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CO, The Minister's Sweetheart. $1 filto Young William Betsworth arose in the pulpit of the quaint old church at Elmsdale to deliver his first sermon, and cast his soft blue eyes along the aisles and up to the gallery, where the organ stood and where the choir sat. Now that the hymn was over, and the last law murmur of the organ hod melted into silence—now that all those faces were turned towards him, and tho hush seemed to say, more plainly than words are waiting for you," the young ministet umierst— d at not the ordeal which lay before him, tot tere with It beat ing heart and a .theeit that changed from red to tt an.l +, :t .!lite to red again, with every On One accust,ole.l to the sight of crowded houses, and to the knowledge that the words which fell from his lips were listened to and criticised by men of letters and women of the world, might have smiled at tho con fusion elicited by the presence of those old fashioned farmers and • their wives, and wonder how one who, judging by his face, bad not only talent, but ambition, could have been content to make even his first ef fort in the presence of such an audience. Talented the young man certainly was, and ambitious also, though he scarcely knew it yet himself; but the little village was his world, and the people in those old brown pews seemed, fur a moment, to hold his fate in their hands. Again, as he unfolded the white paper, covered with his delicate, dis• tinct handwriting, hie blue eyes 'wandered about the church, and read the faces up turned toward him. There grim and un compromising, sat Deacon Grumble, looking out for some flaw in doctrine or some wan dering sentence which savored of a want of teal. Yonder was Deacon Doleful, ready to shake his head in melancholy prediction of his failure. Behind him, an old man venerable, who had no faith in "young ministers," and would fain had an octogen arian in every pulpit; and farther back, Squire Grey, the abolitionest, side by side with undo Gobble, the pro-slavery man of the village, at whom he was looking bowie knives. These and a host of other malcon tents were to be propitiated ; and there were also his old father and mother, fond and anxious as parents could be, and sitting beside them, his scapegrace brother, Jasper, the wildest scion of that quiet family, brown skinned, gypsey-eyed and laughter-loving. Bold in his speech and careless in his mirth, he was a far better judge of the true merits of his sermon (from a worldly point of view) than any other there. William dreaded this auditor more than all the rest—for had not bold Jasper. in his hardihood, declared that a nil lister, ti be a proper teacher of his li•lek, should be talented and enlightened I.= ;-. 'l4 good and zealous? And farther mor- • ti; , intense horror of gond Deacon Doleful, U.N.!: "fir; rending should not be contiosd to the stage, butshould be adv;; ;led to the pulpit." Jasper—what wruld Jasper think of his maiden sermon ? The paper was unfolded and spread upon the desk before him, and the young minister strove to put those thoughts away and to think only of the grout and holy cause in which be had enlisted, and of the Ono whose smile outweights that of the whole world.= If he struggled vainly others older and wiser than be. may have done the same, for Ambition will not always seat herself quietly beside the church porch, but often times will follow her slave along the aisles, and up the carpeted steps into the very pulpit, as she might have followed him to any scene of public strife or triumph, teach ing him that ministers are but men, and that of all the preachers on this earth of ours there was but One—a holy One—about whose picture head the old painters always drew e •2;:' y. ••• r• 04 forget It.ne's praise or hi. ~......n t 4, m;•', scorn itrod rvr-00:". , •11. rross On , l ;h , v Irthiy tr,l•tites, ;,1 , 0 o- nn h,.•=nocry act .% , ...,• 4 - •• 7i - ill:nd to /Lt ii•• ;I: , • r• P. In his soi: r• •-r •i/, 3--..v4 William Bets worth made no such excuse for his mental delinquencies. but thought himself at that moment the greatest sinner upon earth. The text glee:read, and the first words of his sermon were upon the minister's Bpi, when the:church door opened once more to admit two ladies, who came softly up the aisle, and seated themselves very near the pulpit. Both were young, and one—the smallest and the most girlish—wore golden curls, which fell below her waist. But it was upon the other that William Betsworth's blue eyes rested involuntarily, and it seemed to tho young man as though Satan were in deed tempting him in earnest. If it were wrong to think of the effect of his sermon, bow doubly wrong it was to go wandering back to his boyhood, and to see the little pond, with water-lilies on its bosom, and the garden, with its ranks of red roses, and the school-house, where the girls sat on one side and the boys on the other, and to see, amid all, a pair of soft black eyes, - a childish figure, and to feel a dimpled band within his own, sad to hear a baby voice say sob bingly—'•l will come tack some day to be your little wile."