The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1862-04-25
Battle of Pittsburg Landing.
Further General Details.

Co:resT cadence Of the Cincinnati Gazette.
MORE OF LEW. wALLACE'S SHARE IN TIE
FIGHT.
l had intended ct the close OF ny account
to speak more at leugth Of the brilliant
days work Of Major General Lew. Wal
laces division, on our extreme right, bu,
the ponderosty of the letter was already
becoming lrightfnl. 1t were hard to award
too much prsiSe to that splendid division OF
its accomplished General.
The division was longest OF any in the
fight that day and there can be no doub
that it bore the brunt OF the rebels last
spasmodic, terrible effort. AS cur left gra.
duaily cleared their front, the enemy's
troops we've shifted to the right, and in the
last hours (frOm two to halpast fourl there
seems to be little reason to doubt that Beau
regard led them in person, and charge
them never to yield that ground, Or if they
did, to throw down their arms and 60 home
at once. His favorte troops, the New Or
leans Battalion, and the regiments OF
wealthy creo!es from the lower parishes OF
Louisiana, were there, as we know from the
wounded left upon the field; and the cans
teens, filled with a mixture of whisky and
guDpowder, found on the dead and wounded
show whence their fiery courage came.
From the hour the artillery opened on
the rebel batteries in the morning till near-
ly five in the AFTERNOON, the division was
handled with a skill that deserves higher
praise--in the grateful heart -throbs OF
mothers whose boys were brought through
the terrible conflict scatheless, by the supe-
riOr management of the General that de
serves far higher praise, l say, than any
poor words from a pen of mine can express
1t was like game of chess. By a sharp,
quick struggle, with loss of life all the less
Tor its very sharpness and quickness, we
gained position that commanded cas-.
tie. Of course the castle fell. Then the
lines would advance till we came upon a
knight or bishop battery that promised rs
bloody Resistance. The division would halt,
fall to the ground behind some swell of the
hill, or take some protection in the woods
as it might find safest, and await events.
Skirmishers would go creeping out, grad
ualIy the artiIlerist would find their men
falling around them, and their horses shot
down till there was danger of their losing
their guns if they remained. Rake the
fields with grape or she'll as they would,
they could do little against skirmishers so
scattered that if voliey of grape did not
60 near one, it was certain to miss every
one of fifty others; while their small
arms were in the main no match for ours
and hence their infantry were as poweress
as the artillery against our skrmishers.
Presently the guns would timber up and
retreat-the pawns had driven off the
knight or bishop.
This was scientific, orderly, reasoning
war. There was much of it in some of the
other divisions, on our victorious Monday,
but nowhere was the system so perfect, the
generalship so manifest and commanding as
in Lew. WaIiace's division, which saved the
right, defeated the rebels in their last hope
of turning our right TANKS, so finally won
the day. Parents, and brothers aad sisters
of the brave men who fought under him.
and whose lives he may thus have saved,
will cherish the memory of the dsshng
young General revt rently for it.
THE BUENA VISTA sLANDaR OF INDIANIANs
WIPED OUT FOREVER.
But l began to speak of the division
mainly to record one important fact which
History will not fail to preserve The di~
VISION alone OF all engaged in the bate, eli
Their on Sunday Or Monday, never gave back
an inch. Every other division fa!ered at
times, fell back regularly, or retreated in
disorder This one never faltered. From
the opening ct the fight it pressed steadily
UeStjgia retrorSum to the
close.
Prominent among the regiment thus
nobiy advancing, second to none in deter
minatlon that day, when Ohio and Indiana
7aor was put to the test, not against COW
ardIy MeXcans. but with the chvaIrous
Southrons of Mississippi and Louisiana,
was the Twenty>ihird Indiana, Col. San
ders0n, Lieutenant Colonel Antony, That
regiment was raised 10 the same region from
which came the Indiana troops who were
accused Of cowardice at Buena Vista.
There is justice in history.
HOW SIDNEY JOHNSTON WAS RECOGNIZED.
Albert Sidney Johnston's body, which
was not found till Monday evening, was
first recognized by Brigadier General Nell
son, who had known him when the one was
an honored officer in. the old army and the
other was Liutenant in the navy. Pris-
oners had been telling of his death, and de-
scribing him as dressed in velvet suit, AMI
when such corpse was found inquiries
were naturally made as 10 who knew john
stOn. General Nelson was sent for. He
at once declared it to be indeed the dead
Commander in-Chief, and had the body
removed to his own tent. General Rous-
seau was subsequently sent for, and be too
recognized the features. Captain Chand-
Ter OF the regular army did the same; and
strangely enough there was wagon master