The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-01

CTS It lost 5000 men, and double the loss of the First corps, which fought bravely.
 Battlefield south of Gettysburg. July 2, Midnight: For seven hours without cessation the army of rthe Potomac has been tried by fire. It has suf- fered terribly. It has beaten the en- emy in the hardest fight 1t has yet seen.
 the enemy's whereabouts. determined to take his own time and mass his forces properly before fighting the great battle, and in that view. did not assume an offensive attitude but merely occupied a position, and watch ed the enemy. Meanwhile, corps by corps, our forces came 11p, until by noon today we had on the field the whole force with which we fought this battle.
 But the enemy had other ideas as to the time when the battle should take eive movements towards our left were discovered, and General StickIes was ordered to advance his whole force, which was engaged from to 5 D. =n.s and behaved admirably. Though driven back once, 1t was rallied by the general in person, and went on again, giving and receiving a very heavy fire.
 Soon after o'clock the Fifth corps went into action the left of the Third corps. At that time, as for three hours previously, the cannonadfng was very heavy Besides the guns and batteries of the reserve artillery post ed on enldnences in various points in the field and these with our guns on Cemetery Hill, thundered tremendous Iy.
 Rebel batteries were also at vvortr shelling in every direction, and as our lines formed nearly a circle, shells from the Rebel batteries on both our Hanks exploded near the center of our position continually and made it. a hot place.
 Such a concentration of fire on our position naturally necessitated some movement Of a1nbuIances and am intuition wagons, and in 10 minutes after this extensive duel began, the Baltimore turnpike was lined with ve- hicles in motion towards safer places. All sorts of shaky fellows also tn- proved this opportunity to effect a slight skedaddIe. and Boon the column of men in motion towards the rear became more considerable than the column of vehicles.
 When men once begin to go, each additional shell that explodes in the air above them makes them want to go faster, and, owing to this peculiar constitution of the human animal. d stampede down the Baltimore sroad was imminent when a line of men was established and every fellow that disposed to retire was forced to the front
 By this smelling the Cemetery E4iu was cleaned. All day long it had been occupied by lines of men. and there groups of officers gathered, inl- spected the position and canvassed the possibilities. Many men sat on graves. leaned against the tonnbstones, and re- counted their various 1ndscharcea. Orderhes came and went incessautlys for there Generals Howard and Stain wehr had their headquarters Alto gether the city of the dead was very lively place but soon after the ar tilfery fire became warm 1t was de- serted by all but the generals whose headquarters were there. and the men necessary to hold the place. But as usual the fighting at cIosa quarters and the musketry fire was infinitely the most destructive and this continued along our left for four hours. About D. m. one of those magnificent charges of infantry SO much favored in the Rebel tactics was made on the divisions of 1Ec- was made by about 15O0o men for med in column of divisions and was directed against our extreme left Both columns, after they had almost grasped the victory, were repulsed by the Fifth corps. After this terrible fight on the left and while all were glad enough that day was over, a sharp musketry fire suddenly broke out on our right, at that point that had been held by the Twelfth corps But the Twelfth had been withdrawn and the place was held only by Gen eral Creene's brigade, which almost alone repuIsed the night attack.
 Everyone is exhausted and there E great misery for want of water.