THE PRESS.
rUBMBHVD DAILY, (SUNDAYS EXCMPTED,)
BY JOHIf W. rORMBY,
•imn No. 41T OHNSTNUT STREET.
THE DAILY PRESS,
ffflliTl Oints Pbb WBBBi payable to the Ourier.
Haded to latncrlbera oat of the City at Six Bolllm
pn Anrux, Fooa Solum rom Eioht Moh-fss,
¥■>>■ Dollabb bob Six Mobth*—lnvariably in ad
vance for the time ordered.
THE TRI-WEEKLY PRESS,
Hailed to Subscriber* oat of the City at Taiuii Dol-
Uis Psn Annex, fa advance.
DRY-GOODS JOBBERS.
1862. SPRING - 1862.
WHOLESALE DEPARTMENT.
J. R. CAMPBELL & CO.,
No. 737 CHESTNUT STREET,
SAVE NOW IN STORE, LINES OP CROWS
GOODS, TO WHICH THEY INVITE THE
ATTENTION OF CASH BUYERS.
WHITE GOODS—In all thoir Variation.
C.INENS—AII Qualities and bo st makes.
TABLE DAMASKS—Napkins and Doylies.
J,. c. HAKES —Towels and Toweling.
■GINGHAMS—Super, Fancy and Solid Check!
SLA WHS—New and Choice Styles.
ORGANDIES, And Paris Printed Jaconets.
DRESS GOODS—In vory desirable styles.
the lest m#kca.
iBLACK SlLKS—Choice Brands.
SIEACHED GOODS—A full line.
(PRlNTS—American iradEngUib.
-CHINTZES, DItILLIANTES
PERCALES.
‘i'OGETHEB WITH MANY OTHER COOD3,
ADAPTED TO FIRST-CLASS TRADE, ALL OF
WHICH WILL BE OFFERED AT
LOW PRICES.
1862. SPR I NO. Igg2. 1 gg2.
W. S. STEWART & 00,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF
sSILKS AND FANCY DRESS GOODS,
SO. 30S MARKET STREET.
Kj?t> invite tbe attention of the trade to a full lino of
BLACK AND OTHER STAPLE SILKS,
Aa also a great variety of
NEW STYLES OE DRESS UOODS,
Bought for caeh, and which will be offered on tile moat
tCavorable terms. fe'2s-3m
SPRING GOODS.
3M. L. HALLOW ELL & Go .
333 MARKET and 37 NORTH FOURTH STS.,
Wholesale Dealers In
•SILKS AND FANCY DRY GOODS,
Have open a large variety of freshly-imported
iSPRING DRESS GOODS,
**£o which} with a bandaomo assortment of
BLACK AND FANCY SILKS,
SHAWLS, MANTILLAS,
WHITE GOODS.
EMBROIDERIES,
alnd other goods in their line, they invite the attention
s-af city and country dealers. mh4-tf
& Co.,
.Sos. 61T CHESTNUT and 611 JAYNE Street,.
Have now open their
•SPRING IMPORTATION
OF SILK AND FANCY
<DREBB GOODS, SHAWLS, WHITE
GOODS,
.LINfINS, EMBROIDERIES, &o.
Bought in Europe, by one Gf the firm.
-To which the attention of the trade Is particularly In
cited. fefll-2m
IMPORTATIONS.
HOSIERY, GLOVES,
GENT£’ FURNISHING GOODS,
LINENS, SHIRT FRONTS,
WHITE GOODS, AND
EMBROIDERIES.
TIfOS. MELLOR & Co.,
mlilS-Sm 40 and 49 North THIRD Street.
1862. spring. 1862.
RIEGEL, BAIRD, & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS
' ' OF
DRY G'O O D S,
SO. 47 NORTH THIRD STREET.
PHILADELPHIA.
Xierchants visiting this city to purchase Dry
Goods will And our Stock large
and admirably assorted, and at
Low Figures. In certain classes
_ . of Goods we offer inducements to
•purchasers unequalled by any other house in
Philadelphia. mhlB-2m
-gPMNGh STOCK
■SILK AND FANCY DRESS GOODS.
A. W. LITTLE & Co.,
Dibls.tr No. 325 MARKET ST. >
JELLING OFF
STOCK or
«CASBIMERES, VESTINGS, DRIL
LINGS, MARSEILLES, &o.
Twenty-five per cent, under former prices.
A. H. GIBBS,
fc2l-lm No. 531 MARKET Street.
WHOLESALE HOUSES.
AN D 54-INCI
SKY-BLUE KERSEYS,
■SUPERFINE INDIGO-BLUEJSATINETS,
SLACK CAPEX AND OXFORD D«.
TOINTED Do, in variety.
SLACK AND FANCY MIXED DOESKINS.
PANCY CAS3IMERES AND MELTONS.
IN STORE, AND FOR SALK BT
JOSEPH LEA.
te2o.fr 128 AND 130 CHESTNUT STREET
SEWING MACHIN
& WILSON
SEWING MACHINES,
628 CHESTNUT STREET,
artAl-fm PHILADELPHIA.
YOL. 5-NO. 194.
MILLINERY GOODS,
1862. SPRING * 1862.
WOOD & CARY,
(Successors to Lincoln, Wood, & Nichols,)
No. 725 CIIKSTNUT STREET,
Have now in Store a complete stock
or
STRAW AND MILLINERY GOODS,
SILK BONNETS,
STRAW AND PALM-LEAF HATS, Ac.
To which they respectfully invito tlio attention of the
foimfr patrons of the honso and tho trade generally.
marl2-2m
W ™ a - 1862.
RIBBONS, MILLINERY,
ASD
STRAW GOODS.
BROOKS.
& Co.,
NO. 431 MARKET STREET,
Have now open—and to which daily additions aremodo—
their
USUAL HANDSOME VARIETY
or
RIBBONS.
BONNET MATERIALS, FLOWERS,
RUCHES.
STRAW AND FANCY BONNETS,
MISSES’ AND CHILDREN’S HATS,
FLATS, SHAKER HOODS, and
ALL OTHER ARTICLES IN THE MILLINERY
LINE,
Which will be offered at tho
LOWEST MARKET PRICES.
The attention of the trade is respectfully invited.
#7“ Particular attention given to filling orders.
uml3-2m
rjTHOMAS KENNEDY & BRO-,
729 CHESTNUT Street, Eighth.
A Choico Stock of
SPRING MILLINERY GOODS,
mhl3-3m] AT LOW PRICES.
C’AKFRTS AND OIL CLOTHS.
Q.LEN ECHO MILLS,
GERMANTOWN, PA.
McCALLUM & Co.,
MANUFACTURERS, IMPORTERS, ANDDEALERS
509 CHESTNUT STREET.
{Opposite ludepeudeuve Hall,)
CARPETINGS.
OIL CLOTHS, &c.
Ve have now on hand an extensive stock of Carpetings,
of our own and other makes, to which we call the atten
tion of cash and short-time buyers. toh7-3m
JIOURTH-STREET
CARPET STORE,
No. 47 ABOVE CHESTNUT, No. 47.
J. T. DELACROIX
Invitee attention to his Spring Importation of
CARPETINGS.
Comprising every style, of tbe Newest Patterns and
Designs, in VELVET, BRU63ELB, T APE6TBV BRUS
SELS, IMPERIAL TABES-PLY, and INGRAIN
CARPETINGS.
VENETIAN and DAMASK STAIR CARPETINGS.
Ft. 6COTOIT RAG and LIST CARPETINGS.
- floor oil CLOTHS, in omr width,
COCOA and CANTON MATTINGS.
DOOR-MATS, RUGS, SHEEP SKINS,
PBCGGErS, and CRUMB CLOTHS.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL,
LOW FOR CASH.
J, T, DELACROIX,
mho-4m 47 South FOURTH Stroet.
JSpiW CARPETINGS.
J. F« & E* B> ORNE,
NO. 519 CHESTNUT STREET,
{OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE,)
Have rtceivod, per atomuer Edinburgh* and other
late arrivals, their
SPRING IMPORTATION OP
NEW CARPETINGS:
CROSSLEI’S
YARD. AND. A-HALF-WIDE VELVETS\
9-4 MEDALLION DO.*
ENGLISH BRUSSELS^
EXTRA-QUALITY TAPESTRY*
BRUSSELS CARPETS , WITH BORDERS,
(of new designs* for Halle and Staira).
INGRAIN AND THREE-PLY CARPETINGS, of
extra quality.
ALSO,
500 PS. J. CROSSLEY & SON'S
TAPEST&Y BHUSSELS CARPETS,
FROM 87* TO $1 PR. YD.,
Together with a complete aeeortment of
OIL CLOTHS,
STAIB AND FLO OB DBUGGETS,
BUGS, MATS, to.,
All of new, choice selections, and
AT MODERATE PRICES.
J. F. & E. B. ORNE.
mh3-tf OPPOSITE STATE HOUSE.
KCH-STBEET CARPET WARE
HOUSE.
