The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-06-11

10y PiASOuefS were taken, and none LOST
our loss is set down at about $50, in tn
exact number in the 18th Corps was 23S.-
me ngures given above include. on boil
sldes, The killed, wounded. and captured
ana on our side also, the trivial losses by
sklrmshing on the two subsequent days.
among the commissioned officers killed or
our side were Colonel Dickerman. Of thu
aOaa Illinois; Major Geisy of the 10th Ohio
ana ana Lieutenant Lowell, Of the 9th Ohio
me body Of Major Geisy has been EN-.
6almed, and sent home to his friends
captain Congers, OF the cath Illinois, and
captain McRae, Goth Indiana, were severe
~ wounded. On the morning of the 3Oth.
alsO,a stray shot from skirmisher slightly
grazed General Logan on the left arm, and
entered the right breast of Colonel Taylor,
cn1ef OF artillery to General Mcpherson,
!nnlctlng very painful wound, though, it
10 thought, be will recover.
There have thus occurred. since the open-
ing OF the campaign south Of the Etowah
river, up to the evening of the 18th, three
seperate affairs which approached almost
to the dignity of battles. On the afternoon
OF the 18th, the enemy attempted to resist
me advance Of Hooker in the center; on the
27th they attempted to turn the left flank.
under Gen'l Wood, and on the 18th. to turn
the right, under Mcpherson. An honest
statement of the facts compels the ack n0wl-
edgment, that in the first they succeeded
substantially, though the affair wore a suf-
hclently brilliant aspect from our having
carried the first slight line of works, and
carried OH the pursuit with so much elan.
till we were rudely halted by the artillery
and heavier forces Of the second. Our los
SEES, too, here, being the attacking party.
ana encOuntering severe discharge Of can
lister, with none to answer it, was, dOub t-
less, heavier than that Of the enemy. So in
the second. Here we had little available
artillery, and met formidable fire from,
every species of arms. 1t cost us heaRy
loss, but it was imperatively necessary to
stop the enemy's advance. But in the ac-
ton on the right it was better. The results
were equally good, while the losses were
Tar lighter, and the enemy suffered in an
inverse ratio. Not that the troops were
any Drawer on the right, or the fighting any
better, for they were not, nor could they
be; but they fought on the defensive.
NAY 29.-After having remained in DO
sition before the enemy three DAYS. and
tested pretty thoroughly his strength and
disposition, and ascertained that the passes
were too strongly fortified to be carried
without an unnecessary loss of life, the de-
termination seems to have been formed to
march the whole line Of battle by the left
flank, and then, by a sudden massing of
troops, to effect passage by certain roads
. y
was to have been carried out quietly and
secretly during the night of this day. But
in some way, the rebels were informed of
the design, or at least strongly suspected
it and succeeded in postponing its execu-
ton. This they did by noisy and bun
combe attacks with artillery and musketry
upon the right center and right, which they
made at frequent intervals during the
night, and with so much apparent fury
and purpose that our Generals deemed It
unwise to attempt the movement. It is an
axiom Of war that q flank march in front
OF the enemy is the most dangerous that
commander is called upon to make, and
should always be covered with the utmost
secresv. Though the enemy's fire was ne
aimless and vain in the darkness
Of the dense forests, still il was not known |
to what it might lead; and as it showed that |
our plan was discovered, the men Law quiet
in their works, and allowed the skirmish. |
ers and the cannon to make reply. And |
reply they did, with a mighty emphasis
Five or six batteries OF thunderers gave |
forth into the still midnight air Of GeOr.
gia such sounds as they were little wont
to hear, and AS their deep voices |
far and wide, through
the forests, they admonished the impudent
rebels, in tones which were not to be mis-
taken, of the potency Of the monster they
had awakened from his slumbers. As we
lay ludt UlSut, Oh our SlecpleSS OeU OF
leaves, while an occasional Minnie sput-
tered through the leaves overhead, and the |
loud believing of the cannon made the |
whole air quake, we had slight earnest Of /
1.-THE pride, the pomp, the circumstance of
glorious war; The result Of all this noise |
and fury was, as might have been expected, |
very slight, twenty men wounded on our
side, and probably q greater number on the |
other. The attack on McPherson's line was
equally impudent and empty. 1t was re-
peated three several times, and caused q
loss equally trivial with our own.
May 3Oth. The last nights work had
the plans for this day, and
here must be new consultations, new
irawing Of lines on the maps, new calcula-
ions of chances and balancing of proba-
bilities and, meantime, the great army
les quiet, and the day is distinguished for
1othing except the endless skirmishing
md picket firing. Will they never have
lone with that popping and peppering Of
runs? Are our ears made of leather. and
,ur nerves Of tanned leather3 Beside all
hat, there is great danger that somebody
will get hit.-Cbyrespondcnce CHM. Com
nerciol.