The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-08-03

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! their men for thcir hard work and
, stubborn lighting The enemy made
no tn:thcr progre>, on that faux. aud
- ! p N. had almo-t given up the
attempt.
About ! p. III. there was quite q
iuil during which the enemy felt for
ward on the railroad and the main
Decatur road and suddenly assailed a
regiment which, with a section of
guns, had been thrown forward as q
kind of picket and captured the two
guns. lie then advanced rapidly and
broke through our lines at this point,
which had been materially weakened
by the Withdrawal Of Coloners Siar.
TIN brigade sent by General Logan s
order to the extreme left. The other
brigade, General Lightburn's, which
held this part of the line, fell back in
some dlsorde. about 400 yards to a
position held by it the night before,
leaving the enemy for a time in DOS
session of two batteries, one of which.
2o-poundcr. Parrott battery of
four guns was most valuable to us.
and separating General Woods and
General Harrow s divisions of the
fi.tecnth corps that we're on the right
and left Of the railroad. Being in
person close by the spot .nd appre-
ciating the vast Importance of the
connection at that point, | ordered
certain batteries of General Soho.
fields to be moved to position some
what commanding it by left flank
ire and ordered an incessant fire of
shells on the enemy within sight and
the woods beyond to preven. his rein.
forcing. [ also sent orders to Ge neral
Logan, which he had already antici-
pated, to make the Fifteenth corps
regain its lost ground at any cost and
Instructed General Woods, supported
by General Scho6eld, to use his divi.
sion and sweep the parapet down from
where he held it until he saved the
batteries and regained the lost ground.
The whole was executed in superb
style, at times our men and the enemy
lighting across the narrow parspet,
but at last the enemy gave way and
the Fifteenth corps regained it's posi-
ton, and all the guns excepting the
two advanced ones, which were out Of
view and had been removed by the
enemy within his main works.
with this terminated the battle Of
the 22nd, which cost us 3,722 killed.
wounded and prisoners. But among
the dead was Major General McPher.
son, whose body was recovered and
brought to me in the heat Of battle,
and had it sent in charge of his
personal staff back to Marietta on it's
way to his northern home. His death
devolved the command of the army of
Tennessee upon General Logan. The
enemy left on the field his dad and
wounded and about a thousand we'll
prisoners. His dead alone are com.
puted by General Logan at 3 ,24O, Of
which number 1900 were from actual
o,unt, and Of these he delivered to
the enemy under flag of truce sent in
by him Cthe enemy 800 bodies. 1 en-
tertain no doubt that in the battle Of
July % the enemy sustained an ag-
gregate loss of fully 5000 men,"
General Walker, gallant Confed-
crate Brigade Commander, also many
other brave and dashing officers, fell
on that memorable day.
AS night approached the lines of
battle resumed their original positions
and neither army could claim much
the advantage Of the other, and it
has gone down in history as q drawn
battle. L. z. Thomas, Sr.