Year: 1862




Our men were obliged to toll up the
steep hill, wholly exposed. The encour-
sgement OF the almost impregBability OF
their position, and the terrible disgrace at
tending failure to hold it, together with
q speech by Stonewall jackson TO bis diyis-
ion, in which he fred all their pride and
attachment by calling the men "his pets"
as we learn from rebel prisoners and de-
serters, impelled them to make q no. and
stubborn resistance to the determination of
our men to make the rebels take the back
track this time.


Rarely happens such q contest as tho
concluding part Of the battle. 1t was just
twilight, and dusk added to the gathering
darkness dispensed by the woods. Final
ly, the opposing forces could see each 9TH
er only by the light of their guns. The
rebels retired step. by step to fence at the
inner edge of the woods, and az the top of
the hill, and thence refused to bulge. a
cornfeld and level ground lay behind them
The first would give them the advantage
of the woods, and the level ground give
our s;urdler men a chance TO run them
down and give them the cold steel, with
which they never pretend to cope. Tha:
fence line was their last hope. Our men
still moved forward, until the forces came
into very close proximity.


Gen. King was absent, sick, and his di-
vision went into the light under command
of Gen. Hatch, the general of the first
brigade of that division. In the very
outset, Gen. Hatch was wounded in tho
leg. The command OF the division devoly
ed upon Gen. Doubleday, second brigadier.
He kept his division close up to the work
until his ammunition was almost exhaust
ed. He then male his men stop iring a
moment. The enemy took the bait, tho't
they had beaten, and in the darkness sup
posed Doubleday was retreating or waver-
ing. The rebels rush on, with shout of
exultation. Gen. Doubleday ordered his
men to reserve their fire until they came
within few yards. They were then Or
dered to fiie, and instantly rose up and
poured terrible volley right into the face
of the rebels, making great havoc among
them, and sending them in disorder back.
They were rallied. however, and still kept
up their fire.


Ricketts, division finally relieved Doub
leday's, just In time to save the latter from
disaster for want of ammunition.


1t would be weeks work to get at the
exact loss sustained by each regiment en-
gagged That suffered by one regiment of
Doubleday's division may serve as an ex-
ample. The, 95th New York, Major Pye
commanding. reported 25S men the day
they went into battle, and this morning.
the second day after the battle, it reported
153, to which ABOUT twenty were added in
the course of the morning by stragglers
coming ina total of l72 men; loss: kill
ed, wounded, and missing; S5 men. This
regiment has suffered more severely than
the average, as it was in the advance, and
hotly engaged.


The death of color sergeant Charles E.
Stamp, company q, 10th New York. is
worth paragraph. He was private in
his regiment up to the 2Sth of August
In the terrible slaughter of that day, near
Gainesville, when the whole regiment
seemed to be moved down, the color bear
er. and with him the colors, were brought
to the ground. Stamp rushed forward
and re- bore them through the rest of the
fight The colonel Immediately pre- NOTED
him to the rank of color bearer for his
good conduct. In the battle of last Sun
day afternoon, Stamp was proudly bearing
his colors in the midst of as thick show
er of the enemy's balls as he had dared in
winning them. The regiment had ad-
vaneed, but was not prompt enough or
fast enough in continuing its advance in
the face of such frightful obstacles to suit
his heroic daring. He marched firmly for
ward about rod in advance of his regi-
ment, and, driving his flag staff down into
the earth ne cried, There, come up to
iithat!' But he made too good mark
He was instantly killed by bullet pierre
ing his forehead. es ~ .as2
l. Another honorable nam in the ranks is
that of Winfield Scott Carr, a mere boy,
not eighteen. in the 56th Pennsylvania.
who was engaged in one of those unequal
disastrous fights in the last of August
Night bad overtaken his regiment, still un-
willing to give way A movement of the
enemy brought the colors Of regiment
with their bearer in sight. There's
ID REBEL" cried the boy, and taking
deliberate aim, shot the color bearer dead
on the spot. His colonel made him cor
poral for his gallantry.


Pettit's battery is famous ore, and its
captain moro than deserves all I'll reputa-
tion he has. His shell were dropped with
the most beautiful precision again and a.
! gain among the rebel lines, half hidden in
the, corn fields. in masses on the open
fields, in batteries, and all along the front
which was within their reach. Hooker
had allowed him to reopen his fire after it
fifst was stopped, and it continued at in
tervals all the afternoon. Tidtall,s bate
~ on the left was also well handled, and
its fr's destructive. Rebel batteiie, in
various positions repeatedly opened iinase-
rious attempts to silence this fire. which
evidently to them was from very few guns.
Petit having only four. But every rebel
battery that declared itself WIS silenced.
and still Petit kept on. He had not man
hurt. though the shells exploded all about
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