OLDEN & RICKNER,
832 ABOH STBEET, TWO DOORS BELOW NINTH,
SOUTH SIDE,
Have this day opened their New Stock of CARPETS, of
the beet English manufacture. The newest Patterns in
Velvet, Brussels, Tap. Brussels, 3-Fly Ingrain, and Ve
netians, Oil Cloths in all widths, Cantou Matting, Mats,
Druggets, &c., bought beforo the late advance, selling at
the lowestprices for CAsn. mbls-12fc
YARNS, BATTS, & CARPET CHAINS.
AH.FRANCISOUS.
t
WHOLESALE DEALER IN YARNS,
433 MARKET and 5 North FIFTH Street.
PHILADELPHIA.
Buyers will find a full Stock of
COTTON, LINEN, AND WOOLLEN
CARPET CHAIN,
COTTON YARN,
TWIST, FILLING, WADDING, BATTING,
COTTON LAPS,
TIE YABSS, TWINES, CANDLE WICK,
COVERLET YARN, BROOM TWINES, SHOE THREADS,
GILI.ING AND SEINE TWINES,
BED CORDS,
WASH AND PLOUGH LINES,
COTTON, HEMP, AND MANILLA CORDAGE.
Also, a full assortment of
FLY NETS,
Which be offers at Manufacturers
LOWEST NET CASH PRICES,
WOODEN AND WILLPW WARE.
H. FRANCISCUS,
433 MARKET and 5 North FIFTH Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
WHOLESALE DEALER IN
WOODEN AND WILLOW WARE.
Always on hand, a full Stock of
TUBS, BUCKETS, CHURNS, MEASURES, BBOOMS,
WHISKS,
FANCY BASKETS,
WALL, SCRUB, and SWEE PING BBCSHES,
LOOKING-GLASSES and WINDOW PAPKJB,
Mats, Rectors, Flour Buckets, Nest Boxes,
WASH BOABDS, BOLLING and CLOTHES PINS,
FLOOR and TABLE OIL CLOTHS.
SCHOOL, MARKET, and DINNER BASKETS.
Sleds, Barrows, Carriages, Hobby Horses, Ac., &o.
All Goods sold at.
LOWEST NET CASH PRICES
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THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1862,
OUR WESTERN CORRESPONDENCE.
Letter from Nashville, Term.
SERENADE TO GOVERNOR JOHNSON.
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.
Speeches ot Governor Johnson, lion,
Mr. Elheridge, nnd lion. Mr. Muynard.
Nashville, March 14, 1852.
A serenade was tendered Governor Johnson last
evening, and, after the saucy tune of Yankee Doo
dlo had been discoursed by the band, the patriot
appeared upon the balcony of Hie St. Cloud Hotel,
in response to tho notice. Although Mr. Johnson
commenced in a manner which would suggest an
early retiring, one hour and a half elapsed before
he closed bis speech, and then amidst the cries of
“goon" by an enthusiastic congregation. Tho
evening was remarkably balmy and clear, tho
streets quiet, and the speaker’s voice, uttering
words which amazed many and pleased all, could
be distinctly heard the distance of an eighth of a
mile. No demonstration was apparent but of an
absolutely national character.
Gov. Johnson reviewed the terrible events con
nected with Secession generally, but particularly in
the case of the State of Tennessee. He spoke of the
great injustice which had prevailed in his own
portion of the State —in his own family; and the
remarks so touchingly made in connection with the
name of Andrew Jackson, whose ashes are within
a short distance of tho city, occasioned the
most ’profound silence and reverential awe. He
interrogated, “Why have I been persecuted?” and
answered, “Because I have maintained my in
tegrity, violently opposed the corrupt men who
have dared to endeavor to destroy tho Constitution
of the United States —tbe best country tho world
ever saw.” He spoke of the last Presidential cam
paign—how he had been betrayed by Breckinridge
—and, in deep, emphatic tones, declared that ho
could never be deceived by him again.
In speaking of the slavery question, Mt. Johnson
informed the people that those who took up arms
against the country and its Constitution wero not
only fighting against the protection of slavery, but
actually undermining tho institution. In conclu
sion, he called upon the people of Tennessee to once
more conform to the requisitions of the country’s
laws, lay down their arms, and return to their alle
giance, remarking that treason must be crushed,
and traitors must be punished!
After Mr. Johnson retired, loud calls were made
for Mr. Etheridge, who shortly appeared upon the
balcony, and spoke for nearly half an hour. Mr.
Ethcridgo was very severe upon all whohad been
instrumental in crushing freedom in Tennessee;
and his description of Harris leaving the State pro
duced much amusement.
Mr. Maynard also appeared before tho as
semblage, and in most dignified and statesman
like manner told tbe people of, and described to
them, tho error of their ways; and, speaking of
the young men who were engaged in the service of
the robcl army, condoled with them, and boseoohed
them to “ Repent and be forgiven.”
After Mr. Maynard had ceased speaking, the
band struck up the “Star-Spangled Banner,” and
tho crowd retired amidst great rejoicing.
The mails are in Buch a complicated state that I
am obliged to postpone further notice until to
morrow, when yon may look for something relative
to matters and things in Nashville. S.
FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
XMVA fFdiii Burnside—Remains .Scut North
\ R ucimimisssmco aml a Bloodless Skir-
mish—lntrepidity—Sewell's Point Shelled—
Personal—Photography Becoming »n Insti
tution—Tlie Constitution Comim* Up—The
Repairs to the Whilldhi— I The Keystone
State* >
[Special Correspondeuco of TUo Press.]
Foutress Monroe, March 17.
The monotony of life at Oid Point was broken
last evening by the news that Gen. Burnside had
taken Newborn, The Intelligence, laconic as it
was, created a groat sensation here, but your cor
respondent connected with the expedition will send
you full particulars of the fight. The battle is said
to have been a hard-fought one.
The body of Louis Groesle, bugler of Co. E., N.
York Twentieth Regiment, who died a day or two
since, was escorted to the boat yesterday afternoon
with military honors, and conveyed North.
Tbe New York Twentieth Regiment went out on
a reconnoissanoe yesterday. They met the enemy
two thousand five hundred strong, with six pieces
of artillery. The Secesh fired a few shots, but, as
usual, nobody was hurt. Major Vegesach com
manded the expedition. A shell fell and exploded
within a few feet of him without appearing to have
occasioned him the least astonishment.
Sewell’aPoint was shelled to day from the Saw
yer gun on the Rip Raps. About ton shots were
fired, all but two or three taking effect.
Senator MeDougall, of California, is hero.
Photography is getting to be as popular an insti
tution in camp as the newspaper. It is a grand
mistake to imagine that fighting men have no ap.
predation of the fine arts. Almost every soldier
has ft latent propensity to send the folks at home a
counterfeit presentment of his humble self, tricked
off in uniform. The cavalry man (or cavalier)
must needs send a picture not only of himself, but
likewise his horse, with a plentiful supply of fodder
for a comfortable background; while the artillerist
will insist on showing the glory of his taking
off” with a monstrous big cannon, which makes
himself monstrously insignificant. A photographic
establishment has been erected at Newport News,
under the charge of Mr. Ross, who revels in the
sobriquet of “ Major.”
A large steamer, supposed to be the Constitu
tion, from Ship Island, is bound in.
The IV. Whilldm* whose boiler was exploded in
the late naval fight, has been repaired, and is back
again.
The Keystone State is hero. She is taking a
mail for these places along the coast where the
Union army has obtained a foothold.
St Patrick’s Day in the Camps.
The Scene in Alexandria—General McClel
lan's Headquarters—The Headquarters of
General Franklin —A View from Seminary
llUl—Hew St. Patrick's Hay was Celebra
ted,
[Special Correspondence of The Press.]
Alexandria, March 17,
The scenes presented in this ancient town are by
turns stirring, melancholy) and ludicrous. Herein
some of the oldest and best families «f Virginia
made their homes, and the desolate mansion of the
great Father of the Bepublio is almost within sight
of the city. I con see Arlington House from the
hill wheieon I stand, and notice in the town beneath
me a hundred sumptuous and elderly edifices from
which the nobility of the Old Dominion have been
exiled for their political sins. They have gone
afar off ; tne Iluns have overrun their vineyards
and despoiled the inheritances of their children.
Here, at the outskirts of the town, is a fine old
brick mansion, with what was once a broad green
lawn sloping down to the street. Silver maples of
twenty years' growth grow close and shadowy
around the dwelling; but the bats and all manner
of estrays are the sole occupants; not a window or
a door remains to open hospitably to the stranger
as of old, and the very floors of the domicile havo
been torn sway and burned *n the camp-fires of the
enemy. The shining barb of the maple trees has
been gnawed by cavalry horses, of the fences not a
vestige remains, and the lawn is out into slimy ruts,
as if by ploughshares, with a hundred artillery
wagons.
