The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-11

y dered to charge into the salient, its chic
: as he rode at the head of its left win
Q received Minnie bullet in the thie
= The femoral artery cut, he had hard
time to say, "Carry me back, bows
I when the poor fellow had bled to deaf
; Two OF his regiments had beer, at Il
! time, rushing at the works on the rigb
: under the direction of gallant an
promising young officer now commandin
the brigade, Col. j. G. Saunders. The
succeeded in making lodgment in th
detences on the left of Gorden. Tb
other three regiments, bounding on I
the left as Perrin fell, swept also withou
opposition into the breastworks on tn
right OF the men of Harris and McGowan
The width held by the enemy at the sa
! lient had thus been reduced TO about on
hundred yards but, included within it
at the apex, a battery of artillery that
captured in the morning, swept bott
sides by the enfilade. Captain Wynne
the Adjutant General of Perrin's brigade
attempted to communicate with the Colo
mel commanding; but, yenturing klessly
!, with that view across the immediate rear
OF the salient-Awhere nothing human
could apparently survive--returned to
the left, after having run ths gauntlet of
the enenly's skirmishers, with q painful
wound in his arm. Saunders. in the
meantime, threw out some of his Ala.
bamians as sharpshooters and by the ac
curacy of their aim, succeeded in silepc-
ing the guns that had been hurling she'll
into his ranks in deadly enfilade. Open
ing again, from time to time, they burst
upon him repeatedly but in o moment
afterwards the hands by which they had
been worked fell under his unerring ri
fies, stiff in death. The enemy's grasp
upon the "double sap" at the angle Of
the salient, still undisturbed, Col Saun-
ders maintained his ground, in this way,
on both sides of it, with admirable reso-
luton.
From four o'clock in the morning until
halfpast one, the struggle within the
salient had ragged with terrible fierceness.
At the expiration of that time it sank in
TO comparative lull The roll of the
heavy misunderstanding went on without
in ntermission, however, around that angle
Of blood, and swelled, after brief break
in the main contest, into the furious roar
,f-a renewed attack. The restored front
on each side OF the salient burst into
,hread-like flashes; and from two o o'clock,
throughout the evening and nightfall |
Until midnight, and from midnight until
he approach of the dawn of the 18th,
lose and rapid fusilade rushed up in
roar from the contending
anks. At one time bursting through
he gap on Go.don's right, and endanger-
ng his flank lat others raging up to the
cry face of the works held by that Off
er, by Sanders, MCGOWAN, by Harris, by
,attle, by Ramseur, the conflict ragged
uriously until, the enemy repelled firmly
I all points Of his attack, it settled, long
fter midnight, into the sharp and veno
nous whizzings of the skirmishers.
The four guns that Gordon had cap
ured still remained two hundred yards
n his rear. They could not be removed
nder the terrible fire that swept over
he ground they occupied. Fourteen
uns remained in possession OF the enc
ny, and with those four, constituted sub.
tantially the only object of continuing
ne murderous struggle for the salient.
he conditions of that contest lad chang
d Lees policy Of defence for that of at
lck and had thus made a further main
finance of it highly inexpedient. A ma
-lldl vi opiiO lii " +,
ne enemy, lay in the possession of the
eight on which the salient stood but
zen this did not, in the opinion of the !.
ommander in chief justify an ayoidable
aste Of the lives of his men. Before !
avn, on the morning Of the 18th, q line
works had been thrown up by the pi
ncers Of the End corps, under Major
reen, half mile in rear Of the point TO
hich the contest of the day had been
arrowed and, connecting the original |
eicnces on the right with those on the
It, by a route considerably shorter. pre-
nted favorable position for the return
the policy of defence. Covered Ly
.irmshing, the gallant fellows who had .
ught their way SO stubbornly over the \
oody ground within the salient, into .
e works that had been captured by the y
emy in his rush of the morning OF the y
tn, retired before day on the 18th to a
at new line. y
In The battles Of the Ny no officer :
ined such glory as Gen. Gordon. His .,
mirable flank movement at the Wilder n
IS, his repulse of the enemy's rush j,
rough the position of Dole, and his ),
sh and skill in stemming the Federal h
rent from the salient on the 18th, won
9 admiration Of the army. Gen. Lee
knowledged, on the field publicly, the az
Eat services of that officer, and, inform p,
, him at the time that he should ask for lie
promotion, has had him rewarded with M
. rank of Major General. r.
The battles, ending with the morning 10
the 18th, had closed. A more stub in
IN contest than that of the 18th has pC
{ been witnessed during the war. The lie
ses of the Confederates include be-
cen two and three thousand prisoners, TO
hteen guns and from six to seven w
,usand killed and wounded. Those Of w
) enemy in the conflicts of the 10th re
i 10Th, including as they do the disas- th
at the hands Of Early's flanking force, er
the murderous repulses from the front th
Field, and from that of Dole. and the
rible havoc Of Gordon's charge on the 81
hit of the salient, cannot have been We
5. in killed and wounded, than from be
pnty to thirty thousand. The rotting th
id found on the ground the Federalists OF
.upied during those contests presented an
pectacle utterly horrible in the inn pc
nsity Of their number. During the ou
npaien the losses in Ewell's corps, &C tn
ding to an official statement Of the th
eff OF its medical staff-Dr, Hunter sol
guire--does not exceed in killed and If
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