The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1882-08-17

| n9Q Deen upWarQS o. nunurcu
men, out Of not more than three
bandred in all, killed and wound
ed in the First Regiment. Gen
McGowan's assistant adjutant
general: Capt. Langdon c. Has
kell, had his horse killed uuder
him Lieut.. Geo. Allen Wardlaw,
the Generals aide de-camp had
his horse killed under him. Col.
John l.. Miller Of the Twelfth b
Regiment, had been killed ; Lieut..
| Col. Bookter, Of the same regi-
ment, had been wounded, it was
then thought morta!ly. Six or
seven other officers in the brigade
had been killed, and at least twen-
ty more wounded and put hors de
combat. There was scarcely q
man Of US who had not been
bruised by spent balls, but we did
not count these contusions as
wounds.
THE POSITION AT NIGHT.
Now, while we lay confronting
Cur adversaries, the posture of
affairs was about this: Ewell's
Corps, after fighting at least dou-
BILE their numbers from noon till
nigh, held about the same posi-
tion as at the beginning, and
were lying down against the enc,
my; as We may say, across the
turnpike road, and not yet stretch
ed far enough to reach our line.
The troops in front of US consisted
Of Hancock's Corps, (2d) which
en- braced four divisions, and also
Getty's Division of Sedgwick's
Corps. Col. Taylor, in his -Four
Years with Gen. Lee,, estimates
the force Of the FIVE divisions IN.
der Hancock at $4,000 men. We
had about $4,000 men in the two
divisions of Wilcox and Heth.
Hancock bad upon crossing the
Rapidan on the 4th marched past
Charlottesville, and about ten
miles northeast by east from his
present position towards Shady
Grove Church, clear to the right
Of the piankroad. When recalled
towards the plankroad on the
morning Of the 5th, he had moved
along the Brock road and thus
came to the plankroad from the
right. He, therefore, naturally
struck the right Of our line as We
were deployed straight across the
road. AS fresh bodies Of bis
troops came up into action they
naturally came on our right, and
almost clear upon that flank. The
result was that the pressure was
much the greatest on the right
end of our line, and so great, by
overlapping, as to bend back our
right towards the road. And
this was the object of his attack,
to double back our lines from the
right, 80 as to get between US and
Richmond. Gen. Lee, with his
usual sagacity, quickly OWNED
this scheme Of Grant, and there
fore be sent Longstreet out to.
wards the right or east, so as to
enable him to fall upon Hancock
from that side and crowd back
the Federal army to the Rapidan.
DID LoNGsTREET LoITER.
Longstreet, therefore, did not
follow us down the plankroad but
struck out from it eastward, so as
to get around Hancock's left and
strike him on the Brock Road.
When did Gen. Lee expect him
to strike that blow? Was he ex-
pected to move more rapidly than
he did? Was be to be so ad.
vauced as to be able to deliver his
blow at daylight Oh the 9th ?
And did be liDger now as he had
fingered just before he lost Lee
the battle of Gettysburg and
sacrificed all those gallant soldiers
in vain assaults against almost i'm
pregnable positions ? And was it
this lettering Of Longstreet that
caused Lee to change bis order
during the night Of the 5th and
direct Longstreet to come to the
reinforcement Of Hill? Or was
the change made simply because
Lee found that Hills two divi.
sions were about to be overpow-
cred aud must be reinforced upon
their own liuc ? cannot answer
these questions; but my belief is
that all III them are to be an
swered IN the affirmative, except
! the last, and that in the negative.
And my raaSons ara &C follows