The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-04-06
ANDERSON, S. c. THURSDAY, MORNINGS APRII1 6. 1889

,m; tmt Dayonet-even with the branches
ssmis'ed OF the trees and rocks nnlIed
,I IRON I the soil: Gregg's brigade received
!ne hrst shock. What il cost him is tojd
in Confederate reports. In five minutes
ne was out OF ammunition and fighting
WIN the bayonet alone. Tn brief ouar'
yer Oh Ian an hour that one brigade had lost
over 6o0 men. II was pushed back bnt
IL could not be routed Regiments Who
ilau not cartridge ell back in order
with bayonets pointed towards the Fed.
f;a,s. pona where was the support? Did
1ope expect that one division to bag
;;aIhson ia II had almost cut him in two
~ - .he center, but when it had done all
enat desperate men could do Hill threw
.os"aId TWO fresh brigades, and Kearney
was was driven back, leaving a thousand
oeau anu wounded to prove his valor.
OBSTINATE TO THE LAST.
And still Pope labored under the delu.
SION that he had only Jackson's army in
iioh1 OF MIN. Longstreet had been there
eyer since noon-Stephen ID. Lee waa
mere with all his ar,illery-Porter was
being held by a Confederate force. and
yet Pope would not believe it. Even
,when the Confederates shortened their
llne Tor an expected advance by the
whole Federal army at sunsent, Pope was
Pieased to construe it into retreat. and
ne pushed three brigades into a position
where they were decimated and driven
out. out ok thousand Federal dead we're
lying. on the field at Groyeton-eyerv
assault OF Pope's had been re ,ulsed, and
ye! he sat down and telegraphel, after
,pelng forced to believe that Longstrect
had come up:
I'VE fought terrific battle here yes
teroay. The enemy were driven
from the field: The enemy lost
Two . TO one. He is retiring towards
the mountain. We have made
great captures"
Inc enemy had not been driven sim
gie rod; he had simply shortened his
lines. lie was not retiring. He had not
iost two to one. Pope had captured
nothlng; the enemy had captured MANY
prisoners and several thousand stands of
arms, and yet Pope thought he had won
a great victory, and he spent the night
IN preparing plans to crush the whole
Coniedera te army on the morrow! That
morrow was to see the number of dead
quadrupled-to see Pope driven ut eveYy
pointIto see the blue lines falling back
upon Washington. Pope was to be de-
ieated and driven, and his head was to
fall, but some one else WAS to suffer with
him. Fitz John Porter, held ut bay by
Longstreet, and likewise saving Pope by
holding, LoDgstreet from moving on, was
to be degraded and disgraced, and his
judges were TO be the men who left fords
open to Jackson-who left bridges for his
artillery-who skulked away from Thor.
oughfare Gap at Lees thunder and let
him through to Jackson's aid! Pope
groped his way over those fields like a
man blind(olded. He ordered and coun-
tcrmanded in the same moment. He re-
membered dozens of orders which he
never wrote. He filled every road with
wagon trains and then expected whole
army corps to march at the rate of three
miles an hour. The best Federal mill
tary authority, writing for the years to
come, and writing in spirit of peace,
with all the facts before them, have
pointed out such grave errors and serious
mistakes in his campaign that readers
must wonder that any part of his army
reached haven Of safety.
NJ. QUAD.