The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-06-04

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The. special. correspondent of the New
York Times, writing on Friday, gives the
following vivid account Of Haucock's great
charge upohltbs eaems's WoFksE .Gs
s. 81 have just raturnea. from the sqeRe Of
Gen. Hancock s brilliant victory OF Thurs
pay morning. At lie point at which his
assault was made, the rebelsbreastworks
formed an angle or salient, and his msn ad-
vanced silently and, without firing shot,
Feniefed tbs works aak tina salieB t5and swept
eb the insideof the right makiDg the splPn-
did haul of prisoners already known to you.
Unfortunately, the supporting line cheered
when nearing the works, otherwise we
would, The prisoners tell US, have captured
both Generals EWell and Lee. .aada s =
"The assault was made between four and
FIVE Q clock, in the grey of the morning.
Barlow's division, which had the advance,
Miles brigade leading, went up in column
by battalion double on the center, Birney IS
division in two lines of battle, and the d.
visions of Gibbon and Mott in the. second
line supporting. The storming column
rushed over the enemy's breastworks, which
we're exceedingly y strong, with ditch in
front, aand. drove the enemy back for mile.
Here the enemy rallied, and at a. m. Han
cock returned and formed his line Of battle
in the enemy's works. AS this was the key
to the whole position, outright was grad
ually FUSED, and the main body Of the
army massed on the left. The 9Th corps,
(Wright's,) which had been on the right of
the %, withdrew behind their skirmish line
and united with Hancock, IS right, and after
wards two divisions of sWarren's were
brought. over. The histOryof the day af
ter six o'clock in the morning. is. all sum
med UG 10 FIVE Successive and ferceassaults
which Lee made To retsk5 the lost position.
-"At first Ewel1'ss corps alone confronted
Hancock, bat during the day Hill and Long
street were drawn over from the rebel left,
and the whole army Of Lee flung itself in
FIVE desperate efforts to recapture the
breastworks. But it was all in vain, as ev-
cry assault met with a bloody repulse and
heavy loss.
$50 terrific was the death grapple, how
ever, that at different times of the day the
rebel colors were planted on one side of the
works and ours on the other, the men fight
ing across the parapet. Nothing during the
wal. has equalled the savage desperation of
this struggle, which continued for fourteen
iOuISs duu Tue SGCIS VI lAlC SOuAlCtJ 4lOLIl
which have just come, presents specta-
Gle of horror that curdles the blood Of the
boldest
''The angle Of the works at which Han
cock entered, and for the possession Of
which the savage fight of the day was made,
is a perfect Gogotha. In this angle Of
death the dead and wounded rebels Vie, this
morning, literally in piles-men in the ag-
onies of death grooming beneath the dead
! bodies of their comrades. On an area Of {
! few acres, in rear of their position, lie not
| less than a thousand rebel corpses, many
torn to shreds by hundreds of balls, and
several with bayopet thrusts through and
Through their bodies, pierced on the very
margin of the parapet which they we're de-
termined to re-take or die in the attempt
The one exclamation of every man who
looks on the spectacle is, God forbid tina
should ever gaze upon such sight again.
"Hancock's movement is regarded here
as the most brilliantly conceived and exc
cuted tactical operation Of the war, and ha:
added to the splendid fame be won in tn,
three days fight in the Wilderness. Ate
the turning movement of the morning, thu
9th corps and two divisions ofthe 2d should
be included in the history of the day. The
share the honors of the glorious but bloody
field of Spottsylvania. Our loss of yester
day must have reached ten thousand