Year: 1862




-respondence of the Cincinnati Gazette.


MORE OF LEW. wALLACE's SHARE IN THE


FIGHT.


l had intended at the close of my account
to speak more at length of the brilliant
days work Of Major General Lew. Wal.
lace's division, on our extreme right, but
the ponderosity of the letter was already
becoming frightful. 1t were hard to award
too much prsise to that splendid division or
its accomplished General.


The division was longest of any in the
fight that day and there can be no doubt
that it bore the brunt OF the rebels last
spasmodic, terrible effort. As our left gra
dually cleared their front, the enemy s
troops were shifted to the right, ard in the
last hours from two to halfpast four) there
seems to be little reason to doubt that Beau.
regard led them in person, and charged
them never to yield that ground, or if they
did, to throw down their arms and 60 home
at once. His favorite troops, the New Or
leans Battalion, and the regiments of
wealthy creoles from the lower parishes of
Louisiana, were there, as we know from the
wounded left upon the field; and the can.
teens, filled with a mixture of whisky and
gunpowder, found on the dead and wounded
show whence their fiery courage came.


From the hour the artillery opened on
the rebel batteries in the morning till near-
ly five in the afternoon, the division was
handled with skill that deserves higher
praise-in the grateful heart-throbs of
mothers whose boys were brought through
the terrible conflict scatheless, by the supe-
rior management of the General-that de
serves far higher praise, say, than any
poor words from pen of mine can express
1t was like game of chess By a sharp,
quick struggle, with loss OF life all the less
tor its very sharpness and quickness, we
gained position that commanded a cas-.
tie. Of course the castle fell. Then the
lines would advance till we came upon a
knight or bishop battery that promised as
bloody Resistance. The division would halt,
fall to the ground behind some swell of the
hill, or take some protection in the woods
as it might find safest, and await events.
Skirmishers would 60 creeping out, grad
ualIy the artillerist would find their men
falling around them, and their horses shot
down till there was danger of their losing
their guns if they remained. Rake the
fields with grape or she'll as they would,
they could do little against skirmishers 80
scattered that if vOliey of grape did not
60 near one, it was certain to miss every
one of fifty others; while their small
arms were in the main no match for ours,
and hence their infantry we're as poweress
as the artillery agains; our skirmishers.
Presently the guns would timber up and
retreat-the pawns had driven off the
knight or bishop.


This was scientific, orderly, reasoning
war. There was much of it in some of the
other divisions, on our victorious Monday,
but nowhere was the system so perfect, the
generaship so manifest and commanding as
in Lew. WalIaces division, which saved the
right, defeated the rebels in their last hope
of turning our right fanks, so finally won
the day. Parents, and brothers and sisters
of the brave men who fought under him,
and whose lives be may thus have saved,
will cherish the memory of the dashing
young General revt rently for it.


The buENA VISTA SLANDEh OF lNUlANlANS


WIPED OUT FOREVER.


But began to speak of the division
mainly to record one important fact which
History will not fail to preserve. The die
VISION alone of all engaged in the battle, eli.
ther on Sunday or Monday, never gave back
an inch. Every other division faltered at
times, fell back regularly, or retreated in
disorder This one never faltered. From
the opening OF the fight it pressed steadily
forward-nullG UeStigia retrOrsuna Ito the
close.


Prominent among the regiment thus
nobly advancing, second to Done in deter
minatlon that day, when Ohio and Indiana
7alor was put to the test, not against COW
ardly Mexicans. but with the chivaIrous
Southrons of Mississippi and Louisiana,
was the Twenty>third Indiana, Col. San
derson, Lieutenant Colonel Antony. That
regiment was raised 10 the same region from
which came the Indiana troops who were
accused of cowardice at Buena Vista.
There is justice in history.


HOW SIDNEY JOHNSTON WAS RECOGNIZED.


Albert Sidney Johnston's body, which
was not found till Monday evening, was
first recognized by Brigadier General Mel
son, who had known him when the one was
an hOnored officer in. the old army and the
other was Liutenant in the navy. Pris-
oners had been telling of his death, and de-
scribing him as dressed in velvet suit, ami
when such corpse was found inquiries
were naturally made as 10 who knew john
stOn. General Nelson was sent for. He
at once declared it to be indeed the dead
Commander in Chief and had the body
removed to his own tent. General Rous-
seau was subsequently sent for, and be too
recognized the features. Captain Chand-
Ter of the regular army did the same; ant