The National tribune., 1907-10-10

iarately, but as they bore the burden of
repeated and desperate assaults against
the strongest part of the Union line
they must ihaye suffered o.6ari more than
the rest of the army, 1t seems altogeth-
er probable that the losses were greatly
understated4 in most vjpstapces, since
H bod and Law report that their two
brigadSs alone lost total of 1.017. or
Approximately half Whatr4was lost in
the whole four divisions. that report.
If these two brigades lost LOTT. the
total in the, four divisions of Jackson,
! Ewell, Whiting and D.. II. Hill must
have greatly exceeded their report of
2,671.
Fitz-John Porter lost in all % can
non, some of which were broken down.
three ran off the bridges at night, and
the rest were either captured or had to
be left On the field on account of the
shooting down of the horses.
A severe loss to the Union army was
the capture of Gen. John f. Reynolds
and his Chief of Staff, Capt. Kingsbury.
Gen Reynolds, trying II make sure that
all his regiments had received their or
ders to march to the rear, was riding
| thru the woods when he ran into the
4th Va. mistaking it for one of his
regiments. and was Immediately sur
rounded and compelled to surrender.
/ Capture of the l1th PA. and 4h n. J..
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the
Due de Chartres led up the 4th n. J.
and 11th Pa. to the front to relieve
some regiments which had been lighting
for hours and had exhausted their am
munition. The 4th \. j. took the place
of the Sd Pa. and the 11th Pa. moved
, up to the support Of the 4th \. j. The
4th n. j. became Immediately and very
houy engaged and in the course of an
hour the mems pieces became so foul
that they could scarcely fire them and
their ammunition was running low. Col.
Gallagher. of the 11th Pa, came up t.
Col. Simpson. and asked permission to
relieve the 4th n. ]. with the 1th Pa.
which was done, and the 4th n. j.
moved to the rear to support the 11th
! Pa. as we'll as the latter had been doing
its duty by it. These regiments We're
| bearing the brunt of Stonewall Jack
sons attacks. which they had-repeatedly
repulsed, but were enveloped by smoke
and were not given the orders to retire,
which came to the rest of the line abou.
! I o'clock. Presently C0ls Simpson saw
q large body of troops approaching on
his left. and sending out Lieutenant.
the latter discovered their character by
a number of bullet holes put thru his
hat and clDthing. Col Simpson started
| to retire. but discovered another heavy
body of troops in his rear. which fired
upon his Adjutant. sent to discover their
| character. They thus found themselves
lentirely surrounded. with NJ prospect
| of escape, and most reluctantly both
regiments had to surrender.
Damaging Blows 10 the Enemy.
The Confederate commanders admit
with unusual frankness the terrific eff
feet of the blows which they received
from the Union soldiers. Gen. A. P.
Hill says: Desperate but unavailing at
tempts were made t, force the enemys
positions. The 18th n. c., Col.
McElroy. and 22d n. c., Eieut.-Coi.
Gray, at one time carried the hill and
were in the enemy's camp, but were
driven back by overwhelming numbers.
u Pender's Brigade was suffer-
ing heavily but stubborniy held its own.
Field and Archer met a whitening storm
of bullets. but pressed on u within Il
short distance of the enemys works,
but the storm was too fierce for such a
handful of men. They recoiled, but
were again pressed to the charge, but
with NJ better results. This number of
men had done all that any soldiers could
do"
Gen. Longstreet says that Gen. Hill
had been SO roughly handled that he
found that the feint which he had been