The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1863-07-11
SECOND DAYS FIGHT F!
he Greatest Carnage Of th1 Var |:
II Il z 4
rEr MEaDEP PR OWES HLMSEEF
MEINCZBLE!
The Rebels Flight w ith'
Great Desperation!
ITNDAIJNTED, VALOR OF THE
UNION TROOPS! -
LEl'S lITllAi IIiIRELY Cut. OFT /!
THE POTOMAC UNF0RDABLE!


THE POTOMAC UNF0RDABLE!
Lee Must Fight or Surrender!
The following is from the New York
Herald of July 4th: 80, 81 -,
The battle. lasted Thursday all day.
More or less picket firing bad taken place
on the left, and it became pretty sharp be-
tween 2 and p. N. Some movements
we're in progress behind this hre, and 70
develop them Siekles was ordered to ad-
v.nce With his whole third corps, and under
cover of fire from eight brass pieces in .
battery on the open field, his corps went
forward in line Of battle then the enenJs
artillery, 50 long silent, began on the left at
the pieces in the field. In turn our pieces
on Cemetery Hill opened on those OF the
enemy in the 6eld. Other batteries of the
enemy nearer our centre opened on those
on Cemetery Hill, and 80 it went around
until our guns on the northern face OF the
hill engaged the enemy's batteries two miles
across The country on our right. Mean
time musketry fire on our left seemed to
become every moment more and more hefce.
Already the third corps had once been
driven in disorder from the ground it had
won, but rallied by Gen. Sickles in person,
|.had again gone forward, and now held its
position with desperate tenacity against .
verv heavy force. Tha advance on our left
had developed that the enemy's forces were
in reality massed here and when the third
CORDS took the initiative it only precipated
the attempt on the part of the enemy,
which might otherwise have come when We
were not so we'll prepared to receive it.
Between five and six o'clock the third corps
having withstood with frightful loss many
successive charges of the enemy's infantry,
which were many times their numbers, be-
gan to show. signs Of weakness, when the
fifth we're ordered to charge and relieve
them, which they did, and forced the ene-
my back one mile and a half, taking many
prisoners. ~ .'si.og ~
Persons who never witnessed battle can
have no conception Of the grandeur OF the
scene: Air perfectly thick With bursting
shells and firing musketry, filing space
with bullets like hailstones in summers
shower, scattering death and destruction on
everv side. This was undoubtedly the
fiercest contest of the war. The loss on
both sides must be terrible The enemy
were most desperate in their attacks. Bri-
gads after brigade were marched up against
Gems. Sickle and Hancock's columns, with
most demonias fury, and having delivered
their fire till strength was spent, they
would fall down and let another line march
over them and perform the same manoeuvre,
while they would deploy recruits for the
repetition of the same role. This advance
developed still further the intention Of the
enemy, which was to get around our left
flank and 80 get Emmettsburg road, and
perhaps at our ammunition wagons near 1t.
As division Of regulars and Grif6n's di-
vision Of fifth corps went forward, and
before fire had opened on their front, some
fire swept from their left down the line, and
the right brigade of division of regulars
was wheeled go as to face that way Nc
sooner had it done SO, than q FIRE in front
opened, which then came in rear of right
brigade, and threw is into some confusion,
but il rallied and went on again. The line
of two divisions drove the enemy before 1t,
until it had taken position previously oc-
|cupied by one Of the ehemy's batteries
Here the FIRE Was concentrated on these two
divisions from the batteries further to the
rear, and at the same time the enemy VA
reported on their left. At once the line
was ordered to retire, and went bask steadi'
" to the crest of the bill. lsaape9a kas
| Halt IN hour before sunset there came
the final attempt with which the rebell
usually endeavor to close up great engage
meuts--an attempt which, certainly has, in
Q hrge number Of instances, been Drowned
With success. Here, however, they met
With . different fate. Two divisions, which
proyed to be Anderson's and AeLAwsonyl
Of LoDgstrsst's corps, were formed In mag:
ni6cient style They had dif6snlt groand
to come over, but on they came, over rocks
} throuR b low wood, until within lair dis
} tanee; when they made rush, With yells.
They did not kesp their lines very evepi
but were scarcely less impetaoes Is .. mas'
thas they. would have.been in line. They
killed nsa on the crest Of the hill and owe!