The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1863-12-11

perete Fighting and splendid victory.
A speoisl dispatch Of Nov. 18th 10 the
Cincinnati Gazette ssys-"The great rebel
blow, suxiousiy anticipated, so long. wal
struck tEis morniog. Reinforced by the
troops Of Sam. Jones. Jones, Jackson and
Williams, Gen. Longstreet sought to ami
bila.e the Army OF tho Ohio by q single
blow , for which be selected seven picked
regiments. Skirmisbing commenced IssI
night at ton, and continued sharply rnii
nearly daylight on our left, befors For,
Saunders. commanded by Con. Ferror, and
defended by the 10Th New York. Benja.
Minis 3d U. e. artillery. and Buckley,
Rhode Island battery. Our pickets were
driven 10. and the enemy had possessed
themselves Of some rias.pi,s, but the Mass.
%achusetts boys drove them back. Suddenly
the rebel storming party, led by the l8th
and l7,h Georgia and 18th Mississippi, un
der cover Of our W retrcating men, came
to tho assault, and approached 10 within one
hundred yards Of the fort unharmed. Then
onsued q scene of desperate daring. stub.
born resistance, death, carnage and horror,
scarcely cqualei during the war. Those
men, veterans Of the Potomac and the flow.
or of Longstroc,'s army, confident Of the
promised victory, plunged into q battling
hell of lead. Wires bad been stretched
from stump to stump, in front of tho works
by Captain Poe. Over these the sdvanc.
Ing enemy fell in confused heaps with the
killed and wounded around them. Our ar
,ilIery men hurled sheII by band forward
upon the fallen and doomed rebels.
Hot and hotter came the storm. of shol.s
The ground over which they passed va,
csrpeted with tho slain. Tho ditch wa,
filed with the dead. wounded and dying -
Not one on thoir side faltered /; not a scor.
of the gallant stormers escaped. The sur
rising looked down through the cold mis-
and chill of that November morning, upor
the romans Of an army. Oue thousand
killed and wounded and prisoners. was tn,
cos. Of the assault of Fort Saunders. Nobi,
has It sustained tho reputation of ito name
sake, !earfully ~revcnged his fall.
Among the killed we're Col. Girarde, o
the 18th Mississippi. and Lieut.. Colone
OBrien, the brother Of Mrs. Brownlow, 10
prisoner. General Burnside offered tn,
rebels an armistice from ten o'clock In III,
morning til FIVE o'clock in the afternoon I,
remove their wounded and bury their dead
It was accepted. The rebel officers an,
prisoners express astonishment at tb,
strength Of our works and tho valor of on
men.
Our loss will not reach 90, alitoid. Ovel
90 of this c~onsists Of members of the 27it
Kentucky, Who we're captured on the south
side of the river.
Whether Longstreet Is satisfied with III.
impreguability Of Knoxville we know not
What his next movement will be may b,
predicted with confidence. Besides 2s(
prisoners, VIC bavo threo battle Gags. one O
which was planted OF our works at on,
time.
A Cumberland Gap dispatch Of tho 3,
announces Longs,reet's whole cavalry fore
on Clinch River, within twenty miles Of tn
Gap. There had been sharp fghtin,
at Walkers Ford, twenty miles from III,
Gap. between our forces under Gen. Foste
aud The whole of Longs,rect's cavalry. Eos
ter attempted to cross Cliuch River. but Va
repulsed. with a loss OF fifty. He, however
captured four pieces of artillery. It 10 sol
posed that Longstreet's cavalry arc endeuv
oring TO keep open his road into Virgins
and that he will hardly dare to make an,
demonstration on tho Gap, which 10 re
gardcd ~impregnablo.
After the battle at louisville. tho lott
Illinois cavalry left their two surgeons bacI
to care for the rebel wounded. On the 70
they wero found murdered I Ono was Dr.
Hrlstead, formerly Of Ohio. Major Beam
With a portion Of tho 18th. was sen, from
the Gap on tho Sd. on a mission Of ven
geaucc. The l29,b Ohio was reported en-
gagged on the Sd. Resul. not known.