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VOL. IX.
I read the secret veil, darling,
Upon your brow: and shank,
. Ah ■ the roses and the 1 lilies.
How plainly do they speak.
Ton tried to bids your trembling heart.
Beneath-a proud repose; :
But all the bidden thoughts earns oat
And blossomed in the rose.
, I saw tbs quivering lashes droop,
fflei he was.by your aide;
The little rosebud lips were curled
( With half affected pride.
I I heard the breathed sigh,
- That straggled to he fine; r
And knew the heart was Battering like >
A leaf upon a. tree.
I knew seme tender hand had loosed
The roses bright and fair,
That twined around your towered heart
And made his temple there ; -
And all day long be wooed the flowers
With rippling songs and aigba,
Until the roses kissed yonr cheeks.
The riolets kissed your eyes.
Ah! yes, I read the secret.
As plain as words cenld speak;
In the deep silence of the eye,
And on'the blushing cheek.
Ah! little prisoned bird, the heart
, Is caged and never may .
It beat against its golden bars.
And long to fly away.
[Correspondence of the N. T. Tribune.]
THE BATTIiE OF BHA-BFBBUBCK
B'attls-mspd or Sbabpsbcbs, 1
Wednesday evening, Sept. 17, 1862. j
Fierce and desperate battle between 200,00 ft
men has raged since daylight, yet night closes.’
on an uncertain field.- It is the greatest fight]
since Waterloo—all over the field contested with
an obstinacy equal even to Waterloo. |f not
wholly a victory to night, I believe it is the pre
lude to a victory 1 to-morrow. But what can be
foretold of the future of a fight in which from
sin the morning'till 7at night the best troops
of the continent have fought without decisive
result ?
I have no time for speculation—no time even
to gather details of the battle—only time to
state its broadest features—then mount and
spur for New York.
After the brilltant victory near Middletown,
Gen. McClellan pushed forward bis army- rap
idly, and reached Keedysville with three corps
on Monday night. That march has already
been described. On the day following the two
armies faced each other idly, until night. Ar
tillery was busy at intervals; once in the morn
ing opening with spirit, and continuing for half
an hour with vigor, till the Rebel battery, as
usual, was silenced.
' McClellan was on the hill where Benjamin’s
battery was stationed and found himself sud
denly under ahe ivy fire. It was still uncer
tain-whether the' Rebels were retreating or re
enforcing—their batteries would remain in
position in either case, and as they had with
drawn nearly all their troops from view, there
was only the doubtful indications of columns
of dust to the rear.
On the evening of Tuesday, Hooker was or
dered to cross the Antietam Creek with his
corps, and, feeling the left of the enemy, to be
ready to attack nest morning. During the day
of apparent inactivity; McClellan had been ma
turing his plan of battle, of which Hooker’s
movement was one development.
The position on either side was peculiar.—
When Richardson advanced on Monday he
found the enemy deployed end displayed in
force on a crescent-shaped ridge, the outline of
which followed mpr or leas exactly the course
of Antietam Creek. Their lines were then
farming, and the revelation.of force in front of
the ground which they really intended to hold,
was probably meant to delay our attack until
their arrangements to receive it were complete.
' • During that day they kept their troops ex
posed and did not move them even to avoid the
artillery fire, which must have been, occasion
ally annoying. Nest morning the lines and
columns which had darkened cornfields nnHhill
crests, had been withdrawn. Broken and
wooded" ground behind the sheltering hills con
cealed the Rebel masses. What from our‘front
looked like only a harrow summit fringed with
woods was a broad table-land of forest and ra
vine; cover for troops everywhere, nowhere
easy access for an enemy. The smotbly .slo
ping surface in front and the sweeping cres
cent of slowly mingling lines was only a delu
sion. It was all a-Rebel stronglfold beyond.
Under the base of these hills runs the deep
stream called Antietam Creek, fordable only at
distant points. Three bridges cross it, one on
the Hagerstown road, one on the Sharpsburg
pike, one to the left in a deep recess of steeply
falling bills. Hooker passed the first to reach
the ford by which he crossed, and it was'held
by Pleasanton with a reserve of cavalry during
the battle. The second woe close nnder'the
Rebel center, and no way important to yester
day's fight.- At the third, Burnside attacked
and finally crossed. Between the first land
third lay’ most of the battle lines. They
four mites from right to left.
i Unaided attack in front was impossible. 'Me--
Clellan’s forces lay behind low, disconnected
ridges. in front of the Rebel summits, all or
nearly all onwooded. They gave some cover
for artillery, and guns were therefore massed
on the center. The enemy had the Shepherds
’town road and the Hagerstown and Williams
port road both open to him In rear for retreat.
