The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-15
NUMBER H..

fire.. A shell whistled over the-towR and
crashed through the Tishomingo Hotel, sa.
tearing to pieces a poor wounded soldier, q
who was striving to go TO the rear An ls
other perforated grocery, and scattered al &
the stores; others exploded in the streets ..
and frightened fugitives into panic,
while our own fierce missiles ripped upia
the forests,T aaoa s.sssr = rai iii hsfr
si 1t was perhaps halfpast nine o'clock ~
when the bitter tragedy began to develop o 81
In earnest. prodiglous mass, with rs Z
cleaning bayonets, suddenly loomed quito sss
dark and threatening on the east of the1i f7a
railroad, moving sternly up the Bolivar
!, Road in colnmn by divisions. Directly af
3 itsopened out in the shape ola mon -
4 strous wedge and drove forward inapet- e..
uousiy toward the heart of Corinth 1t .a.8
was a splendid target for our batteries, ai Il
and 1t was soon perforated. Hideous elaa
n gaps were rent in it, bat those massive ri
lines were closed almost as soon as they IS
6 were torn open. At thisperiod the skill g
\ fnl management of Gen, Rosecrans be-
gan to develop 1t was discovered that IS g
the enemy had been enticed to attack e.
1 precisely at the point where the artillery E
could sweep them with direct eioss and aa'
enhlading FIRE. He had prepared for 0'
such an occasion, Our shell swept
s through the mass with awful effect but
the brave rebels pressed onward ninfleEi-
bly, Directly the wedge opened ano tasm
spread out magni6cently, right and left
v like great wings, seeming to swoop ovelU 81
I, the whole field before them. But there
was al fearful march in..front A broad,
turiy glacis, sloping upward at an angle $50
( of thirty degrees to crest fringed with a
determined, disciplined soldiers, and clad
10 with terrible batteries, frowned upon -
Them. There were a few distractions S.
fallen timber~-which disordered their
lines a little. But every break was in 81.
stantly welded Our whole line opened 81.
fire, but the enemy, seemingly insensi-
bic to fear, or infnriated by passion, bent 6 r.,
their hecks downward and marched asrl
steadily to death, acith their faces aUcrt- .si
4 ed IKE men strtci'sg 10 Protect themselves
against d,1riag storm Of hail The
Yates and Burgess Sharpshooters lying b
snpgly behind their rude breastworks, al
poured in a.destructive fire, but it seenl- !.
ed no more etfectual than if they had
been fring..potato balls, excepting that
somebody was killed. The enemy still tra
pressed onward undismayed. At last
they reached the crest of the hill in front
and TO the right of Fort Richardson, andri
Gen. Davies division gave way. II be- -'s'.F
gan to fall back in disorder. Genera
Rosecrans, who had been watching the
conhictswit eagle eye, and who is de- t
3 scribed as having expressed his delight
st the trap into which General Price was
blindly plunging, discovered the break na
and dashed to the front, infamed with
indignation. He rallied the men by has
splendid example in the thickest of the
fight. Before the line was demoralized
he succeeded in restoring it, and the
men, brave when bravely led, fought
again. But il had yielded much space, e.
and the loss of Fort Riehardsonswas cer-) l
tain Prices right moved swiftly to the .8
headquarters Of Gen. Rosecrans, took
POSSESSION of it, and posted themselves
under cover of the portieo OF the holse,
and behind its corners whence they
opene1 fire upon our troops on the oppo- 3.aa
site side of the public SQUARE. Seven % 4
rebels were killed within the little en- fe1
closure in front of the Generals cottage 2
The structure is a sort of sieve now ta'
bullets have punotured it so we'll But. 3
the desperadoes got no further into town. ~ ,.
Battle was raging about Il ort Richard s
son, Gallant Richardson, for whom it iaa
y was named, fought his battery well Had "a
!, his supports fought as his artllery-men y
,'did, the record would have been differ 80
ent The rebels gained the crest Of the. sa
hill, swarmed around the little redoubt
and were swept away from it as a breath
will dissipate smoke Again they swarm
cd like infuriated tigers AT last a des- eai j
perate dash with a yell Richardson
goes down to rise no more. His sup
ports are not at hand The foe shouts ~
triumphantly and seizes the guns The
horses are fifty yards down the hill to-
ward Corinthe A score of rebels seize
them. The 56th Illinois suddenly rises
from cover in the ravine One terrible a'
vOlley, and there are sixteen dead artil- e
| lery, horses, a dozen dead rebels Illin ap
n0is shouts, charges up the hill, across
the plateau into the battery. The rebels q
fly out through embrasures and around
the wings. The 56th yells again and
pursues. p strHinem ttA f.
s The rebels do not stop. Hamlton's
l. veterans, meantime have been working
rquietly--no lung work, but gun work
enough A steady stream of fire tore
the rebel ranks to pieces. When Davies
broke it was necessary for all TO fall
back Gen. Rosecrans thought It well
enough to get Price in deeply A rebel
soldier says Van Do n sat on his horse
j. crimly, and saw it all =" That's Rose
| Grams trick said he, /" he's got Price
where he must suffer" Maybe this is
! one of the apocrypha of battle A rebel
soldier saws it's truth. But Hamilton's
| dirisions rcceded under orders--at back
ward step, Slowly, erimly, face 20 the foe.
and firing Bun when the both charged, z
\ this was changed Davies misfortune
had been rcnedied The whele line adj
| vanced. The rebel host vas broken A
destroying 81 emesis pursued them Arms
were flung away wildly. They ran 10
the woods They fed into the forestg.
| OH what a shout of triumph and what a q
cleaning light of steel followed them. s
| 1t Is strange, but trne. Our men do not
often shout before battle. Heaven what 2
thunder there is in their throats after vic
tory "They" report that such shout
was never before heard in Corintl-- 4
Prices once Z ;nv;nr;hley now ,;rv;s;b,e fis