The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1864-06-02
SMistellanrous.
Hancock's Splendid Charge
Vivid Description.

The special correspondent of the New
York Times, writing on Friday, gives the
following vivid account of Hancock's
charge upon the enemy's works.
have Just returned from the scene of
General Hancock's brilliant victory of
Thursday morning. At the point at
which his assault was made, the rebel
brcustwurks formed an angle or salient,
and his men advanced silently, and, with
out firing shot, entered the salient, and
swept up the inside of the right, making
the splendid haul of prisoners already
known to you. Unfortunately, the sup.
porting liue checrcd when nearing the
orks, otherw isc we would, the prisoners
suv, have captured both Ewell aud Lee.
The assault was. .made between f ur
and five o'clock, m, the gruy Of tho
morning. Barlow's division, which had
the advance, M;lks' brigade leuding,went
up in column by battalion double on the
center, Dirncy's division in two lires of
battle, and the divisions Of Gibbon and
Mott, in she second line, supporting.-
The storming column rushed over the
cncmy's brcnstworks, which were eX-
ceedinrly s,rong with Il ditch in front,
and drove the enemy back for u mile
Here the enemy rallied, aud Hancock
ut 6 A. NJ. returned and formed his line
of battle in the cncmy's works. AS
this was the key of the whole position
our right was gradally refused, aud the
main body Of the army masscd OH the left.
The 9th Corps (Wright0 which had
been on the right of the 81, withdrew
behind their skirmish line and united
with Hancock's right, and uiterward two
divisions OF Warren's were brought over.
The history of the day utter six O'Clock
in the morning, is all summed up in five
successive and fierce assaults which Lee
made TO rctuke the lost position. At
first Ewell's corps alone confronted Han.
cock, but during tho day Hill and Long
street were drawn over from the rebel
left, and the whole army OF Lee flung it,
self in FIVE desperate efforts to recnpturc
the brenstworks. But it was all in
vain, as every assault met bloody re-
pulse.
So terrific was the dcath-gropplc, how.
ever that at different tin es OF the day
the rebel colors were planted on the one
side of the works aud ours on the other,
the mcn fighting across the parapet,-
Nothing during the war has cqualed the
savage desperation of this struggle,
which continued fourteen hours and the
scene of the conflict, from which have
Just come, presents a spectacle of horror
that curdlcs The blood of the boldest.-
The angle Of the works at which Han
cock entered, and for the possession Of
which the savage fight of the day w6s
made, is perfect Golgotha. In this
angle of death the dead and wounded
rebels lie, this morning, literally in piles
men in the agonies OF death groaning
beneath the dead bodies of their COM
rades. On an area of few acres in
rear Of their position lie not less than
thousand rebel corpscs, many literally
torn to shreds by hundreds of balls, and
several with bay onet thrusis through and
through their bodies, pierced on the very
margins OF the parapet, which they were
determined to rtlake or perish in tho
attempt. The Gne exclamation orevery
man who looks on the spectacle is, "God
forbid that should ever gaze on such
sight again"
Hancock's movement is regarded here
as the most brilliantly conceived and
executed tactical operation of the war,
aud has added to the splendid fame he
won in the three days fight in the Wilder.
ness. After the turning movement of
the morning the Sixth Corps and two
divisions OF the Second should be includ-
edin the history of the day. They share
the honors of the glorious, but bloody
field of Spottsylyania. Our loss of
yesterday must reach ten thousand.