Along one or the other, if beaten, be must fly.
This, among other reasons', determined, [per
haps, the plan of battle which McClellan finally
resolved on. . j •
Tho plan was generally ns follows t Hooker
was to cross on the right, establish himself on
the enemy’s left if -possible, flanking his posi
tion,-and to open the fight. -Sumner, Franklin,
and Mansfield were to send their forces tolthe
right; co-bperating with and sustaining Hook
er’s attack while advancing also nearer the-cen
ter. 'The heavy work in the center wm [left
mosUy 'to the batteries. Porter massing his
infantry, rapports in the hollows. On the left
jturroide was to Carry the bridge already jh
ferred to, advancing then by a road which al
tecs the-pike at Sharpsburg, turning at once
Rebel left-flank and-destroying bis line of
treat. Porter and Sykes were held in reeel
■ltda obvious that the complete "success-t
■plan 'Contemplating widely divergent on
*, WHILE THBEB SHALL BB A WRONG TWBIGHTHD, AND UNTIL "MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL DBASE, AGITATION -MUST CONTIS UE.
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY. TA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, 1861
THE S|C».£T,
LouinilU Journal,
moots of separate corps, moat lately depend
pn aocarate timing, that the attacks aboold be
aimultaDeoos and sot anecegsiTe.-
Hooker moved on Tuesday afternoon at four,
crowing the creek et a ford above the bridge
and veil to the right, without opposition. Frost
ing soatb-west’faia line advanced not quit* on
the Rebel flank bat overlapping and threaten
ing it.' Turniogoff from the road after paw
ing the stream, he seat forward cavalry skir
mishers straight into the .woods end over the
fields beyond. Rebel pickets withdrew slowly,
before them, firing .Scattering and harmless
shots. Turning again to the left, the cavalry
went down on the Rebel flank, coming sodden*
ly close to a battery which met them with un
expected grape and eknister. It being the na
ture of cavalry to retire before .batteries, this
company loyally followed the law of its being,
and came swiftly back without pursuit.
Artillery was sent-to the front, infantry was
rapidly deployed and skirmishers went out in
front'and on either flank; The corps moved
forward completely. Hooker as usual reconnoi
taring in person. They came at last to an open
grass-town field inclosed on two sides with,
woods, protected on the right by a bill, and en
tered tbrouglr* com field in the rear. Skirmish
ers entering these woods were instantly met by
Rebel shots, but held their ground, and as soon
as supported advanced and. cleared the timber.
Beyond, on the left and in front, volleys of
musketry opened heavily, and a battle seemed
to have began a little sooner than it was ex
pected.
Gen. Hooker formed his lines with precision
end without hesitation. Ricketts’s Division
went into the woods on the left in force. Meade,
with the Pennsylvania Reserves, formed in the
center. Doubleday was sent out on the right,
planting batteries on (he hilt, and opening at
once on a Rebel battery that began to enfilade
the central line. It was already dark, and'tbe
Rebel position could only be discovered by the
flashes of their guns. They pushed forward
boldly on the right, after losing ground on the
other flank but made no attempt to regain their
first hold on the woods. .The fight flashed, and
glimmered, and faded, and finally went out in
the dark. -
Hooker had found qut what be wanted to
know. When the firing oeased the hostile lines
lay close to each other—their pickets so near
that eix Rebels were captured during the night.
It was inevitable that the fight should recom
mence at daylight. Neither side had suffered
considerable lose; it was a skirmish, not a batr.
tie. " We are through for to-night, gentlemen,”
remarked the General, “ but to-morrow we
fight the battle that will decide the fate of the
Republic."
Not long after the firing ceased, it sprang up
again on the left. Gen. Hooker, who had taken
up his headquarters in a barn, which had been
nearly the focus of the Rebel artillery, was ont
at once. First came rapid and unusually fre
quent picket shots, then, several heavy volleys.
The General listened A moment and smiled
grimly. We have no troops.there. The Reb
els are shooting each-other. It is Fair Oaks
over again.” So everybody lay down again,
but ail the night through there were frequent
alarms.
