Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-04-24
A SPLIT I'm AN ABOLITION
CONVENTION.
CAPTURE OF A GANG OF MoSBYS MEN.
Western Governors Modify their
Demands.
Further Particulars Of the Disas-
ter I'm LOuisiana--Partial List of
the Killed and Wounded.

Further Particulars Of the Disas-
ter I'm LOuisiana--Partial List of
the KILLED and Wounded.
New YORK, April 23-The New Orleans
Pcayune'of the 18th says our forces on Sun
day last, were encamped around Grand
Ecore-the enemy were quiet. About 400
wounded came to the city yesterday, among
them Brig. Gen. Ransom, Col. Robinson, lst
Louisiana cavalry, and Colonels Carr and
Green. Among the killed were Col. Webb,
77th H.; Col. Nix, N. Y; Lieut.. Col. New
bold, Lieut.. Logan, 18th Iowa; our loss in
artillery was sixteen or eighteen pieces
three reported retaken. We captured three
Lieutenant Colonels and six Majors.
The following additional casualties are
reported: Col. Vance, 96th Ohio, wounded
and left on the field; Lieut.. Col. Cover, 10Th
Kentucky, wounded and prisoner; Lieut..
Miller 9Th Missouri Cavalry, missing; Its.
Graham and Meedover. 18th Ill, wounded;
Captain and Lieuts. Mccullough and Wey-
man, 11th Illinois; Captain Morse, 10th In
diana, and Lieut.. Jones, 18th Indiana, kill
wounded; Lieut.. Slack and Major Mann,
10Th Kentucky, slightly; Lieut.. Col. Lind
say, 47th Ohio, killed; Major Reed, 18th
Illinois, missing; Lieuts. Andrew Napier,
John Graham, p. S. Meaderall, 77th Illinois,
wounded; Capt. Breeze, 9th Missouri Cav
airy, wounded in the arm; Capt. Chapman,
of Gen. Franklin's staff both legs shot off.
NEW YORK, April 23-The following,
from the New Orleans Era, is an account of
the final victory of the Union forces after
some terrible fighting:
At 7o'clock Saturday morning our forces
M IIs1I nd ha ahala
advancing; cavalry in front were endeav-
Oring to discover our position.
Col. o. p. Gooding, with his brigade Of
Lees cavalry corps, was sent out OH the
Shreveport road to meet the enemy and
draw him on. Tp Lt
He had gone about mile when he came
upon the rebel advance. Skirmishing i'm
mediately ensued, and according to the plan
he slowly fell back. The fight was very
sharp between these cavalry bodies and Col.
Gooding lost nearly forty men killed and
wounded; inflicting, however, as much
damage as he received. The 18th corps was
a reserve in the rear under Gen. Cameron.
Gen. Ransom having been wounded the day
before, Gen. Smith was commander-in-chief
of the second lines back of the crest, while
Gen. Morrow was the commander of the
men.
The commander of the right brigade in
Gen. Smiths west line was Col. Lynch; the
left brigade was Col. Shaw's; the second
line also consisted of two brigades; Craw-
ford's Sd Indiana battery was posted on the
right of the S9th Indiana infantry, and the
9th Indiana battery on the right OF the line
of battle. The Missouri Iron Gun battery
and others, whose names and numbers we
could not ascertain, were also in this Sec
tion Of the battle. The skirmishing was
kept up with considerable vigor until about
five o'clock in the afternoon, when the reb-
els had completed their arrangements for
the attack. -' ,t4Ab'
At about this hour Gen. Emery's skirm-
ish line was driven in on the right by the
rebels, who appeared in large force coming
through the timber above mentioned. They
soon reached the open ground, and moved
on to the attack in three lines of battle.
Our batteries and infantry opened with ter
rible effect, doing great slaughter with can
mister and grape, while the enemy's artil-
lery, being in the woods andsin adposition,
did scarcely any damage. '-''1
Col. Benedick's brigade, on the left, was
first engaged; soon followed by Dwight's
and McMillans. The fighting was terrific.
Old soldiers say it never was surpassed for
desperation. 10 s,f i-s .ssIs' .r4a.a.
Notwithstanding the terrible havoc in
their ranks, the enemy pressed fiercely on,
slowly pushing the men Of the 10Th corps
back up the hill, but not breaking their
line of battle. A sudden and bold dash of
the rebels on the right, gave them possess
sion of Taylor's battery, and forced our line
still further back. Now came the grand
coup de main. et.t
The 10Th, on arriving at the top of the
hill, suddenly filed over the hill and passed
through the lines of Gen. Smith. We must
here mention that the rebels were now in
but two lines of battle--the first having
been almost annihilated by Gen. Emery
what remained having been forced back in
to the second line-but these two lines came
on exultant and sure of victory. qs5 d ;
The first passed over the knoll and all
needless Of the long line Of cannons and
crouching forms, pressed on. The second
line appeared on the crest and the death
signal was sounded. Words cannot des-
cribe the awful effects Of this discharge.
Seven thousand rifles and several batteries
Of artillery loaded to the muzzle with grape
and canister were fired simultaneously
and the whole center of the rebel line was
moved down, and frightfully mangled by
this one discharge. az ~. gasif7's sE
No time was given them to recover their
good order, but Gen. Smith ordered charge
and his men dashed rapidly forward, the
boys of the 10th joining In. The rebels
fought bravely and desperately back to the
timber, on reaching which q large portion
broke and fled, fully 1000 throwing aside
their arms. gi M 'sg N \
In this charge Taylor's Battery was talk
en-; as here also two Of the guns of Minis
Battery, the Parrott gun taken from us ut
Carrion Grow last fall, and one or two 9TH