The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-06

set upon this land Of ours--a price en-.
HANGED by every day that flies.
at the end of each days fight the reg
mental flags blossomed out like flowers
Of strange beauty upon the field Of
death, and the broken regiments gather
ed around them, aud there upon the
ground ate their rations, believed Ia Rose
Grams and took courage; and there they
were when morning broke, in line Of bat.
tie and ready for another day. When
Longstreegs men came up, confident and
strong--came up in speaking distance oil
our front-they cried, "We'ye come u
show Bsagg's men how to hghtp but
when our lines were tipped with cease
less fire, and the old, dead echoes of the
Cumberland were reused from their
mountain lairs by the roar of Federal
artillery, and the gray fell in heaps and
the blue in clusters, and our boys never
tiinched, and fell back under the pressure
of three to one, five to one, only TO ad-
vance, stag gering, yet stoutly, over
the dead, then the Wanting rebels ours
ed the Western men, and swore by all
the gods they had-ihe "lesser gods
they never met men made of such
stuff before, confess thanked God there
IS West, whose Grandest growth
is men. Aud what storms of lead they
were! Take an October rain beating
upon a window pane, and give each pat
tering drop a muskeps tone, and you
have the tempest that drove full on men 8
brows and breasts that day. Cut thun-
der up into syllAbles, and you have the
cannonade. Bring down great clouds.
end set them rolling TO and fro, and hug
ging earth, rent with streams and splin-
ters of red fire, and you have the drapery,
if may call it so, of the dreadful dra-
ma. Light is quicker than sound the
line of blue is dotted along with little
pulis of smoke and little flashes Of flame,
and after that the crash of musketry it
is here, it is there, il is everywhere, and
the great guns swallow cheer and crash,
and grOan and all the whole world 20
you Is q mighty voice, and heart and
thought stand still together. IL is no.
thing TO rhyme about, to pirate about, and
you stand as the host of old before the
thunders of Sinai, and are dumb.
You know where Rosecrans Was
headquarters were not nj Bridgeport or
Chattanooga, but in the thick of the fight.
Pressing right up to him was the rebel
front; and regiments from Mississippi
Texas and Georgia, were scOoped out oil
the rebel flood and made prisoners with
in short half mile of the General's po-
.sition.
The roll Of Federal killed and
wounded will seem appalling TO you
The loss is indeed severe, and as we
bring il nearer home il is terrible. The
light has gone out of many home there,
when the light went out of many heart
| here. But must tell you that a very
large proportion Of the wounded are in
the band or arm, and of these l saw
hundreds in the left, struck as it was ex
tended along the musket. Hundreds,
again, received shots in the right arm al
the moment of making ready to fire
Many of these poor fellows, struck or
Sunday, had medical care for the frs
time to-night-four days of fostering
anguish, but not one word of repining
it was the best that could be done; il
was the fortune of war, and one of then
said, as he craunohed a bullet that b,
might better bear the pain of an arm
swathed in CORY wooden, and black Al
the arm Of heather fate, "Rosey's al
right yet ~ and he clinched it with al
oath that the recording angel must hav
dropped a tear upon "and blotted on
forever"