The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-04-28
NLw YORK, April 80

nation.
NLw YORK, April 80.
Stcrmcr Evening Star lrtm New Or.
leans 18th, Havana 18th, has arrived
The news is mcugrc.
Positive information had reached New
Orleans that there had been no more
| fighting since The acc, uuls already tcle-
grnphed.
Between 3CO and 400 wounded had ar
rived at New Orl,ans. Cotton dull OH
l6rL-7tit for strict middling.
The following from the NV Orleans
Era is an account Of the final victory OF
the Union forces
After some terrible fighting, at 7
O'Clock on Saturday morning, our forces
were at Pleasant Hill, and The r, bels
were advancing, with cavalry in front,
cndeovcring to discover cur osiiicn.
Col. o. =. Goodipg, with his brigade
of Lees cavalry corrs, was sent cut on
the Shreveport road to meet tho enemy
and draw them on.
lie had gone about a mile when he
came upon the rebel advance. Skir.
mishing Immediately con merccd, aud
according TO the plan, he slowly fell
back. The fight was very sharp be.
tween these cavalry bodies, aud Colonel
Gooding lost about 40 men killed and
wounded, inhicling, however, as much
damage as he received.
The 18th Corps was reserve in the
rear, under Gen. Cameron.
Gen. Ransom having been wounded
the day before, Gen. Smith was COM
muudcr-in- chief of the second lines back
of the crest, while Ger. Mower was the
commander Of the men. The command
cr of the right brigade in Gen. Smiths
west line was Col. Lynch. Tho left
brigade Col. Shaw's. The second line
also consisted or2 brigadcs.
Crawford's Sd Ind. battery was posted
on the right of the s9th Ind. infantry.
and the 9th Ind, battery on the line OF
battle. The Missouri Iron Sun battery,
and others whose names aud numbers
we could not ascertain were also in this
section Of the battle.
Tho skirmishing was kept up with
considerable vigor until about 5 o'clock
in the afternoon, when the rebels had
completed their arrangements for the at
tack.
At about this hour, Gen. Emcry's skir
msh line was driven in on the right by
the rebels, who appeared in large force
coming from peiee of timber which par
TALLY concealed them. They soon
reached the open ground, and moved on
TO the attack in 3 lines of battle.
Our batteries and infantry opened up
on their advancing column with terrible
effect, doing great slaughter with grape
and canister, while the encmy's artil-
lcry, being in the woods and in bad posi-.
ton, did scarcely any damage.
Col. Dencdict's brigade on the left
was first engaged, soon followed by
Dwight's and McMillau's.
Tbs fighting was terrific, old soldiers
say il never was surpassed for dcspcra-
ton. Notwithstanding the terrible hav.
&C in their ranks, the eneny pressed
tiercely on, slowly pushing the men o f
the 18th corps up the hill but not break
ing their liue Of battle. A sudden aud
bold dash Of the rebels on the right gave
them possession of Taylor's battery and
forced our line still further back. Now
Game the grand coup dc main. The
10Th, on arriving at the top of the hill,
suddenly filed over the hill and passed
through the lines of Gen. Smith.
We must here mention that the rcb.
els were now in but two lines of battle.
The first having been almost annihilated
by Gen. Emcroy. What remained hay.
ing been forced back into the I'd line,
but these . lines came on excellent aud
sure ofvictory. The first passed over
the knoll and all needless of tho long
line of cannons and croaching forms
pressed on The I'd line appeared on
the crest and the death signal was sound
ed. Words cannot describe the awful
effects OF this discharge Of seven thou.
sand rifles and several batteries of arlil.
lery loaded to the muHrle with grape and
eannester, were fired simultaneously and
the whole centre of the rebels line was
crushed down aud frightlully mungled