The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-09-10


left, and destruction threatened Lee
p army. But his genius was equal
{ the emergency, and through his enc
= getic and heroic exertions, his trool
rallied and plunged into the bait
with an ardor and resolution th
= excites admiration. Charge followe
) charge, in terrible succession, Alon
the whole front, and the carnage vi
: appalling. The rebel lines RENAME
| mistaken, and Cutler and Grifi
hurried forward to aid Hancock
| his desperate struggle to hold ii
caPtured works. He tried to az
vance, but was met with death deaI
, ing 6re He was too keroic to fa
back, though Lee, in person, directe
i've determined charges; the troop
mingling in hand to hand conflict, Of
ten planting their banners on oppo
site sides of the breastworks, still
these were all repulsed with frightfu
slaughter, and Hancock elung grand
ly to the bloody crest.
AT noon rain began to fall, but tn
battle ragged with more or less fury
until midnight, when Lee desisted.-
Formidable works were thrown upsil
Hsscock's front, and Lees lines, nov
contracted and strengthened, Wsrt
iimpregnable. Six days Of man0uver.
ing followed, and late on the 18th
Gibbon, Tyler and Barlow assaileG
Lee in front of Hancock, but failed
and retired with considerable loss
As showing the effects of battle,
observed near Hancock's front for.
est of pine containing twelve acres,
upon which every tree was cut doWH
by artillery except four.
On the 10Th Grant began another
flank movement, and EWelI fell on
his weakened right, but was repulsed
and scattered in confusion by Tyler's
foot 1rtillerists. On the 23d our
army reached the North Anna, a mar
row, deep river, with rough, abrupt
banks, but his alert foe was ahead
and reinforced by Breckenridge. who
had put a quietus on Sisgel in the
Valley, he awaited Grants attack
His center, strong and narrow, rested
on the river bank; his left was GOV.
cred by Little river, a small stream
like Wolf Creek, and his right was
safe behind the swamps, towards
Hanover Junction. Almost Y-shaped
his lines were imprsgnable. On the
right, at Jenniea Ford, Hill fell on
Weaver, and being repulsed in front
he sent Gen. Brown to assail the
flank, and in a few moments Cutler
and Grifin's divisions we're thrown
into the widest confusion by the au,
dacious and brilliant charge of Brown
who was crushing all before him
whcn Col. Mccoy hurried his 83d
Pennsylvania forward, and striking
Brown in the flank routed his command
and captured 1000 prisoners and
Brown himself. Burnside sent Crit.
tenden against Lees centre, but The
division was rolled back, broken and
scattered by a terrible fire. Most Of
our forces were over the river, but
Grant ascertaining Lees strength oil
position, determined not to attack
The latter was "let alone" and or
the night Of the 26th Grant with
drew, putting his columns in motion
for Richmond, whittier l will follow
him hereafter. In twenty-five days
our losses reached AZ, ,000-Lse'stWo.
thirds of that number. About one.
fourth we're prisoners, one tenth
killed and the balance wounded.
Any other officer of our army
would have felt whipped at the Will
derness and SpOttsylvania and gone
baok-Grant went forward. The
Wilderness typi6sd that unparalleled
campaign; attended by such bloody
battles which carried Grant to the
James, and crushed rebellion By
"hammering away" on the Confsde-
rate armies.
Three years Of fruitless battle and
campaign in Virginia prepared the
people for a change. The time came
and with it the man who was the
only General of our army capable Ot
vanquishing Lee. Traces of these
terrible combats abound. Miles oi
crooked, angling earthwOrks crown
the hill slopes, and fragments of shell
clothing, canteens aud shoes indicate
the places where the dead lay thick
est, Scared, battered and broken
bushes and trees, with long trenches
Of dead, show the ruin wrought by
the terrific clash of arms. The eeat
tered farm houses are all pierced By
cannon balls. The Court House, jai
and buildings at Spottsylvania were
shattered by our batteries. A few
Northern men are settled here, and
others have purchased and are com.
ing to repair these wastes of war and
slavery.
By October, a railroad will be En-.
ished through the Wilderness, and
Yankee saw-mills will crowd the for,
est before another Spring All are
welcome as immigrants, and day Oi
vigorous thrift dawns upon Virginia
W. H. G.
A Story with a Moral.
A young man, paying special atten
ton to a young lady, met with th'