I forced my horse up the almost impassable car
riageway, and thrust his head through a ruined
window. The roof was full of gaps; the rafters
were charred, as if by an incendiary, and looking
down ilto the atanneh cellars, hallowed, perhaps, 6f
old, by choice wineß and fat larders, a green pond of
stagnant water mirrored the desolation above and
around it. Here families had been nurtured, loves
had been oherished and consummated, and the
vanished aisles bad rang with laughter and dancing,
I rode to the headquarters of Geueral McClellan,
a cosy fann house on a hill top. Here are pay
masters, quartermasters, commissaries,.and briga
dier generals havo quarters. Forago op every de
scription surrounds the house; teamstex, como
lumbering through the rente In the garden fence,
and discharge their burdens under the apple tree
boughs in the orchard. A few rods to the west
stands Fairfax Theological Seminary, now a hos
pital, a noble building, with wings, dormitories,
and ohapeis. A lofty cross surmounts the cupola,
and where tuitions wore made in the quiet mysteries
of religion, lives now go out in pain, and the
wounded and diseased toss and tremble in the
agonies of death. I called on General Franklin,
whose headquarters are made in a famous boarding
school, a little to the west of the seminary. He
ocoupied a room, where, if gossip be true, Jackson,
the murderer of Ellsworth, was located in his
school days. Thus, war baa put its foot upon a
thousand reoollections.
In the clear sunlight of to-day I stood upon Se
minary Hill, and looked upon the ground that is to
be hißtorio. The Capitol, the same which six hun
dred thousand men volanteered their lives, to peril
which half as many Steeped to perjury and mur-
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1862.
der, lay just across the river ini the reddening after
noon. Tbe monument to Washington lifted its
stumpy shaft against the hills, and the great dome
of the Capitol was purely and beautifully white.
A hundred etoam transports lay in the river; half
118 many clusters of white tents stretched along Ar
lington Heights; a score of forts bristled upon as
many hill tops, and the foreground was ft confused
plain of wagons, mules, artillery, and men. The
pregnancy of the time and the power of the Go
vernment was here revealed at a winkfull»as never,
for all ages, it shall be again. What other genera
tions shall only read l had seen!
St. Patrick's day was celebrated in the camps
much after tho usual fashion. More drunkenness
I never saw ; for, despite the vigilance of the prnvosfc
marshal, tho men contrive to get liquor. Every
other store in Alexandria contains it, every other
traveller over the Long Bridge or by steamboat
brings it. The soldiers peril every interest to ob
tain it, and intoxication is not confined to the men;
it extends to the officers.
Coining into Alexandria to-night, tho scenes
were frightful. Groups of fallen men would be
seen literally entangled with each other* hopeless*
ly, insensibly, irretrievably drunk. Hero would
come u stalwart fellow, flourishing a pistol, and
there a trooper, goading his hor3e to agony and
threatening to ride down every pedestrian. Two
Soldiers would drag their comrade through the mud,
themselves scarcely a whit soberer, and the guard
patrols came up from Alexjmdria with half a regi
ment of inebriates. Profanity is tho vernacular of
ft soldier. I heard it ta'dny m its intensity, Rnd
verily believe that everything ill its turn was at
one time or aDothor damned in mere wantonnoss.
Happily, these things are soon to end. With peace
we shall recover and be recovered, for tho most
philosophic and cheerful imagination will hare
be put to tho test to see in a campaign either the
physical or tho moral elevation of the citizen.
THE BATTLE AT NEWBERN.
FULL PARTICULARS.
THE DARING BRAVERY OF OUR TROOPS.
Gallant Conduct of ;i Pennsylvania Regi-
DESCRIPTiON OF THE REBEL DEFENCES,
££N£ftAL BURNSIDE CONGRATULATES HiS
We yesterday published a short synopsis of the
General Burnside victory at Nowborn, North Curo
lina. We now lay before our readers a detailed
account of tbe battle. Boforo sailing from Roa
noke, General Burnside issued an order dated 12th
inst., in which he informed them of the advat.ee
and occupation of Mnna.ms by General McClelland
army, and called upon them to bear themselves
bravely in the coming battle at Newborn. Tho
fleet leftßoanoke Island at 7 o’clock on tho morning
of the 12th, and at 8 P. M. on tho samo day an
chored at a place about twenty miles up the Neuso
river. Tbo tTOops wero landed under cover of tho
gunboats at tho mouth of Slocum creok, about
twelve miles bcluw Newborn by water and seven
teen by land, on the 13th inst. The troops were
rapidly formed into order, and the instructions
were sent by the Commanding General to his sub
ordinates ; but night coining on, the troops were
forced to bivouac for the night, so as to give them
rest to prepare for the conflict of the ensuing day.
On the March.
The correspondent of the New York Tribune
tells the rest of the story as follows :
At six o’clock on the 14th inst., all the generals
were in their saddles, and at seven the columm was
in potion, Xho column of General Reno, on the
railroad, was the fir9t to move, the Tweafcy-fir3t
Massachusetts, as the right flank regiment, leading
the advance. (In its appropriate place I would
here mention that Reno’a brigade bivouacked along*
side the track, two companies of tbe Twenty-first
having been thrown out ag pickets,} The regiment
had not proceeded far before, on turning a curve
in tbe road, they saw a train of cars, which had
brought re-mforeements to the enemy, standing on
the track. In front of the locomotive, cm a plat
form car, had been a large rifled gun, which was
evidently to be placed in position to rake the road.
Our men, however, advanced at the double-quick,
and poured in a volley with such accuracy of aim
that the enemy, who had already rolled the gun
and caisson oil' the oar, did not stop to uuload the
carriage, but ran into the entrenchments, and the
train-was backed toward Newbei-n, louring the
platform-car standing on the traok. The Twenty*
first had got within short range before discovering
the formidable nature of the exemy’s earthworks,
but now fell back, and, forming line of battle in the
woods, opened fire. The Fifty-first Now York was
moved to tbo left and ordered forward to engage a
series of redans, the Ninth New Jersey occupying
the leftof the line, and the Fifty'first Pennsylvania
held in reserve, in the rear of the Ninth, a little to
the left.
The Battle.
Meanwhile Oon. Foster's brigade had advanced
up the main road to the clearing, when the Twen
ty-fourth Massachusetts were sent into the woods to
the light of the road, and opening a heavy fire on
the enemy, commenced the action of the First Bri
gade. The Twenty-seventh were sent to their left
to support them, and news being received that the
enemy were trying to outflank us on the right, the
Twenty-fifth were sent to resist the movement. The
Twenty-third being moved to the front next in line
of battle, opened fire upon the enemy, which was
replied to by very heavy volleys, and a cannonade
from a park of field pieces behind the breastwork.
The very fiigt qappon-'&hot killed Lieut. Col Henry
Merritt, of the Twenty*third, the ball passing
through his body. As he fell ho threw up his
Arms and said, u Oh dear! Oh dear 1” Gen. Fos*
teris line of battle was completed by moving the
gallant Tenth Connecticut to the extreme left, to a
position where they had to fight under the most
discouraging disadvantage. The ground was very
wer, swampy, and cut up into gullies and ravines,
which mostly ran toward the enemy, and, of course,
while offering no protection from his fire, exposed
them on elevations and in valleys. The regiment
had shown, at Koanoko, however, the behavior of
veterans, and nothing else could have been ex
pected at this time but that they would stand their
ground to the last.
General Parke’s brigade, which had followed the
First brigade up the main road, was placed in line
between the Tenth Cpnne?Hsut and Twenty-first
Massachusetts, the Fourth Rhode Island holding
the right of line, the Eighth Connecticut the next
place, the Fifth Rhode Island next, and the
EJevcnth Connecticut on the left. Our line of
battle wa9 now complete, the Twenty*fourth Mas
sachusetts on the extreme right, and the Fifty-first
Pennsylvania at the extreme left, and extended
more than a mile. The naval battery was in po
sition at our centre, with Captain Ucnnett's and
Captain Dayton’s rifles alongside, and were all
worked with the greatest gallantry throughout the,
day . The officers in charge of the pieces, without
exception, I believe, displayed perfect coolness,
and stood by their guns, in some cases, when a
Bingle man was all the assistance they had to work
them. This was the case with Acting Master Ham*
monel, of the Iletzel * and Lieut. T. w. 6 Hughes,
of the Union Coast Guard, the former losing every
man. and the latter all but one. The few hours
which have elapsed since the battle have not per
mitted my seeing the naval officers in person, to ob
tain particulars of their part of the aotion, and a
complete list of killed and wounded. It was my
fortune to assist Lieut. Hughes to a trifling extent
after he was wounded, and I can testify to the
coolness with which he bore his injury. Acting
master Hammond lost both his shoes iu the tena
cious clay of the road, and for several hours was
compelled to walk iu stocking-fect through mud
and mire.
The battle had waged for something less than an
hour, when the Twenty*first lost one of its noblest
officers, in the person of Adjutant Frazer A. Stearns,
the young man who bore himself so bravely in the
difficult and dangerous charge on the right of the
tnemy’g battery on Roanoke Island. Poor Stearns
received a bullet in his right breast, and fell dead
in Ms place. Ho was the son of the president of
Amherst College, and possessed the love of his
commanding officer,’ and the whole regiment.
