Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-09-17
The Great Battle of Sa urday.
Correspondence of the n. Y. Tribune.l

Centreville, Aug 81, 1862.
Porters corps had arrived on the ground
at 9 clock from Manassas, making five
corps ready for action The number oi
men comprised in these | should estimate
All mem in the RANKS aj-T 81 tsrrl5sfy h5sf hat Ss Ii
shrank by battle and disease
In order of battle for the day IIeint
zelrnan commanded the right, Porter the
centre, Mcdowell the left, and s5igel
whose corps had borne the brunt the day
before, the resesve At 10 clock Heint-
zelman advanced skirmishers into the
wood on the right of the battle field OF
the day before, and found it only hell by
a few troublesome bushwhackers. Driv-
ing them back, large numbers OF wounded
were rot off and passed to the rear
| rode in with these skirmishers as faI
as deemed prudent At any rate got
upon the ground where the corpses at
tested the fighting of the day before First
came upon bodies in blue These were
our fallen. Then there were those in blue
mingled with others ir cray and monde
script That ground had been fought
over. a little further they were all blue
and nondescript And here the bodies
were thickest. Upon ground that jjudg-
ed to be not over half an acre, | counted
seventy nine bodies, dead and wounded.
Advancing further still. | saw Union
soldier seized, not ten rods from me, and
carried off by bushwhackers | retired
Tin good order) satisfied that the enemy S
loss exceeded our own At 2 o'clock, BY
the movements of troops from right to
left | inferred that the positions of the
enemy had been found in that direction
BY this time cur line was different from
that of the day before. Our right was
further advanced, our left withdrawn, sc
that we frontcd almost to the south. Al
Bull Run, a year ago, we faced exactl Y
South
Al o'clock Gen. Stevens attacked al
the right, and soon after Gen. Butterfielc
at the left. The enemy's shells seepaed
equally distributed along the whole line
and at each point of attack he met US
with musketry
| was at Gen. SigcIs headquarters, the
general was certian the enemy intended tC
turn one or the other of our TANKS, and
said we must ascertain which, or the rcsui
was at the best doubtful for his scouts hac
! just reported that Lee, with the entire re
mainder of the rebel army, had come u
and assumed command. The scouts wer,
correct On Saturday we fought the en-
+ TIRE rcDcI army
/ Posting myselfin the center within view
+ OF both portions Of the field where infan
! try were engaged, l could not determin
which had the best of it. Evidently ba
few troops were engaged, and ! surmis
! ed that we were fighting merely to lear
Z where l1y the enemys main force. A
length our force at the right was drives
/ back and ! thought General Pope was out
generated when he moved men at an ear
lier part of the day from the right to Tia
! left
4 quarter of an hour later wished b
had moved still greater proportion t
the left | have heard the musketry G
the best contested battles fought IN slr
ginia, and | say uTiesitatingiy that IN
fire which broke out at the LETT ana up tn
center, was by far the heaviest OF any
Talk of vollies, and rolls, and crashes
was all these continually accumulatine
piling upon each other IN mighty sWeiiih
yoIume-the wrestle of rushing tornadoe
such as chaos may have known tror
NV nosition il seemed that artillery piaye
from, each Of the cardinal points upon Tn
devoted center where / knew men wer
strupchur. could not see them stru,
6 piin@. The smoke OF gunpowder rreysn
etl t.lat, but knew they were there, an
, i trembIed fcf the result 4 few minute