The Camden daily journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1864-1864, 1864-11-12

but the fighting still goes on although W. have
stopped driving the enemy, who is by this .ime
pushed back further than Middletown on a
line extending from the left of it.
All this is,vcrv well, bnt pending tins time
another work goes on that is tar, very far from
being G;1itc as Sontl. The number OF our men
plundcrlng in the camps increases every hour;
the. provost guard carries off batch of them
to the front, b'.t larger number oozcs out
from The ground, which they soon cov"r like
one of the seven rIa"ucs Of Egypt-th locusts,
should say. All csc mon are so confident
that the enemy is whipped that they. cny
wan. to secure their share of the booty. But
alas war is Il game t!iat'two can play The
YANKEES ar" not quite blind there arc many
hills and submits from whch they can spy
the bread cNpausc OF tIlos. cleared grounlS:.:-
They now know exactly what is orr strength,
they have seen every man We have in the field,
anl !hcv see tlr.ir former camps swarrnin~
with om frrchotrrS. So they know our
Str,.Ew,:, and ihry know a.su their own, which
we do not know. Tirv can bring some fresh
troops and We cannot: on the contrary, our
:ari, now hc~in to feel the brunt of the burden,
for they have hc,n up a!l night AMI been fight
ing all day. The Yankees bring up new
line at about one hour and quarter before
sunown; t:cv I',sh it to the front and our
'lcti division (';,r!"nS) gives way. They give
! way, yes, hut li.at is nothing, God bless thcm;
the lest ": men n'nst give WAY some times, but
why don't they rally say, why. don't they
r"iiv. Tor lrs is onr only trouble and misfor-
tune on that i'll tci 10Th If October. But
rally they won't see thrrI 60 back nncon-
ccrncd. Just as quietly us if nothing was the
matter They 'Io no, reply al,vthng to off.
-, l,.l !, ~, shot,.
poised in their lands a> II they we're dcjIoviuq
becArnrdv as s;>ir'nis!,rr*. In the meanwhile
the Yankees lose no sine; it is now their turn
to 90 onward! Kcr>liaw's division now has
struck it gives way, too, in its turn, after
having tried hard to stand its ground, nothing
l"ltcE nothing more noble, as long as it did
fight, but now it has given way like Gordons,
and like C"r'lons it wont rally. Our artiIle-
", III general, did we'll they tried to re-es,ab-
lisll the hit and twice made sand-at surh
points too, where VIC might have had the vail
tag" wrouul over the Yankees but there waS
no r,l:y-no rally Of brigade; no rally OF IL
regiment; no rally Of Il company-thc whole
arm; confused i4llo Il ramc!csS, Shapclrss mass
OF n,r,:, going back, back all the time The
i;uo! i:!crc;ls cS IN depth as We reach the turn
,,:>r; the artillery, thc alnuance;, wagons,
al; ra;,ic down =: first II Il decent latc, at
cnc! Walk, l;nd Of .Gcntcn'aniy stampede
la, q few sh~S that come bursting right over
our herds gives lis an additional speed. We
:rr runanw i turn of the road, a projection
irnn The shells, and We walk again. | never
s,,w y: ,,rr:t,n, "f more sell: i:pos-rssc crowd of
>Ir"','nia,% l;,ry were II" more scared, sir,
a!iI nn lpr, .:,.nr,i iI,aA if there Ia,! not
teen parlir;" o! '":'=rr y: d;sGracc in their
rr"'lira.,,c:,;. Finally, III ntI rotten bridge
give. way, 'hrrr is a dead l>rk, "nl artillery,
Wagons and a,nhulaircs are there for The Yam
KEGS. They i.crl not strike lick to have
thcm---ail they have TO do is to come down the
road where they are stuck, and t':cirs they arc.
ln.that way we lost thrty-nnie Of our own
pieces, hcsidcs cc't 'c that captured, end
God knows how many wagons and ambulanccs
All thosa, trains might have been sa"cd ly
force of two hundred skirnishers, but it could
not Ic got. They were tired; they were
p!ay"tl ont they had enough Of it--pur men!
will add. howcvcr. that but for tie loss
of matcria! the advantage Of the day would still
l'c on our side. We have severely crippled
that Yankee ar,nv, You may depend upon it,
Our a,1ny Of the Valley is made of sp"ndctl
material, hut thc'wcar and tear of this loIg cam
lmign has told with terrible effect upon its or
ganization. Take, for instance Kcrshaw's di-
|. vision; it went into the fight without a single
1n ,n,nop,l,,r Gill +L, mon f,u,ht ,,r,.