Lieut. Colonel Clark, who is in command of the
Twenty-first, was affected to tears when relating
the circumstances of his untimely death, for he
felt almost the love of a father for the young man.
The fire of the enemy was now telling so severely
upon the Twenty-first that Col. Clark ordered the
regiment forward on a double-quick, and, at the
head of four companies storing the breastworks
from the railroad track, in company with General
Reno, the colors were taken into a frame house,
which stood there, and waved from the roof. The
men at the nearest guns seeing the movement,
abandoned tbeir pieces and fied, and, the four com
panies being formed again in line of battle, charged
down the line upon the battery. Col. Clark mount
ed the first sun and waved the colors, and had got
as far as the second, when two full regiments
emerged from agrovo of young pines, and advanced
upon our men, who, seeing that they were likely to
be captured or cut to pieces, leaped over the para
pet, find retired to their poßiUon in tho woods. At
this time Capt. J. D. Frazer, or Company H, was
wounded in tho right arm, and dropped his sword,
but, tsking it in his left band, he attempted to es
cape with his company, fell into the ditoh, and was
taken prisoner, and dragged inside again over the
parapet* A guard of three men wos placed over
him. his sword was taken, but his revolver being
overlooked, ho seized tho opportunity offered by &
charge of the Fourth Rhode Island, and, by the
judicious display of his pistol, capturod all three of
his guard.
On being driven from the battery, Col Clarke
informed Col. Rodman, of *be Fourth Rhode Is
land, of the state of affairs inside, and that officer,
unable to communicate with Gen. Parke in the con
fusion of the fight, acted upon bis own responsi
bility, after consultation with Lieut-Lydig, one of the
ceneraFs aide, and decided upon a charge with the
D&y&net. As th& Fourth wtu» one of the most
prominent regiments in the aotion, it will be well
to go book a little in our narrutive, and traoe them
up to that point. Tbeir position in the line of
battle, as ordered by Gen. Parke, was in front of a
battery of five guns, and the rifle-pits or redans
which were situated immediately in the rear of and
protected the right flank of the main battery of
nine guns. Until the charge was decided upon
by Col. Rodman, the regiment had been firing, like
the rest of the line, by companies and otherwise.
When the command was given to charge, they went
at the double-quick directly up to tfc6 battery,
firing as they ran, and entering at the right flank,
between a brick-yard and the end of the parapet.
When fairly inside, the Colonel formed the right
wing in line of battle, and at their head oharged
down upon the guns at double-quick, the left wing
forming irregularly, and going ns they soqld, With
a steady ikie of cold steel, the Rhode Islanders bore
G. A. T.
FORCES.
down upon the enemy, audi routing thorn* captured
the whole battery, with its two flags, and planted
the Stars and Stripes upon the parapet Tho
Eighth Connecticut, Fifth Rhode Island, and
Eleventh Connecticut, coming up to their support,
the rebels fled with precipitation, and left us in un
disputed possession.
General Reno's brigade were still attacking the
redans and small battery on tho right of tho rail
road, and the firing was very heavy. The Twenty
first was engaging the battery of fivo small pieces,
the Fifty-first Now York tho first of tho redans,
tho Ninth Now Jersey the next two, and the Fifty
first Pennsylvania were still in reserve. Lieut.
Col. Robert B. Potter, of the Fifty-first New York,
when in advance with Captain Hazard’s company
of skirmishers, was shot through tho side and fall,
hut, making light of tho wound, ho got his Servant
to put on a bandage, and, in a few minutes, had re
turned to his place and was cheering on his men.
The regiment was drawn up in a hollow, or ravine,
from which they would move up to the top of the
eminence, discharge their volleys, and retiro to
such cover as tho inequalities of tbe ground might
furnish. General Rono, becoming impationt at tbo
loss of life which his regiments, and particularly
Col. Ferrero’s was suffering, wished the regiment
to adv&noe as soon as possible, so Lieutenant-Col.
Potter took a oolor over the brow of the hill into
another hollow, apd from here charged up an ac»
clivity and over brushwood and abattia into the
redan. The 5Ut Pennsylvania, for along time hold
in reserve, was ordered up to participate in tho de
ceive charge of the whole brigade upon the line of
redasa. and passing through the 51st Now York, ns
it was lying on tbs ground after having exhausted
all its ammunition, came under the heaviest fire,
and without flinching or wavering moved to its
place, ard with the other regiments, upon
the defences of tbe enemy. The movement of Col.
Hartranft’s reginient was executed in the moat de?
liberate manner, and proved a complete suceesi.
Tbe movement of the Third Brigade was support
ed by a charge of the Fonrth Rhode Island, from
the captured main battery, upon tbe works which
wore and the enemy, already demo
raliaetj .by the breaking of (heir centre, fell back
before the .grand charge upon tbe left and front of
their position, and fled in confusion. On tbe ex
treme right, the brave Twonty-fourth, and its sup
porting regiments, had been advancing inch by
icnb, standing up against the enemy’s musketry
and cannonade without flinching, and at about tbe
time when Iho Fourth Rhodo Island charged in at
the right flank tbe colors of the Twenty- fourth were
plantFd on tbe parapet at the left, nnd the whole of
the First Brigade poured into the fortification. The
whole line of eaTthworkajr&s now in our hands, and
tbe cheers of our men, from one end of it to the
other, broke out with fresh spirit as eaoh new regi
mental color WBS unfurled on the parapet.
While ati tho regiments engaged in the battle are
deserving of high praise for their steadiness under
fire, the spirit with which they surmouatod the
most- formidable obstacles, and the fidelity with
which they obeyed the commands of their gonerals,
cerhun regiments, by the peculiarity of tbbir distri
bution, perhaps, wero made more prominent for
their gallantry. These wero the Twenty-fourth
Massachusetts, Fourth Rhode Island, Tenth Con
necticut. Twenty-first Massachusetts, and Fiftv-first
New York. "When the charge of the Fourth
Rhode Island had been made, and tbo colors wero
carried along Ibe wliolo length of the main battery,
General Burnside asked some one what regiment
that was. On being told the Fourth Rhode Island,
he said, u I krew It, It was no more than I ex
pected. Thank God, the <Uy U ours.”
The Rsbe! Defences.
The approaches to Ncwbern were defended by a
line of water batteries or forts communicating with
field fortifications of the most extensive nature. Tho
low? x fort is about six miles from the city; tho noxt
communicates with the unfinished batteries and
breastworks passed on our march, and the others
distributed at about equal distances along theshoro.
The line of fortifications attacked and stormed in the
brilliant engagement of yesterday was some three
miles in extent. At the river bank, a hexigonal
fort, or water battery, with a large bomb-proof and
thirteen heavy guns, commanded not only tho river
approach, but, by means of pivot carriages, the can
non could be turned upon an advancing land force,
and even to sweep the line of breastworks itself in
case the garrison should be driven out. The fire of
this fort would have proved very destructive to us,
after the batteries were stormed, if tbe gunners had
not deserted their pieces. From the fort to the centre
of the line, a well-made breastwork extended, with
a deep moat in front. At the centre was a bastion
ppd gaily-port, after which the breastwork w&3
continued to the railroad embankment, which was
itself Slade to contribute a means of deface?.
Beyond the railroad, but completely protecting the
right flank of the main battery, was a small bat
tery, of irregular shape, communicating with a sys
tem of thirteen redans or rifle-pita, each pair of
which were constructed on a knoll rising between
ravines, the conformation of the ground furnishing
in itself a most admirable basis for field-work 3.
The locality was chosen with rare judgment, and all
Ih*& engineering skill could devise was done to
make thsse fortifications an impassable barrier to
ourtroops- From the railroad westward, a swiff,
deep brook, with muddy bottom, and ft wide border
-?,f swii 'up on both sides, raa in front of the redans;
aiv,d*?n vur side approach the timber vrns so very
htferty that, when felled, it presented a barricade
which would seem enough of itself to stop an army
of French Zouaves. 0a the brow of each mound
br*irt»wood ha#*been plied with regularity to the
height of four feet in front of tho redans, to make
it extremely difficult to take them by assault
from tho front. The redans were constructed
of heavy timbers, covered with at least fivo feet
thiokness of earth, while an interic? ditch of say
three feet in depth gave complete protection to the
garrison from volleys of musketry, or discharges of
grape or banister shot.
The March on Newbem.
W« did not know with oortamty that there was
not another battery as formidable as this still fur
ther up the road, but thinking it best to feed the
§anie which had seized upon the enemy, General
urnside ordered an advance. General Foster im
mediately sent forward the Twenty-fourth, Twenty
fifth, Twenty-seventh, and the whole brigade by
the straight road. In the charge on the rifte»piti
battery about one hundred rebels, among them the
colonel of the Thirty-third North Carolina and a
number of commissioned officers, were captured.
