The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-12-10

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but few days before to amember ofLee's
| staf, afterward captured by US. ''or will
make them double quick into Nashville
| Here was his chance. The Yankees
wore in line of battle before him and al
though it may be teat they would have pre-
ferred to ssdouble-qUicx' it into Nashville,
they certainly: showed no lack Of dispose
Hood pointed toward them, and waved
his hands to the ''grey- backs"
soldiers" said he, 'syou have but to
break yonder lines, and Nashville with all
it, apoils becomes your own! Break = on
der lines, and the war in Tennessee is
ended! Break them, and there is no
umphant march to the Ohio! Soldiers
follow mel
TERRIBLE REBEL ONSET.
Loud cheers rent the air, and in a tu-
multi Of enthusiasm and heroisln, the reb-
els rushed frenziedly towards our works.
with the settled determination to take them
or die.
It was the commencement of cor tlict
almost unparalleled in history.
Shot, shell and musket bali seemed to
have no more effect in staying the progress
of that charging multitude than feathers
and snow flakes. The feeling that inn
PEELED them forward can scarcely be called
bravery. It was recklessness, frenzy, de-
lirium.
PART OF OUR LINE BREAKS.
Hundreds Of them fell by the way, but
hundreds more reached the parapets, stuck
their heads under the head logs and fired
mounted over the works, charged with the
bayonet, and, ut one point, where Cox's
and Wagner's men fought together, they
actually broke our line and drove Us from
the works.
opnvcur rpercpre ~
The moment was an exceedingly critical
one, and Gen. SANKEY'S keen eye took in
the situation at glance. He rode towards
Col. Opdycke, l25th Ohio, whose brigade
bad been IS yet but partially engaged
"Opdycke," said the General, ''our line is
broken yonder, and must berestored. ut
shall be-" replied the gallant Colonel, and
Immediately put his brigade in notion
Stanley himself rode at its head. The
brigade commanded BIZ Colonel Conrad
18th MissourD supported it. The men
who had been driven from the works raj
lied to sustain it. The rebels who had en-
tered the works were assailed at once on
all sides, and with resistless fury. The
soldier whose ammunition was exhausted
went at the "gray- backs with his bayonet
or the butt-end Of his IN uske.. Many were
knocF ed down as they attempted 10 run.
Hundreds were captured on the spot. And
OF all who entered, only an insignificant.
few flung themselves over the parape: and
Ted back 70 their rebel comrades.
s1ATTLE CONTINUES.
' Eut the tight was not over. The rebels
everywhere rspulsed, returned evesyw here
to the charge. Stewards corps swung
around, and while its right wing assisted
the LETT OF Cheathem in attacking Ruger.
its left fiercely assailed kimball. Twice it
essayed to break our right. bat both times
IN vain. It is impossible to distinguish the
different charges made upon the left and
centre OF our line. AS il in utter despera-
ton, the rebel leaders urged forward their
torn and bleeding battalions again and
again. On some points from twelve to sew
enteen distinct advances We're made and
repelled.
In front Of Riley's brigade of cox's di-
vision the enemy's dead literally covered
the ground. 1t was here that the rebel
Gen. Adams was killed while urging his
nSen forward and endeavoring to force bis
horse to leap our works. The animals fore
feet were actually upon the payapet. when
both horse aud rider, riddled with bullets,
ko!led dead into the ditch together. zone
continuous and steady roar OF u1usketvJ
resounded all along the lines, and even4f.
and cannons cleaned fiercely through the
night.
REBELS REFUSED AT ALL POINTS.
BY the time darkness fell the charging
rebels had been driven back n. everv point
although the noise of battle did not esit;re-
ly cease till 9 O'Clock.
INCIDENTS.
During the combat the artillery. OF the
I'D Corps, rs well as the heavy guns Of the
fort, on the north bank of the river, did eff
fectIal and excellent service by keeping up
a steady, terrible, and en;i.ad!pg IRE upon
the eneny's RICH, wing.
While marching at the head OF Col. Op-
dycke's brigade, as j. moved so nobly to
restore our broken line, Gen. SANKEY'S
horse was killed under him ard he him
sell painfully wounded by bullet in the
BACK OF the neck. Not one monlen; did i:
take him off duty, Major Steele. OF his
stan. was wounded slightly II. the side,
an: only escaped death by the nluskei shot
&C., ~ LcssEs.
The battle Of Franklin was ended, Hood
had been terribly repuiged. Al least four
thoussnd Of hiGdeAd and wounded soldiers
sfrewed the ground. A thousand prison-
ers, representing all the corps-twelve di-
Visions and seventeen brigades Of the rebel
army-were in our hands. More than thir-
" coi0rs and battle flags were taken. Could
defeat be more disastrous9
S-One of the amusing circumstances Of
the times is the desperate reticence of the
Richmond papers about General Sher-
man. They knew all about him, but
would not tell word, knowing that any,
thing they said would get into the New
York papers, and thus before the whole
North. In the meantime the Georgia pa
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