—Oh I very wrong; yet he could not help those other thoughts, for there before him were those soft black eyes. a child's no longer, and that childish form altered to a "roman's. B.F. Arrow. Canal lis.in grelutinitg. NO ENTERTAINMENT SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING." COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 20, 1862. "I will come back some day and be your little wife I" These words sounded in his ears over and over again, and Love climbed the pulpit stairs and stood there beside Am bition. No one guessed all this save the young minister himsell, and, when the sermon was done, Deacon Grumble nodded approval to Deacon Doleful, and his mother's eyes were full of tears, called forth by her innocent pride in her blue-eyed William, and scapegrace Jasper grasped his brother's hand, as he descended from the pulpit, in earnest congratulation. Only the object of all this interest was dissatisfied, as he thought, with self-reproach, upon the earth filled dreams which had so haunted him.— I Yet that memory of his child-love would not be driven from his heart, and, when he arrived at home, and found those two beau tiful girls standing together upon the par sonage porch, it grew still more vivid. "They had come back to live," she said, "and wore not going back again, and late as they arrived on the past night, she had resolved to come to church as soon as she heard that William was to preach. how strange that he should be a grown man and a minister! It seemed but yesterday that they were children, and he wore a round blue jacket, and fished for minnows with a crooked pin. Yet she knew him. And he —was it possible that he would have re membered her?" So she ran on, and her golden-haired sister, Effie, smiled beside her I like a happy child. In a little while she I left them, and when she was quite out of sight, William Betsworth went back into the house, and thought how strange it was that all those years of travel in a foreign land had altered his playmate so little, and into what ebeautiful blossom the tender bud of that spring had expanded. lie preached that night again, and strove, if overman did strive, to be no hypocrite ; and it was only too easy, now, to forget the frowns of Deacon Grumble, or the sighs of Deacon Doleful, while Caroline Graham sat there looking at him with her soft black eyes. And when that night he sought his little bed-room, be found himself thinking of her once more. Ile had spoken to her, and she remembered the school-house, and the garden, and the pond whero the water lilies grew; wetber she remembered, also, that baby promise, ho could not tell. With this thought, the young minister fell asleep, and no one could have blamed him more than he blamed himself nest morning. Time passed on, and that ordeal of the first Sabbath had grown to be an ordinary habit. The congregation were no longer so fearfully wide awake, and he was used to their faces and their new position. But if Caroline Graham was absent from the service, he was conscious of a blank, lost feeling, which he had no power to overcome, and by this time he scarcely strove to do so, for he had begun to feel as though the thoughts clung about him were the purest of his soul, and bad nothing earthly in them. lie had loved her fur all his life. If she had not returned it, he should never haw ! , ved anPthor woman. So he thoug-', and so h -.IL; t I.'mself over and over truly, as lovers alway.i I,elie%t• And it, had grown to he a 1 . ,. • his to walk towards her •11.0. upon those golden autumn eve ning.. and. finding her upon the porch or in the garden, to join her, and sit talking with her for hours. Ili. hr..ther Jasper was often with him, and with them also sat or walked golden-haired Effie; but William thought of neither of these nor of the portly Mr. Graham, who would fain have entered into theological disquisitions with him, nor of the placid Mrs. Graham, perpetually knitting beside them. lie spoke to all, and seemed to look at all, but in reality Caro line was the only one he saw or listened to. Ilad he been less in love, less deeply im mersed in his own dreams, he might not have been so blind to what was passing be fore him, and might have read the story' which would have been so plain to other eyes, and so have spared himself some pain. lie had other thoughts upon bis mind beside. Jasper bad always been a trouble to them, and was one still. Ile was very wild and reckless, and was often absent from the village; and there were hills for the an gry father to pay, and st •; which brought tears to the mother's eyes, and William must soothe the one and comfort the other, and avert what blame be could from the wild brother he loved so dearly. And so the autumn passed and winter came, bringing long bright evenings, when the moon shone glittering upon the bare branches of the elm trees about the parson age, and he could see afar, upon the nightly path, the red light from her window shining out upon the drifts of newly fallen snow like a beacon glowing there to guide him intolharbor. It was upon Christmas eve that William Betaworth started across that lonely path to ask of Caroline Graham the question that had been on hie lips so long and as he marked the lamplight glowing nearer and brighter, be thought that thus it might glow on some future day, lighted by her baud, from the window of his own dear home.