'When these were secured in an old brick-kiln and
placed under guard, Generals Reno and Parke
moved their brigades after General Foster's, the
former going before up the railroad track and the
latter by the county road. The march to Newborn
was quite unobstructed, the onem; having apparent
ly all he could do to get away from us, and
early in the afternoon our forces reached the bank
of the river immediately opposite the city, Long
before we came in sight of it, however, dense vo
lumesof smoke were seen rising in that direction,
and the suspicion that the place had been fired by
the enemy was fully realized when its steeples and
bouseswereinview. Newbernhad beenfiredinseven
different places, and if the wind had not mercifully
subsided there would hardly have been a house left
standing by nightfall. The splendid railroad bridge,
750 yards long, had also been set on fire by a scow
load of turpentine which hod drifted against it, and
the great structure was wrapped in one grand sheet
of flamei Preparations were immediately made by
Gen. Foster to cross his forces, and this was accom
plished by the assistance of a light draught stern
wheel steamer which had been captured with four
or five small side-wheel boats by the naval gun
boats, which by this time were quite up to the city
wharves.
The Scene in the City.
To the eastward of the city a very large rpbel
camp, with barracks and tents, was found deserted,
and taken possession of. Stragglers from different
regiments wandered through the city, and some acts
of depredation were committed, but a strong pro
vost-guard was called out; all liquor-casks were
staved in, and by midnight the streets of the ci y
were as quiet as if one army had not just fied from
it in one direction, and another entered it from the
other.
The groat majority of the Inhabitants had left
town, doubtless under tile impression that the
whole was to be given up to the flames; the stores
were closed without exception, and if had not been
for the negroes, and a few whites, one might
have thought some dreadful plague was raging in
the city! The Washington Hotel and market house
were the principal buildings burned, and the num
ber of private residences will not probably excßed a
dozen. The nefarious plan of the rebel military
offioers and political demagogues was resisted by
the better class of citizens, but to no purpose. The
held was fired by & h6t-hedcUd Secessionist lawyer,
who applied the torch at an angle in the court yard,
with his own hands. The railroad bridge was fired
by accident; but a toll bridge, the only remaining
means of transit for vehicles and pedestrians, from
shore to shore, was about being sat on fire when
the incendiaries were fired upon from a navy boat
and driven off.
General Btfnifiide’s Orders.
Immediately after entering the city, Gen. Bum
side issued the following orders:
Headquarters Department North Carolina >
Nbwbbrn, March 15, 1862. J
General Orders, No. 17—The general com
manding congratulates his troops on the<r brilliant
and hard-won victory of the 14th. Their courage,
their patience, tbeir endurance of f&tigq?, exposure,
and toil, cannot be too highly praised. After a te
dious march, dragging their howitzers by hand
through swamps and thickets, after a sloepless
night passed in a drenching rain, they met the
enemy in his choson position, found him protected
by strong earthworks mounting many heavy gunß,
although In open field themselves, they con
quered. With Such soldiers advance is victory.
The general commanding direots with peculiar
pride that, as a well-deserved tribute to valor in
this second victory of the expedition, each regi
ment engaged shall inscribe on its banner the me
&6?&bU name 11 Newborn. n
By command of Brig. Gen. A. E. Burnside.
Lewis Richmond, Asst. Adjt. Gen.
And hero is another, which will serve to Bhow
the quality of the man that Gen. Burnside is:
HjsAi»quautbiis Dept, op North Carolina, )
Newrern, March 15, 1862. J
Special Orders, No. 51. * * * *
4. Brig. Gen. J. G. Fostor is hereby appointed
Military Governor of Newborn and its suburbs, and
will be obeyed and respected accordingly.
5. Brig. Gen. J. G. Foster, Military Governor of
Now’oerp, will dirset that the churches be opened
at a suitable hour to-morrow, in order that the
chaplains of the different regiments may hold Di
vine services in them. The bells will be rung as
usual.
'*** # ’ # *
By command cf Brig. Gen. A. E. BaitssiDK.
Lewis Richmond, Asst. Adjt. General.
We have received a full list of the killed and
wounded in the engagement, but prefer to withhold
it until the official report shall satisfy us of its entire
correctness. The annexed Hat from the Ninth New
Jersey Regiment, however, is believed to be re
liable : .
Killed —Lieutenant W. G. Walker, Co. A; Pri
vate Weiksell, Co. A; Private Henry Sooher, Co.
D; Private Michael Dolan, Co. G.
Wo-unded —Captain J. M. McChesuoy, Co. M,
in leg; Captain Theod. Middleton, Co. D; Lieut.
Hufty, Co. I, in neck; Lieut. Townley, Co. K, in
breast; Sergeant Joseph Wright, Co. K, in arm;
Sergeant Joseph Stveetzer, Co. G, in thigh; Ser
geant C. P. Little, Co. H, in leg; Corporal Charles
P, Goodwin, Co, I, in hand; Corporal Jamos B.
Mattieon, Co. I, in foot, and the following privates:
Charles Miller, Co. A, arm and brenstj Charles
Turpbm&n, Co. A, in arm ; John Frontwine, Co. A,
in back ; Martin Moore, Co. B, arm amputated; H.
M. Ilansbury, Co.B, in log; Thomas Burney, Co.
B, in knee; Philip Acker, Co. B, in side and
ehoulder; James Reynolds, Co. B, in wrist; Jona
than Buttorworth. Co. B, iri head ; W. W. Hooper,
Co. C, in leg ; J. B. Steelman, Co. J>, in leg; P. H.
Ilenderthot. Co. F, in leg; W. P. Burch, Co. I, in
shoulder; Stephen Beatty, Co. G, in head; J. S.
Farkhurst, Co. K, in head; Thomas D. Freeman,
Co. K, in leg; Timothy lleloy, 00. G, In breast;
Jacob Arnick, Co. H, in bronst; 11. Whitehead, Co.
E, in side ; Thomas Crowley, Co. G, iu shoulder ;
Luke Davidson, Co. K, in foot; James Maloff, Co.
F. in leg; Edwd. Chance, Co. F, in arm, amputated;
Thomas Delaney, Co. K, in thigh ; Michael Boyle,
Cu, F, leg amputated; Henry Inster, Co. L, in
foot; Absalom Hoover, Co. K, in hand; C. H.
Mount, Co. D, in back; J. A. Erricson, Co. D, in
wrist; R. A. Burnes, Co. E, in foot; A. B. Hatn
ler, Co. K. in leg, Leroy Levy, Co. K, in thigh;
William Webb, Co. M, in scalp; Charles Taylor f
Co. I, in hood; Benjamin TUI, Co. I, in neck; W. it.
Hurley, Co. D, in shoulder; Edward II Davis,
Co. I, in leg; Joshua Anderson-Co. I. in thigh ;
William Spark, Co. I, in leg; Jacob Young, Co.
D, in John D. Nymaster, Co. F, slightly;
John V. Sulphin, Co. F, in breast ; JohnN. Smith,
Co F, in foot; Ch&s. M Priston, Go. F, inarm;
11. D. Van Nest, Co. F, in hand; GooTge Hawkins,
Co. K, in shoulder; Thomas McQuaide, Co. K, in
arm; Lucas Turse, Co. E, slightly; Jacob Rosa,
Co. I, in wrist.
Official Despatch ot Gen, Burnside, _
l/Kpautjiknt of North OAunu.vi, ) ""
Nkwhkrn, March 16, 1862. j
Gen. L. Titomas, Adjutant General U S. army.
Gknekatj : I have the honor to report that, after
embarking the troops with which I intended to at?
tack Newbern, in conjunction with the naval force,
on the morning of the 11th, a rendezvous was made
at Hatter&s Inlet.
Flag Officer Goldsborough having been ordered
to Hampton Roads, the naval fleet was left in com
mand of Commodore Rowan.
Early on tbe morning of tbe 12th the entire force
started for Nowbern. and that night anchored off
the mouth of Slocum’s Creek, some eighteen miles
from Newbern, where I had decided to make a
landing.
The landirg commenced by seven o'clock the
ll&Xt morning, under cover of the naval fleet, and
wns effected with the greatest enthusiasm by the
troops. Many, too impatient for the boats, leaped
into tho water, and waded waist deep to the shore,
and then, after a toilsome march through the mud,
tbo bead of tbe column marched within a mile and
a half of the enemy’s stronghold at eight P. M., ft
distance of twelve mites from the point of landing,
where we bivouacked for the night, the rear of the
column coming up with the boat howitzers about
three o’clock next morning, the detention being
caused by the shocking condition of the roads, con
sequent upon the heavy rain that bad fallen during
that day and the whole of tho bight- the men often
wading knee deep in mud, and requiring a whole
regiment to drag the,eight pieces which had been
landed from the navy and our own vessels.
By signals agreed upon, the naval vessels, with
tbo armed veasels of my force, were informed of
oiir progress, and wero 'thereby enabled to assi3t
us much in our inarch by shelling tbe road in
advance.
At daylight, on tbe morning of tho 14th, I
ordered an advance of tho entire division, which
will be understood by the enclosed pencil sketch.
General Foster’s brigade wa3 ordered up the main
county road to attack tho enemy’s left. General
Reno up the railroad to attack their right, and
Goneral Parke to follow General Foster, and
attack tho enemy in front, with instructions to
support either or both brigades.
