Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-06-10
FROM THE THIRTY.FIRST IOWA.
Casualties In Company b.

Casualties in Company b.
Correspondence Of the Gazette.
-,. - Two Miles 8. W. Of DALLAS, GEORGIA.
a May 2yth, is54.A {
EprroHs OF GAZETTE ~ wtote short let.
ter for the GAZETTE yesterday but am afraid
you will not receive it and will lnow write
again. We marched from Woodvlle, Ala.
on the 1st day of May, and arrived atSnake
Creek Gap, three miles above Resaca, on May
9th, where we bule rife pits to protect the
mouth of the Gap. On the 18th we gave
battle to the enemy at Resaca, During the
afternoon Serst. Nelson N. Blakeslee was
mortally wounded !; II. 7. Cooper received a
severe flesh wound in the right arm, and
James W. Burke severe wound in the left
foot. We left John Tyrrell at Snake Gap.
sick with congestion Of the lungs, and were
notified on the 18th that he died on the 18th,
after being sick only three days. On the
morning Of the 18th James Morrison was
unweil and we also left him 1t Snake Cap.
have since learned that he died in four or
Eve days'afterwards of hiccoughs. At Chat
tanooga j. o. Mills and w. M. Prouty were
unable to march farther and were left to
guard baggage which the boys Of Company
3 could not carry on the march. During the
I4th and l5thwe were under fire near Resa-
ca but sustained no further loss. On the nigh;
of the 10Th the rebels retreated from Resaca
On the Goth Geo. Bawn died ofsunstroke or
congestion Of the lungs, after being sick only
forty. eight hours. sDn the same day I'VE
skirmished with the enemy without loss and
took possession Of the town of Dallas. Same
evening we took position.in front of tho enc.
nv, and about one mile south Of Dallas. At
dawn Of day on the Goth Co. B relieved our
pickets for the purpose Of skirmishins with
the enemy. In less than fifteen Minutes az
forwards Frederick Jacob was severely woun-
ded in lower jaw and neck by musket ball.
Immediately afterwards an entire rebel rcg;-
ment came over ridge and drove in the
skirmishers on our left. 1t then changed d.
rection and marched on our left flank, the
boys all discharged their pieces into thur
ranks at sherts mango as fast aas they could
load them When the rebels ~canle within
100 to 1875 yards from us John Clough was
wounded through both jaws
and tongue by musket ball. We were then
obliged to fall back on our regiment, and in
dons.so Harlow Perry, James Watson, and
John Rarick were taken prisoners. As un-
derbrush'wss thick on the ground Lcannet
say whether they were wounded ornot. In
about an hour after our skirnish line was
but painful wound in the neck by a musket
ball. At 10 o'clock a. NJ. We were relieved
by other troops, and acted as q reserve until
4 o'clock p. NJ. of the 18th, when the rebels
were discovered advancing to charge the I'd
Division,e:, the 18th Corps. We immediate.
ly moved on double quick for about mile
and half to support tho I'd Division.-
When We took our position every man in our
regiment was found in his proper place al
though all were greatly heated and almost
out Of breath. By the time we arrived the
rebels had commenced the assault and in a
few minutes Hardee's Corps and one Divis
ion of Folks Corps had assaulted the entire
line Of the 18th Corps. THY advanced with
from two to four lines of their best troops
Parts of our line they charged vice and 9th
err parts three times, and each time our corps
piled them in heaps. During the fight bull
lets, shells, canister ard grape flew around
us thick and fast, but fortunately, this time
none of Co. B were hurt. The loss Of our
Corps on this occasion was trifling. i think
VIC did not lose more than 500 in killed and
wounded and no prisoners. General Logan
says he feels confident that the enemy's loss
was not less than 5000. This time We had
the advantage IF them. They met us at our
own rifle pits. The 4th and 3lst Regiments
iowa Volunteers are now on the extreme
right of the 18th Army Corps. Last night
we worked hard on ride pits and have now q
strong position. Last night about o'clock
the enemy assaulted Hooker on our left and
were repulsed with heavy loss. cannot say
positively, but from all can learn, l judge
we have Johnson's army nearly surrounded.
Many officers who rank high arc Of the opin.
ion that he has not more than 60, OCO troops
believe We have 12o 900 men. They still
manifest great stubbornnesss but their stub
borRness only makes the campaign interest.
ing for such men as Sherman and Logan
In battle we never saw man appear so well
as Logan. Yesterday he was half Peacock
and half Tiger. All the boys of Co. B, pres
ent, except Windsor Clayton are well, and he
is not seriously ill. The ranks of our Com
pany have been greatly thinned within the
last seventeen days; and each Of the surviv-
ing members of the Co. tenders to the rela-
tives of our fallen comrades a. soldiers. sympa-
athy. e..
During the present campaign we will not
be able to mail letters regularly.
RP. sPEER.
tNoIB-N - more thah prouiO'e TIM VIC "Ps"'" 70
incorrect where he that James Morrison Is dead
Mr. Arthur Morrison OF this place, the father Of James,
informs us tha, he received letter from him the same
evening that received the Captains and that his son
wrote that though he had been very deaths door, he
was then vering and considered Of danger We
most sincerely hope that this be true.-Eps. GAz.
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WESTERN MANUFACTURES. - The Special
Washington correspondent of the n. Y. 7ri-
5une, in a recent article says:
Grinnell of Iowa, in a good speech on the
tariff, called on the West to bring side by
side the wool growcr and the wool nanufac-
turer. He startled some New England men
by the statement that the West already bad
479 wooden mills to 453 in the East, and he
predicted that the cloth manufacturing EN-.
pire would he in the Upper Mississippi Val