— "And the meanest hovel, the lowliest hut that could be built in any uncivilised laud, would be a home to me if her presence blessed sell the young minister, with tear-filled eyes; and bending his fair hes -1 in the bright starlight, he had thanked Go.: who had taught him to love. Jarper had been from home that eTertiog,and as IVitliam opened the garden gate it start led him to see his brother standing on the threshold, with something unusual in his bearing and in the expression of his hand some face. It startled him more when lin gering yet in the shadow, unseen by them, be saw Caroline come out into the lamp-lit hall and lay her hand upon his brother's arm, and his heart stood still as Jasper bent his head above that hand and kissed it.— They spoke in whispers and he could not hear their words, but the meaning of that interview was plain to him, or he thought so; and white, and cold, and trembling, he leant upon the little gate-post, with a deadly faintness at his heart. Ile could not move, even when he saw Jasper coming rapidly towards him and so they were beside each other in a moment. "William!" exclaimed Jasper, in a con fused half tremulous voice, which had a ring of happiness in its tones—" William, is this you? Are you going in!" "Not now, I am not well," William had just strength enough to say. Ms brother twined his arms around his waist in boyish fashion. "Come with me then," he said, "I have something to tell. Perhaps you guess what it is already. I think every one must know bow well I love her." There was a fearful struggle in poor Wit- Ham's breast, but he kept silence, and did not thrust away the arm that encircled him. "And so," continued Jasper, "although I have been so wild and so little deserving of a pure young heart like hers, I have somehow won it, and to-night she gave me the sweet promise that she would be mine; and I am going to lead a different life, Will, and study hard and make both fame and fortune; and just yet we are to tell no one save her sister and yourself; and I am to go to the city and come back to claim her when I am what I should be to be her hus band; and then, when her parents can no longer call me wild and undeserving, and my own are as proud of me as they are now of you, we will tell them all, and You shall mnrry us, and we shall all be so happy to gether. Shall we not, Will?" And William forced his broken heart to silence, and answered—" Yes." Alone that night he struggled with his agony, standing in the cold midnight beside his chamber window, whence he could see the white stones of the grave-yard rising from the whiter snow which lay about the.;, lle had suffered, and he would suffer in .-i- Num lie could not reproach either ...t line or Jasper. How shonld they gueb. I. secret when he had not suspected theirs?— And she would be happy, and his brother would be led to seek a purer and a holier life, and his mother would weep no longer fur her youngest born, and none should erer know of the cross which had been laid upon him; and, at the last, the slumber under those white gravestones would be the more welcome, and the chains which bound his heart to earth mnre easily broken. And then, as be thought of her in her pure beau ty, the man cast down the martyr, sobbing forth—" But I thos:!;ht she loved me' Oh, my God! I thought she loved mc!" be gang himself upon the floor, and laid there nntil the grave-stones and the wi,:te snow were by The red sunrise, I.nd:the blesesed morn of Chri:ttnas dawned once more upon the world. Jasper was in the city and redeeming his promise to the letter, and William ha I bu ried • love and grief in his own breast to gether. When Jasper wrote to hints, he al ways found a tiny note, without directions of any kind within the envelope, and always banded it with a few brief words to Caro line. But he went no longer along that road at eventide, and sat no snore beside her. Their interviews were few and brief, and her manner to him had altered so far that he half feared she guessed his secret.— It was hard to keep aloof from her, but he dared not trust himself so soon. And so a whole long year passed, and Christmas time came round again, and Jasper was coming home upon a visit. No one called him wild now, and he was fast attaining a place in Isis profession; and, as ho wrote to William, the secret would soon be a secret no longer. There was another of those little white nous in the letter which brought these tidings, and William walked over with it to the Grahams' homestead. As ho entered the old parlor he found Caroline sitting beside the fire, and saw that her lashes were wet with tears. "Jasper will be here to-morrow," he said as he seated himself opposite to her; and he wondered that the words brought no joyonb sparkle to her soft black eye, and that she answered in to listless a manner, and sat still looking at the fire. Then, as he looked at her, he 11. w how thin she had grown, and marked the pallor of her fair young cheek, and read in her