The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-11

with heavy column of the enemy, Ian
on learning OF the miscarriage at u
salient, became alarmed for his left fianl
and having Immediately swung his lin
around almost squarely with its origins
position, encountered the enemy's tr
umphant advance. Charging in fine stylt
he drove it back after contest that mus
have cost it dearly. Ills North Carolini
ans thus won the glory Of being the frs
to stem the tide of Federal victory o.
the right
While the Stonewall Brigade tough
and fell back, that next on its left Hays
had time to swing round. Colonel Mona
CHAN, its senior Colonel, being in com
mand, it confronted the rushing advan c,
to the left. Stapdisg behind travers'
that extended perpendicularly from tht
original position Of the brigade, it presen
ted q front as firm as a ledge of rocks
The wave Of the enemy's triumph surged
up to that barrier; but having broken up
on it in mere spray, left the honor Of the
arrest Of its overflow on that side ofthe
field TO those houseless, warriors Of Loui.
siana.
Between Hays men ON the one side,
aud Lanes on the other, the Federalists
had driven all opposition from their path.
For width of mile they had swept the
works OF their defenders; but, thou ghcom-
plete masters within that limit, were con-
fronted by an impossible barrier on the
one hand and on the other. Pouring thro'
the gap they had made, their masses
formed rapidly from the right and from
the left, with the view of turning the
line of Hays on that side, and of Lane on
this, by pressure on these officers expos
ed hahks.
Apprehension Of attack during the
night on the front of Hays, had led to
the transfer to the support of the fine
brigade of Pegram. The other brigades
of the division under the command Of
at the time OF the
assault uSon the salient, half mile to
the lett. Springing forward without or
ders, Gordon moved at tdouble quick" in
the direction Of the fire that had burst
upon the dawn in sudden thunders. Rush
ing into the fog, he could see neither
friend nor foe; but, guided by the instincts
Of a soldier, still sped forward rapidly un-
der tile bidding Of the battles horsness
roar. The thick haze into whose un-
known depths he drove on, soon lit its
terrors, as he close into the
conflict, with lurid flashes; and, in the
rext moment, fisng out sheet of light
ling that hurled about the ears of his ad-
yancing ranks very tempest of bullets.
Gordon had come up in column. Gen
sral n. d Johnston's Brigade, first upon
,he field, he threw rapidly into lire ;and
it against the enemy through
he fog, checked the advance. Having
lrrested, thus, at one point, the surging
'anks of the foe, he sought to stop him
IS they swept around his right The tor
ent streaming rapidly in that direction,
le was about TO be borne back ~ tile
lank, when, bringing up al, own big
de, its firm linz presented to the river
ike rush an additional width of barrier.
The living food OF Federal triumph dash
ng against il in vain, swept still fai ther
round, again threatening the Confeder-
te right with destruction under rapid
nogement upon its flank. Gordon hav-
ng by that time brought up his third
acknowledgements formed it, under the
ommand of Colonel Huffman, somewhat
etached from the others, across the new
ront Of the cnemy's advance. The whole
me then delivered Il murdeious yolley in
. the dim masses of human life that
TODD before il shrouded--and very, very
lany of them winding-sheeted-in that
lornipg fog. Instantly seizing the col
rs of the centre regiment OF his own /.
rigade, Gordon spurred forward under a
Iorm Of bullets, ordering o charge. Ills =
len rushed upon the misty ranks that
ley had just cut gashes through with j
leir deadly fire. Their fury bore down t
II resistance. The charge had become !
hase. 1Iuddling the Federalists in s
eadlopg flight over the breastworks that Q
ad been held during the night by Stcu- {
It, that murderous race was continued II
n hal mile beyond. Opposition had d
before the pursuits; still. how n
fer it held its way in undated fury. "
tarting out suddenly from the fog upon 0
hostile force in line, Gordon's demand o
r surrender having, in the confusion OF {
S sudden appearance, obtained no reply, v
e Federalists fell where they had but a
moment before stood in lusty life, bat u
Q array of dead and dying N
The enemy still held the ground he az
ID won on Steuart's left. Gordon fal Ia
lg, therefore, back, occupied The works 4
} had carried SO gloriously. His charge g
ID cost the Confederates the services for Il
time of Brigadies General II. d. Johns rJ
ii. That gallant officer was disabled by 81
wound that is, however, not very severe. la
lionel Jones, a soldier OF high promise, Iii
i upon the field wounded mortally. to
eutenant Colonel M'Auther and Colo I'll
i Garrett, both officers of ability, gave &C
upon that field their life blood in OF
anly assertion of the liberties that W
We been handed down to them from bC
+ common ancestors of the days of Run u
ymeade. Terribly however, were the
lives lost in that movement II
enged. For a'width Of three hundred ie
rds the Federal slain were scattered M
er legth of three quarters of mile be
d, in all the open fields included with lit
that space, lay IN sickening slaughter. liz
ur guns that had been taken at the bI
ne Of the enemy's advance were, dur in
3 the charge, recaptured; and in the III
sence of horses, sent by manuel labor ht
|, some distance to the rear. so
The Federalists continued to hold their lar
ound in the salient; and along the line sis
works, to the left of that angle, within ar
'hort distance of the position Of Monag- SO
Ramseur's at
orth Carolinaians of Rhodes division Ca
rmed, covering Monaghan's right, and, he
dered to charged, were received by the sis
emy with a stubborn resistance. The ",