The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-07-01

/ front of Duryea's Zouaves. The musketry
firing became terrific, lasting 20 or 20 min
I utes Shortly afterwards an attempt was
made to break through the right, which
was repulsed, and half an hour later an
| other attempt was made on the left with
| the same result. The battle had been rag
| ing for several hours without any apparent
change or advance on either side. Re-
endorsements OF artillery and infantry then
came steadily along over the bridge to the
field of battle.
The enemy then seemed to make their
last desperate aud determined effort and
come on. with the purpose of forcing our
men back into the low ground, between the
hill and the bridge, where they could have
been slaughtered by tens of thousands be-
fore they could have crossed that long mar
row bridge. Wagons, artillery, ambulan-
ces and men were burrying towards the
bridge, and a panic was almost inevitable
when a strong guard was placed across the
bridge. AT the time when the enemy had
almost reached the Main Hospital half
mile from the river, Thomas Francis
Meagher's Irishmen came over the hill
stripped to the bare arms, and were ordered
to go in. They gave a yell aId went to
work, and the result was the enemy fell
up to o'clock.
Another correspondent says that in Fri
days battle, twice all along the front did
the rebels attack our lines, our rife pits and
redvubts. Porter, with fifty cannon, and
Sumner =, Hooker's and Ayers guns moved
them down with a death harvest. Their
loss in killed and wounded was horrible.
Under date of Friday, midnight, the
same correspondent says ten guns were
taken from US by a sudden faux attack,
covered by thick smoke which hung ar
round. Count De Paris captured re3el
Major belonging to Jackson's army
He said he had been in the valley of the
Shenandoah all winter with Jacksou's
army. The rest of it arrived this morning
and the whole Of it was here. He said that
in the attack on our right the rebels had
from $1,000 to $4,000 troops. This will
explain the enormous FIRE in which our
men were borne down and swept away,
precisely as some of the regiments were
swept away at the Seven Pines.
Yesterday the Pennsylvania reserves
drove the attacking regiments of Jacks0n'5
command. To-day they were oVerpowered
by the same troops REINFORCED.
Sykes regulars were called up and prov
ed unequal to the task of stopping them,
and Stocum's command was added to them.
Coun: De Paris testifes TO the remar kably
good conduct of all the regiments that sus-
tanned this unequal attack on Porter. They
gave way indeed, out not one of them ran.
Their losses are enOrmus.
The Regular 18th infantry is about an
initiated; nearly every officer in it is killed
or wounded. The l4th suffered also Sc
yerely, Major Rossele of the Regulars, a
kinsman of Gen. Mcclellan, WAS killed
Col. Pratt, of a New York regiment, was
killed; also Lieut.. Colonies Black and
SwitZer.
Our loss in officers is very marked indeed.
The disproportion in number was so extra
ordinary and the obstinacy of our troops so
unyielding that our losses were inevitably
large The artillery in both Porter's and
Smiths division piled the rebels in heaps.
The fire was terribly effective.