Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-10-06
THE GREAT BATTLE.
Letter from Can't. Cedar,

oouSru oil 20. H. Tooth Ill. regiment, az
intervals during the battle of Chikaman,.
to his vile of this city:
Sent. Is
The battle so long ANTICIPATED s noS -
progress. As write bear the conhnns6
roar OF caanon on the right and left. the
enemy apparently endeaVoring to flank MS.
but as yet without su .cess.
DUN armies since our arrival have re-
celVed large reforcements.- The enemy adf.
sanced yesterday morning we're feelin0-
our lines from right to left all day and last
evening just before dark made an attack
upon our extreme left, and for O short time
drove our men but they SION rallied and
drove the rebels back and regained all the
ground lost. and took quite large number
of prisoners.
This morning the firing commenced on.
the iett "i our line of battle about o'clock
and about III on OUT right and has heen
very heavy ever since. There il soma,h;n1
grand and glorious that sends a thr;lp
through ones frame to SIT as do and hear
the roll Of musketry and the roar of srt;I.
lery-how exciting-how lost to all danger
yet how many brave fellows are bidding.
a last farewell to earthly joye and sorrowsJ
and how many loved bones are being made
| desolate. :
Sunday morning. Sept 90.
l write this morning with a sad. cheer.
less heart Oh, the horrors of warI.Af
half past our division was ordered into
line on the double quick, and Inarcbed 90
the Left where the battle was raging With
undiminished ardor. Reaching our posi-
ton p. NJ were Immediately formed
behind the 9Th Ind. and 9th Ohio batteries.
Scarcely bad we got into position when the
troops 10 front of US gave way and came
rushing through our lines in wild cofusiou,
An Aid of Gen. Wood came up aud said to
Col. Bartleson Colonel, Gen. Wood wants
the lOOth TO make bayoneT charge upon the
advancing enemy" The word was given
and the bnye responded with cheer-and
charging we drove the enemy back across
a field ia the VOID when they rallied and
ard we endured II short but murdering
FIRE. The enemy in turn made q charge
upon our troops, and the regiment on the
left of the Tooth gave way ard retreated.
The Tooth still maintained their grouad
until all the troops on the right and left
retired. SOon we found the enemy were
surrounding us-had fsnkec our regiment
! ON the left and were pouring in their Ere
both IN front and left flank. We were COM
| PEELED 10 retreat, leaving many CT our brave
I
! We soon rallied and again drove the enemy
and again retreated aid again rallied.
Every inch ct ground was EOtly contested
! by both parties and as night closed the
Contest both sides had gained no pecepta-
Die advantage.
About o'cack this morning we were
aroused and changed pjsiti q, taking our
proper position on the left IN Crittinden's
! corps.
The casualties in the Tooth, during the
three and half hours we were in the 6ghE
were IL killed 100 wounded and &c miss
ing. In my company went into the battle.
with % guus and lost Is men 10 killed and
wounded, only two killed on the spot, 4 or
five fear are MORALLY wounded The rest
will get over it. have now only men
| in my con mand
O"ly two officers of cur regiment were
| woundOd-uOne killed. Lieut.. Col. Water
mae had Lis horse killed uDder him and
was himself wounded in the arm. Lieut.
Bartlett was wounded on the back of the
head ~
How any escaped is d wonder. The bull
let's fell like hai-stones. Many wko en-.
| capped had bullet brlas through their clothes
yet through 1t all l have not received q
scratch. "A
Monday morning, Sept 81.
Yesterday was disastrous day for our
cause. We were driven and defeated at
| all points. Our lpss 10 killed and wound
ed heavy, the enemy evidently outnum-
tering Us. The Tooth suffered terrikSv-
Oar CJlUnel is either killed or eaptureS-
The last that WIS seen Of him the eusmy
were IN king a charge uhen our lines aud
! were within a few rods of skirmishipg mar.
| ty who were with him-be gave the order
| &c FIRE and retreat and, we think, must have
been captured CAPT Borrell and Lieut.
| hTack, Gf Co. ID. were wounded, Daniel
Lnebarger and Miles Spagord, Of jackson
( q owe, we're both killed
! When the eOEDt was taken this morning
we had only SO men and ofi,sis N tke
! regiment, Sume few have ecrss % since.
Our iuss thus far during the battle win nor
fall short Of 200 in killed wounded and
missing.
The battle ragged furiously during the
entire day. the enemy continually fankine
1 Us and creating panic and cDnfnsien 10 our
! ranks. We continually rallied and re.
/ treated until at last it became q general
! roui towards Chattanooga. All SORT of or
! der, regiments, brigades. divisions,or corps
| was entirely lost, yet our men were nos
| panic struck Lat were gathered together
and Jetrested in good order. al-Ii
1t is impossible for me to give any com
prebensible account Of the battle Yesterday
as oily saw the movements of eur own
brigade and but little of that, as nv atten-
ton was occupied with my own men ana
the regiment.
Lieut.. Williams had his pony killed up--
der him and came neer being captured but
escaped uDharmed by making good use OF
his legs. IS. a-f 20 - - u ) ..
Chattanooga, Sept %
fear that Lieut.. Remission is killed.
| have seen or heard nothing from him
since the regiment made a charge upeu n
rebel battery. | learn that be Was last
seen with Col. Bartleson, and that thew
are killed or, if alive. are prisoners, as the
rebels were at the time within a few rods
of our men making q Desperate charge Oh.
on our retreating army and pouring i'm
yolley after VOllsy Of musketry. If they q
escaped it is q meriele.
learn that all the wounded IN the hos.
pitRls that were able to be moved were tai
en- to Chattanooga before the rebels cot:
hold Of them. and that surgeons vera d..
tached to take charge Of those left. - -
Lieut.. Col. Waterman is 10 Cbatteuoo1ss
doing we'll 2
l am almost tagged out and pretty we'll.
discouraged. feel as if our disaster would
?rOlong the war for long time.
- - 4 H.iB. GODDARD. ?
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