I must defer, for want of time, a detailed account
of the action. It is enough to say that, after an en
gagement of four hours, wo succeeded in carrying
a continuous line of field work of over a mile in
length, protected on the river flank by a battery of
thirteen heavy guns, and on the opposite flank by a
line of redoubts of over a half a mile in length for
riflemen and field pieces, in the midst of swamps
and dense forests, which line of work was defended
by eight regiments of infantry, five hundred caval
ry. and three batteries of field artillery, of six guns
each.
The position was finally carried by amoßt gallant
charge of our men, which enabled us to gain the
rear of all the batteries between this point and
Newbern, which wns done by a rapid advance of
the entire force up the main road and railroad, the
naval fleet meantime pushing its way up the river,
throwing their shot into the forts and iu front of us.
The enemy, after retreating in great confusion,
(throwing away blankets, knapsacks, arms, il'C.,)
across the railroad and county road bridges, burned
the former, and destroyed tbe draw of the latter,
thus preventing further pursuit, and causing de
tention in occupying the town by our military force,
but the naval force had arrived at the wharves,
and commanded it by their guns.
I at once advanced Gen. Foster’s brigade to take
possession of the town by means of tho naval ves
sels which Commodoro Rowan had kindly volun
teered for the purpose.
The city was set on fire by tho retreating rebel*
in many places, hut, owing to the exertions of the
naval officers, the remaining citizens were induced
to aid in extinguishing the flames, so that but little
harm has been done.
M&ny ef the citizens are now returning, and wo
are dow in quiet po. B se. c sion of the city. We have
capiurcd the printing press, and shall at once issue
a daily sheet.
By this victory our combined force have cap
tured eight batteries, containing forty-six heavy
guns; three batteries of light artillery of six guns
each —making in all sixty four guns; two steam
boats, and a number of sailing vessels; wagons,
horses, a large quantity of ammunition, commissary
and quartermaster’s stores, forage, and the entire
eompequipage of the rebel troops, $ large quantity
of rosin, turpentine, cotton, Ac., und over two hun
dred prisoners.
Our loss thus far ascertained will amount to
ninety-one killed and four hundred and sixty-six
wounded, many of them mortally. Among these
are some of our most gallant officers and men. The
rebel is Severe, but not so great as our own,
being effectually covered by their works.
Too much praise cannot be awarded to the officers
and men for their untiring exertion and unceasing
patience in accomplishing this work. The effecting
of the landing and the approach to within a mile
er.d a half of the enemy’s works on the 13th, I con
sider as great a victory as the engagement of the
11th. Owing to the difficult nature of the landing,
our men were foroed to wade ashore waist-deep,
march through mud to a point twelve miles distant,
bivouac in low marshy ground, in a rain storm, for
the night, eDgage the enemy at daylight in the
morning, fighting them for four hours amid a dense
fog that prevented them from seeing the position
of the enemy, and finally advancing rapidlyover
bad roads upon the city. In the midst of all this,
not a complaint was heard; the men were only
eager to accomplish their work. Every brigade,
find in fact every regiment* and I can almost say
every officer and man of the force landed, was in
the engagement.
The men are all in good spirits, and, under the
circumstances, arc in good health. I beg to say to
the general commanding that I have under iny
command a division that can b® relied upon in any
emergency.
A moro detailed report will be forwarded as soon
as I receive the brigade returns. The brigadier
generals, having been in the midst of their regi
ments whilst under fire, will be able to give me
minute accounts.
I beg to say to the general commanding the army
that I have endeavored to carry out the very
minute instructions given me by him before leaving
Annapolis, and thus far events have been singular
ly coincident with his anticipations. I only hope
that wo may, in future, be able to carry out in de
tail the remaining plans of the campaign; the
only thing I have to regret is tho delay caused by
the elements.
I desire again to bear testimony to the gallantry
of ‘•our naval fleet, and to express my thanks to
Commander Rowan, and the officers under him, for
their hearty and cheerful co-operation in this m6ve
ment; their assistance was timely, and of great
service in the accomplishment of our undertaking.
I omitted to mention that thore was a large ar
rival of reinforcement of the enemy in Newbern,
during the engagement, which retreated with the
remainder of the army by the cars and tlie country
roads.
I have the honor, General, to bo your obedient
servant, A. H. Burnside,
Brig. Gen. Commanding Department N. C-
THE BATTLE OF PEA RIDGE.
HOW FOUGHT AND HOW WON
INDIAN ATJtOUITUJS
THE REBELS SCALPED BY THEIR ALLIES.
Tbi special OOrTeslpOfident 6f IK a Cincinnati
Times gives a lengthy account of the battle of Pea
Ridge. The material portions ol his letter axe con
densed below:
diameter of the Battle-ground.
Before describing tho battle, it will probably fa
cilitate the comprehension of your readers to know
the nature of the and the situation of tho
ground on whioh the engagement occurred. Ben
ton county is called, in Arkansas, quite fertile,
though its appearance does not indicate it. nor do I
believe it would bo so regarded in another State. It
is rough and hilly, often rocky, the soil being, ge
nerally, of a clayey character, and covered in many
places with small trees, such as are known here
about as black jack and post-oaks, with occasion
ally larger timber.
The two principal readß are from Keetsvillo to
Fayetteville, and these at various points are well
adapted by nature for strong dofenoes, furnishing
ready means for the successful resistance of a large
by a small force. The roads are crooked and rug
ged, and though easy for the passage of horses,
cattle, and mules, are very difficult for the convey
ance cf heavy wagons and artillery. In some oases
our troops were detained for hours, and even days,
in transferring their oannon a distance of a few
miles.
Frequently they were fired upon from the woods
by small bands of rebels, who, knowing the country
well, always contrived to elude pursuit. Had the
enemy boon more daring, they could hare caused
us great annoyance and serious loss by opposing our
progress into tho State; but, fortunately for us, they
wero, so far as their effective force was concerned,
at a very harmless distance.
Sugar oreok rises to tho enst of the -Keotsville
road, flows through the lower part of rea Ridge,
which is about eight miles below the Missouri Hue,
and flows toward tho north. Pea Ridge is rather a
series of ridges on a high table-land, covered with
undergrowth and small-sized trees, while in some
quarters the timber is large and tall. Last autumn,
a tornado visited Northern Arkansas, and for seve
ral miles blew down the trees, whioh have lain
there ever since, and oiler serious obstructions to
transportation of all kinds. Pea Ridge, on which
the battle was fought, varies in breadth from two
to five miles, and extends some fourteen or fifteen,
end se uneven are its surfaces that no one can see
for more than a few hundred yards at a time, in
consequence of the intervening trees.
A small settlement, including some half a dozen
bouses, to which the name of Leotowu has been
given, is on the Ridge, and also three or four farm
houses, all of whioh wero deserted before the en
gagement began. The basks of Sugar creek are
TWO CENTS.
not steep, and, as the stream is small, It U easy to
cross, oven with artillery.
The battle began on the lower side of the creek,
and was soon after transferred to the upper; and
on the second and third days was conducted toward
the east, with wsrsHibbl SbiftißgS to the west, in.
eluding a elope or at least eight or ten miles.
The Federal Army.
Our effective force could not have been more than
twelve thousand on the day of the first engage
ment, and was composed of Indiana, Illinois, lowa,
Ohio and Missouri troop?. The army wasdivided into
three divisions, under the command of Gen. Sami.
K. Curtis, a bravo and patriotic officer, and was
brigaded, aa nearly as I can learn, in the following
manner:
General Sigei’s Division*
nnST HitmAnK —COLONEL GREL'SEL.
Thirty-sixth Illinois, Col. Greusel.
Twenty-fifth “ Col. Color.
Forty-fourth “ Col. KnobUsdorf.
SECOND BRIGADE—COLONEL OSTJiiUiAtfS,
Twelfth Missouri, Col Osterhaus.
Seventeenth Missouri, Col. llasaendeufel.
Second Missouri, Col. Schaeffer.
Til IHD BRIGADE —COLONEL ASBOTII,
Third Mipsouri, Colonel Friala.
Illinois O&VfilFy, (one battalion, 1 ) Captains Jenks
and Smith.
Third lowa Cavalry.
General Davis* Division.
Kilt ST BRIGADE—COLONEL DEXTQN.
Eighth Indiana, Coi. Benton.
Eighteenth Indiana, Col Patterson.
Twenty-second Indiana, Lieut. Col. Hendricks.
SECOND BRIGADE—COLONEL ,
Fifty-ninth Illinois, Lieut. Col. Frederick'
Thirty-seventh Missouri, Col. .
Missouri Cavalry, buttalion, Major Bowen.
Second Ohio Battery, Col. Carlin
First Missouri Light Artillery, one battery.
General Carr*s Division.
FIRST Dfcbdff,
Fourth lowa, Lieut.-Col. Galighan.
Twenty-fifth Illinois, Col. G. A. Smith.
Twenty*fourth Missouri (battalion), Maj. Weston.
SECOND BRIGADE—COLONEL VANDEVEIt,
Ninth lows, Lieut.-Col. Herron.
Twenty-fifth Missouri, Col. Fhelps.
