The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-30
Accounts Ofthe Battles and Vic
tories.

GEN. LoGAN's HEADQUARTERS,
IS miles west of Jackson, May is, 9 a. m.
Immediately on entering jackson, on
Thursday, Gen. Grant dispatched orders to
in the rear as rapidly as possible, to coun-
termarch and get on the main road to
Vicksburg at Clinton. Yesterday it
marched to point two miles west of this
before shutdown, and drove in the enemy's
pickets there
Gen. McPherson's corps was put in mo-
ton in the same direction, with Gen. Logan
in advance, and reached this point at four
o'clock.
Everything indicates stubborn resist
ance at Vicksburg. Their small forces at
Edwards Station and Black River Bridge
will do nothing more than endeavor to de-
lay our advance.
Intercepted dispatches from Gen. Penn
berton ordered the rebel forces at those
places to fall back to the intrenchments at
Vicksburg when hard pressed. This will
undoubtedly be done.
The battle at Jackson was short but spir-
tied. Gen. Crocker's division had the adj
vance, and but two brigades were under
fire. The 93d Illinois, 18th Wisconsin, SOth
Ohio, 10th Missouri, 4th Minnesota, Oath
Missouri, and 5th and 18th Iowa regiments
composed them. The latter regiment sus-
tanned the greatest loss, as will be seen by
the following list OF wounded. The list of
killed cannot be obtained yet. No Illinois
or Wisconsin commissioned officers were
injured. Our loss in killed will be not far
from seventy. The wounded may number
200, though / could obtain but ITO names.
Gen. Sheman's corps will loose about a
dozen men all told.
FEDERAL WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL AT
JACKSON.
John McGraw, A, 10th Wis.,, slightly
wounded; NJ Tulman. lst sergeant, 18th
Wis, seriously; c Baitor, f, 4th Ind,
slightly; Watkins, F, do, MORALLY; +
Kidder, H, 18th Wis, leg broken; n
5th Iowa. do; o S Clark, II, 93d ILL.,, NOR
tally; l. Stephenson, I, 18th Iowa, do; r
M Baird, f, 93d ILL.,; P r Taylor. f, 4th
MIMI, seriously; b Davis, b, 18th Wis,
killed; Geo Gray, X, 10th Wis, do; pri-
Yates VIM Hines and Rutter Worthington,
of Capt. Dillon's 9th Wis. battery, slightly
wounded-no other casualties in this bat
terry; II Farmer, b, 18th Wis, do; VIM
Hall, c, 18th Iowa, seriously; JOS Chan
dler, X, do, do; p Lemson, G, 18th Wis,
slightly; f Fl Wentworth, F, 18th Iowa;
G A Sweet, 1 4Sth Ind; VIM Stockdale, ID,
Freeman, Is, 18th Iowa; John Smitzer, A,
do, severely; J F Wheeler, F, do, slight
ly; Patrick Martin, l, do, do; Volney
Douglass, f, do, do; Peter Brown, 1, do,
do; d Hurdson, b, do, do; l. II Beecher,
do. MORALLY; Capt. Chas G Johnson, do,
seriously; John Sylvester, A do slightly;
J H McCulloch,,, 18th Iowa, lost leg;
G M Cowger, E, 18th Iowa, lost leg;
Daniel A Bawlins, X, do slight: James Ell
der, f, 4th Ind. do: Michael Wilson, A,
18th, do; Isaac Mallockson, III, 18th Wis,
do; Daniel Leach, ii. do do; John Kelley,
X, do, seriously; A Wembreed, =, 18th
Iowa, seriously; Robert Chapman, D, 18th
Iowa, slightly; w II Christman, X, 18th
Wis. do; VIM Warren, X, 9th Ind, slight
ly; S MuIry, 1, 18th Iowa, do; G w
Mitchell, A, 5th do do; II Epler, X, 4th
Mimi, do; Jacob Turntz, A, 18th Iowa, do;
Richard James, "A, 18th Iowa, do; r. F.
Davidson, A, do do; John Bern, X, do do;
Jacob Roiston, X, 18th Iowa, do; Fred
Frees, b, 18th Wis, do; Capt l. w Huston,
b, 18th Iowa, do; + II Busby, b, do, ser
iously; Timothy Tracy, X, do do; H H
Highland, b, do, do; Charles Starkey, l,
18th Iowa, do; John Fitzpatrick, II 18th
Iowa; J T Newell, F, do, seriously;J
Shelton, D, do, slight; J II Ohelbert Z, do;
G NJ Gorriger, do; VIM Hill, ii, 18th Wis,
do; VIM Cooling, +, 9Th Iowa, do; Silas A
Sawyer, l, 18th Iowa, do; Samuel Musser
A, do.
CHAMPION HILL BATTLE FIELD, !
20 MILES EAST OF VICKsBURG,
Nav IT, lS63-S:30 p. m.
The Federal army under Gen. Grant has
won another glorious victory. A furious
battle. lasting nearly five hours, has result
ed in the defeat of the enemy at all points
with the loss of from two to three thousand
killed and wounded, three complete bat
teries of heavy ritied cannon, besides seve-
raj single pieces, and from 500 to 2,COt
prisoners in our hands, and an immense
quantity of small arms and campequlpage
Our success is signal and complete. No
thing mars the intense satisfaction OF 9TH
GERS and men but the heavy sacrifice OF life
by which it was achieved.
Early this morning Gen. Clernand,
cOrpS was mt in motion Gen. HOyey's
division was on the main road from Jack
son to Vicksburg, but the balance Of the
corps was few miles to the southwark. On
a parallel road Gen. McPherson's corps
followed Hovey's division closely.
AT o'clock Gen. Hovey discovered the
enemy in front OF Champion Hill, to the
left Of the road near Bakers Creek, appar-
emily in force. Skirmishers were thrown
out and the division advanced cautiously
and slowly to give Gen'l McPhersoh's ad.
vance division, under Gen. Logan, time tc
come within supporting distance. GEM
Hovey's division advanced across an open
field at the foot of Champion Hill, in line O
battle, at ii o'clock, and commenced bat
tie.
The hill itself is covered with timber ,anC
is, in fact but an uptterminus of higI
ridge running north and south, flanked or
both sides with deep ravines and gulleys
in many places covered with an almost i'm
penetrable growth of scrubby white OAK
bushes. The rebels appeared deficient il
artillery throughout the battle, but opened
with rather heavy fire from four-gur
battery of rifled six Founders, planted
about 400 yards back from the brow of thu
hill.
The woods on both sides Of the road
leading up the face of the hill, and winding
back on the ridges a mile or more, wer,
filled with sharpshooters, supported by in
fantry.
-.lL. y-E
men entered the edge of the timber, anl
ragged terribly from II O'Clock till between
8 and 4. ~ ~
Gen. A. P. Hovey's division carried tn,
heights in gallant style, and, making
dash on the first battery, drove the gunner