The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1865-04-01
The Rlght.

WAsH1xoroN, March 9.-Information
from City Point dated yesterday says the
losses OF tho eth corps are much larger
than herotofore reported. The lst division
Aave In hospital 10o wounded, and 80 are
known to have been killed. In the Sd di.
g killed. The ID division were not en-
gaged. but in their hospital they have $50
wounded.
Picket firink was kept up all last night,
Yesterday and the day before.
The killed on both sides we're exchanged,
the enemy showing more courtesy than
heretofore.
The following are the essential points of
y general order issued to the army yester.
day: The enemy, with a tenacity for
which he has paid dearly, nassed his for
ces and succeeded through the reprehensi-
bic want of vigilance of the Sd brigade, LIST
division, 9th corps, in breaking through
their lines, capturing Fort Steadlnan ana
batteries 8, 10 and III.
The prompt measures taken by Major
Gen. Parks, the firm bearing of the troops
of the 9th corps in the adjacent portions Of
the line held by the enemy, and the con-
spicuous gallantry OF the Sd division o. this
CORPS. for the first time under fire, together
with the energy and skill displayed by
Brig. Gen. Har,sutt, its leader, quickly re-
paired the disaster, and the enemy were
driven from fort S.eadman and our lines,
with heavy losses III killed and wounded.
over 1900 prisoners. The enemy being
driven from the front OF the 9th corps, the
offensive was assumed by the 9th and I'd
corps. The enemy by night was driven
from his entrenched picket line, and all his
efforts to recover the same which were par
ticularly determined and persistent on the
I'd corps front were resisted and repulsed
with heavy losses, leaving with the 9th
corps over 400 prisoners, and with the ID
corps two battle flags and over 300 prison.
ers. The troops Of the 9Th corps reported
by Major Gen. Wright, as engaged in these
were Getty's division. keate's
brigade, Seymours division and Hamlin
and Edwards brigades of Wheaton's di-
vision. OF the troops engaged belonging
to the I'd corps, Major General Humphrey
mentions Niles aud Motifs divisions, and
vert supported by the 9Th corps.
The result of the day was the thorough
defeat OF the enemy's plans, the capture of
his strongly entrenched picket line under
the artillery hre Of bis main works and
the capture OF ten battle flags and q 500
prisoners, a result on which the Lit. Gen.
Com ndg. heartily congratulates the army.
The writer says that two lessons can be
learned from these operations--one, that
no fortified position however strong will
protect an army from an intrepid and au:
dacious enemy, unless vigilantly guarded:
the other, that no disaster or misfortune is
irreparable where energy and bravery
are displayed in the determination to re-
cover what is lost aud to promptly assume
the offensive.
Another of the defenders Of the Confed-
eracy has just come in. He is eighteen
years old, but looks several years younger,
Eniv n NJ nh ko1f foot
high and slender in form. His father is
reported to be q healthy man. He says he
enlisted to be sent to the front, 30 he could
escape and thus get something to eat.