whole mien something that told of sorrow crushed down by a strong will, but struggling yet for mas tery. "Are you ill?" he asked, almost involun tarily. "Yon look to. I did not notice it at first, bat you have altered very much." She grew crimson. Her cheeks, her neck and her brow were suffused in a moment, and she looked at him with a strange ex pression of mingled grief and auger. "I am well, and very well," she said, proudly. "It is strange that you should think me al tered." The young minister arose. "Forgive me,'• 1,. - • said. "I presumed upon a friend's priviledge--for we were friends a year ago Miss Graham, and shall be even better friends to night than we have ever been." "A year ago !" she murmured,, as tho' she spoke against her will. "A year ago, Yea, it is Christmas time again. •I bad almost forgoten it." Her cheek was whiter now than the snow without the dear, and, startled by her wild glance and hollow voice, William Betsworth sprang forward just in time to save her from falling to the tloor.— Senseless and white she lay, and he placed her in a great armchair and knelt beside her. Such agony as wrung his heart at that moment had never tortured it before— for in that one cry, in a sobbing utterance of his name, in an unconscious clasping of the arms about his neck, he had rend the truth. She loved him—she, the betrothed wife of his absent brother—even as he loved her. "Let me die, now," ho murmured— "let me dio before I am tempted beyond my feeble strengih. His heart must not be broken also ;" and, as the color came to the white face again, be laid her Beftly down, with,onelong parting kiss upon her forehead, and so left her. On that Christmas morning when the belle were ringing fur church, a stranger occupied the little pulpit, and there were hushed voices and softened footsteps in the parson age, where the young minister lay very near the gates of death; and weeks passed by before the shadow of his former self stood at the little window looking out upon the grave stones in the church yard, and wonder ing-if life would always be so dreary. As he gazed, he saw a woman's form among the graves, walking to and fro, and looking' up from time to time towards the window. It was gray twilight, but the outline of her form told him that it was Caroline, and the sight confirmed a resolution formed during those days of convalescence. Ile would leave the country and go far away to some heathen land as a missionary. He would be a wanderer upon the earth, a homeless, lonely man, seeking only the good of others, and weaving for himself no tender ties.— Ile would die there, and be buried by savage hands, or lie unearedjur on some desert spot until the wind had bleached hie bones, and the beasts of the forests h•td made a dainty meal t!pnn his flesh, but not for all the world would he remain where ho could daily meet the woman whom, in a few brief days, it would be guilty to:love. A. , !.o turned from the window with this a in !: ..eart, he saw Jasper standing c !, His face was glowing . ❑fhi he clasped his brother about s, in his own boyish fitshion. ISM ~ ell now, Will," he said, softly, "1, r talk to you again, may! not?— I can't ho; t you now. She will be my wife next Sunday, if you are strong enough to marry us. And I have just told mother, and she is crying in her own room as women always will on such occasions. Come, Will you must make Effie mine next Sunday." William Betsworth give a great start and clutched his brother's arm. "Effie !" he cried. "you du mean Ellie ?" 'Who else should I mean ?" laughed Jas per- "You have not forgotten ?" "Effie and nut r , ro':Eto ?" faltered William. Jasper stared at him in amazement— " You never thought so?" he said. "Iluvr could I think otherwise ?" gasped William. "I saw you kiss ber hand. You never told me otherwise." "I kissed her hand because she bad been sn kind to us, hopeful of our happiness, and a, trustful of my good intention," said Jas per. "Oh, Will? Will! I begin to under stand all now." And Jasper folded his brother to his heart, and held him there, as, a mother might her infant. William Detsworth married his brother and golden-haired Effie on the following Sabbath, and it is very certain that he never wont to India, or to any other distant land, for if you were to visit that old parsonage to-day you would find him there, with a black-eyed wife, whose Christian name is Caroline, and half-a-dozen children about his hospitable hearth. IM: k ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. HIGHLY IMPORTANT. A. GREAT BATTLE. ATTACK ON THE REBEL WORKS. WE rArra TC 04:11Alir GEN. FRANKLIN SUCCESSFUL ON TUB LEFT. Renewal of the Battle on.Snnday DETAILS OF SATURDA.Y 9 SFIGIIT. HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF POTOMAC, IN THE FIELD, Saturday morning, December 13-11 o'clock. The battle so Jong anticipated between the contending armies on the Rappahannock is now progressing. The morning opened with a dense fog which has not entirely disappeared. General Reynold'e Corps on the left ad vanced at an early hour, and at 9.15 en giged the enemy's infantry. Seven minutes niter the Rebels open , . a heavy fire of ar whiet has continued so far without The - r a-tillery fire must be the fug obstructs all view.