The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-01-29

received by the Fes6e-ais in shsl- rev POI
t III ~. w,,n 2 xissestnx voiley. aasI again
was close and desperate. and this time the
Ccnfed.rases were forced 10 fall hack.
;srr .fs snsg an sIoas eoIfas:on ps With
Fourth Missouri bad been sno- and The
regiment was scattered
=. just uefors darkness fell the Federal
line fell back into their s.sse-for isssuxes
ana the Ionfecerafes rested amid the dead
ana s dying friends and foes VINO cogered
OF the nerrest struggles known in history.
80 ended the FIRST day at Co-inrh 10
s % lssao~sa or tns morrow By scenes more
sefFinie. ~ possible. than those just ended
by The plying shadows of night
DO not think any one could give a
Fighting than the Confederate soldier has
cone ihaf night We lay down 20 try 10
z ,ra-po but With gloomy forebodiags Of the
but hoped that Grant. who was some
twenty-five miles from US but seitn too
srs'ah force TO cut through to Us. would
nna some way 20 help us.
We were soreiy outnumbered. even If
Grant were with US: but W. had The adj
vantage OF inside lines. and about one
redou1ts and hastily constructed riIle pits
Next morning I was awakened by the
only TO be half blinded 81 The fash Of an
other explosion. In my haif-awake state.
the blaze of that shell seemed TO be az
large as a small house
The Smelling was kept I'D for nearly an
hour. without doing any considerable dam
age 70 Us as an army. when II suddenly
We concluded that the enemy were GO
ing TO give IL up and a few OF US got up
the semDiance OF laugh. the brst had
fore.
We had gotten our breakfast. allied our
canteens and We're sitting around on the
ground, little Inclined to look on the
bright side OF things, and congratuating
ourselves on getting out OF the scrape the
gay before as well as We mad, when sud
denly IL seemed If the heavens were
raining sulphur smoke. tire, lead and iron
in our very midst.
Our battery instantly opened its fire
We were the supporting regiment. and Law
just behind the guns
In few minutes the battery xas rap
idly advanced. and we followed. Tnen the
final Confederate charge was made which
was repulsed. but not before IL had forced
our Inc back at one OF our strongest posi-
tons. capturing the guns and attempting
10 turn them on Their success waa
short-ived- In moment our lire was re-
formed. and after a fearful hand to-hand
struggle at both batteries Robine:te and
Powell, they were driven back over the
ground they had fought hard for with
loss that was frightfui.
The Confederate line was enfiladed by
artillery fire from both right and left
while the confused ranks were swept BY
the pitiless leaden hail from the Union in
fantry. which, springing from Its sheltered
position. kept pace with the rapidly adj
vaneing batteries. which had horses
bugles sounded halt and Corinth was
won.
1T is extremely difficult to get at the
exact losses OF the confederates In any
action of the Southwest. AT Iuka Price
reported loss of ss killed. We buried III
s la in Na gray or on that battle
Srdse be na kilea 5es a' we O. e a1fhE
buried N az ,as officers and men, and they
The nelu of Corinth abounded in Incl
dents, both heroic and pathetic. The hero
by that of the brave Confederate Col.
Rogers. who commanded the Texas brig
ade. and fell at the head OF his column,
parapet of Robnette.
The brave Hackelman. Lincolns friend.
fell there. and more than one pathetic
scene rises as Corinth Is mentioned among
the memoirs of the past
Al II a. m October I. the enemy was In
of the sth. Just why this delay occurred,
by which so much valuable time was lost
has never been satisfactorily explained.
either 10 the army or TO Gen. Grant who
ordered an immediate advance.
The retreating enemy threw away every
thing that could impede their progress.
rifles. clothing trains: all were sacrificed
10 enable them to outmarch us and they
must have been vastly xurprised waen they
learned that we were quietly resting when
they were making such efforts to get
away.
nave no OoNDt out thdf after thirty
nve years memory has lapsed TO some ex-
tent; and that flaws can be picked in this
little sketch. l have endeavored 20 give a
picture as | saw IL of one of the most i'm
portant actions OF the civil war.
Any one who notes the wide discrep-
ancies in the accounts Of this action from
the pens of prominent actors can hardly
fail to see that jealousy and self-conscous
blame has warped the Judgment and guild
ed the pen in making statements that calm
reasoning show to be unjust in spirit and
wrong as TO fact"