MtClellan had been informed of the nights
work, and of the certainties awaiting the dawn.
Sumner was ordered to more his corps at once,
and was expected to be on the ground at day
light. From the extent of the Rebel lines de
veloped in the evening, it was plain that they
had gathered their whole army behind the
bights and were waiting for the .shock.
The battle began with the dawn. Morning
found both armies just as they had slept, almost
close enough to look into each others eyes.
The left of Meade's reserves and the right of
Rickett's line became engaged at nearly, the
same moment, one with artillery, the other with
infantry. A battery was almost immediately
pushed forward beyond the central woods, over
a plowed field, near the top of the slope where
the corn-field began. On this open field, in
the corn beyond, and in the ' woods which
stretched forward into the broad fields, like a
promontory .into the ocean, wars the hardest
and deadliest struggles of the day.
For half an boar after the battle had grown
to its full strength, the line of fire swsyed
neither way. Hooker’s men were folly op to
their work. They saw their General every
where in front, never away from .the Sre, and
all the troops believed in their commander, end
fought with a will. Two-thirds of them were
the same men who under McDowell had broken
at Manassas.
The half boor passed, the Bebels.began to
give way a little, only a little, hot at the first
indication of a receding fire, Forward, was the
word, and on went the line with a cheer and a
rash. Back across the corn-field, leaving dead
and wounded behind them, over the fence, and
across the road, and (ben back.again into the
dark woode which closed around them, went
the retreating Rebels.
Meade and bis Pennsylvanians followed hard
and fast—followed till they oame within easy
range of the woods, among which they saw
their beaten enemy disappearing—followed
still, with another cheer, and flung themselves
against the cover.
Bat out of those gloomy woods came sudden
ly and heavily terrible volleys—volleys which
emote, and bent, and broke Id a moment that
eager front, and hurled , them swiftly back for
half the distance they bad won. Not swiftly
nor in panic, any fnrthur. Closing up their
shattered lines, they,came,slowly away—a reg
iment where a brigade bad been, hardly a brig
ade where a wholedivisioahadbecn. victorious.
They had met from tbs woods the first volleys
of musketry from fresh troops —had met them
and returned, them till their line bad yielded
and 1 gone down before the weight of fire, and
till their ammunition was exhausted.
In ten minutes the fortunes of the day
seemed to hove changed l —it was the Rebels
now who were advancing, pouring out of the
woods in endless lines,, sweeping through the
corn-held from which their -comrades bad just
fled. . Hooker sent in his nearest, brigade -to
meet them, hot it canid not do the work. He
called for another. There was nothing close
■enough, unlcss.be tonk .it from his tight. His
right might be 'in danger .if 4l was weakened.
4
but bis center was already threatened with an
nihilation. Not hesitating one moment, he sent
to DouhleSay ’‘Give me yonr best brigade in
stantly.”
The best brigade came down the bill to the
right on the run, went through the timber-in
front through a storm of shot and banting
■hell end crashing limbs, over the open field be
yond, and straight into the corn-field, passing
as they went the fragments of three brigades
shattered! Sy the Rebel fire, and streaming to
the.rear. They passed by Hooker, whose eyes
lighted as be saw these veteran troops led by a
soldier whom he knew he could trust. “I think
they will hold it.” be said.
Gen. Hartotuff took his troops very steadily;
bat, now that they were - under fire, not hur
riedly, up the bill from which the corn-field
begins to descend, and formed them on the
crest. Not a man who was not in full view—
'not one who bent before the storm. Firing at
first in volleys, they fired then at will with.won
derful rapidity and effect. The whole line
crowned the bill and stood out darkly against
the sky, but lighted and shrouded over in flame
and smoke. , There were the 12th and 13th
Massachusetts and another regiment which I
cannot remember—old troops all of them.
There for half an hour they held the ridge
unyielding in purpose, exhaustless in courage.
There were gaps In the'Nioe, but it nowhere
quailed. Their General was wounded badly
early in the fighi, but they fought on. Their
supports did not come—they determined to win
without them. They began to go down the bill
and into the corn, they did not stop to think
that their-'ammunition was nearly gone, they
were there to win that field and they won it.
