The National tribune., 1882-04-29
THAT "8LOODY REPULSEu A.
CORINTH

10 tne Eultor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
like to read all accounts of battles that
have a semblance of idea about them. That
Bloody Repulse at Corinth " in THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE Of April is perfectly correct, except
that, in the first place, it wasn't Sunday-(the
only charge the enemy made Sunday was on
Hatchie River at four miles per hour; the enemy
didn't run out any ''small battery" to any alarm
| ing extent; except Dillons Sixth Wisconsin,
that regiment of Ohio troops left to be captured
! without firing a shot won't tell their num-
Der now. That forlorn hope made a third at
tempt before they took Robinett, and then
there was one of the Missouri regiments that
fell upon them. They didn't have Robinett
but few moments. They didn't have Fort
Williams at all. Stanley and Davies's mot
Daviss) divisions were both driven pretty well
back out of ali their works and mixed up with
the wagons and Tishomingo house at one or two
different times. Ask Gabe BOuck, of Oshkosh,
Eighteenth Wisconsin. Even the left brigade
of Schuyler Hamiltons division, that had been
sent on the Furda road on Friday and attacked
the enemys left flank, was driven to the rear
after Davies and Stanley both fell back fight
ing, and the prompt advance movement made
by the two right brigades of Hamiltons di-
vision about two o'clock Saturday was the de-
clsive move that made the enemy move on the
Hatchie Bottoms with promptness and dispatch;
and General ROsecrans announced from the
saddle by five o'clock Saturday that The enemy
Is badly whipped on both sides of the railroad"
That same Hamilton's division was the oldest
organization in the Western Army as division
1t was organized at Paducah, under c. S. Hamil-
ton, L think. Then Schuyler Hamilton,
Quimby, New York; Crocker, Iowa; John A.
Logan, Illinois; and finally John E. Smith, Illi-
nols, took it through from June, 1863, at Vicks-
burg, and it was merged in Corse's Fourth di-
vision, when John E. Smith went to Memphis
1t was the Third Tor blue) DIVISION Fifteenth
Army Corps, Army of the Tennessee, and never
left the field of battle to the enemy. 1t fought
at luka, Corinth, campaign of Yazoo Pass, and
Oxford, Vicksburg siege, including Raymond
Jackson, Champions Hill, Black River; turned
back from the south via Memphis on Chatta-
nooga, and fought all the way through on the
line of the Tennessee River via Dixons Station;
atChattanOoga and most all of the battles from
there to Atlanta and below; went through to
the sea and up through the Carolinas; was
Hlost uHJuSlly anu vigorously merged au
Raleigh, n. c., at almost the close of the war,
TASK John E. Smith if it was not against his most
earnest protest. but never grumbled; was
never defeated, and marched down Pennsyl-
vania avenue with the rest of the boys"
And L want to say right here that the
Corinth unpleasantness looked so much like
" Bull Run" both Friday and Saturday,
when the gallant Hacklenan, of
the Eighteenth Indiana, went off his horse,
that thought the jig was up. No use talking
about the enemy Flying in all directions;"
the "fewy fewy" was on our side of the fence;
and when "Pap Price" went out of the hole |
he cut through the hooppoles at Hatchie Bot |
toms, with Rosecrans close after him in rear |
and Hurlbut holding the river in his front, |
he dindt leave hardly a tar barrel, and all the |
decentralization of his forces that took place |
was principally "bummers" that were of no |
account in any army. Though then and have |
never changed my opinion that had it been our
own army we would have left behind some
good material and have forgotten to go back
after it. EVANS
1.-The above writer proposes to send us an
original sketch of the battle of Iuka and Gen.
connection with it. Please forward
it as early rs convenient. We will gladly make
room for it.-EDIToR TRIBUNEl