Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-07-27

NEAR CHATTAHooCHEE RIVER, Ca,
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NEAR tHA8IAHbOClIEE RIVER, IA,
July 9, 1864.
In my last | related the particulars of a
charge III which u part of our regiment par
| ticipated, on the 18th of June, and which
cost Us heavily. l viii now relate our subse-
| quent adventures.
After several days Smelling the woods in
/ our front, where our boys made the charge,
/ the rebs gradually falling back from line to
| line as each grew too hot to hold them, it
! was decided to make another advance, and
| on the morning Of the 10Th the various regi-
mcuts of our corps began to move forward.
/ Crossing over our late battle-ground we
| marched through the thick brush, over quite
a number Of steep hills, through double
line OF empty rihe-pits, sitting under the crest
| of little hill TO endure a two hours deluge
| of rain, then moving by the left flank through
| openings in the woods, where the rebels had
| exhausted their ingenuity in telling trees and
| brush So as to block up and prevent the pas
! sage Of any hostile forces, through more rifle
pits, finally hating near q rebel fort, where a
double row of pointed stakes forbid i nearer
approach. However, as the builders had
skedaddled, we quietly pushed the obstrue-
tions aside and took position in the de-
serted works, using the logs to make other
/ works for our better protection. Before
finishing them we were ordered TO make
another advance. which, after repeating our
former adventures among logs, trees, hills
and abattis, brought Us to another and still
stronger line Of works, the fourth entered
since leaving our camp in the morning. Do
not suppose that no opposition had been
made to our advance. Shot, shell and bull
lets had const5 ntly beer On the hunt for US
in a remarkable interesting manner, but, for
juuaIgly, without doing very great damage
Upon reaching this fourth line of works, We
laid down behind them, taking baptism the
second, while bullets sang around Us right
merrily.
In the morning our batteries, which had
taken position on the TANKS of our brigades,
opened fire upon the rebels-whose batteries
could plainly be seen upon the crest of the
mountain overlooking us-which was re-
turned with considerable spirit for a while,
after which they became silent, and our boys
had il all their own way again.
We remained quietly in our new position
/ until the morning of the 22d ulL, the rebels
apparently paying little heed TO Us, but Civ
! ing great attention to the proceedings of our
troops far TO the right, when they suddenly
began to she'll the tents and fys of regimen
tal and brigade headquarters, tearing a tent
fly on one side and a shelter tent on the
other side of our Coloners tent, sending a
shower of dirt over the table where a few of
our officers were eating, causing them to
scatter in great disgust and rather rapidly TO
| a safer place. damaging the understanding of
a horse and a mule, whose brains were at
once Knocked ont, 10 save doctors bills,
while the rest Of u . laid low" not caring to
receive any of the compliments so lavishly
/ showered upon Us.
Next day We dug line of rife-pits some
fifty steps in advance of the line, strengthen
ing it considerably otherwise, so as to make
ourselves more secure from shot and shell, or
the more insidiOus bullet.
During the night of the 26thult., we moved
"a little 10 the right, and went to work
7! streugthing the bredstworks and closing up
the line of rife pits, so as TO make them into
an advanced line of breastworhs. Next
morning another charge was ordered by Gen
HHisLV, or somebody else, 10 be made by
four companies of the SD Indiana, of our
brigade, ar order which was obeyed, result
ing in the death of one captain and the cap
ture Of another, the death Of one or two lieu
tenants. and the killing, woundlng and cap
turing of about - rank and file, ana the rapid
retreat Of the rest, loudly cursing the officers
who sent them to charge up the side OF a
precipitous mountain where the rebel rife
pits, perched upon inaccessible walls OF rocks,
sHowered death and defiance upon them.
Ioward evening of the lSt of July the
/ Iepcis exposed flag Of truce in their pits at
/ the 1905 OF the mountain. when, upon in
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come up and bury their dead When it Is
recolleeted that tAey buried none of those
who fell IN the Charge of the 10Th of June,
belonging TO eltasJ army, but left them for Us
10 inter when we advanced To the occupation
of the ground, II seemed strange that they
should make such proposition; but the OBJ
ject sought by them soon became apparent,
when the flag was ordered back by our pick
ct officer, as their whole line of pits at the
foot of the mountain opened fire upon our
skirmish line, with an uproar that was awful.
The time occupied in receiving the flag OF
truce had been used TO cover the approach
of large force of rebels, who crept down
the side of the mountain into their pits, pre-
paratofy to opening heavy fire upon our
boys | think they soon became satisfied
that they had I" walked the wrong passenger,
as batteries from all directions took UP the