Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-01-07

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II TINES gives vivid description Of Ii
+ battle Of Saturday iast at Fredsficksbur,
.eIl OF tbs ground upon which the batsle /
= ths center was fought, he says. ss4 @
al Igan adiaseiy behind the town OF Fred
4 erleksbarg, the land forms O plaseaa. q
smooth held, running back tor ahoas
third OF mile. II then rises for fort
. or fifty yards, forming ridge Of ground
II which runs along 10 the left for about
III quarter of q mile, where il abuts a&FTasg
Del, Eayine formed by the Hazsl river
Il which empties into the Rsppahaaaock
west OF town. At the foot Of the ridge
runs the telegraph road, Hanked by !
stone wall. This smfuenes was studded
vita xeha bstteries. To the right, along
up the riEsr, the ridgs proiongs itself 10
Il opposite Falmouth and beyond and here
too batteries were planted on eyerv ad-
TantngeD as positioH. Back of the arus
rags ~ another piateau, and then Sec
ond terrace of wooded hills, where a see-
ofid line OF feYtifcationg were uIaned.-
Between the rear Of the tbwn and the Gyss
ridge, canal runs right and left and
empues into the river some distance above
Falmouth.
This plain, of third of mile deem.
between the suburbs of Fredericksbure
aud the FIRST ridge of hills, was the thea
ter OF operations of the Right Grand Di.
VISION OF the army, under Major General
Sumner. On this narrow theater our
brave troops surged and swept, forward
and backward, n-ths tide Of battle for
ten long hours.
As to the feeling Of the officers, the
correspondent says:
1t was with alarm and pain | found a
general want Of confidence and gloomy
EoTebodinga among some men whose sound
judgements had learned to trust, The
plan of attacking the rebel stronghold di- |
reefIy In ffont would, II was feared, prove |
a most hazardous enterprise and one of |
which thsrs Is no successful example in |
military history. Ii was doubted thas the |
cooperation of the right and left, accord |
ing to the programme, would admit of
practical ex xecntion, and things were gen
sraliy at l0sse ends. fsTha ehess-board. %
said Napoleon at Wagram. sis dreadfullv
confused there is bnt that sea through
IT." We all felt that the first part OF the
remark was applicable to our case. But
did We all fell equally confident that there
il ?D
The difficulties of the assault are thus
stated;
Look st the position to be stormed.
There is plateau Of third of g mile,
which she storming party will have to
sross. In doing so they viii be exposed
% the fra, frat of the enemy's aharpshoot-
ers, posted behind a stone wall run
ltng slong the base of the ridge-of
ioubie row Of riae-pi on the rise of the |
'Fest-of the heavy batteries behind
trong 1eid-Eorks that stud the ton of [
be hiIl-of powerful infantry force now
wing concealed behind thess-ef pl,ang- G
ng fire from the batteries on the lower 4
ange-of a double enGiading fire from
cannon to right of them, cannon TO tie a
eft of them-7 sebastopol was net kmlf | G
S strong.
There are in the following, interesting
counts of our Generals In the fight, and
t climax of the conflict
The old man [Geu. Sumner at the Lazy
iouse on the north bank OF the river lAte
0 afternoon looked anxious and fearful,
Things were not going well with his
omnand. For three hours his men
id been lighting at fearful odds. They |
'ere much exhausted, their loss was ex- 7
essive, and nothing had been accomplish
d. Indeed, to the tesa of the ear, at the
oint where We were located, il seem,d as
l:,ough they were being badly pressed D
he batteries bad been brought down aud 4
ianted at the heads Of the streets. The
'oops were hugging the city closely to |
scaps the fearful fire. "Whare is Frank L
u Z" was the eager inquiry. "Everv-
ling depends on Franklin's coming tIp on
le flank" Q,
Franklin's position vas plainly observ- v
bic by the line of smoke and ere a eou- e
lie of miles 20 our left below. He was x
Iaisg 40 nearer. fr
At 3 o'clock an aid arrived from Cen.
ouch to say that bis (Couch's) troopsl
ere advancing finely bat that Wilcox
as not keeping up /" Tell Gen. H'sieor, - ns ns
piled Gen. Sumner, 'sseI hfsa that he l.
ssss make the 9th army corps keep pace .,
it'll the Cd If he taa." g
At l-2 O'Clock, Sturais, who had been
inging 70 the valley amid showers Of
'e, is 50 hotiy pressed that 'she hardly q,
inks he can hold his own till Griffin Sc
'mes up" hv
At O'Clock French reports that his T.,
ght Is held By a brigade, (Mason's) ID
hieh Is agithogf aRamsastioa. an
Sumner sends q message, begging ~
arusids that FrankIin be directed 70 ad- "
Ince. He has enough TO do ut this mo-
snt to bold bis own, for Jaekson has :
st thrown in reinforcegnents, and is ii, ii,
ashing hard to turn his left. eo'
MsanSime the reserves have not been -
uehsd, Hooker's Central Grand Divis- a.
q, fifky thoasand fresh men-hava not al
/ bsan engaged indeed, are ret main r.
on this side of the river. va
aTsu Gsnsral Burnside that hu had sa
tier, By all Eneans throw some Of b
ooker's id. ~
Burnside replies that he has dirsctlY
dsred Hooker to 20 ID, and that every |
an on THIS side OF the river shall eress. ri
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