— Our 1. , •av2. - uns arr'answering them rapid. $1,50 PER YEAR ADVANCE;• $2,00 IPI IN ADVANCE. ly. As the sun gets higher it is hoped the fog will lift. At this writing no results are known, not much of our lu'antry have yet become en gaged. A portion of the enemy's cavalry Growled a ford above here and yesterday were found on ~ur right and rear. A sufficient foroe has been sent out to meet them. The Fight on Saturday- IIEADQUARTERS Arum OF POTOVAC,} SATURDAY, Dec. 13, 11 P. M. The fog began to, disappear, and present ed an unobstructed v iew dour own and the Rebel position. It being evident that the first ridge of hills in the rear of the city, on which the enemy bad their guns posted be hind works, could not be carried except by a charge of infantry. General Sumner as signed that duty to French's Division, sup ported by Lloward's. The troops advanced to their work at ten minutes before twelve o'clock, at a brisk run. The enemy's guns opened a rapid fire. When within musket range of the base of the ridge, our troops were met by a terrible fire from the Rebel infantry, who were poet ed behind a stone wall on the right of the line. This checked their advance, and they fell back to a small ravine, but not out of musket range. At this timo another body of troops moved to their assistance in splen did style, notwithstanding gaps were made in their ranks by the Rebel artillery. When they arrived at the first lino, they double quickd, and with a command, fired bayo nets, and endeavored to dislodge the Rebels from their hiding . places. The concentrated fire of artillery and in fantry which they were forced to face was too much, and the centre gave way in dis order, but were afterwards rallied and brought back. From that time the fire was spiritedly carried on, and never ceased until some time after dark. General Franklin, who commanded the attack on the left, met with better success. lie succeeded, after a hard day's fight, in driving the enemy about one mile at one time. The Rebels advanced to attack, but were handsomely repulsed with terrible slaughter, and a loss of between four and five hundred prisoners, belonging to Gen. A. P. Hill's command. Franklin's movement was directed down the river, and his troops are • 'tripod to night not far from the Ma , -.111••••lax creek. Onr troops sleep to-night th e y f ong ht to-day, and the dead and w• unded arc being car: - :ed from the field to-night. The following is a I;st of officers killed and wounded, as far as known. Gen. Jack.en, Penosylrania• Reserves, killed. Gen. Bayard. ;n the thigh Ly a shell, and efts,- Gen. Vinton 0. the sidp, dangerous. Gen. Gibbons, : . Juncled in the he -1 Gen. Kimball, wounded in the Geo. Caldwell, wounded in two placed, but not serious. Cu!. Sincinir, of Pennsylvania Reserves, dangerously wounded. mot. Ilendriek on, commanding the New York militia, seas nsly 17 .ended. The following i r ; the loss in the st3a New lTn-ipshire Regimc C,il. Cross, wounded 7111 the abdomen Maj. Stu, - -nt, killed. Adjutant truld, kilned. Capt. Murray, killed. Capt. Perry. killed. The firing uf musketry ceased about G o'clock, but the Rebels continued throwing shell into the city until 8 o'clock. The po sitinn the Rebels was ae follows: Long street on left, and holding the main works; A. P. 11111 and Jackson wore in front of Franklin, with Jackson's right resting on the Rappahannock; D. 11. Hill acting ae a reserve. Gen. Bornaille will renew the battle at daylight in the morning. The troops are in good spirits and not the least disheartened. Progress of the Rattle on Sun day Morning. HEADQUARTERS ARMY or POTOMAC, Deomber 14, 11.30 A. M. There is no fog to-day. The sun is shin ing brightly with a strong breeze. At day light this morning there was a heavy fire of artillery and infantry in front of the enemy's works where Sumner and llooker were en gaged yesterday, About an hour after wards the fire slackened, and then was heard only at intervals until the present moment. The same occurred in front of Gen. Franklin's position down the river. The object of both parties this morning was evidently to feel the other. During last night and this forenoon the Rebels have considerably extended their works and strengthened their position. Large bodies of Rebel troops are now to be seen where bat few were found yesterday. Those of our dead which were killed yes terday while charging in front of the ene my's works still remain where they fell.— When attempting their removal last night the Rebels would open with infantry. The wounded have all been removed from the field, and all the dead obtained aro now ha iog buried. The indications are that no de cisive battle will be fought to-day unless the Rebels bring on the fight, which is not probable. THE BATTLE OF SATURDAY. FREDERIC% itt - R(1, V... Dec. 13. 