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Making Cory Battle History.

volyer among them as he lay dying
Making Cory Battle History.
Finally word reached Gordon To re-
treat When the casualties were count
eel ii tranSpred that out Of Ga \ la.
hamianS mustered for the fight 81 had
been killed and 81 wounded. battle
/ loss never exceeded in single fight.
Il While Gordon and his Alab;tmians
struggled ferceIy 1T Seven Pines n reg
/. lment .ef blueyOats made CORY history
/ ut Far Oaks At that point the Fed
eral lite was crushed by the onslaught
OF the Palmetto regiment OF South
Carolina. The field was like that 1T
/ Seven Pines woods. SlaShings and
cleuringS for cannon The palmettqs
/ captured the ground and stood ia their
tracks TO hold of two regiments of
Pennsylvanians which came UP much
in the temper of Gordon's Alabamians
at the other end of the field-that IS.
surprised. baffled and mad. In the
/ lead marched the Sixty-frst Pennsyl-
| vanist. commanded by Colonel Oliver
/ Hazard Rippey
/ As the Pennsylvaniaus charged up at
! a double quick the carolinians dropped
to their knees Keeping up steady
/ fire, the Federals cheered and advanced
until within thirty PAGES of the foe
! Firing from shoulder rests. the COM
| batants kept up the murderouS duel
for thirty minutes. Colonel Rippey
was killed. and the dag. torn TO shreds.
became his winding sheet. The lieu
tenant colonel. major and eleven other
officers were killed or wounded and
263 men out Of 5T4 who entered the
/ light.
Darkness closed in the night Of May
81 with the situation on both sides
of the lines very much as it was at
! Shiloh the first day. The Confederate
leader. General Johnston. had been
Wounded and carried from the field
before his plan of battle had been car
ried oul President Davis was on the
ground giving bhttle orders In person.
The Federals hid been overwhelmed
all along the line from Fair Oaks 10
Seven Pines and their batteries and
intrenctments captured. but they had
not been driven into the river.
F.deral Reserves Brave the Flood.
Wa. ned by the Sc nd bf firing that
the enen.. had sprung an attack on the
isolated lei, wing. McClellanc troops
behind the Chl'kahominy were fC:med
in line ready to cross and enter the
fight A single bridge out OF ha.e
dozen was passable. owing to the high
water. and that only by wading. Cen
eral E. " Summer crossed one division
to the scene of fighting before dark
Other troops of the left wing which
had been in camp by the riverside some
miles from the field, rushed forward
TO support the front line.
General Johnston had surprised the
Army OF the Potomac only to arouse 1t
to the danger of it's position astride Of
the river. Johnston had supposed that
McDowefl's Federal corps was march
ing down from the Rappahannock to
q junction with Mcclellan on the
JamesFand he hoped to crush the army
on his front before re-enforcements
could reach the enemy But Mcdowell.
was at that moment a hundred miles
from Richmond
On the morning Of June there were
twelve brigades of Confederates on the
battlefield that had not fired shot
the previous day and eight brigades Of
Federals that had not been engaged
Before he was wounded Johnston gave
orders that his regiments should sleep
on their arms. ready to renew the fight
early on June 1. All night May 81
McClellan's generals were preparing to
recover the lost ground Early In the
morning they took up the fight. and
at almost the first shock the Confed-
crates retreated There was no leader
to direct the movements until the aft
ernoon. when General Robert E. Lee
was appointed by Davis to take the
chief command BY that time the Con-
federates had been driven from the
captured works, but held ground Of
their own choosing on the best roads
from the river TO Richmond.
Other Events of the Week.
About the middle Of May, 1862. Gen
eral Irwin Mcdowell. who lay at Fred
ericksburg with 10000 Federal troops.
was ordered to march direct toward
Richmond Near that city he was to
unite his force with the Army Of the
Potomac which Mcclellan was leading
against Richmond An obstacle TO this
union was u division OF Confederates
at Hanover. about twenty-five miles
from Richmond On the 9th General
Fitz-John Porter's command attacked
and dispersed the Confederates, thus
clearing the way for McDowell's ad-
vance.
On the Both of May the Confederate
army under General Beauregard eyac-