New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-27

came out en- the further side with only two officer
= and between three hundred aud four hundred me
standing; all the rest were killed or wounded
The other regiments Of the division also sufere
much, but not in the same proportion: hut tn
wood was carried. The Austrian liue was nov
driven IN on both TANKS, but its commandments
q new lne of battle a little higher up The hill
round LISA, still holding the wood which liet
: above Sadowa.
NEW AUSTRIAN POSITION.
Then the Prussian artillery was sent across the
Bstrita, and began to fire upon the new Austrian
position. AT the samestii the'slnoke OF General
: Herwarths advance IVES gradually seen moving
towards the Austrian left for he had at Mechanic
village about seven whatsoever dewnthe Bistrit1
' than Sadowa, found brigade Of Saxon troops
. with some Austrian cavalry, and was driving them
towards the position at LISA, himself following in
such d direction that it appeared he would turn
the Austrian left flank. But the Austrian com.
nander seemed determined to hold his position,
and heavy masses of infantry and cavalry could
be seen on the upper part Of the slope.
i IN THE WOODS.
The Prussian infantry, which had taken the viii
| lagos of Sadowa and Bobelnitz. was now sent
against the wood, which, above these places, runs
| along the side of the SSdowa and LISA road.
1 They advanced against it, but did net at first
make much impression, for, the Austrians being
I here again concealed, the fire of the needle-gun
did not tell and a whole battery placed at the far
end Of the wood fired through the trees, and told
4 on the Prnssian ranks with awful effect. But the
assailants fought on. at last broke down the OBJ
| stacles at the entrance, and then dashed in The
| fighting continued from tree to tree and the Ans
TRANS made many rush to recover the lost posi-
ton of the wood, but in this close fighting their
| boyish troops went down like ninepins before the
/ strong men of the eighth division but when the
| defenders went back a little, and their artillery
played into the trees the Prussians suffered fear
| fully, and about halfway up in the wood the fight
| became stationary.
AT this time the Austrian artillery were making
splendid practice, and aboutl o'clock the whole
battle line OF the Prussans could gain no more
ground and was obliged to fight hard to retain the
position it had won, Atone time it seemed as if
it would be lost, for guns had been dsmounted bv
the Austrian fire, and in the wooded ground the
needle gun had no fairfield, and the infantry fight
was very equal.
Then Prince Frederick Charles sent the Fifth
and sixth divisions forward. They laid down their
helmets and knapsacks on the ground and aB
yanced to the river. The king was now near to
Blstrlth, and the troops Cheered him 0ud1V As thn
marched into the battle. They went over the
aadowa bridge, disappeared into the wood and
soon the increased noise of musketry told tbey
had begun to fight; but the Austrian gunners sent
salyo after salvo among them, and they did not
push the battle forwards more than few hundred
yards, for they fell back themselves, and they
could not reach the enemy. Not only did the
fragments Of the shells fly about among them,
scattering death and awful gashes among their
ranks, but the portions of the trees torn bv the
artillery fire, few thickly about-huge ragged
splinters, that caused even more frightfu Wounds
ADVANCE OF THE GROWN PRINCE.
Herwarth, toe, seemed checked upon the right.
The smoke of his musketry and artillery, which
had hitherto been pushing forward steadifv stood
still for a time. Fransky's men cut to nieces
could not be sent forward to attack the Sadoyya
wood for they would have exposed themselves In
be taken in rear Of the artillery on the right Of
the Austrian line formed in front Of LISA, All
the artillery was engaged except eight batteries
and these had to be retained in case of a revarsa
for at one time the firing in the Sadowa wood and
OF the Frnssan artillery on the slope, seemed al
most as il drawing back towards Bistritz The /
first army was certainly checked In its advance If
not actually being pushed back.1
Then the Prussian commanders began to Ioolz
anNlonsly 10 Inc lett for the coming of the Grown
Prince; Some Austrian guns near LISA were seem
to be firing toward the PrUssian left and If was
hoped that they might be directed toward fine adj
yanced guard of the second army, but at three
q CLOCK mere were no signs Of Prussian columns
advancing against Lipa. The general became
nanifestly uneasy, and they drew the infantry
out of the battle; cavalry was also formed nm az
mat 1t would be available either for the pursuit
y t1e Austrlans, OF Tor retarding their pursuit,
md General Won Rhetz himself went off ia IooI
or the second army But he soon returned. and
brought the intelligence that the Crown Princa
was forming his attack on Lipa, and that the qnns
IN the Austrian right had been firing against his
Ioops.