The Rebel line for the second time fled through
the corn and into the woods. I cannot tell how
few of HartsufTs brigade when the work was
done, hut it 'was done. There was no more
gallant, determined, beroio fighting in all this
desperate day. Gen. Hartsuff is very severely
wounded, but I do not believe be coupts his
success too dearly purchased.
The crisis of the fight at this point bad ar
rived ; Rickett's division, vainly endeavoring
to advance, and exhausted by the effort, had
fallen back. Part of Mansfield’s corps was
ordered in to their relief, but Mansfield’s troops
came back again, sod their General was mor
tally wounded. The left nevertheless was too
extended to be turned, and too strong to he
broken. Ricketts sent word that he could not
advance, but could hold his ground. Double
day had kept his guns at work on the right,
and had finally silenced a Rebel battery that
for half an hoar had ponred in a galling enfila
ding fire along Hooker’s central line.
There were woods in front of Doobleday’s
hill which the Rebels held, but so long as those
guns pointed that way they did not care to at
tack. With his left then able to take care of
itself, with his right impregnable with two
brigades of Mansfield still fresh and coming
rapidly up, and with his center a second time
victorious, Gen. Hooker determined to advance.
Orders were sent to Crawford, and Gordon—
the two Mansfield brigades—to move directly
forward at once, the batteries in tbs center
were ordered on, the whole line was called on,
and the General himself went forward.
To the right of the corn-field and beyond it
was a point of woods. Once carried and firmly
held, it was the key to the position. .Hooker
determined to take it. He rode out in front of
bis furthest troops on a bill to examine the
ground for a battery. At the top he dismount
ed and went forward on foot, completed bis w
oonnissance, returned and remounted. The
musketry fire from the point of woods .was all
the while extremely hot. As he put bis foot in
the stirrup a fresh volley of rifle bullets came
whining by. The tall soldierly figure of the
General, the white horse which he rode, the
elevated place where he was—all made him a
most dangerously conspicuous mark. So ho
had been all day, riding without a staff officer
or an orderly near him—all sent off on urgent
duty—visible everywhere on the field. The
Rebel ballets bad followed faim all day, but
they had not bit him, and be would not regard
them. Remounting on this hill be had not rid
den five steps when be was struck in the foot
by a ball.
Three men were shot down at the same mo
ment by bis side. Tbe air was alive with bul
lets. He kept on his horse for a few moments,
though the wound was severe and excessively
painful, and would not dismount till he bad
given hia last order to advance. He was him
self in the very front. Swaying unsteadily on
bis horse, heturned in bis .seat to look about
him. “ There is a regiment to the right. On
der it forward 1 Crawford and Gordon sre
coming up. Tell them to carry these. woods
and bold them—and it is our fight 1”
It was found that tbe bullet had passed com
pletely throughjhis foot. The surgeon who ex
amined it on the spot could give no opinion
Whether bones were broken, but it was after
ward ascertained that though grazed they were
not fractured. Of course the severity of the
wound made it impossible for him to keep the
field which be believed already won, so far as
it belonged to him to win it. It was nine
•’clock; The fight had been furious sinbe five.
A large part ot bis command' was broken, but
with hieright still untouched and -with Craw
ford’s and Gordon’s brigades' just up, above
all, with the advance'of the whole central line
which the men had beard ordered with cheers,
with a regiment already on the edge of tbe
woods be wanted, be might well leave (be field,
thinking tbe battle was won—that his battle
was won, for 1 am writing of course, only
about the attack on the Rebel left.
* I see no reason why 1 shonld disguise my
admiration of Gen. Huoker’e bravery and Sol
dierly ability. Remaining nearly all the morn
ing on the right, I could not help seeing the sa
gacity and promptness of his manosuvera, how
completely bis troops were' kept in band, bow
devotedly they trusted to him, how keen was
bis insight into the battle; how every opportu
nity was seised and every reverse was checked
and turned, into -another success, 1 say this
Hie more unreservedly, because I bave.no per
sonal -relation whatever with him, never, saw
.him till the day before tfas-Bgbt.-wnddon’tlike
his polities or opinions in ..general- <Bto'' wbot
are to snob a Hattie-?
| Sumner arrived just as Hooker was leaving,
I and assumed commend. | Crawford and Gordon
haid gone into the woods, and were holding
themstontly against heavy odds. As I rojde
over Towards the daft, I met Sumner at the bead
of his column advancing rapidly through the
timber, opposite the point where Crawford was
fighting. The veteran General was riding alone
in [the forest, farthest}' of his leading brigade,
his bat off, fcu gjay hair, beard, and mustache
strangely contrasting with the fire in bis eyes,
and his martial air, as be hurried on to where,
the ballets were thickest.
