Washington telegraph., 1863-02-25
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confronted. Rosencrans had formed his lines
a little south of the Nashville pike, gradually
diverging from it, still holding his right where
it rested on Wednesday. and making nearly a
right angle. lie is sullen and morose. He
speaks occasionally in the tones of his artillery
la reply to some promptings from us. In the
evening the pickets exchanged compliments.
He entren ches; the blue coats work like bea-
vers They are great in trenches. and great
in fortifcations
Friday the same as Thursday, with an-ex-
ceptlon-Rosencrans advances his left, across
Stone river, where it runs northwardly. About
> O'Clock, p. m, Gen. Breckenridge. with our
right advances also. Till dark, they fought
wl'hvery great desperation, and verv close.
1t was exceedingly bloody. Our loss-for num.
5ers engaged--was very heavy. 1t was in tbi.
conflict that the brave and gallant Gen. Roger
". Hanson, was mortally wounded.
On Saturday evening our retroa.rade move
ment commenced. The troops began to move
at II clock, p. m. Cleburne's and Breckin-
ridges divisions took the Manchester pike
"lthers's, Cheatham's, and McCown's. the
Shetbyville pike. We have fallen back twenty
miles. We will fight Bosencrans again. if he
advances. At last accounts he had not adj
vanced this side Of Murfreesboro. do not
think he win advance this winter. Indeed.
the general opinion is, that We VIII rest until
spring. The enemy IS too badly crippled. TO
resume the offensive for some time vet.
Our whole force engaged IA tie battle OF
Wednesday. was about 10000 infantry ami
1000 cavalry. Tie force of the enemy. at the
lowsst estimate. was 10000. Most of the
prisoners with whom I couversed, placed their
figure at $4,000. So ne said fOO, 900.
The Arkansas troops in this. rs in all form er
contests with tu' enemy. greatly Iistingui she i
Themselves for gallant conduct They were
alway, foremost ia every charge. and the last
10 60 backward. There were three Arkansas
brisades in the engagement-Polt's, TiddeIl's
aud McNair's. An OF them suffered severely.
Lieut.. Gen. Hardee paid Arkansas u high
compliment: he remarked, while the battle
was raging at its height, and the Arkansas
brigadeS were making desperate charge-for
which they are tamOuS-that he wished the
whole army was composed OF Arkansas troops.
Gen. McNair was wounded slightly.
The Results.
The fruits of Wednesdays battle NAV be
summed up thus: Prisoners captured, 5000 ;
cannon f.. small arms, 5000; wagons, 1000
mules, 1000.
We drove the enemy four miles, and slept
upon the battle ground, Ia lding it for four
days.
IHE Loss.
Our loss. I regret to say. was heavy. 1t
will probably reach 5000. in killed and wound-
ed. A very large proportion are in wounded.
Tue encmy's loss was much heavier: 29,oUJ
in killed and wounded, will not cover his loss.
went over the battle ground after The fight,
aud for every dead Confederate, [ am sure
thers We're three dead Yankees. Some placed
the odds as high as ten TO one. | cannot &C.
atuur FIR tIf. .~rcaF Jf-naritv nm amy of rot
hypothesis than that our troops are better
mark-ucg; or. heinz cooler. take better aim
than tine abolitIuui-ts. fac ground everywhere
was literally ~tuewn with dead Yankees In
one place. Ism Old stnhble hcll. ! counted q
hundred and fifty dead bodies. within a radius
Of a hundred yards. They had made stand
behind the fence. Oar men charged them.
and poured a volley into their ranks, as ;hey
broke 10 run The slaughter WAS frightful.
IL was a crack brigade. composed Of the eth.
9TH. and 18Th Ohio; and TIE 9Th aud Gth Ken
lucky REGIMENTS. 1t was their boast 5hrt they
had never been Whipped Probably they had
never before cncour tered Arkansas troops.
Il was TiiieI.'s Arkansas brigade yIat dis
perseI them.
lSCDENTs OF THE BATTLE.
Many interesting in-iient, occurred during
the f1h. some er which I viii relate.
The FIRST Charge We nude o0 the Yankees.
we came upon a flock cd wjIi turkeys: they
were between TWO fires, and the wonder is.
that any Of them escaped heinz killed TIgy
were 50 badly fr EbteaeI that they could nut
fv. hut r1n helteer sk-'tyr IN EVERY ii.e-t.n
not knowing where to 90. one of oar bug
caught one Al d Ilucked the feathers "a, 70 b..
wing. so as To prevent bis dying Arar tur
fight was over, BE went hHcE and caught Liu
Iuuumrah'e rabbits We're Iappus about
rututuz hitber aud thither. the poor liu.,
creatures frightened almost 10 Ieu,u. Man.
Of them were rtampirj 10 death ia rhr melee.
While We were making % charge on thr
enemy. in a dense thi,ket, met al old friend
whom / had not seen for months. \ pcr.es
tempest of iron and lead W. rliuing upon us.
Hi. brigade had been repui-sd. ami ours wa.
Just going in ] stopped long enough to give
him "a grasp of the hand. For a moment, tire
urcaitnl scenes of carnage which were being
enacted around It's, were forgotten. Scene
Of e. auld lang syGe;' of home and its enaear-
mcuts. f r a moment enEr's-ei our minds. a'
We canvcrsed IL lasted nat for moment:
.h-ll burst within few feet of Us, with
tremendous crash. almost covering u up w}tl
dirt and trash. We parted; he to follow Ia.
regiment. which was going into the woods. 4
reform for second onset, 10 follow mine II
desperate charge. Such X the fate of war
1 SAW men wOunted IN every manner lHla-l
Unable: Some with their noses shot of: som'
with their fingers and toes shot oil. | saw
one itor fellow. with both les severed by
cannon ball | was standing near voun.
man belonging 10 my company: he was load
I'M and firing with much GOODNESS and pre-
cision: a she'll came along and struck him IL
the breast. The homb eXp.olcd iho momen
il struck him. aud tore the unfortunate mal
into u thousand pieces. \ young man Dab
Cook. brother to GcorGe.) was literally sew
cred In two. by n cannon bali.
The first dead Yaukc" that attracted IN
attention. was shot through the head: Ia
brains ouzimg out. lie was in the last ugonics
| he was resting ON his knees and elbows: 81
| hands were crossed one resting in the pain
of the other. iu the attitude Of prayer. Thu
supplicating the Almighty for mercy. the poo
| fellow Dreathed his last.
Among our killed. we lave to mourn tn
loss of Brig. Gen. James l.. Rains. and Brig
| Gen. Roger W. Hanson. They fell at the hen
Of their respective hrigades, whlie gallant
! leading the men to the charge.
W. killed two Yankee brigadicr general;
aud captured three others We also killed
Yangec major general.
Yours, etc. :. H. WILLIAMS.
ALNANACs We have rece ived cop
of - Dickinson's Almanac" published a
the office of the Shreveport News.
contains the Calendar, and the usua
matter, with some valuable recipes.
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