Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-05

mand between the right and left bank
0 the MeUse. This they were unable to
90, and although their cannon al
most demolished the parapet of the
bridge, it was not materially damaged.
On the projecting spurs OF the
hill crowned by the woods,
/ pos ed two batteries Of six Founders.
/ ritled Dreech loading steel guns which
kept up dull fire till the end Of the
day, with siege guns of Sedan across
the MeUse still further to the right
flank, for our line was circular-One
crescent at first, with Sedan in the
center like a star on q Turkish STAN
dard. There was am uudUlauUg plain
above the village of BaZaille, tprmina-
ting about mile and a halt from Sc
dan at a woods near huboC0uTt, mid.
way from BaZsille, north. There is
Taviue watered by q tiny brook,
at which there was "a most desperate
struggle and Of frightuI slaughter
throughout the battle. The stream,
whose name I have forgotten,
runs right behind the town of
Sedan, from the woods of FleigrUse,
on the north behind the town, rises,
still dotted with cottages and crowded
by wood, the COrgareune, which runs
down to the valley of which have just
spoken. Between this wood and the
town several French camps, with
their white shelter, standing out
clear along the dark front trees. In
these camps one could see through
out the day huge masses OF troops
which We're never used. Even dur
ing the hight of battle they stood
as idly as FitZ John Porter at
the second battle of Bull Run |
We imagined that they must
be UndiscipIiued Guards Mobiles, !
whom the French Generals dared not
bring out against their enemy. To the
Prussians left of these French camps, |
separated from them by a wooded "a
vine, was a long, barren hill, when
once its Crests We're covered with PTUs- /
sian artillery, the whole town Of Sedan
was completely at the mercy of the
German guns, as they were not only
above the town, but almost within
musket range of their still farther viii |
Iage of Hey, set on fire early in the
day by the French shells. South OF
the broken railroad bridge, which
was blown up by the French |
to protect their right, a COnspic-
UOus object, right above the
railroad bridge on the line to Mes
sier7 was "a wooded hill, crowned by
Aides Chateau, of one Monsieur
Power. Il was here that the Crown
Prince and his staff stood during The
day, having rather a more extensive, !
but less central view, and, therefore,
less desirable than ours, where stood !
King William, Count Bismarck, Won
Room, Gen. MOItke and Gems Sheri-. |
dan and Forsyth, to say nothing Of |
your correspondent. Having thus |
endeavored to give you some faint |
idea Of the scene of what is, in all |
probability, decisive battle |
of the war, I viii hereafter give |
an account of the position of the diff |
ferent corps at the commencement Of |
the action, promising that all move |
ments were of the simplest possible |
nature, the object of the Prussian |
Generals being merely to close TO a |
crescent the troops with which they |
began forming into a circle by effect |
ing a junction between the Saxon |
corps on their right and the Prussian |
place on their LETT. This junction took |
noon near the village Of Hey, on the |
Bazeille Tayine, behind Sedan.