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


the advance, and our forces in Corinth-
were prepared for the encounter. By
night our whole forcewa driven in, with
Gen Oglesby wounded, Gen Haekelman
killed, and many others lost and the
enemy, flushed with apparent success,
ehveloped our front and laid upon their
arms, within mile of town. ilf o af
Our own officers went on perfeeting
preparations for the conflict Capt. w.
B Gau, Of Gen. Rosecrans staff, took
charge Of his corps of negro (slaye) Sap
pers and Miners, and constructed two
arevetted redeubts during the night The
Yates Sharpshooters, of Illinois, and the
Burgess Sharpshooters, rolled upa mass
of logs and made. passable breastwork
in front of Bolivar. Road. Gen. Rose-
Grams and his staff were on ..se field all
night making preparations 10 receive
the enemy, and nothing was neglected
that seemed necessary to insure victory.
r. The features of a field of battle are
necessary to.a correct view Of it. On
the north and east side Of the town there
is alternate. hill, and swampy ground,
Lgenerally heavy timbered, but now and
then a field on the left of the railroad.
Our army faced north. Fronting our
! right center there is a heavily thicleted
swamp, almost impossible for masses Of
infantry. On the left center the ground
lis quite hilly; on the right, where our
/ right wing was posted, it was rolling;
but fell off in front into heavily timbered
ground d-swampy in rainy weather. The
Chevalh Road enters the town on the
| left, the Bolivar Road about the right
center. Corinth was approaehable in un-
broken line of battle from that side. =
+ Our new line of Notifications consisted
Of four revetted redoubts, covering tho
whole front of Coriuth and protecting the
hanks.s The, fort on the extreme right
was strengthened by Beauregard's old
works. Fort Richardson, a new fives
gun battery, constructed during Friday
night, was at the, left of Hamiltons y
division, which held the. extreme right,
and was in direct range. of the debouch
into town, Of the Bolivar road, the former
redoubts fanking that road. Fort Will
liams, mounted with twenty pound par
,rots, commanded the hills over which the
Chevalli road described its course into
tonh ~ ort isootiSt, Oi = iiABhIri HaEtV".
ridge, which, with Fort Williams, enfla-
ded both the Cheyali and Bolivar roads.
| Another fort on the extreme left near
the Corinth SEMINARY, protected our
left and strengthened ahe center. The
several forts in the rear were also so lo-
Gated that they played a. conspicuous
part in the battle, their pieces being re-
versed and turned to the. center at a
critical period. =, 5. esasi - lssf {.
i THE ARMY POSTED. ri &
| The gallant Hamilton's division was
assigned the post of hon or on the ex-
treme right, his right resting near Beau
regard old works, and ut Fort No..l +,
stretching from the south side Of the fa-
nous Purdy road, his left resting behind
Fort Richardson. General Davies di-
vision joired him on the left and in con-
secutiye order, six companies of the
Yates Illinois sharpshooters, Burke s
Western (Mo) sharpshooters, Stanlny's s
4 division, consisting of two brigades, and
McKeon's division, with McArthur's
brigade on the extreme left The caval-
4 ry under command ofCol Misener, was
posted on the right and left wings, and
in the resrsand competent forces were
held asreserves and to protect the rear.
The front line was carefully covered by
1 crests Of nndulations on the town-plat
and the various batteries. commanded
by Lient Col. Lathrop, Chief of Artil-
lery, were generally covered by fortifca-
tions, one of them being protected by an
apron of hay and cotton bales a ssi
Friday night the non-combatants of
4 Corinth were uneasy. Some Of the troops
were not altogether comfortable. The
fact that the enemy had driven our forces
back into the town was not re-assuring
j But it was remarked that General Rose
Grams was in magnificent humor. 1t is
said he encouraged the lads by quoting
Barkis, assuring them that " things is
4 workin.',s' q 1t might be so, but non-com-
} batants couldn't see it, They were told
that the rebel line of battle was formed
within one thousand yards of our line.
Thus it was apparent they could shell the
! town. Civilians, you know, have lively
= horror of shells. 1t is assumed that
there was not much sleep in Corinth that
night aeN sa ssbis1 sl iaoair
4 'a THE DArrLr. l1
Before daybreak the Ohio brigade
(Stanley's division), commanded by
! Colonel Fuller, which rested its left on
Fort Robinett heard the enemy placing
q battery on the hill in front. not over
two hundred yards from Fort Robinett.
General Rosecrans, il is reported. said,
|, ''Let EN- plant it ''ia Before streak Of
,, dawn, Saturday morning, they opened
furiously upon Corinth. They saw our
breakfast fires" said soldier, " and got
range upon us Shell few about, ex-
ploding over the houses, in houses, and
in the streets. Our own batteries did not
!, reply for an hour or more At sunrise
!. non-combatants were ordered to the rear
!, Suffers, storekeepers, employees of de
! partments, teamsters, negroes and all
!, retired precipitately; but they were be
!, hind the troops, and their example was
! not contagious Meantime the sharp
shooters Of both armies hr worked into
the swamp thicket in front Of the town
! and were fighting sharply. Captain Viii
liams CO. S. "A. had opened, at tdaylight
,, his thirty FOUNDER PARROTS in Fort Vii
! hanson the battery which the enemy had
J so slyly posted in darkness, and in about
three minutes it was silenced. This was
+ why General Rosecrans said, Let ZEN
Z l4splant IT, .''1nThe enemy dragged of two