Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1863-01-29

the enemy holly pursuing with essei-
~ and infantry. sending continuous
shower Of bullets after the running mis-
creants. killing. wounding and captur-
ing them with impunity. and you have
faint idea Of what saw Wednesday
morning. OF course this did not last
long. Negley. who was on the right OF
Thomas corps, aud Just to the left OF
McCOok's. stood firm, and fought the
enemy on his front, right and rear,
and thus saved the field by holding out
untiP troops could be brought from the
left to meet and check the enemy on
the right. 1t was in this fight that our
brigade suffered most, and on this part
OF the field our dead and wounded fell
into the enemy's hands. As ! was cut
of from my regiment, l concluded to
go back to the hospital, and had nearly
reached it when a heavy force of rebel
cavalry came sweeping round the build
ing. and / retreated under shower Of
bullets. This threw me into the midst
Of the retreating mass of Johnson's and
Sheridan's men, and hence my accurate
J observations and terrible impressions of
that skedaddle. After retresting so far
} tha: retreating ceased to be virtue, l
/. determined il possible to find my regi-
ment. Accordingly 1 returned as near
, to the ground on which our division
fought as could get for bullets and
shells, and made vain excursion Of
. our entire lines without finding it. In
, fact it was at this time surrounded on
, three sides, and terrible fight was
going on half mile in its rear. But
J this ride took me where ! could see wal
r in earnest; and l do not now regret
: that | took the tour. notwithstanding
E the bursting shells. whistling bullets
: and the deadly grape shot to which i
exposed me- In the afternoon found
b the right, and gathered up all of oul
2 wounded | could find, and conveyed
: them to one Of our many hospitals
= where l spent the night in operating
: and dressing wounds. Being established
: in hospital. and busily engaged al
e the time since, l have not had an op,
: portuuity Of informing myself with re-
gard to Thursdays and Fridays oper.
ations, but we could Judge that terrible
: fighting was going on by the large mum.
5 Der Of wounded sent to the rear. Every
5 house within ten miles of the rear oil
} our army was made an hospital Of, and
. to many of them large numbers of tents
: were added. At one hospital alone
? there was said to be LOO wounded
E and dead soldiers. The medical force
; was entirely inadequate to the task o.
t attending to those men as they should
t have been attended to. Yet all was
g done that could be done to add to theil
D eomfor. and save their lives. Mucf
r suffering sill exists, and now we fnC
bad wounds which have not been dressed
j at all, or only partially and hastily done
S once or twice since they were received
t 1t was impossible to keep the wounded
b Of different divisions separated. As i
t is, single hospital may contain mel
S from a hundred regiments. and many
D rebel soldiers mixed up with our owl
men. Thousands OF the rebel wounded
Y fell into our hands, and are now re
D ceiving the same attention from US tina
r our own wounded do. A large force o
4 medical men, sent by Gov. Morton, o
!, EssItat.", nave auuSru. why u0D'
4 Ohio do likewise ? Have we no Cover
i nOry This town is now one genera
: hospital, more than half of all the
y houses being filed with the wounded
Of both armies. We found about twenty
of our 18th Regiment wounded boys
here in town, who had been captured
4 and paroled. The country hospital.
e are being evacuated as fast as possible
7 by either bringing the wounded up here
r or sending them back 10 Nashville
Operations are still going on, { mean
e surgical operations, and if one-half o.
: the poor fellows on whom we operate
get well, our country will be full Of
] MANNED and crippled men. There will
D be no lack Of living men to the severity
Of the battle OF Stones river. The loss
: in our brigade in killed, wounded aBd
} missing is 479. The loss in our regi-
! ment is I'll. or about half. Much ol
this loss, however, consists in very
! slight wounds, which will prove no loss
! at all-only for the time being.
Col. T. R. Stanley, commanding the
eth Brigade, did nobly. No man on
the field did better. He proved him
/, self brave. cool and competent ; and
! now no man would dare to call him a
coward. His men and officers are high
ly pleased with him, and Ne gets, as be
! deserves to get. the praise OF bis supe-
rior officers. But without doubt, and
beyond all question, the bright particu.
lar star Of that field was Gen. Negley,
commanding the 9th Division. Well,
| must close in time to mail this note,
and will only add list of the killed
and wounded from our county 50 far
as known.
am told that list OF Capt Ross
| men has been sent you. so will not
5 repeat it. Capt. Ross himself was Sc
= riously injured by an exploding shell.
? but he is now doing well and will soon
be able to return to his company.
/ Our loss in officers was heavy. Capts.
Stiyers and Taylor, both Of Meigs
county, were killed. Capts. Fenton,
Welch and Ross, wounded; Lieuts.
M;naar and McNIaren von,JoJ. ;o,,.