Ninth lowa Battery, Capfc. Hayden.
First “ “ Lieut. David.
THIRD BRIGADE—COLONEL ELLIS.
First Missouri Cavalry, Col. Ellis.
Third Illinois, Lieut -Col. .
Sixth Missouri (battalion), Majd* Wright,
The Hebei Army.
The rebel army was composed of nine or ten,
perhaps twelve, thousand Missouri State troops,
under General Sterling Price; some six or eight
regiments of Arkansaa,under General Bon McCul
loch • five or six regiments 6f Texans, under Gene
ral Earl Van Dorn f somo three thousand Cherokee,
Choctaw. Creek, and Seminole Indians, under
Colonel Albert Pike, all under the command of
Mwjor General Mclntosh. In addition to those
mentioned, there were two or three regj£n?ntfi
of Louisiana troops and companies of Mis
sissippi and Alabama soldiers, under their re
spective captains, majors, and colonels, whose
names are unknown alike to your correspondent
and to fame. The entire rebel force could not
have been loss than thirty thousand, many esti
mating it still higher.
The First Day’s Fighting.
General Curtis anticipated an attack from the
south, ar.d accordingly had the trains placed on the
north under the protection of General Sigel. with
n body of eight hundred men • the principal Fede
ral encampment and main linos being to the east
ward, near the head and on both sides of Sugar
creek. Meantime the robel forces were moving in
full strength from Bentonville, whence they had
proceeded from Cross Hollows, and with rapid
marches were endeavoring to cross tho crook, and,
by placing themselves on the north, to cut off our
retreat.
An advance of about two thousand cavalry
reached the desired position, and made a fierce
onslaught on Sigel, hoping to take possession of
our large and valuable train. Sigel proved him
self the right man in the right place. He gallantly
met the enemy, and, while ho repelled their
charge, prevented them from seizing upon our
wBgons. The brave and accomplished officer
seemed übiquitous. He rode rapidly bare and
there* giviDg orders and observing the point of at
tack and the situation of the enemy, at the same
time cheering and encouraging his troops.
Sigel’s desire was to keep the communication
open between himself and the main camp, and the
enemy’s design to cut off this avenue for reinforce
ments. They closed round him with tumultuous
shouts, and believed they had accomplished their
purpose, when Sigel rushed in upon them with hia
brave followers and compelled them to give way.
For two hours the stTifc wont on with groat
ardor on both sides; but it seemed as if the Fede
ralists would scon be compelled to yield. There
seemed no hope for them. They must become ex
hausted. and doubtless they must have done bo, had
their destiny been in less powerful and experienced
hands than Sigei's.
About tio trains, the din of strife rose louder
than before, and tho rattle of musketry and the
boom of cabfi&h awoke the surrounding echoes.
The enemy were losing ground. They rallied and
fell with redoubled-force on our heroic band, two
hundred uf whom had already proved their patri
otism with their blood. The combat was hand to
band. Horsemen were dismounted, nn4 struggled
with the infantry, while the officers were sometimes
seen defending themselves against the adv&noiog
bayonets of the common soldiers.
A superhuman effort on the part of tho enemy,
and a third time the Federalists were sur r ounded.
Firmer and firmer were the rebels closing round
the five or six hundred braves, who were evidently
going to tho wall. Only one way was left:
“ Follow me!” thundered Sigel, and bis proud
steed trampled an approaching rebel under his
haughty feet.
A deep, strong, earnest cry from the Unionists,
and they met the foe with the rush of determina
tion and the energy of despair.
The Second Day.
The enemy during the night and early in the
morning poured in from the Bentonville road, and
gathered in heavy force to our rear, sweeping
round to the right, and occupying both McU§ of the
Keetsville road, a position from which it was abso
lutely necessary to dislodge them, or surrender all
hope of success. r
Truly, before the second day’s engagement be
gan, the prospect was very dark.
Defeat seemed to staro us In tho face, and the
sole thing possible appeared a struggle to provent
too disastrous a discomfiture.
The way to Missouri was defended by thirty
thousand of the enemy ; and we had little more
than one-third the number to dispute the perilous
passage. On tbe south were the Boston Moun
tains. To the east or west we could not go. Wero
we not hemmed in by nature and the enemv ?
Gen. Carr’s division was sent by Gen. Curtis to
force tbe enemy from their position, and about ten
o'clock in the morning the battle was renewed with
increased ardor, and soon the batteries from both
rides wore replying to each other with death-deal
ing voices.
Gen. Carr made a spirited and heavy charge
upon the enemy under McCulloch and Price.
The rebels reeled as wo went against them, but
their column did not break. Tho charge was re
peated. Still the foe stood firm, opening a galling
fire from two batteries whose presence had not be
fore been known. Our troops were then thrown in
to confusion, and three companies of infantry
and Col. Ellis’ cavalry were ordered to silence the
destructive guns.
Carr’s column advanced and fell back, and ad
vanced again, and beyond them, up the hill, the
cavalry and infantry were struggling to capture the
detested guns. The regiment which protected the
batteries met them fairly and freely, and, for half
an hour, the two combatants were eo commingled
that they almost failed to recognize one another.
“ Our men have the batteries,” was announced,
and the Federalists rent the welkin with their
huzzas..
Through the blue curling vapors our men could
bo seen dragging the guns after them. Ere they
had gCbe a hundred yards, the rebels were behind
them, struggling like Hercules for the repossession
of the pieoes.
Blood streamed anew, and shouts, and groans,
and prayers, and curses, went up with the gigantic
forms of smoke jg the upper air.
Brief triumph. * The batteries are lost. Our men
have been overpowered by numbers. They retire,
and blood marks their progress, and many dead are
abandoned.
Midnight comes; and the scattered words of the
sentinels are heard ; and the Federalists and rebels
are sleeping on their arms, dreaming, it may be, of
the time when they were friends and brothors, and
America had notbeoome one vast military camp.
The Third Day’s Battle.
At six o’clock, our guns openod on the enemy,
and our fire was returned from twenty pieces. The
firihg did little harm. The enemy’a shot passed
above our heads. Our cause was growing darker.
Gen. Sigel observes new positions for our opera
tions. AYe plant six batteries at different points
commanding their principal forces. A fire of ball
la shattering the space with its roar.
The rebels can endure no longer the sheet of
flame, out of which go death and pain in a thousand
forms. They have lost their faith in their bad
cause and themselves. They are panic stricken.
They turn not. back. Two of their generals have
received their mortal wounds, and the word is!
“ Save himself who can.”
The Yankees have beaten them, and their star
has set over the verdureless ridge of this hard
fought field.
The birds twitter overhead. The sun shines
warmer and olearor. The atmosphore of blood is
purified by the feeling that it was shod in a sacred
cause.
Tlie Loss ou Both Sides.
Our loss cannot be known at this time, but it must
bo in the vicinity of seventeen hundred—five hun
dred killed anil some thirteen hundred wounded,
most of them slightly. Our officers, contrary to the
past experience of this war, suffered little, though
they exposed themselves recklessly, as Americans
always will do on the battle-field.
The rebel lass will never, I presume, bo accu
rately ascertained, as they are lying all over tho
ridges, in the ravines, among tho’ brush, and along
the roads. The oaualties among the enemy, how
ever, were far greater than with us, and three thou
sand—of which nine or ten hundred were in killed
—lam confident, would not be an over statement
of their loss. Their officers fell tbiok and fast in
the engagement, and tbeir dead and wounded ma
jors, colonels, captains, and lieutenants, were at
least double ours. The Secession officers were ge
nerally brave and dashing, and fought in so praise
worthy a manner as to leave us no regret, so far
as courage goes, that they were born upon our own
beloved son.
The Rebels Slaughtered by their Savage
It is said the Indians in the engagement of Fri
day became so exoited, by the alcohol they had
drank and the scenes that they witnessed, that they
turned their weapons upon their own allies, and
butchered and scalped the rebels and Federalists
with the most charming indifference. An instance
of this is given by one of the prisoners, a member
of one of the companies that suffered from what tha
Southerners believed to be the trea'chery of the
savages.
Four companies of the Arkansas troops brtoDg-
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ing Ia Ben, MdOtill&b’d dlfiri&B Were marching up
one of Use ridges north of Sugar creek on Satur
day zooming, to strengthen tbo enemy, who were
hardly pressed by (General Sigol. They soon came
in sight of about three hundred Creeks and Choc
t»w? wii? et'/od on the brow of an adjaoent hill.
Wlicn within about one hundred and fifty yhrds of
the savages, tbo latter opened fire on them The
rebel major who commanded the battalion cried
out to them that they wero killing their friends;
but the Indians did not heed whut he ftl)4
again discharged their pieces.
“Thod—d rnsoals have turned traitors,” cried
the Major. “ Upon them, Arkansas, and give
them no quarter.”
The Southerners needed no second order. They
&ttftcfeed Wilt) great energy, and for nearlj
an hour a desperate battle was waged on tbo
Ridge; the Indians fighting with blind fury, and
scalping all who fell into their hands, whether
living, wounded, or dead. This is described as
one of the severest actions of the entire battle, and
the Indians, who worn finally routed, are said to
have lost one hundred and twenty-five in killed
and wounded.
