Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-10-06

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again repulsed, after they had approach
ed within 80 rods of them unpreceiyed
E The hospitals we're promptly remove
f nearer to the line of works, and agait
there was a luI. Passing along iron
this point Of the left of the line Of battl
, of the 18th Corps, the whole front of th
10th Corps, which was changing from
its position Of reserve Of last night, to /;
4 line Of battle at right angleswith the lef
of the 18th, was rapidly reconnoiteree
by the rebels, followed up by genera
attack. For time the firing was very
heavy, but the enemy was gradually be-
ing repulsed, when they discovered a
gapin our lines and promptly. availed
themselves Of it, by pushing an over
whelming force through it bearing
down all opposition and gaining the
woods between the two corps, prepared
to destroy them by detail.
| The rebel leaders informed their in
furiated and drunken soldiers that The
time had now come for them to take ven
geance on the troops who had burned
their houses, insulted their wives, ter
rifed and robbed them and their child
rem and destroyed their property on the
great Meridian Expedition of last
February; that they had our flank tur-
ned, aud now to ''go for them.'' n "
| Forward they rushed, like. some
mighty river which suddenly became
swollen by storms of rain, dashes madly
against every obstacle, carrying away in
its deathly grasp all opposcrs, 50 charg
ed the rebels. sDefling out of the woods
they assaulted the rear of the 18th
Corps with unexampled fury. Charging
over the same ground that our forces
passed over in the fight Of yesterday.
they took our boys at disadvantage,
and caught them without any protection.
They had prepared for an attack in front
but not for 'fre in the rear" Quick
as thought however came the order,
"Cross the works, when our brave fel-
lows cleared them with an agility wor-
thy of remembrance, and then stood
ready to receive the desperate and mad
dened foe. At the word, the whole line
opened fire, and for a few minutes, min
utes which seemed hours, perfect hur-
ricane of bullets swept through the reb-
ell bordes. The demoniac yelps with
which they charged, died awayto be re-.
placed by the groans Of the dying and
wounded, as the discounted liue fell back
under the cover of the woods Il gfiagd
But a new danger awaited our gallant
men. Another line Of grizzly demons
was charging from the direction of At
.lanta, taking them again in the rear, but
their design was prevented by recrossi,sg
the works, and pouring in deadly vollies
into their scrried ranks, until they fell
back likewise in confusion, leaving the
ground almost covered with their dead
and wounded ts.srfa ~
Far away on the left, the rebels had
opened with artillery upon the 10th
Corps, the teamsters had fed with their
teams across the railroad to the right,
in the rear Of the army of the Cumber-
land except few unfortunates who had
been gobbled teams. loads and all. The
hospitals had again been moved, to get
out of the way of the broken hardware
SO carelessly flying about them, the line
Of battle was falling back so as to con-
solidate itself with the 18th Corps,
while the rebels were doing their best to
widen the gap between the two Corps, SO
as to isolate or route one or both, and
utterly defeat them. aaa.a /
Gen. Mcpherson riding to where the
conflict ragged the fercest, met the liv-
ing stream of traitors as they poured
through this gap, and fell, pierced with
bullets. Swiftly the news sped along
the line that the beloved commander was
killed, and men's S hearts failed as the
firing in the rear drew nearer and loud
er at every moment. Rallied and re-
formed by their generals, the enemy
made most tremendous assault upon
the 4th Division of the 18th Corps
Gen. Gersham, who had commanded il
since leaving Decatur, May 9th, had
been severely wounded in the action of
the Goth and taken to the rear, while It