Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-09
OESERET EVENING NEWS.
BATTLE OF PEACHTREE CREEK.
4 CARNIVAL OF SHOT AND SHELL
THAT COULD BE HEARD
THIRTY NILES.

Speaking OF Peachtree Creek, ii
was one Of the gems Of battle be-
| tween Resaca and Atlanta, and
was really me,eoric, lasting only q
few hours an afternoon on the a0lh
OF July, 1874. Heoi was In COM
mand Of the Confederates, and he
undoubtedly made up his mind 10
make a savage attempt upon the
center of Shernan's magnificent
line and cut 1t In two and demoral-
lie things generally. Newton's
line was weak, anu Hood came
down tremendously upon IL
and an almost hand-to-hand
fight ensued. For an hour
the blue and the gray We're
pretty well mixed, aud bayoneting
and clubbing with the butts of mus
kets among the soldiers and the use
of pistols and swords among the off.
GERS were not infrequent. l never
heard or saw such a rain of CAMS
ter and grape for forty or fifty min
utes; and the "Rebel yell'' above it
all made things hum. Gen. John
III. King, who commanded the reg.
ulars, was hurried up and put in
reserve In beautiful piece of
woods, and a Prussian artillerynan
whom we called Leather Breech-
C." secured small elevation near
by with his six guns and everlast-
ingly poured shell ami canister into
the advancing enemy.
Once a Rebel regiment of infantry
eivide.l itself by three in attempting
to take this battery. Not far of a
Michigan battery joins in the di-
apsson and sends hundreds OF i'm
petuous Southerners TO ''that un-
discovered country" Every human
being under Hooker is at work, and
Newton, Butierfield, Geary, and
Sweeney are fighting like devils.
Yankee as well rs Rebel yells
mingle with the vociferations of
shell and schrapnel, and the tips
and branches Of trees are falling as
If lightning had struck them in
hundreds Of places. "rhere's old
Pap Thomas, like a fool" exclaims
King, "still mounledi" and then
King and Fetterman and Muiligan
go and forcibly take Thomas Off his
horse and stand him behind a |
tree. Hooker Is in front mounted,
fighting his old corps for all there is
in l.. All the reserves are behind |
trees or down on their bellies, and |
shot, shell, grape, bullet, and can
ister make music in their midst.
Talk about your symphonies. It'll
was a carnival of tones that could |
have been heard thirty miles, and Il |
was kept up until dark, when firing
cased and King was ordered to close
up an ugly gap that had been made
in Newton's division. Hooker COW
cred himself with smoke and glory,
and went right into the jaw Of the
battle and staid there until he whip
ped the enemy out of sight-and he
slept that night with dead and DIV
ing, collapsed caissons and gun
carriers, and wounded horses
all around. / saw him at daylight
the next morning, aud he looked as
though he had been dragged through
a stubble field. "Where are they?o
1 asked. ga good many of them are
in hell" he replied. ''but the most
Of them are in At!anta.o He was
right regarding the latter, for we
soon had orders to march, and we
never heard q bullet or n shell until
the whole army had moved In line of
battle up to within two miles of the
fortified city. They checked us with
their demoralizing aerial messengers
Of hate, and we went into camp and
staid there until the victories at and
near Jonesborough Aug. 81, which
gave US Atlanta the day following.
did not hear the rebel bands play
Dixie" again until late in Novena-
ter.-M Y. Times. Ii