The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-06-28
THE LATEST NEWS.
BIZ LAST NIGHTS NAIL.

burg on Saturday week
This division, Joined to at least two
corps of Lees army, Hills and Long
i streets
! Wise's brigade, and reinforcements
from North and South Carolina, under
4 Beauregafd, unquestionably swell the
free opposed to considerable numb. r.
Under date of June - halfpast s
+ o'clock. he said Last night the sixth
+ corps had moved to the leftand nnassed
to the Wilderness House.
This morning Wilson and Kautz's
I cavalry had cut the Weldon railroad SO
that orders were at once given to sus
pend the demonstration in that direc-
ton and swing the left Of the ID corps
round so as to deYelope the enemy's
works in front of Petersburg without
regard to the connection of the sixth
corps upon the left. The principal por- /
ton of the corps was soon moving fur
Their to the front Gibbon, already in
position and entrenehed for last night. |
had advanced as near the eneuy's en- /
! trenchments as he could get, without /
bringing on a heavy fight.
Mott and Barlow pushed forward /
their lines of battle with heavy Skin |
4 nlish in front, was partly in position, /
and entrenching, and Barlow was near
I ing the crest in front Of the rebels. 1
when he encountered a heavy force Of !
the enemy marching down in column 1
/ brigade, with the intention Of piercing /
I our position at an interval which now
4 existed between the left of the I'd corps
/ and the right of the 9th, I'd, Sd and 4th /
/ brigades of Barlow's division formed in
/ front line, the front brigade, under
Gen. Miller, being held as a reserve.
In this assault by the enemy, the
rebel Gen Wilcox division marching
in three brigades, led the advance of
Hills veteran corps.
1t was early in the afternoon when the
head of the rebel column struck at
once the right of the Sixth and the
/ left of the Second corps. The rebels
/ pushed on with Characteristic pertina-
city, and the shock was soon felt on
the TANKS Of both these corps. The
| position which they occupied rendered
it imperstisely necessary that they
should Immediately withdraw the
tanks that were thus exposed, and fill
up the existing gap by making a con
nection with each other along the line
of entertainments in the rear
While this was being done the enemy
inflicted considerable damage on our
men by murderogs fire, and captured
several hundred from us
The assaulting column came down in
a diagonal direction, and as it happen
ed struck the TANKS OF the divisions
which were disconnected, and hence
the disastrous consequences ensued.
This forced the retirement of Barlow,
the partial withdrawal Of Mott and
part of the left Of Gibbon, and the loss
Of four guns.
The moment the rebels appeared in
sight Mcknight opened on them with
canister. They separated in front and
coming in on the right and left, com
pletely surrounded the guns.
A rebel color bearer immediately
planted his colors on the parapet
Capt Mcknight and Lieut.. Bull, both
scorned the summons to surrender, and
fired several rounds of canister at the.
enemy, with rebel flag floating by
their battery.
Both these young officers distinguish
ed themselves, but it was impossible to
take them of the field
The enemy swept down over the
ground our troops had left taking quite :
a number of them prisoners. As he adj
vanced, pursuing on still IN diagona-
direction, column came to the assist
ance of Gibbons, the left of which suf-
fsred somewhat from the attack The
right held its position with determined
courage and poured murderous fire
into the advancing forces. The mus
kerry was terrific ON both sides. !
AS the enemy swept over the angle
which marked the left Of the dividing
line he enveloped battery of 13 inch
guns which occupied an advance posi-
tion behind the parapet, and almost be \
fore the officers were aware Of the stu h
alton of affairs, the artillery was practi {
eally in the enemys hands IL was
Capt. Meningitis battery.
In the mean time Capt. Clark, Of the :
First New Jersey battery, which was
posted in breastworks further 10 the
right opened on the enemy and con
tributed considerably to check their 2
further advance. I
The rebels quickly turned upon Us Z
the captured guns, and at the same time
concentrating fire of some twenty I
other pieces on Capt Clsrk's single
battery.
The works in which this battery was
placed were well battered by the solid
Shot which came pouring over in quick
succession from the Notifications Of the
rebels.
While this active work was going on
at the right of corps, part of the rebel
attacking column, which by this time
had deployed in line of battle, was still 6
pressing upon the left The interval
between the right Of the Sixth corps
and the left of the Second corps was
gradually growing greater from the fact
that the inperiled Hanks thus exposed
10 the enemy were slowly getting away,
when Miles brigade Of Barlow's divi-
sion, which was in reserve, came up on
the deuble-quick and one regiment was
sent forward through the woods to
check the enemys advance, whilst the
remainder of the brigade was formed
behind the breastworks to FL up the
interval in question.
At the same time Lieut.. Roders bat
terry of Fcnrth IT. = army wheeled into
position with commendable celebrity,
and the infantry and the artillery soon
checked the further progress of the
enemy at that point
Scarcely had these dispositions been
effected before the rebels made another
attempt to pierce our lines at a little /,
TO the right of that point, but the at
tack was calamity repulsed
We took a number of prisoners.
Amony them many wounded Casu-
alities were not heavy, however, on
either side, because the rebels did not
cross FIRE in front Of the bfeastworks,
behind which our men were posted
About seven O'Clock in the evening .
an effort was made BY Gen Gibbon with :
one Of his brigades, supported by one
from Griffin S. Of the Fifth corps, to re-
take the lost guns OF the Twelfth New
York.
The attack was very sharp and spirit
ed. but failed to accomplish the design.
Hs&DouARTERs Army P0ToNAc, :
June ., An
The only hghting that took place to-
day was an attack made by the enemy
on General burnside. bat whether in