Sedgwick’s division was in advance, moving
forward to support Crawford and Gordon.—
Rebel re-enforcements were approaching also,
and the struggle for the roads wsis again to be
renewed. ' Sumner sqnt forward two divisions,
Richardson and French,, on the left. Sedgwick
moving in column of divisions through the
woods in the rear, deployed and advanced in
line over the corn-field. There was a broad in
terval between him and the nearest division,
and he saw that if the,rebel line was complete
hisjown division was in immediate danger of
being flanked. But bis orders wereto advance,
and those are the orders which a soldier—and
Sedgwick is every inch a soldier—loves best to
hear. . , s
To extend his own front as far as possible,
he ordered the 34th New York to move by the
left flank. The movement was attempted un
der a fire of the greatest intensity, nod the regi
ment broke. At the same' moment, the enemy
perceiving their advantage, came round on that
flank. Crawford was obliged to give on the
right, end bis troops pouring in confnsion
through the ranks of Sedgwick’s advance bri
gade, threw it into disorder, and back on the
second and third lines. The enemy advanced,
their fire increasing.
Gen, i Sedgwick was three times wounded, in
the shoulder, leg, and wrist, but he persisted
in remaining on the field, so long ns there was
a chance of saving it. His Adjt. Gen., Major
Sedgwick, bravely rallying and trying to reform
the troops, was shot through the body, the bul
let lodging in the spine, and fell from his horse.
Severe ns the wound is it is probably not mor
tal. Lieut. Howo, of Gen. Sedgwick’s staff,
endeavored vainly the 34th New York.
They were badly cut up, and would not stand.
Half their officers were killed or, wounded, their
colors shot to pieces, the Color Sergeant killed,
every one of the color guard wounded. Only
thirty-two were afterward got together.
The loth Massachusetts went into action
with 17 officers and nearly 600 men. • Nine of
ficers were killed or wounded, and some of the
latter are prisoners. {Japt. Simons, Cupt. Saun
ders of the Sharp Shooters, Lieut, Derby, and
Lieut. Berry, are killed. Capt. Bartlett, and
Cnpt. Jocelyn, Lieut. Spurr, Lieut. Gale, and
Lieut. Bradley, were wounded. One hundred
and thirty-four men were the only remnant
that could be collected of this splendid regi
ment.
Gen. Dana was wounded. Gen. • Howard,
who took command of the division after Gen.
Sedgwick was disabled, exerted himself to re
store order; but it coaid not be done there.—
Gen. Sumner ordered tbe line to be reformed
under fire, Tbe test was too severs for volun
teer trbopf under such a fire. Sumner him
self attempted to arres/the'disorder, but to lit
tle purpose. Lieut. Col. Revere, and Capt,
Andenried of bis staff, were wounded severely,
but not dangerously. It was impossible to bold
the position. Gen. Sumner withdrew the divi
sion to the rear, and once more tbe cornfield
was abandoned to the enemy.
French seat word he could hold his ground.
.. ichardson, while gallantly leading a regiment
under a heavy fire, was severely wounded in
tbe shoulder. Gen. Meagher was wounded at
the head of his brigade. The loss in general
officers was becoming frightful.
* At one o’clock, affaire on the. right had a
gloomy look. Hooker's troops were greatly ex
hausted, and their General away from the field.
Mansfield’s were no better. Sumner’s com
mand bad lost heavily,'but two of his divisions
were still compartively fresh. Artillery was
yet playing vigorously in front, though the am
munition of many of the batteries was entirely
exhausted, and they had been compelled to re
tire.
Doubleday held tbe right inflexibly. Sum
ner’s headquarters were now in the narrow
field where, the night before, Hookorbad begun
the fight. All that bad been gained in front,
had been lost 1 The enemya’ batteries, which
if advanced and served vigorously, might have
made sad work with the closely massed troops
were fortunately either pat til ly disabled or short
of ammunition. Sumner was confident that he
could bold his own ; another advance was
out of the question. The enemy on the other
hand, seemed to be too much exhausted to at
tack.
