Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-07-03
lnE RUTLAND WEEKLY HERALD THURSDAY JULY g. 1862

houIs without any apparent change or adj
vantage on either side.
hemforcements of artillery and infantry
came steadily along over the bridge, march,
ing through the heat and dust over the hin n
the field OF battle. The enemy then seemsd
TO make their last desperate and determined
ehort, and came near forcing our men back
into the low ground between the hill and The
bridge, where they could have been ,lauob.
tered by tens Of thousands before thew conld
have crossed that long narrow bridpe.-
WAGONS, artillery, ambulances and men came
hurrylng towards the bridge, and a panic was
almost inevitable, when strong guard was
placed across the bridge.
Thomas +. Meagher's Irisbmen came over
the hill, stripped to the bare arms, and were
ordered TO 90 to work. They gave veil and
went TO work, and the result was that the en-.
envy fell back to the woods and thus matter.
stood up to eleven o'clock Yesterday.
Sunday Morning
AT dark an attack was made beyond the
front of the entire line, and was renewed
about two a. m. in front of Gems. Hooker,
hearney and Sumner, without material re
suits. -g
Fridays battle. Twice all along the front
did the bloody and determined attack cling
to our lines of battle, aud our rifle pits and
redoubts. Porter with fifty cannon. Summers
1ookers and Ayers guns reaped them with
death harvest Their loss. in killed and
wounded was horrible.
Under date of Friday, midnight, the same
correspondent says;
Ten guns we're taken from us by sudden
flank attack, covered by the thick smoke
which hung around the pieces, and slowly
drifted to leeward. Count de Paris took
prisoner rebel Major, who belonged to
Jackson's army. He said he had been in the
valley OF the Shenandoah all winter, and
came here yesterday with part of Jackson's
army. The rest Of it arrived this morning.
The whole OF it is now here. He said that
IN the attack on our right, the rebels bad from
$4,000 to $4,000 men. This will explain the
enormous force under 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 Reserve drove
the attacking regiments OF Jaekson's com
mand. To-day they were overpowered by
'"C oohA' IOcPo' Cy heS hbgularS Deng
called up proved unequal to the task of stop
ping them, and Slocum's command had to be
added to them
The Count de Paris testifes to the remark
ably good conduct of all the regiments that
sustained this unequal attack on Porter
They gave way indeed, but none of them
ran. Their losses are enormous. The regu.
lar llth Infantry is about annlhilated. Ev.
cry officer was killed or wounded. The 14th
also suffered severely. Col. Plat of a New
York Regiment was killed. Major Rosele
of the Regulars, knsman of Gen. McClel.
Ian, was killed, and Lieut.. Coils. Black and
Sweltzer.
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 divisions piled the rebels in heaps
The fire was horribly effective