The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-08-03
LOTTERIES.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ATTRACTIONS
" OVER A. MILLION D1STRIBUTED!
f,ebtlng q sunday afternoon IN front

Y0tlOS OI 0uuuuy NAsOA - ~
Steedman. TIT
Among the regimeutai losses, that ~
the Nineteenth Alabama, of sDea's,
,as AZ per cent: that of the Twenty
econd Alabama 55 per cent.
Browns brigade, Of Stewards corps,
at 1913 per cent; Bate, Of the same IN
IivIsiop. 4s per cent, and Clayton,
he remaining brigade, AZ per cent ed
md Bate. in one afternoon, bad three an
horses shot under him. WI
In Clayton's brigade the Eighteenth I
Alabama lost 56 per cent. ~
Preston's division, in less than one n
hour and thirty minutes, on sunday OF
aftercoo lest SO per cent oi those en- q,
Gagged. Gracie's brigade, Of this dtvi- ~
siop. lost a. per cent In a single houF,
while asseulting the position OF Zen. =
Brannan on Horse Shoe Ridge, ana
the total loss of tho same brigade 10 the a
SECOND days fight was 81 per cent.
OF Gracie's brigade, the first Ala
bama Legion lost 10 per cent the SIX t
ty-third Tennessee, 40 per cent.
TITS brigade OF Oracle. which sui
cred such terrible loss within the space
of an hour, carried into action 2OO3 ON
Gers and men, and in this time lost 6Ss
killed and wounded. The Second ALI
i abama battalion Of this brigade lost
j 1G9 killed and wounded out oil 239. IN
the assault on the Ridge, In wnicn
. these losses occurred, the coiors OF the
Second Alabama were pierced IN
eiehty.three places. They were after
|, wards. by request, presented to Pres'-
! ldent Davis, and tho standard bearer,
(, |.Robt. w, Hearth, was promoted 'or
I conspicuous courage.
9 Gregg's brigade Of Bushrod John-
r sons division, v bile assautting Sno0-
q grass Hill, lost nearly As per cent the
q Twen,y-fiith Tennessee Of Johnson's
8 brigade. in Stewards division, lost
y over SO per cent.
dl .JacksOp's brigade, Of Cheatham's
n division, lost 81 per- cent the F!ith
f. Georgia, one of its regiments, lost '54.9
II per cent. Several of the regiments OF
(. Mauey's brigade, of this same dtvis-
a ion. lost over so per cent. This was
ID true of the two regiments, sixth ana
re Ninth Tennessee, under the com nand
ID 1 Of that brilliant officer, Col. George u
e. Porter. and the same character OF tight.
70 ing was performed by tho First and
or twenty. Seventh Tennessee, under the
e. command Of that equally brilliant
On officer, Col. Hume r. Field.
US In Disadvantages division the ag'
he grepate of loss was 33 per cent. OW'ne
pg to the loss of Its commanding ofhcer
be the Adams brigade of this division
nd was commanded in the latter part Q
he the fight by Senator Kendall Gibson
on It's loss of officers was ~ per cent, ant
nv the loss of men SO Per cent. II
~. lBreckinrldge's division, Helm, II
N, command of onebrigade, was killed
he Adams, commanding another ,severel!
its wounded, aud Graves, the chief OF ar
he tillery, was killed.
ZEN The loss in Cleburne's division wa
Ter AZ per cent. The forty eighth Tennes
ost see. in Folks brigade of this division
of iost73 out of $50. Deshler's brigao
me lost its commanding officer and ~ pr
uc- cent. Of its men, and ID. II. Hiil
Ids corps of two divisions to which tines
it, brigades belonged, lost 81 per cent.
on, those engaged.
cry The desperate character OF inc M
md ing on Baird's front, the left div'slt
low Of our army on Sunday aitefnoop,
me illustrated by the fact that three br'
had AIDES In succession moved up agaiu
ov- the same point of the work and ea
der in succession was broken anu sca.'el
this First Helm, OF Breckenriuee o's,sl
the attacked in two lines and were driv
In back. Then CRISIS brigade OF Wa
rted er's division, went over these lines
on Helms which had been repulsed, a
full charged forward only to be in tt
,ng. overwhelmed by the firmness OF
, in fire from tho breastworks. UE
fore Crisis withdrawing, Ector's brlgs
bri- moved over the broken lines of He
ting and Grist in succession, and assault
the the works to be In turn repu'sed.
lope Wilson's brigade of Walkers di,
Till ion lost little over so per cent
COL those engaged. Liddell's division
ting two brigades lost A per cent. Cove
the brigade suffered a loss of 30 per CT
0 the and Senator Walthall's OF SO per CT
of. tits Just to tho men and comma
ward who performed this magnificent zig
tains Inc, 20 COW further that these arc
man selected figures. In compiling tf
lragc there has been no search for the ms
III 10 mum figures of loss, but they v
err es- toten at random from such Coufa,
long ate battle reports rs were available
'ee" the purpose.
y mas No ordinary comment could emp
each s,zo the story of yalor and endurs
At Is which such figures tell. And Will
'und- is impossible for those who fought
'attie. save the Union to look with any II
iperi- complacency upon the cause in def
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