The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1862-10-30

WE are permitted to pub ish the fol-
lowing interesting "details of the last
battle at Corinth, taken from letter from
an officer. who was in the engagement. to
his brother, in this place:
CAMP NEAR CoRlNrn, Mss Oct. IL, 1862.
DEAR BRoTHER: -Foot.sore and weary,
we arrived at camp last evening. This is
the first chance for resting for nine days,
two days of fighting and seven OF chasing
Price, with his defeated army. Oct, lst
we received notice at Jacinto, that the COM
bined forces of Price, VanDorn and Vii
lipegue were advancing OH Corinth, from
the West; we accordingly fell back to
Corinth. On the morning of the sd, at
daylight. Price attacked our outpost; after
some fierce fighting our forces fell back,
leaving him in possession Ct our first line
of Entertainments. Rosencrans threw 2ost
of his force out of town, beyond the
breastworks; fighting continued during the
day without any advantage being gained
by either, our forces having retaken all
the breastworks lost in the morning Some
very sharp fighting had been done along
the NJ. IL G. r. r. Our regiment was not
under fire on the first days fight, although
we were moved about "a great deal, and
took several positions in line Of battle
At night all of the troops fell back into
town, inside of the breastworks. This |
think was well arranged plan. 1t made
+ the rebels think our force was small, and
another thing. if the rebels saw fit to re-
new the attack in the morning it would be
where all of our batteries could play upon
them, and also give them a taste of our
Ga pound seige guns. The troops all rest
ed on their arms, ready for the attack in
tie morning. My company with four
others of the 48th were detailed as pickets.
1t was mighty little rest that We got du
ring the night. The rebels planted their
batteries with in stones throw Of ours,
and about a O'Clock a. M, they opened
on US with their artillery. and We replied
with much interest. The siege guns went
in for their share of the noise. AT daylight
the firing ceased we waited with much
anxiety TO know what would turn up next.
We had not long 10 wait when we found
they were hurting 10000 upon us in one
grand charge. lfy you remember how Cor
NTH is located | can tell you our exact po-
sition. AS you come into town on the
Pennington road, you recollect there is a
long line of breastworks running West.
with the trees cut down in front. and a
you begin to enter town the road runs
around on ridge on the right is quite
hollow. and beyond Fifty or sixty rods, is
another ridge of ground, on this ridge was
two batteries placed. Our Regiment was
in the hollow standing in column of COM
panies at half distance. There was bat
terry on our right and one in our rear that
could play over our heads. The rebel
Generals told their men all they had to do
was to double-quick right around inside
of those breastworks w est Of the Farming
ton road, and come right into town. AS
the rebels advanced in solid column all the
batteries on The left opened a murderous
crossfire upon them, while those in front
supported by infantry poured grape and
canister into them All the while we
stood anxiously waiting for the time to
come when we could get crack at them.
The rebels faltered not, but pressed on
right up to our first line. when the infant
ry Regiment broke and fell back in con-
fusion, leaving the batteries to their fate
The captains succeeded however in run
ming off all of their cassions, so the rebels
could not turn the guns upon us for want
of ammunition. The rebels came up on
the ridge like swarm Of bees, with col
ers flying. thinking no doubt that the last
line had been broken, but in this they were
mistaken. for right in the hollow in front
of them stood the 18th with battery in
their rear, while on the right was the It'll
Ohio battery. supported by the 9Th Iowa
and the 26th Mo. Now had come our turn,
Col. Rugg gave the command Of 6rst COM
paoy take wheeling distance. and then
forward into line. We saw at glance that
the fortunes of lie day fell upon this last
line, and We went into it with yell that
must have made the rebels tremble in
their-I was going to say Boots. forgetting