The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-02-23

VI uCulClHe. NE scene was worse |
than the battle, and it was relief to
get out into tho peaceful moonlight !
where lay other thousands only wait !
ing the daybreak to rush together and
come from the deadly conflict mangled
and torn like these.
Tired and exhausted as the army
was, the moon shcne so brightly that
the men lying in the long lines Of the
bivouac could scarcely sleep Many
hearts there in the lines to turned to
northern homes that night. feeling it
was the last time their thought could
ever be turned to them, as with a
prayer they babe them a silent fare
well. And the brave soldiers of the
south, lying there in lines but six hun
dred yards away, and in the same
peaceful moonlight, had they no
hearts, no homes, mothers, fathers,
sweethearts, wives and sisters, to-
ward whom they too, were silently
waiting prayers and farewells
All the night long the pickets and
sentries paced their beats. Not shot
was fired, scarcely loud word was
| spoken, but in the quiet was heard,
far on the tanks, the rumbling Of ar
tillery and the tramp Of regiments
getting into position for the morrow,
Rosecran's lines had all been drawn
in to correspond with the semi-circle
of the inner forts Hamilton's division
still held the ngat, with its left at
Fort Dowell. Stanley was now at the
center, holding Forts Williams and
Robinett, and the Memphis railroad.
McKean's division was at the left
about College Holl and Davies men
were between Stanley's and Hamil-
tons divisions.
The whole battle line was mile
long The forts were rather strong
protected by abatis. They were well
armed and their defenders were crave
men accustomed to battle. The rebels
were not less brave and their mum.
/, bers that night were as two to one
So far, they had been victorious al
; Corinth.
, At three O'Clock on October 4th
Rosecrans lay down for an hours
rest, but the first morning twilight
brought with it the boom Of rebel can
non planted in the night close to the
union lines The great moon Wen
down, and the red battle sun rose or
Corinth. Hasty and last breakfasts
were snatcaed from haversacks, can
teens were filled with water and the
union lines fell in; but there was
halt. The rebel commander at tn lef
was sick; his division did not move
as ordered at daylight and the sigma
was not given. The rebel center
G however advanced and became engag
ed, and by nine the whole rebel arm.
was moving and the battle of Corintl
was again in progress.
The laundering of the artillery o
j, tle two armies was terrific.
In the smoke about the redoubt
and the batteries. the white tongue
~ flames could be seen spitefully dart
ing, while the sound of many metal
a and many calibered guns drowning thu
= crashes Of musketry, seemed for me
ments like the changing of thousan
great bells Then there would be
. momentary hush, only to be followe
~ by the sudden thunder of some fierc
. battery whose guns, fired in concert
~ were as suddenly answered by other
fiercer and louder still.
- And so it continued, nutil, one afte
- =, the other Of the terrific assaults of tn
:. Americans of the Southland upol
= tneir Americans of the Northland ha
\ one by one failed, and the Union arm
81 won the battle of Corinth.
:. The losses of the rebels had bee
10 very great, numbering not less tina
;. 5000 killed and wounded. and owe
al 1000 prisoners They lost beside
some 1000 stand of arms, and fou
so teen battle flags.
10. The Union army had twenty-seve
ed officers and 32S enlisted men kille,
1,S41 officers and men wounded an
I'd 324 missing.
The state Of Iowa lost in the battl