, 1863-10-02
THE EREATDATTLE.
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LOOMS BATTERY.


Attached to scEibner's brigade was tha f.
nous Loomis' hattey-that gallant gentle
man no longer In command. But be had
worthy successor, and, though the battery no
longer exists but to be turned against us,
Loomls may feel proud that battery and men
expired IN blaze Of glory. Lieut.. Van Pelt,
guns, has given to the history Of he war an
Incident which will form one Of It's brightest
pages. Men grow to be attached to their
guns-the natural resultnof that feature Of
discipline which inculcates the maxim that 1t
Pelt was proud Of his guns. They hnd grown
to be terror to the enemy. They had figured
In the war as the originator Of rebel fears,
much In the same sense That gnnboats had.
The rebels talked Of Loomis' battery as ex-
cuees for defeats, and magni1ed every force
battery" as s.part Of the enemy force.''
The men, too, loved the guns, and many seal
ed their devotion on that day with their
blood; and principal among them was Van
Pelt With his horses killed, his men dead,
and his supporters overwhelmed and driven
Van Pelt, as the last act Of his young life,
drew his sword acd sprlpg to the front Of his
pieces. With that inexpllcable frenzy which
inspires with strength as with courage, he
cried (eo lis Mcn say) with voice Of thun-
der, "Don't dare to tonch EN-" And the
over and past him, buryipg him under his
The 10Th Indiana, Col. Kneiller, took two
guns from the enemy on Saturday; but on
the subsequent charge Of the rebels on Van
Gleve think these same guns were retaken.
Lieut.. starkweatheT, Of Gen. Reynolds staff,
and your correspondent, induced q number Of
stragglerB, composed principally Of negroes,
to t1y and haul one Of these:.pieces farther to
the rear; but one Of the men being killed
while doing 90, our improVised artillerists
thought ut the time " utter confusion p for
no two ran In the came direction, save the
general course known as the rear.
JEFF. DAVIS ORDER TO BRAGG.
All the rebels captured by Us unite in say
Ing that Brugg's primary and ultimate object
was to get possession Of Chattanooga. he
had been forced By the rapidisy Of Rosecrans'
der to make the junction with Ills expected
Ieinforcements, and few days delay on
Bragg's part would have enabled Rosecraus
TO get between the two forces. Having ef.
fected the junction, Bragg halted, and Davis,
haytpg e Eimpe1illed his capital to enable him to
hold Chattanooga, now ordered him to retake
It, OF sacrifice his army In the attempt. The
attempt was made, and has tuiled. He has
lost nearly fifteen thousand men IN the at
tempt, and, though he has done us much in
jury, and has grand trophies Of n1ateritz to
cry victory oyer, he is as far as ever from his
object.
THE REGULARS AND THE VOLUNTEERS.
In Brannan's division there are the old
famous. regiments Of which the late noble
General Robert L. McCook and General Van
Cleve were formerly Colonels- the 9Th Ohio
and the end Minnesota. This was. their first
fight since Mil Spring. They had missed
Shiloh apd Stone River, and they now "@ent
to Win qry enough for hoth those Lost
lar brigade Of General John Fl. King, which,
as usual, suffered most terribly. At one time
the regulars, hard pressed, Ind the m,stor-
ture to be separated. A battalion OF the 18th
infantry was cut off and nearly all captured.
Ter, Clark, Mills, Crofton, Adair and Mere
dith wounded; Birnam dead, and the men
and horses Of bis battery lying In heaps
around him, with his lleutcnants too badly
wounded to command, the brigade broken,
battery In the hnnds Of the rebels. The 9th
Ohio, those broad -ahou1dered athletes, who
had been Cincinnati Turner'S, and the tall,
spare aud thin, bnt big hearted Minnesotans,
whom Van C1eye had enlisted two years before
With loud yells, as Ii the sight had infuriated
them, rushed forward with fixed bayonets
and drove the enemy from the guns before
they could be turned on us. They drew the
guns Off and handed them over to the regu-
lars, assuming an air Of triumph, as much as
to eay-with d little pardonable pride-"We
are volunteers" And the regulars, now re-
formed and pushing forward again, looked at
their volunteer friends, as If to cay" Thank
you. When you are as hard pressed well do
the came tor you."
r. WOUNDED soSa WRITER.
In another room stopped down to ask the
name Of wounded man to add to my List,
when he spoke up, saying:
"Oh, you know mT namc."
Hooked at his face and found him to be
Lieutenant Harrison Nilliard, Of New York,
Of the 10Th infantry, aud on the staff OF Gen.
Palmer, hut better known as the author Of
ssViye Is America, -" Flag Of the Free" &c.
l found on inquiry that bis wound was not
serious