New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-08

staff grouped little-only htle-to the rear OF tne
advancing line look into each others faces ana smile
and nod their heads. and two or three auolply put
more to themselves than to their
| "Comrades tried In battles msny,"
say, "It's all right" That's good"
Yes il il right it is good" But there Is ces.
saton; therefore it is not yet decisive.
VIII this "damnable iteration Of musketry necer
cease this demoniacal "srek OF shot and burst OF
she'll and believing Of the mortar" cease to split
our earsi
| think how much the scene resembles Gainess Hill
two years ago. The getting red in the west
it is at my righand now. it at my efthand them
The same clouds Of dust and "whte internal powder.
smoke obscure the scene till with the gathering dark
ness it resembles my boysh conception Of the Nights
Pmtonian shore" Finally, after hour and half OF
| this tho noise of battling ceases.
| go to get my horse. which an orderly-a ogaint
| vcrmonter-has been grazing in the rank clover.
pretty big fuss in there" remarks the Green Mountain
boy. assent 81 guess folks wanted to go cont
in that direction and them Johnnys wanted to come
this way and they couldn't agree which should git eout
Of the road" Again / assent. III You'd been on
your boss few minutes ago you'd been off on him
meow" How sol" well. meow, II one o them
| shells didn't make him squat, an me 'tio :"
Ricketts, alone had been ubIe 10 thke anu hoiu
enemy's last line of works. Other divisions had ad
vanced far, and occupied the Rebel riilepits but
none save Ricketts, held Russell lost as many men,
but he advanced open ground half mile, subject
to sweeping fire. and could not get enough men across
TO hold the pits against the Rebel ebb tide. lie led
his own old brigade in person on this charge, and re
ceived slight wound in the arm.
The success Of the Sd Division (icketss 9Th Corps
la Laop cnn
sidered the peer Of it's two companion divisions It's
500 prisoners taken yesterday, and the following dis
patch from Gen Meade sent late last night make for
ii proud record The dispatch was read this morning
to the entire division. and is as follows:
JrSE l-9p. m.
To Major Gen. WRIGHT Please give my thanks TO Brig.
Gen ricketts, and hi, gallant command for the very handsome
The attained ~ them Of great importance and
follow ed up will materially advance our operations.
GO q MEADE, Major Gen eomGr
Devins's division, 18th Corps distinguished itsel
equally with Russels and Rickettss; II engaged
next in line to the latter and 1t impossible to dis
tinguish between their musketry. Cols. Drake and
Townsend Of this division were killed tie charge;
both wero officers OF conspicuous merit.
Brookss division advanced with the others and car
ricl the Rebel position but was at length compelled
to relnquish 1t from cncounerng an enhlading fire.
Martindae did not participate in the charge, but
warmly engaged administers, front and flank and loo.
numbers.
Neil was To have moved with he rest but Rebels
were discovered swarmng In the woods his flank.
II was suspected that they planting a battery
there and he had TO drive them out In doing sus-
pee, he rendered avery important SERVER.
From a 70 O'Clock the frout remained quiet. The
the enemy attempted 10 regain the things he had losi
by system OF hasty night attaeks-lrst at one point
and then OF another lie kept these up I'LL after III
o'cock sometimes though scarcely In earnest again
with a certain apparently terrible fury that in every
case expended itself in few minutes against stern
vigilance for which II Is no mitch.
This morning there have been few shots. large end
small bat the day hardly wear away without re-
newal OF the struggle.
The "a Corps Mancock's) has moved down during
the night and Gems. Grant and Meade, dusty as mum
mics with eight miles riding roads filed with tramp
ing troops and grinding trans. arc conversing with
Gen. Wright
As illustrating the systematic perfection which the
medical and ambulance departments have attained the
fact may DO worth stating that al OF the 9th Corps
wounded up TO 10 o'clock in the evening lad been car
ried on srechers to ambuances and In the anbuanees
10 hospitals two miles back. before O'clock only three
hours later Neither night nor the enemys pesky night
fighting prevented the stretchcr bearers mo searching
for finding. and bearing away the last man. There are
none Drawer than these One was killed
and five wounded Of those attached to the 9Th Corps
erday for they press the very front for the wounded
Twentysi Of them have becn killed and wounded In
this Corps during the campaign and scarcely less than
hundred in the army altogether There seems to be
abundance Of good and and abund
Of NIL needed supplies at the hospitals. The lsh
Corps however owing to its late organization. had to
borrow these TO some extent.
Twelve hundred Of the wounded win be sent to
White House this afternoon. The prisoners will also
be sent at the same time. Among themis Colonel Nc
Donald Of the 5ist North Carolina.
hope to transmit with this tolerably full list o.
killed and wounded. GAP.
ASSOCIATED PRESS AND OTHER ACCOUNTS.