Then the First army took heart again. The sa-
iowa wood was carried, and the battery hevond
t was stormed by the Jagers. At half-past three {
NC DTuWH GElncefS columns were seen TnnVnr
icross the slope against Lpa for his artillery had
aeneed the Austrian guns, and HerwartR was :
gain pressing forward against the Austrian
EFT. In quarter OF an hour the Crown Princeis i
lIantEy Was engaged az Llpa and their quick vol
ays OF musketry rapidly advancing told thar tha
Austrlans were In full retreat The first army
ushed forward at once, the artillery limbered m
nd galoped up the slope, coming into action Oh
very opportunity to send It's shells against the \
sfeatng battali0ns; the infantry emerging from Z
he woods, formed and pressed at the donhle
rlnce Frederick Charles put himself at the head l
( hiG regiment and dashed over the Sadowa
ridge and up the road followed by all his light
THE RoUB 3
On gaining the top Of the Lipa slopes the re- in
eating battalons of the AustFians were seen RIM :.
ng across hollow in the ground which lies be. A
yeen Lipa and the village of Streselitz which lies
9out two miles further south The Prussian artil
fy halted on the summit of the lipa hill ana tirad 70
els rapidly, which burst with terrible precision St
ieT the heads Of the fugitiVes. The cavalry flaw n
rWard IN pursuit, but the prince after leading hi
lortYay, mad to go to superintend the general in
ovement, for the Austrian batteries had taltan :.
1st in the Streselitz ridge and were firing heavily d
yainst the pursuing Prussans Then the cavalry L
IT out Of hand, and By small detachments rushed p
the Austrian battalions, but these, though re- r
eating last, were not routed and in many in y
ances beat otthe cavalry who also suffered much ~
ON the Austrian artillery, for the shells burst re-
satedly among the squadrons and killed many te
en- ana HORSES huL Inc Austrian guns were IN
iyen off their ridge by the heavier fire Of The "
ore numerous Prnssian batteries, and then the nj
lrsuit was renewed IN n,
THE PURSUIT.
Some of the retreatng Austrlans made for the !
rtress of Koniggratz, others for Pardubftz. and
'opslwere sent IN pursuit along both roads. The -
FUNDED who were lying on the ground shrieked =
th fear, when they saw the cavalry galloning 81
wn towards them, but Prince Frederick Charles n
Dix care that they should be avoided and AZ one E
le1 checked the pursuit, in order to move his Of.
ladrons around, and not go through patch of RI
nding corn, where several wounded Austrians Sc
taken refuge. These, when tliey saw tbe AZ
lcers coming, thought they were going ia be be,,
lssaered, and cried piteously waving white iisl
as sign Of truce but they had No
use 70 fear. Large numbers Of prisoners we're
zen, for the pursuit was continued to the Flbe
was not till nine o'clock that all firing had @
ased but the main body of the army halted
out seven.
SCENE ON THE FIELD. NJ
AS the princes returned, the battalions oheerea v
en- 1of lneF victory but they left the pursuit Of AT
en- enemies and the cheers of their own Veto
gus troops 70 ioek after the hospital acoommoda
ms PROVIDED Tor the wounded. These Law in inn.
snse numbers on the field, The dead. I'D iaid
lek, but al that they require will be done To. :.
brow. Every cottage IN the neighborbooJ ma I'D
not been burnt, is full of wounded. Anstr ilS
d Prussians lie side by side, but the Kranken
ger are still out, and viii not be collected IN On
e tomorrow morning. Conspicuous in The hos.