The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1863-05-09

part of the town.
Brooks division, of the Sixth corps
had not come with u.s. We had her
Newton's division, Howe's division, th
light division, and Gibbons division, O
the Second corps, all massed in the tow
and falriy IN front of the very position
that Sumner had vainly endeavored tc
carry last winter.
WE INQUIRE FURTHER WHERE THE EYEM,
ARE.
General Frank Wheaton's brigade was
now thrown forward to the left. and skir
mlshed toward the enemy's position il
that direction. The enemy was found
to be there. Still further to the left Gen
eral Howe did the same, and the enemy
was there. Could it be possible that this
line was thus occupied through its whole
extentf That seemed incredible; but,
occupied or not, we must find a point
somewhere, and pierce the line.
ANOTHER POINT TRIED.
After some examination point far to
our right was picked out, and Brigadier-
General G, x. Warren thought. that
!" that was The f4aee..s 30 was -defefs
mined that there were neither artillery
nor .--',-~~'s
a battery was placed on hill at point
blank range opposite a work of the enc
my. s, so that guns should not be brought
there. Scarcely was the battery-the Sd
Rhode Island, Capt Hazard-in position
before two guns opened upon it from the
work in front, to which Capt Hazard, on
the open field. responded handsomely
Hazards battery was supported by the
I'd Rhode Island.
Meanwhile General Gibbons infantry
was in motion toward the supposed preg-
nable point of the enemy's line. Far
away to the right, across the green plain
and toward the hillside, they moved in
column, and at them the enemy began
to throw she'll While this infantry was
in motion toward work that was crafty
thought to be undefended, your cores
pondent, from position on the left of
Hazards battery, could clearly see in
these very pits swarms of the sere and
yellow wretches of the enemy's army, as
they peered over the intrenchments and
gazed with malgn interest upon our men
on the plain.
AS Gibbons line thus advanced to the
right, bad place in the road caused the
10Th Massachusetts to become somewhat
massed, and the enemy suddenly opened
upon it a fire of grape and canister,
which proved very destructive
General Gibbon, soon after Hazards
battery opened, got into action Captain
Adams's Rhode Island battery, across
the plain to the right, and in the road
that skirted the battlefield. Captain
Adams practiced at the rebels and was
also practiced at, and well, too, by the
battery on the hill to his left, and by an
other which suddenly opened on his
right nearer to him, while he endeovored
to get the range of the first. Between
this cross-fre this battery was severely
cut up, and this position became too hot
i'td as General 6lbbon went to the right,
the enemy's men were sent in that direo-
ton to meet him. As they had the
shorter lines, the same men could be
employed at whatever point we might
threaten. Thus ten thousand men
should have been equal to at least fifty
thousand and we did not have more
than fifteen thousand on the field
On the front, where General Gibbon
commanded, the 10th Massachusetts
skirmished toward the enemys pit, and
the fire demonstrated that there were
men there as we'll as cannon.
Away on the left Howe did just what
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the same in the center; yet, with all,
though men were killed and wounded
plentifully, there was nothing done.
Every battle has these periods of indef-
mite. .endeavor, from which some one fact
eventually shapes itself out, and becomes
the fact of the occasion. So it was here,
and while in every direction the artillery
Buffers battery, Hexamers, McCart-
ney's, Harris, Hazards, Adams and
some others-thundered at the enemy;
while Howe felt for chance on the left
and Gibbon found every point equally
difficult on the right, plan of assault
was determined upon, to be made by the
Third and Eighth divisions under Gen.
Newton, against the enemy's center
Yet distinguished officer had said,
only short time before, that to at
tenn pit to carry the place by storm would
be waste of life.
Attempts to storm were to be made
simultaneously by Glbbon on the light,
Howe on the left, and Newton on the
center, and were so made; but inasmuch
as Newtons was the successful attempt
as he was the first to penetrate the
| line, and as when the line was once pen
etrated at one point it was no longer tan.
able anywhere-Newton' S assault appears
to deserve the especial honor.
I WnEI>.-L Lrur- AcsA All AA-A1AAE.
1t was made on the center agatns1
Marye' ssHill Directly west, out of the
town of Fredericksburg, runs road that
finally reaches Charlottesville. Just in
the outskirts of the town, at much less
than a mile from the main street, this
road ascends hill that, while it is suffi
ciently steep to render the ascent toll
some, is not so steep as to render any
less effective the fire of artillery and
musketry. This is Marye's Hill, 1.-THE
name is pronounced Maree,) and at the
summit of this Hill is Maryes house
Near the hill road leaves the Chancel
lorsville road, runs toward the south
across the front and right of the hill a
its base. The latter has substantial
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