The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-10-22

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mand was hardly given to march by the right
| aoDL when = most terrific fire of musketry
was onened on our division, and especially on
orr hrioade. It was here that Lieut. Searles,
Of the regiment was killed; Capt w. L.
Mitchell. Of Co D, and Capt. Heald, of Co |,
we're kilIed-Capt McVean, dangerously
wounded-shot directly through the left knee;
Lieuts. Teets, Of Co Il, and Button, Of Co /,
were wounded--here our battery lost for
time four Of its guns, and many Of our non
commissioned officers and men were killed
and wounded, including +. +. LeatOn, q.
Spencer, Geo. Harmon and II. Stoidard, Of
| Co F-killed. The Color Sergeant, Shevan,
was mortalIy wounded; and Color Sergeant
| Robert York, of Co f, was wounded III three
places While busily engaged assisting In
| getting these and others off the field, OBJ
served the great soldier, General Thomas,
standing alone by the roadside, many scatter
| ing balls from the enemy whlstllng around
him, yet calmly, attentively, listening, to the
surge of battle, and by it, regulating his or
| ders. The fight continued undated on this
| line until near sun down. Our men were be-
| ing brought in numbers only a short distance
to the rear. Here, at the present moment, all
our attention was demanded. Water and COW
| ering were called for i'll piteous accents by
| the wounded. Our troops had previous TO
| this hour, withstood the assaults OF the enemy
and drove them back, but now, about 90 OF
all our line was being pushed back! Inc
musket balls and occasionally shell, came
near and over the hospital. DR.. Dixon or
dcrcd Capt. McVean to be taken up and placed
in our Regimental ambulance, and while there
was room for another, Lieut.. Russell of the
| 2Ist Wisconsin, was placed i'll and the ambu
lance sent out to the main road leading to-
wards Chattanooga. An officer, Il stranger to
me, begged piteously to be taken along. He
was wounded badly in the foot. got him
on my horse, and we moved on amid the
storm Every wounded man that could pos
sbly move hurried to the rear. But towards
night-fall the tide Of battle turned again, and
our troops drove the enemy, who ceased tir-
ing, Many of our troops now slowly fell
| bach. TO bivouac, as was supposed, tor the
night, when suddenly the enemy made an at
/ tack, and while our front line received the
/ blow, the troops that had retired hurried to
| the field again, and the battle ragged tiercel y
until after night-fall. Our troops held the
| field
Our killed officers were buried and our
wounded men were all taken to the hospitals
This engaged many of us the entire night. w
Crawfish Spring Hospital was urmiles south
of the position of our Division. left it at 4
A. NJ, on Sunday the Goth, to come up to the
Regt. When | reached our right wing, (Mc-
Cooks Corps | wien. Rosecrans with Gen.
McCook arranging new line Of battle. |
rode on slowly through the right wing, the
center and over towards tine left, where was
our Brigade and Regt. On crossing the road
Immediately in the rear Of our division were
four pieces of rebel artillery, all together. No
| body seemed to care what became of them
There was deathlille stiffness along our line.
| went up to the rear Of the Brigade; the men
were lying down behind rude breastworks Of
dead trees &C., that they had placed there du-
ring the night. No man spoke to another ;
| the officers were intently watching from be-
hind cover, while some rashly walked about
i'll painful silence. | sat down aud exchang-
ed few words with an aid Of Gen. Baird and
this moment, Col. Crosses brigade came to
strengthen the left, and formed in rear of our
! brigade. Instantaneously artillery and mus
kerry opened in tremendous vollies. We
threw ourselves on the ground, while the
balls whistled over us like wind through the
cordage of ship! The fighting became gen
eral and extended all along the line. Our
men bravely held their ground. Capt. Green,
Of Go. X was wounded here and so was Lieut..
! Richardson of Co. II, who fell into the hands
/ of the enemy, and lay six days on the field
! He was afterwards brought in wounded i'll
the left groin, and has since died. Lieut.. Buff
! fon, of Co is missing taken prisoner it is
supposed. Our men held their ground until
the main line fell back, when they were Or
/ dered to retire. This was the most difficult
/ and the most dangerous The Regt. might
! To- !
! be surrounded and taken prisoners. | fine
! that officers and men have very little respect
for til Ose who are taken prisoners i'll battle
unless they are hclplessly wounded,
The enemy in this advance, had to push az
if against a rock, but still reinforced ever anC
anon by fresh troops, they finally broke
through some Of of our divisions They adj
:, Yauced beyond our hospitals and took DIR
Dixon and DR.. Corfe the surgeons of The
Regt. prisoners. Dr. Wagner, Of the oath Ill
and myself attended to some Of the wounded
at this iuncture, when suddenly very fierce
charge was made against our lines and scat
tering balls reached the temporary depot,
ordered all the slightly wounded away, while
we placed those badly wounded behind the
house, where the balls could not reach them
then mounted my horse to watch the re
suit. No more wounded could be attended
to now unless they could help them
selves With painful suspense | watched and
listened. The roar Of cannon and musketry
was like that Of a frightfuI blowing of the
winds on the sea coast-the waves thunder
ing against and lashing the shore! Our own
brigade fired 80, 900 rounds Of cartridge. Oul
Battery fired 400 rounds We did no more
than others. Who could expect to live with
full 100000 men engaged for two entire days
firing at the above rates? Thus it continued
until late in the afternoon Sunday Finally
the rebel cavalry showed themselves on the
road in our front. | started up my horse
when they fired volley after me- We thel
went to the rear with the ambulance and hos
pital stores, carrying with us about one thous
and wounded from the temporary depots t.
Chattanooga. We reached that place abou
midnight Sunday night, and many Out no
enough tried to make the wounded as com
Portable as possible. | went to the Medica
Director DR.. Moses, who gave me an ordert
put the men over the Post Commissary Store
!, with a requisition also for 800 rations. Tn
.. Post Commissary would not that night PERM
the men to be put above his store. The wound
ed, therefore, had to be put III sheltered DO
sitions in the streets, and fires made up TO
them. rode round the whole night and told
them where they could get in at daylight
All day on Monday, the DIST, spent in look
ing up the wounded of our Regt., and making
out list. Many of the less seriously woun,
ded crossed the River on Monday, and proceed
ed in wagon train to Bridgeport. Our pris-
oners that we had taken were also sent away,
numbering nearly 1900. These l saw In
the meantime we knew that Gen. Thomas hac
got himself into position where he held the en-
envy in check all day Monday. There was
little fighting done that day.
Fatigue parties were busy on Monday throw
ing up earth works at Chattanooga, contem-
plating our army reaching the town soon-
We did not know what the result might be
when Gen. Thomas should yield the Gaps tc
the enemy. The more nervous that the foe
would fall on us like an inundation. During