, 1864-08-10
TIE PETER4aURG DIsA4
TER.
It's Causes and Resulta.

lCoffesponaeneo N. 7. Tribune.7
Anax OF ruR Po1oxAo, Wednesday, Aug. 3.
TWlli.h yesterday was not dark enough
to bide the shame Of the true soldiers OF tue
Army OF the Potomac, kindled By tho read
ih- OF t"c drst accounts In the New York
city raptrs OF the last attempt made to take
PeIert bury BY storm. The diaplared head
iugs-* ESpl'sion Of Nine Under the Rebel
Works p " Battery Of Sixteen Guns
Rebel 6afenees Fl Three Ters a3 of ~ T,rth 19s
works Carried !"-proroked exclamatiops Of
asst Itsfn,ent muttled under modification
and su1ruW. Glorious news from prttrs-
burg: Why, swindled people, the Ink that
n d: The us Tint gave to false journalism in
New Iork its last sensation, was not rst
sE1snd on lie ,3pc+, while every draal6 I
boy and mule. driver III the Army OF the -
tomac knew that crowning disaster ami 9
croWlfog disgrace had happened to it, ana
the. :pumber Of opr killed, wounded. and
missing was whispered autong them to
be five thunsand. " Three tiers OF earth
WORKS carried !" Aye carried as Pharaoh's
cavalry and the var clariots carried theR Red
Sea-catrled p ecise1y in that way. You nnr-
dered demfgods OF July 80, the h4ads OF love
or Put rtotism that seek yoar remains must go
down full fatLnIns five "Glorious Navs
from Pete1sburg!'' 4 skillfu1ly engiueerei
Volcanic upEeayal Of the fortified earth. that
should have opened wide to the 9th Corps
5"ke1 VI s1CtCiys us EoHFGlEc0 Dy lMOe-
c1l1ty and cowardice into yawning orator Of
Volcano which swallowed up with tue cas-
ualtteB OF battle five Thousand men. uTnts
Grand Assault on the Rebel Defeusesr'
Why, Oh my poor trieIds and brother men
at the North, the very orderlics around head.
QUARTERS Inquire of each other In undertones
II some body is not to be hung for that affair
Of Saturday, and the negroes who blacg boots
and Wsit on table, csiticise the crime aud
b1nndering Of the SDtl, with the feeling
Which the useless destruction Of soldiers In
eplree, and the impatience'of men who Wit
nses lhe Hanfon waste OF successes end op.
No: Grants perfectly y-dev1sc1: plan Of
drawing the bulk OF Lees army out Of Pc
tersburg By u teint movement upon Rich
n!ond by the north bank Of the James-and
pig Plan of opening passage for his troops
lnlo FeteIsburg hy overturnfng with gua-'
powder the rebel works nearest bis own
lincs-eoch wise, each feasIble, both o.rftcs7Y
sutct t.sfa, have both been defeated an.i wasted
by Eubordirates, I tell no secret when say
that Grant Wrnppad himself In silence on
Monday, md that bis heart was gnawed at bg
disgust md ragc-and the statement OF this
.'s e T. tho mt asure of great s9ldies' appre
chiffon Of the misconduct which turned an
accomplished victory to disgtacefal and rn.
inouA tefsai.
What vas the affair Of Saturday? I shall
tell 1t oily in the outlines, for it IS nv desIrs
TO 10 NO wrong, Jet my determination to tel
tae t1uth. 70, until gather the sure facts
t.I o. tne case, will only say generally, that
the ti com mhnder Of the corps charged with
tue outy and intrusted with the coveted hon
Or OF making the assault, did not accompany
the troops that led It,; that uot commander
OF division Of the corps accompanied the
trooI .; that the work which their absence
tins dtsc1e editcd and impaired, was left en-
Tin !, to brigade commanders; that the charge
made BY the leading force was not supported
1or Three quarters OF an hour; that when the
support came up to ana entered in the crater
produced hy the explosion OF the miue.
!! T. found 1t fu1l Of the advance, in necessa-
rIly dleordesed state; that the del3v
IN supporting the leading charge gave the
rebels time to recover trum the Confusion
and terror caused By the explosion, to gather
o1 Postte the breach all their available force, |
70 drive back into the crater the force that !
had advat ced beyond 1t, to train upon tha |
fatal pit all their artillery. to ruin into it q
aft OF musketry, grape and canister, th1t I
|ore remnrse1essly, and without the posi-. |
Rii!t7 OF error of aim, the solid. mas OF. |
Trie Cling, heaving, twieting, crawling. belp |
ess sulaiera, black and white, that. Inextri-
ably intermingled, dcfled al attempts to |
act,cai!5 extricase them. The survivors
;Ia"led cut Of the heltho1e one by one,
the r bells swoopei upon the pit before it
'onld 6e emptled. am assured that we left
It, Of 6ead and of wounded aud captured,
nd have under treatment this side Of It of
wounded, !. zoo men. s.W.