and
blood scattered around. In the left res
doubt, where the assault had taken place,
dead bodies lay thickly, and abundant
evidence of their stern resistance and our
gallant attack was visible.
o. the extreme right, half mile dis
tant, where the desperate sortie was made