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
COMMAND OF THE ARMY OF THE MIS*
SISSIPPI#
A GENERAL obleb from bearbegabd.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROPOSAL
HOW IT IS REGARDED IN NASHy,
AFFAIRS AT NASHVILI-K AND VICIMTT.
RESUMPTION OF TRADE,
arc., <ScC. t <Scc.
From our special correspondent in the West, wo
have received copies of Nashville papers of the
13th inEt., which prove very acceptable.
Defence of Gov. Foote—The Revolution
not of Uie People.
The Richmond Ettynirer reproves Governor
Foote for criticising the actions of tho .Secretaries
of the Navy and War Departments. It would have
the honorable gentleman pluy “mum” in public.
Itwas this sort of playing, together.with tho sup
posed sacredness of generals, that left Naahvjjjg
without difeuets. Gofe the ox, old man. until all
such imbeciles as Syd. Johnson arc driven into
retirement— Patriot.
The Nashville Banner comments upon the above
as follows :
Among the moat admirable f[ua]j'fjpg of our old
friend, 'Governor Foote, is that of speaking his
mind freely and boldly, whilst he sometimes does
it rather emphatically. A gentleman who was pre
sent at the opening of the Confederate Congress In
forms us that among tho first things dene was tho
HdfCdUCtfon of a resolution by Governor Foote in
quiring into the causes which led to tbo recent dis
asters to the Confederate arms. A motion being
made to lay the resolution on the table for the pur
pose of considering it in secret session, Governor
Foote spoke with marked feeling and vcbeßigngQ
lh opposition io'secrct sessions* tie didn’t intend
to have any more of them. This revolution, he
said, thus far, had savored too much of a revolu
tion of leaders and not of the people.
He uttered a great truth. The leaders have hod
everything their own way, and the masses of tha
people hare ooly participated to the extent that
their services or means are required. So great hag
been not only the “ sacrednr&i of generals,” as our
neighbor expresses it, but of all men in place and
power, that it was regarded os treason to doubt
tbeir perfection or invincibility. Such men as Go
vernor Harris were too g/mrod for tho tongue or
pen to disparage* General Johnson was invincible;
Floyd, Pillow, and Hardee wero adequate to any
emergency, strategic or otherwise. The sequel de
monstrated how monstrously the people had been
deceived; how signally misplaced has been their
unbounded confidence. Fvon tho President him
self is forced to admit that his Government has un
dertaken more than it can accomplish.
President Lincoln's Proposal not Uncoil-
siitutiouaJ
The same paper, speaking with reference to tho
last message of President Lincoln, says ;
We publish, this morning, the brief message of
the President to Congress in regard to the emanci
pation of slavery. While it proposes no unconsti
tutional action on the part of tho Government with
reference to tho institution, it cannot but he re
garded as an ill-timed and unnecessary, not to say
impracticable, suggestion, even if any slave State
should accept it, which is itself out of the question.
Command of the Army of the Missiil
sippi—Beauregard's General Order.
General Beauregard has issued the following
Headqtjartkiis, Army of thk Mississippi, )
Jackson. Tenn.. March 5,1862. \
Soldiers: I, assume this day the command of
the-army of the Mississippi, for the defence of our
homesteads and liberties, and to resist the subjuga
tion, spoliation, and dishonor of our people* Our
mothers and wives, our sisters and children, expect
.us to do our duty, even to the sacrifice of our lives.
Our loeses, since the commencement of tbo present
war, in killed, wounded, aDd prisoner®, are now
about the same as those of the enemy*
He must be made to atone for those reverses we
have lately experienced. Those reverses, far from
disheartening, must nerve us to new deeds of valor
and patriotism, and should inspire us with &n gQ
conquerable determination to drive back our in
vaders.
Should any one in this army be unequal to tho
task before us, let him transfer his arms and equip
ments at once to braver, firmer hands, and return
to his home.
Our cause is as just and ssored as Over animated
men to take up arms’, and if we are true to it and
to ourselves, with the continued protection of ths
Almighty, we must end shall triumph.
G. T. BEAiritEGARD,
' General Commanding.
Commenting on this, the Memphis Appeal says ;
■< The exact limits of his depsttmeht, which is dis
tinct, it appears, from Gen. Sidney Johnson, is not
known to us. Gens, l’olk and Bragg will be con
nected with him in command of the army—the for
mer making his headquarters at UuaiboUlt, and
the latter probably at Memphis. As affairs now
progress, wo may well expect that General Beaure
gard will very soon perfect the organization and
discipline of his army, and increase its numbers t«
such an extent, that it will compare favorably in
efficiency to the Army of the Potomac."
Governor Harris.
AYe think one of Andy Johnson’s first official acts,
as Governor of Tennessee, should be to get out a
search warrant for Harris and his travelling Legis
lature.—Louisville Journal.
Ho will have to put it in the hands of a very fleet
mesetnger, if he ever overtakes tho redoubtable
Governor. But the Governor may bo expected
back soon. Ho promised tho people in a public
speech on the Friday night before the Sunday on
whioh, as he said, “ the exigenoiosof the times re
quired that he should remove the archives of the
State afad hlbiself with them," that ho would spiU
his " last drop of blood in defence of tho city," and
ho emphasized the declaration by staving a hole in
the top of his hat with his fist. Of course he will
keep his promise. AYho would expect Governor
Harris, the valiant and wise above all his fellows,
to forfeit so solemn a promise !—Nashville Ban-
Her.
More "Desecration” by United State)
Troops.
The Nashville Patriot , (a most miserable little
eheot, printed on dingy paper,) contains the folloir
ifigi
AA’e have been creditably informed that some of
the United States troops were yesterday rehearsing
the skirmish drill, and going through other evolu
tions, in Mount Olivet Cemetery ! No pretext in
the world can justify such a shtmioful outrage upon
the sacred feelings of the citizens of Nashville as
this. The flowers and plants flourishing there are
the sad mementoes of many a bereaved heart;
perhaps the only comfort left them in tho wide
world is to nourish and protect them, hoping some
day to make their bed else beneath tbelf VOfdAfit
beauty. How cruel, then, to deprive ns, when thus
situated, of this littlo melanoholy pleasure, when
the whole world affords no other. One must feel to
know how deep in the heart sinks an affliction of
this character, W? do not believe that any gentler
man in the army would tolerate or let pass unre
buked such a disgraceful proceeding as this. We
hope that measures will be immediately taken by
the proper persons, to suppress and prevent a re
petition of the offence.
Miscellaneous;
Nashville Mahkets.—Our markets are being
revolutionized, and it is soarccly possible to find out
what anything is really worth. Not more than a
week ago, 75 cents could readily be obtained fur a
pound of butter; yesterday hundreds of pounds
were sold at 25 cents. Lard, hams, shoulders,
bacon, potatoes, &0., &0., have been reduced in
price at a similar ratio. This has been brought
about by large shipments from Missouri, Kentucky,
and Ohio. Coal, also, is ffilliDg, and will soon be at
a price that will warrant us retiring on a cold night
by the light of g cheerful fire—a luxury whioh
many have lately been compelled to dispense with,
as is evidenced by the number of citizens afflicted
with “oolds.”
Postal Affairs —AVc understand that Jeff.
Malone, Esq., Postmaster at Gallatin, under
the scßfcderate Government, had accepted tha
office under the Federal Government, and the
muil to and from that plaoo will be speedily
re established. Colonel A. 11. M&rkland, the
efficient agent cf the Post Office Department,
having put the office here in operation, is now in
Clarksville for the purpose of restoring mail
facilities at that place,. A. V, 5, Liadslay,
Esq , a gentleman well known in this city and
State, has fully entered upon the duties of the
office of Postmaster of this city.
Shipment of Coal.—The commandant of the
Federal post at Somerset, Ky., publishes tho fol
lowing despatch:
Maucii .1, 1802.
To Col. Landrum : Let tho people in your vi
cinity know that they can ship oosl and produce te
Nashville, and find a market there.
J. B Fnv, A. A. G,, Chief of Staff.
AY. J. La.vpih'!!, Cffl, liUh Reg’tJvy. VsJs,, Color
manning Post.
The Patriot luarns, from a gentleman acquainted
with tho condition of affairs in the coal region of
the upper Cumberland, that it will be some time
before coal can be shipped thence, owing te the
scarcity of boats; those that tho ooal men had
built having been taken below the shoal 3 for army
purposes.
No Drafting at Atlanta, Ga.—Tho Atlanta
(Ga.) Confederacy says:
There was no draft here yesterday. Two fall
cempatiicß have been made up and entered the
Confederate service, and large numbers—nearly
one'hundred— have gone as recruits into old com
panies, since the Governor’s call.
In the face of this drain on the volunteering
material, two companies were to be made up yes
terday. AYe understand there were about eight
lacking, Or.J that Colonel Maddox pledged himself
they thould bo forthcoming. So thore was no draft.
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