The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-11-06

gives way too, IN It's turn, after havins
tried it is now their turn to 90 onward
Kershaws division now had TO stand il
ground. Nothing better, nothing more
noble, as long as it did fight; BIT noe 4
has girsa ,cay IKE Gordon $, and, IKE Cor
d0R's Il cont rakly Our artillery, in gen
eral, did vel they tried to re-establish
the fight and twice made a stand-al
such points, teo, where we might have
had the vantage ground over Yankees;
bUt there a0as no ralLy-no rally Of brig
ade, no rally Of a regiment, no rally Of a
eempany; tie t0A0ls aTmg confused into q
llGaekess, Sb0peiess nlasS Of men, g0iRq back.
back al the tiBS The food increases la
depth as we reach the turnpike. The
artillery, the ambulances, wagons, al
rattle down at first at decent rate, at
cool walk, a hind Of gsntlena1aiy stan.
pete: 5it a felg shells that come bursting
right over cur heads giUss rs an ad.iitiOaaf
speed We are running; a turn of the
road, a protection from the shells, and
we walk again. Ineyer sac or dreamed
Of a more .ssLf possessed erolO Of skedad-
dlcrs : they Vefe no more scared, SIR, and no
more ashamed than II there had not been
particle Of danger or disgrace IN their pre-
aicanent. Finally, an old rotten bridge
gives way, there is a dead lock, and
artillery, wagons and ambulances are
there for the Yankees. They need not
strike lick to have them-all they
have to do Is TO come down the road
where they are stuck, and there they
are. In that way we lost thirty nine of
our own pieces, besides eighteen that
we captured, and God kaol0s hOv many
wagons and GHs6lllauces. All those trains
might have been saved by force of
two hundred skirmishers, but it could
not be got They were tired; they ,rers
played osa they had enough of tour
mem
/ will add, however, that but for the
loss of material the advantage of the
day would still be on our. side. We
have severely crippled the Yankee
army, you may depend upon it Or
army Of the valley Is made of splendid ma-
tsrial, but the wear and tear of this long
has told with terrible effect
upon its organization Take, for in
stance, Kershaw's division; it went in
to the fight without a single brigade
Still the men fought very
well az long as they felt like it; bus
when the hour of trial came, the want
Of organization was severely felt, and
the men could not be rallied What
ever officers were on duty, however, did
their best, but 1t was of no avail /
believe this cannot be denied.
Kershaw's division fought splendidly
this is generally conceded Major Gen
eral Kershaw had a horse mortally
wounded under him; two of his aids.
Lieutenant John Carwile and James
Davis, had their horses killed under
them; Major James NJ Goggin, Assist
ant Adjutant General, lost his horse in
the same way whilst in command of
Corners brigade. Col D. w. Moody,
Of the Twenty-frst Mississippi, COM
Humphreys brigade, being
pat h0YS d. combat, was succeeded By
Lieutenant Colonel John Sims, Of the
same regiment, and that gallant officer /
vas shot dead (in the head) at the last
stage of the battle, when We tried for /
The second time to make stand At /
his moment when writing quietly about /
It, this battle seems to me q mystery or /
4 dream 1t seems 10 me that the 81 |
ent and fugacious rabble upon which |
he sunset when we were stampediDg /
towards Fishers Hill, cannot be spoken /
lf IN the same breath with the daring |
md yelling regiments upOn which the
rising sun smiled when we charged the /
snemy's works, took their pieces and |
turned them Immediately against the |
enemy. Talk Of our eavdlry's stalnpediag, |
here IS set of for them This, it Is
hoped, will close the exhibition, and we /
y "A pass 70 some new exercise, for this |
running business is growing stale now;
l. won't pay, il has not even the merit |
Of novelty No; no; we will stop that; |
Il is a good horss that never stumbles, |
bat a good horse does not stumble at
sTery step.
1 see TIA It you Published some ex~
tracts of my letter TO you concerning
The organization of our cavalry and its |
ate doings IN the valley. If you choose
10 publi-h some extracts of this letter |
our stampede | viii not be /
sorry for il, for like fair play If II
0ers 10 curse our stampede I lgoaii call il
I bloody one
hope you have good news around |
although | must say the |
,pirit of our men is not broken here; !
1ut good news will be welcome at any
lime.
As for my share in the fight, it was
ImaH, dare say; but | consider ii was
till more lucky than anything else, for
nv horse was not shot nor was |, only |
, ball made two holes in the right Skin,
,f my overcoat and very slightly cut
he top of my right boot
1t is impossible, At present, to give
you fair estimate of our Losses in men. !
in genera, the lo7s is a. small |
IS it can be for q fight from sunrise 10 |
sunset, although I EnotV one regiment Of |
mr. divisiOa to hare lost zgs7t,g officers We |
.Ook a large number Of prisoners and |
secured them, whilst we must have lost |
very few, as we did stampede 50 timely |
and finally; so we did, dear sir, and 10
cay th 4 we were whipped, and whip
ped by our own folly alone, il neither
new nor consoling, but Il Is true.
If 1 recollect, the fruits Of the battle
1f Shiloh were lost from the same IA
military struggling and Pinndering in
camps