Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-01-01
Highly Iatsres ting Account By .
Pruasian OHiOer in the Conled.
crate SeYv 90.
Graphic Ske lCh Of the Seven
Days. flight.
What Womb hive 3 eon tbs FG ct Of
. JuaCtlen Of NC Owell
With r1Cs lsllan.
SPLENDID TRlauTE "llTTLE
Mac"
&c, DO, DC.
(MacluZeR.)


when We received the order to advance
along the whole line. / looked with ssl'-
Tess upon our once f 90 division. Ho~
tesrfuliy some regime n;s had been deti
mated! Many whlc Il. Ike my own, had
,nnchcd out with q even huDdaed rnan,
nsd now bn, three or tour hundred d
secisc sold cfs left. Yes, some--for y
stance The 7tb Geo rsian and 2lst Nor'h
Catoli : had onl ' something over one
hundred and e'ghi y men. A VAS Lum-
Der OF ofiicers We ~ disab ed, and niauy
iine ieiio'y whc a few day be tore, iul'
OF c1hhd' 5nee al, ,ilty, had ,'optes'ed
go'd' future, WAS no more. n"
longe' haG the courage to ask Tor inns
Or ual ole Who q d;d not see, bat took
Tor grated, ,lla, be had fallen on the
I'D Of lonof-- was too sad To alsa,s
uear tie same response, =" lie Is dead,
"hc Tell heie,' or ",here,' IN such and
such way.
As our divisions were ge,t ny into
motion, sudls'y Appeared he l'resi-
d.ni, J, fcrsou Day :, .uironnd q ny tne
General OF Cavalry, Joseph DAVIS, and
Mc.sis johnson aud Smuh, followed ny
Secretary Vi War Haudo 'ph an h's NH
ituy Cabiuct. Now when tie danger
was over, when Il edmond had been
tree from The iron y, 'ke placed .Pon hef
neck by the cnc,rrl,n,s srmy OF the Toe
aud when they began ag"a to b'eatbe
freely within their S'alis, these par
lvr heroes could, ut last, at the close OF
,be b, ody struggle, at nme a theatrical
: attitude. Yet, wnh no hu!'ah IA Of
,orc, did the soldiers r, ;ce,ve the con-
queror Of Bnena Vista. Wlli cold
eye and AS Al Il AS his horse lie rod.
along the front OF the reg ulen's, o1''
once in u while sddressi ng y word ~
some ilend.
When our diyisier hid srcc csstully
: worked lis wsv out from among tht
i.byrnihs of d.smounied artillery, shat
, tered wagons and dead and wouu dtd
, soldiers, and got room for iretr move
ment, we opened our eyes vide wi,
aston,si meat VIXEN, on reaching the 20
I suuns evacuated by the e,,my, We
!. found nothing but few staid OF arn,s
= and some baggage. A Their matrii.I
= had been Carried oh By them in tn $
part Of the field, and only huge nun.
ter OF dead told how fearful, the ba tie
p had ragged at this po nj. Tie tort ica
J. tons were OF colossal dimensions, and
had far greater solldi,y than We had
;, supposed. We at once received orders
, 10 puisue the toe imuledlsey, or n
" lie 81 so soon as We could s,ce,tain hi.
q exact WI. rsabouis. " e hal handy e
o hey ond White House whel We descrlet
huge clond OF smoke which edd 'e,
above the woods about role and hal
to our right As We ca eftIIy adva Co
Is 10 that direction, We perceived hg'
n hesped up pyramid bruSiy burning
}. with n red hot glow, and sending iorti
!. volumes OF steam. Tie hostile Genera
had gwen forth orders TO commit a tn,
" PROF er,y tas, could not be capicd ava!
y to the flames, aud here tie eager con
e qucsors were ro5bcd oil milhons OF dollar
worth Of booty. l. Ike hungry wolve
(, ms poor fellows rushed tow ards III
huge glowing heap 10 cave whateve
= could yet be saved. There were tu,
Il dreds Of cal ks OF meat, coffee, sugar
', moissses, r,ce, win, ,ven thampagn
d in fine, ali these drl',stIes with wnlc
:. the nolhrrn army WAS more than abu'
= dainty provided, and which We poe
devils scarcely knew Tho nxmes OF, pile
G, up IN one s.olher. Yes oil our tflor'
J. ts rescne something that sas usefu Sc
vain; the enemy had ,si.:n his prec~
tions tor the total d,sti uct ion OF ever
% thing lett behind with snch cnr,oii
ID skill that there was uotbi ng re'nsiul'
but spoiled AMI u-elrss 4 'ods. o. y
"A other hand, the entire 6-i d was cover
= With the heavy 9th cloa . Of the tug
- tivsa,sDd these were very Welcome 10 Q
% troops. Yet "a iss~.iti II psrtieuk
= proved y NJ that Csss sal laCIslI