1.26.1. The occapstic,n of Fredisrickelbarg having been •ocoesefally secnoplishea, the next EWHOLE NUMBER 1,687. move was to drive the Rebels frma their strongholds in the rear of the city. lines of the Rebels, which eEterided . init be: form of a semi-circle from Puri ' 11.e"yal to a. point about six miles above Fre - deri&k . i.brteg;: were strongly fortified and proteceed by e range of high hills. Stonewall Jackson oo copied the right wing, extending from Port" Royal to Guinney's Station, (a station on the Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad) Gen. Langstreet the centre, extending to the telegraph road, and Generals Lee and Stanek . the left, west of Masson m..v Crook, Whijo General A. P. Hill's C rps. aecea as a reserve.,' Lee's reason fur oc the left was be cause he could b., oa b.,. goad against Sigel,;' who threatened to nottlunk ith,n by way Or Culpepper. The entire Rebel force was es-: 1 tituated at 200,000 men, and occupied's front of not less than twenty miles. • The"' troops were fur the most part veterans who had fought through all the peninsular cam paign, while the officers were the ablest. that the south could produce. It was no' mean enemy we had to contend with, I as sure you. The disposition of the Union forces occu pied the whole of Friday night and Saturday morning, and, as General Burnside was anx ious to commence the attack at as an early an hour as possible, there was not much cline -,- for the troops to rest themselves.— A few stragglers, it is true, managed to sneak away for the purpose of pillaging; but the great mass of the soldiers were constantly under arms. General Burnside was in the city all night, personally inspecting the troops and directing their movements. It was arranged that General Franklin's Corps should cross the river two miles below the city, with the view of turning the unemy's position on Massaponax creek, while [look er would engage the Rebels near the centre and Sumner would turn their right. By this arrangement it will be seen that Frank lin was opposed to Stonewall Jackson, while Hooker and Sumner attacked the centre and left of the Rebels under Luigstreet and Lee. The eventful morning came, and with it a dense fog, which obscured the movements. of the enemy. The balloon was sent up just before daylight, but in consequence of the fog no observation could be had.— However, the disposition of the Union forces had been made, and General Burnside termined to commence operations, fog or no fog. TEE LEFT Franklin moved his column, consieting of the First and Sixth Carps just before sun rise, his right resting on the outskirts of the city his centre advanced a mile or so from the river, and his left resting on the Rappa hannnck about three miles below. Skit , . 1 1 ng commenced a few minutes after ,yl.o4ht on the extreme left. A Rebel bat opened on our troops, and the fire be .: :.0e so annoyirg that the flth .Regiment New York Stew Militia were ordered to charge and take the cannon at the point of the bayonet. The order was olo..yed with alacrity, bat after a fierce struggle the char ging party were compelled to tall back.— At this critical movement General Tyle.-, perceiveing the disorder into which the ..I;i4 New York were thrown, came to lucir aid with a brigade. The fith were go: ral lied, and, assisted by Tyler'. n: aka ie. an etnor attempt wit" made to storm c batteries, but without success. -I'4l o ii it now become tycneral on the ex /vile left, and anc,h , r desperate made t 0 capture the Rebel batteries let 'a brigade; but the fire of the Rebels was so withering in its effects that our brave follows were unable to gain any advantage. Each charge thinned the ranks at a fearful rate, and the chances of capturing that much coveted battery appeard no better than at first. By noon the wlioh! of Frinklin'm Corps was engaged with the aryl a desper ate effurt was in listo • ntrn rh.. enemy's position on the M 111 MI !rive him beyond the ermk. a • F ~fin comman ded the movements •intl handled his troops with remarkablejuigment. The Rebels maintlined possesion of some small 111119 with their usual stubborues+; ha t grad °ally fell hack a+ the Union troop+ evinced a determination to go forward. Poring the afternoon the Rebels came to a stand, and for a time assumed the offensive; but se they advanced to meet ns they were bravely met and repulsed with' heavy loss. It wile at this time that. some three hundred of command fell into our hands' and were conducted to the rear as prisoners.—.: Still the enemy contested every foot of the ground, and it was only by dint of the hard est kind of fighting that he could be com pelled to change his position. It was daring the heat of this erigagemetrt that the gallant Bayard was mortally wounded. Ile was conversing witb,General Franklin, when a cannon ball struck in the hip and threw him clean out of the saddle. Poor Bayard, he never dreninpfof danger in the thickest of the battle,' arid never lost his courage, even when 'hie le''; was amputated. The surgeons say that his cannot survive many days, and that the op erations they have performed can only pro long his agony a short while. But T am digressing front main facts. rho obstinacy with which Atti Raids held possession of their gront4 itaefia, General Franklin's task a pry 'dillintroitio indeed. lie had to - cope with Igtot' will Jackson and the retentna efeitair"hl;iiii
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