The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-01-10
TERMINATION OF THE FIGHT.


TERMINATION OF THE FIGHT.
The battle was over. Until four
o'clock the rebels continued to fire a
cannon or two from the direction of
Murfreesboro, as though in angry pro-!
test against their repulse; but when this
ceased, there was-silence- all over the
field, so deep by contrast with the tumult
of the battle that had ragged all day, that
it seemed'opprcssive and supernatural
The battle was over; but who can de-
scribe the sufferings which followed
The night air was piercingly cold; and
IN the midst of those gloomy forests of
pine and cedars on the right, numbers of
men lay freezing, bleeding, dying, whom
no human hand would ever succor The
rebel pickets advanced at night to the
edge of the woods skirting the open
ground, which was the scene Of Hardee's
terrible 'repulse The hostile lines of
battle were probably thousand yards
apart The Intervening space was COW
cred with wounded who could not be
carried off He who chose to risk it, as
/ did, could crawl carefully up to the
edge of the woods and hear the shrieks,
cries, and groans of the wounded men
who were lying by hundreds among the
trees Ae
The men in our own advance line lay
down as we'll as they could upon ground
over which the storm of battle had swept
1t was difficult to distinguish the bodies
of the sleepers from the corpses; and
when passed along the lines at mid
night, the living aud the dead were
slumbering peacefully together. oI
HONORABLE MENTION. at
earrnsnnnaAnt.- 40 n--anlu- sneak of
-vhat he knows, and no one can justly
accuse him of Partially, if, in mention
ing the names of those whose Valor or
ability comes under his own notice, he
omits those of others equally worthy.
To say that General Rousseau fully
sustained his credit on this dreadful day,
and added new laurels to those previ-
ously acquired, is merely to. assert what
all who know him would have predicted
with the fullest confidence, before the
first gun was fired Heaven preserve
the hero for still further service to his
country! ir.a-'.
To Col c. 0. Loomis, (who, although
Chief of Artillery on Rousseau's Staff,
still personally superintends the opera
tions of the immortal First Michigan
Battery,) the unanimous voice of the
army. accords the highest mead of praise.
John Beatty, Colonel of the 3rd Ohio
Infantry, AID commanding the 18th brig
ade, exhibited throughout the battle
military abilities of the highest order,
and by his conduct upon the two fields
of Perryville and Murfreesboro, has fixed
upon himself the gaze of the nation.
Col L. r. Stanley, Eighteenth Ohio,
and commanding the 29th brigade, fully
| justified, by his admirable bearing
throughout the whole struggle, the high
opinion which all who knew him well had
previously formed of him.
Col Scribner of the 3Sth Indiana,
commanding the 9th brigade, proved
himself a worthy successor of Col Len.
Harris; and this is saying much-mu0h.
Col. Blake of the 9th Indiana, and
Col. Whitaker of the 9th Kentucky, for
their distinguished courage in assisting
to repel the assault of the enemy upon
our left and center, deserve the thanks
of their countrymen.
The regiments and brigades / have
CALAMITY to the end. 49,
The Sd Kentucky which, out of thir
teen officers when the fight commenced
had but three unhurt at its close, needs
but the statement of that one fact to per
petuate its renown i
The regular brigade in Rousseau's di
vision covered itself with such glory as
but few troops ever obtain, and grateful
country will not fail to honor it.
The lst Michigan Battery famed
everywhere in the heaviest of the fight,
aud Lieuts. Van Pelt and Hale proved
by their soldierly and gallant conduct
that the lessons taught them by LOOMS
had not been thrown away.
The Chicago Board of Trade Battery,
Capt. Stokes, shed luster upon the name
of every man connected with it.
The heroic Captains Simonson and
! Bush, although they lost some of their
guns, saved all their honor unsullied
even by a spot
The members of Cen Rousseau S, Gen.
Negleys, Col Beatty's and Col Stan
ley's Staff behaved with much credit to
themselves and their chiefs Out of these
l must except, for the honor of the rest,
one young man who was arrested in a
beastly state of intoxication during the
day.
Col. Anderson Of the 93d Ohio was in
the thickest of the fight, and showed him.
self as eloquent with the sword as with
the tongue
( But why prolong list which, if fully
completed, would swell to the dimen-
sions of a volume
There were a few cases of cowardice,
and besides the Staff officer l have indi-
Gated, Colonel of an Ohio regiment
was placed under arrest for drunkenness
on the field While we execrate their
folly.
Our losses in the fight were fearful.
At least four thousand were killed and
wounded, and more than that many fell
into the hands of the enemy. The casu-
allies of the rebels were certainly double
our own, and nearly thousand of them
were captured.
We had found the road to Murfrees-
boro difficult one to traverse; the enc
my was fully convinced that he could
neither rout nor capture Rosecrans; each
had measured accurately the other s
strength; both were in degree exhaust
ed, and both rested quietly during the
! night -r z-ar- Y s