Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-06-01
Wisconsin Men in Sherman's Advanee--Inei-
dents Of the Campaign

are not able to learn exactly what troops
from this state are at the front with him, but
we believe the following included Ihe
lst, Sd, 10th, 18th, 2lst, 24th, 18th and 26th
infantry, the lst cavalry, the 81, 9TH 9th and
9Th batteries of artillery. Correspondents
give some Interesting details OF the marches
and battles which have already occurred.
Speaking of the contest at Rocky Face
Ridge, the correspondent of the New York
Iriba9se says:
The top OF this Ridge is nothing but mass
Of broken rocks and lodges, sort Of hog :
back, not wider than a wagon track, along
which only three or four men can march
abreast. At intervals are abrupt ard rugged
lodges, so broken that horse cannot travel,
and men can only pick their way with Difficult
ty. A battle in the Alps could only equal
the contest now going on here, half way TO
the clouds, among rocks and stony gorges of
the hills. From this eyrie the whole country
lies like map beneath the eye, now, howey-
er, Obscured by thick haze, which over
spreads the lower hills and valleys. One
cannot visit this place without feeling how
almost hopeless the task must be to dislodge
and enemy thus entrenched by nature. The
position may be turned, but it seems diff
isades from the Hudson.
On the west side of Rocky Face the Goth
Illinois Volunteers pushed upward at posi-
ton toward the southern extremity of the
mountain, and some portion of the troops
reached within so yards of the Rebel rifle
men, who fell back to the two gaps or de-
pressions in the crest as the Union troops ad-
vanced. They finally reached perpendicu-
lar cliff, under which the Rebel sharpshooters
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began to throw stones and roll rocks down
upon them. Here they remained for some
time, within speaking distance, the Rebels
calling out to them in the choice phraseologv
of the chivalry.
A coporal of the Goth haIloed to the Reb-
els, and told them if they would stop firing
stones he would read TO them the Presidents
Proclamation. The offer was at first received
with derisive yells; but they soon became
quiet, and the corporal read TO them the Am
nesty Proclamation. When he came to some
part they did not approve, they would set up
a fiendish yell, as if in defiance, and then
send down an installment of rocks by way of
interlude. But the corporal kept on in spite
of these uncivil demonstrations and finished
the document, when there was another out
burst of yells, mingled with laughter, and the
old business of tumbling down the rocks and
firing was again resumed.
A. j. DAUGHERTY sends the Louisville
Journal a long and interesting account of the
operations of SHERMAN from the time he
started till after the battle of Resaca. We
make few extracts
After fighting all day on the l4th, about
ten o'clock at night French's rebel division
stole stealthiIy toward our line, and advan-
cling by column, attempted TO turn our left
\ fresh brigade from the heights was hur-
ried across the rolling ground below, and sue
ceeded after a desperate conflict in driving
the enemy back. The struggle seen from the
hills was grand beyond description. Lifted
above a line of battle, the musketry seems
like hammers and the sea OF sparks that fall
from the flame as it leaps from the mUZ-
zle like so many sparks from an anvil To
see a whole line firing, not by volley, but as
rapidly as the men may load, and at night,
abe line of flame looks like glowing chain
work that artisans are welding at the forge.
Listen TO 1t attentiyety, and one will say that
there are anvils employed Of different
weights. Some have a tinkling treble, and
others have a hoarse dull bass. Mingle with
this now, the bellowings of the artillery, and
the chime makes real music.
On the 18th Gen. SHERMAN determined to
carry high knob on the enemy's right. The
force chosen for the attack was led by
Gen. WARD, of Kentucky, the 10th Indiana
leading and the brigades of Gen. CoBURN and
Col. WooD, assisting. On the very summit
of this almost inaccessible knob, the enemy
had constructed a redoubt for four guns. Our
troops bravely stormed these works, pressing
through a storm of cannon shot and bullets,
entering embrasures, shooting the gunners at
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pet.
The correspondent gives the following ac-
count of what followed:
just in rear of the redoubt ran a splendid
line of rifie-pits, rising from behind wich the
rebels pour in such whitening volleys that we
were forced 10 retire from the work. Through
the interstices, now and then, as the breeze
carries off the sulphur cloud, the flag Is seen
waved by the faithful color-bearer.
Finding that the brigade was not strong
enough to carry the rife-pits, Col. Harrison
upon whom in consequence of the severe
wounding of Gen. Ward, the command of the
brigade Observation-Disclosures to withdraw
the troops under cover of the fort and hill.
As we were leaving, the rebels, thinking
we were repulsed, cheered Justify. This stung
the gallant color-bearer Hess, of the l29th
Illinois, ara springing back to the embras-
ure again, SLUOu anu uOdtGQ l-tt tOAOIS At4-
antlv at the enemy. Brave fellow, his death
atoned his rashness. A rebel leveling his
musket, shot him through his heart. There
were other hands to grasp the flag and it
cIme back only to return and wave from the
very spot where its former bearer fell.
The boys were determined not to let the
guns slip from their grasp, and about three
hundred huddled under cover of the redoubt,
and picked off every enemy that made an ef-
fort TO take them out Was ever battery
in such an anomalous position? Within grasp
almost of two parties, and yet itwould be al
most death to either to attempt their seizure.
There with straining eyes lay the dispu-
tants hour after hour, killing and manning
each other, and yet both determinedly cling
ing to the trophy. After dark the rebels
made charge for the battery, but the staunch
three hundred drove them back and retained
possession. About II O'clock at night the
800 men were released by q detail which with
spades widened the embrazures and dragged
out the guns.
Speaking of the attack on Rocky Face and
the etfecting of a Judgment there on the Sth,
the Journal correspondent says: " The 18th
Wisconsin regiment-the original old Norwe-
gians-ascended to the summit of the ridge