The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-22

6ns miles between them and the ba,tle.
~. s'e south side Of the gan. through
: - ~ sne troops Of Longsfreet are pouring.
- 3 aSSSo9k Putting himself a. the head
e.. ~. e:lleeqe, l.aiboidt's, he charges against
~a.t ssnaes tne number. Hwas Z movement
cnsree j. made. The brigade Is nicked m
s sno sent flying on the feld, and McCook
49, 49,. with IL Sheridan Is south az the pan
=, ~ ~ Two brigades. Lytle's and BradIev's
81 ue mas left, be throws himself In front
.nss mighty advance, but il carried
tie sntb mallyins and encouraging his men,
,.u lam dying. Egypt. dying,
,ssa.s, snoe through the head. A little bean
- stones on hillside and 4 board nailed "a
3 wee today mark the SPOT where Ivtle
~. And the place viii be known in the
~n,ckamauga national park. which the
fsiD .ss 70 about to establish, as Lytle
sheridan kept his retreat from becoming
s Iout, and led mis- shattered brieades off
toward kossviile. He never got hack on
.ne battlefield. And then Neglev ioined
sle Iugitve columns with one OF his brig
a aass, abandoning the artillery before Long
ssreet's advance had fairly reached him.
what smash 1t was. In an hour from
me =. ume Longstreet's advance started. mis-
.anss occupied the fields of the Dyer farm.
ana ana third Of the Union army was in
~ Ign. hosecrans was in the rear of the
seie Wnen II went to pieces. As he made
MS Way through the masses of fugitives he
: ): every corps Of his army represented
~ the retreat. He turned and rode from
me oatsie-field straight to Chattanooga,
uozen miles away. Critsenden. whose
sIIee DIVISIONS had been sent one after
tne otner TO strengthen Thomas on the left
rode away with Rosecrans. McCook fol-
ioweo. II was then only O'Clock in the
afternoon. Sheridan kept marching until
&c reached Rossyille, about half way to
Cnastanooga. and there be stopped. Nearly
W,VU troops were reformed at Rossyilie
and Netherlands Gap. but they were not
brought back into battle.
On and around the Dyer farm the lines
OF Longsrreet changed front for another
victory. They had advanced westward
and had driven the right wing of the Union
army out OF sight. Now they raced north
ward and started to crush the center.
brannan. on finding everything gone on
his right had bent back on his line and
stood facing north. Wood, whose un-
lucky movement had made the advance of
Longstreet SO easy, had got into his new
position with what was left OF his division.
The Union center was now the Union right,
anu II was facing south. 1t reached to the
Snodgrass hill.
Eight brigades led the advance of Long
street into the gap. The rest of his force
followed. and when he prepared to move
upon the Union center and crush that, he
bad six divisions in and about he Dyer
farm. There was but one redeemine feat
ure in the wholesale disaster TO the Union
right Wilder, with his cavalry, was away
down beyond Widow Glenn's on the south,
an behind Sheridan. When he saw how
things were going he dismounted his men
and went IN for fight OF his own. He
tackled the FIRST body of Confederates be
came to. which proved to be Marigauit's
brigade. He drove 1t before him eastward
for nearly mile in confusion, to the Vine
yard place, and then hurried back barely
In time to save his horses from being cap
tured.
Snodgrass hill stands MP out of the sur
rounding mountains like little mountain
1t is well wooded. The summit is level,
with room enough to plant cannon upon
1t and form several regiments. 1t slopes in
all directions, but the sides toward the
south and east are steepest Below the
highest part of Snodgrass hill the slope
broadens into the Horseshoe ridge. There
the interest in Sunday afternoon centers.
It was BraHnan's division which swung
back and then stood immovable when
everything to the right of him went to
pieces.
Giving his forces brief breathing spell.
Longssreet sends his columns against
Brannan. There is little giving back by
the Union troops, and then . reforming
on and around the sides of Horseshoe
ridge and Snodgrass hill. There Brannan
summit Of the cone. The Horseshoe ridge
Is covered with trees. To carry it the lines
of Longstreet must advance across the
open fields of the Dyer farm.
As parts of brigades and parts of regi-
ments extricate themselves from the rout
y - A.
themselves and to some extent their less
courageous comrades. Thomas, upon
whom all of the responsibility had now fall
len, dispOses them around the edges of the
ridge and the hill. They are picked men
who, once driven CT the field in confusion,
keep their heads in spite of the panic and
come back to fight again. They can be re-
and to die there. Four thousand men are
saved from the wreck and are posted on and
around the hill. They are worth 10000 of
the ordinary stuff. some OF DAVIS men
are among them and some of Van Cleve's
and part of SrweIl's brigade. OF Negley.
The generals have gone with the masses OF
fugIrives. The brave men have come back
TO fight.
Then occurred two movements which
tighten up the depressing history of
Chickamauga most gloriously. Three or
four miles away to the northeast are Gran
gades, put there long before by Rosecrans
to guard against an emergency. They
hear the din of battle. They see the cloud
OF smoke arising over Snodgrass hill. They
get no orders. One O'Clock comes and
they can stand it no longer. Wild infor-
nation of the disaster to the right reaches
them Leaving one brigade to guard the
Ringgoid road and to watch For
rests cavalry, Granger and Steed-
man with the rest of the reserve 60
hurrying across the fields toward Snod-
grass They are just in time. Thomas
has not enough men with the hastily gath
cred fragments of regiments and brigades
TO cover all of the ridge and hill. On the
west a spur juts out The Confederate
lines will lap around from the south and
come up this side Of the hill. Then all is
gone. Steedman brings fresh men and
loo. 600 rounds of ammunition. He comes
i'm behind the hill and forms his front on
the western spur. This Is The first move
ment without orders. and in glorious con-
trast with the action Of so many other sub
ordinate generals who have abandoned the
feld.
About the time that Steedmsn started
there was another movement of the same
sort. Van Derveer's brigade lying in the
bushes on the edge of the Kelly farm heard
the firing and cheering on Snodgrass bill.
IL had swept back the Confederates from
Keliy's field Just as they were about TO fall
on the Union rear behind the log breast