The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-11
Another Interesting Letter.

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i Johnston, informed at 3 o'clock, A. M
that the enemy was massing in his front
sent of in hot haste for guns to repiac,
those the had been removed from Iii
works during the night.
4 In tie meantime, the signs in the from
began rapidly to take the definite form O
attack. His skirmIshers came in at short
notice; and the forest behind them i'm
pressed the senses with the feeling that
wrapt as it was in fog, it was swarmina
| with masses of human life. Pages batta
lion Of artillery had, in nresponse tothe de
! mand ofGeneral Johnston, come up the
s lent in trot; but a tremendous column
of the enemy, having at that moment EN-
I erged from the haze, it had arrived only
to have its horses shot deadin their traces
and its men moved down in the act OF
Numbering So terrible was the fire OF
the enemy that but one OF the guns was
brought into action. Captain w. Carter
had, with great devotion, succeeded, un.
assisted in making that ready for work,
and, standing at it, heroically alone, con
| tinued nlil his capture to fire it, charged
with grape and canister, into the FEEDER,
al ranks.
General Johnston had no sooner become
aware Of the exact point Of the attack
than lie rushed towards the salient. He
was too late. The column that had burst
from the fog upon that weak point, held
it already in possession. Three regiments
which had been left in line for its defence,
had fled before the storming mass, with
out firing shot, Johnston, caught in the
rush of friend and foe, was made prison
er, and was thus left, by the bad conduct
of some Of his own men, to waste his
brave spirit ingloriously in prison. His
bravery is of the antique. His conduct as
stancy and address. A great favorite
with Lieutenant General Ewell, he vas
known amongst the rank and file, in
affectionate recognition of his courage
and obstinacy, as 'Old Blucher."
The salient carried and one half Of
Jones men killed, wounded or captured,
the enemy poured through the Confed-
crate line in immense force. The Stone
wall Brigade, on the immediate left of
the gap thus opened in the Confederate
ranks, became exposed on the right flank.
Gen. Walker, its chief, attempted immedi
ately to swing that wing around; but
while in the act, was disabled by very
severe wound in the side. Pressed hotly
by the Federal advance, that movement
became then after even the brief DELAY
consequent on that accident, impossible.
The pressure upon its flank having com
menced, many of the men forced into
disorder were killed, wounded or captur-
ed; but several of the regiments wheeling
into position behind the short traverses
running back from their breastworlzs, dis
puted every foot of the ground they held
with steadiness worthy of their tradi-
tions. Colonel Terry, while holding with
unflinching frmness, one of those short
fronts, received a severe wound. The
Stonewall Brigade, however, overborne
by the movement upon its flank, was
finally forced back; and what of it was
neither captured wounded nor killed,
found protection behind the battle array
of the brigade that had been in line on
its left-Hays' Lou;sianians..
Steuart's brigade, on the right of the
regiments that had occupied the salient,
was taken by the surging masses of the
Federalists in flank Those Of them who
were neither captured, killed nor wound
ed, found shelter behind the brigade that
mad been in line upon their right lanes,