At this crisis, Franklin came up with fresh
troops and formed on the left. Slocum, com
manding one division of the corps, was sent
forward along the slopes lying under the first
ranges of Rebel hills, while Smith, command
ing tbe other. division,, was ordered to retake
the cornfields, and woods which all day bad
been so hotly contested,; It was done in the
handsomest style. His Maine and Vermont
regiments, and the rest! went forward on the
run, and, cheering as they went, swept like an
avalanche through the cornfields, fell upon the
woods, cleared them in fen minutes, and held
them. They were not again retaken. ..
Tbe field and its ghastly harvest which ’the
renperbad gathered in those fatal hours re
mained finally with ns. Four times it had been
lost and won. - The dead are strowh so thickly,
(hat M you, ride.brer it yon cannot guide your
horse’s steps too carefully. Pale and bloody
faces are everywhere upturned.' They are sad
and terrible, but there is nothing which makes
one’s heart beat so quickly as the imploring
look bf sorely wounded men who beckon wea
rily for help which you cannot stay to give. .' .
Gen. Smith’s attack was so sudden that his
success was accomplished-with no great loss.—
He bad gained a point, however, which com
pelled Him to expect every moment an attack,
and to hold which, if the enemy again brought
•up reserves, would take bis best energies and
beeH ro op»- But the-long strife, the heavy Iqe
.ea* iflcwsaat ,figh«**'dv«*r -the' time grdund
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NO. 8.
repetedly lost and won inch by inch, sad aotv
than all,p*rbaps, the fear.of Burnside on the
left and Porter in front, held the enemy in check.
For two or three hours there was a lull even in
the cannonade on the right wbieb hitherto bad'
been incessant. McClellan had been oyer on
the field after Sumner’s repulse, but had spee
dily returned to his headquarters. Sumner,
again sent word that he was able to hold his
position, but could not advance with bis own
corps.
Meantime where was Burnside, and what
was be doing 7 On the tight where I bad spent
the day nntil two o'clock, little was know of
the general fortunes of the field. We had heard
Porter's guns in, the center, but nothing from
Burnside on.the left. The distance was too
great to distinguish the sound of hi* artillery
from Porter’s left. There was no immediate pros*
pect.of more fighting on the right, and .I left
the field which all day long had seen the most
obstinate contest of the war,” and rode over toi
McClellan’s headquarters. The different bat
tlefields were shot out from each other’s view,
but all partially visible from the central hill
which Genera) McClellan had occupied during
the day. But I was more than ever impressed,
on returning, with the completely deceitful ap
pearance of the ground the rebel* hod chosen
when viewed from the front.
Hooker’s and Sumner’s struggle had been
carried on over an uneven and wooded surface,
their own line of battle extending in a semi*'
circle not less than a mile and a half Perhaps
a better notion of their position can be got by
considering their right, center, and left, as
forming three sides of a square. So long, there*
fore, as either wing was driven back, the center
became exposed to a very dangerous enfilading
fire, and the farther the center waf advanced;
the worse off it was, unless the lines on its side
and rear were firmly'held. This formation re
sulted originally from the efforts of the enemy
to taro both flanks. Hooker, at the very out
set, threw his column so for into the center of
the rebel lines, they were compelled te
threaten him on the flack to secure their owa
center.
Nothing of all tbis waa perceptible from tha
bills in front. Some directions of the rebel
lines had been disclosed by the smoke of their
guns, but the whole interior formation of the
country beyond the bills was completely e*n>
sealed. When McClellan arranged bis order of
battle, it most have been upon information, or
have been left to his corps and division com
mander to discover for themselves..
Dp to 3 o’clock, Burnside had made little
progress. His attack on tbo bridge bad been
successful, but the delay bad been so great that
to the observer it appeared a* if McClellan’*
plane must have been seriously disarranged.—
It is impossible not to suppose that the attack*
on right and’ieft were met in* a measure to cor*
respond, for, otherwise the enemy had only tf
repel Hooker on the one band, then transfer
bis troops, and burl them against Burttsid*.
-Here was the difference between Smith and
Burnside, The former* did hie work at onpyy
and lost all bis men at once—that is, all whom
be lost at all; Burnside seams to have
cautiously in order to save his men, and espy
ing -successively insufficient forces against a
position of strength, distributed his less over a
greater period of time, hut yet loet nop* the
less in the end.
Finally, at 4 o’clock, McClellan sent shptri
taneons orders to Burnside and Franklin; is
the former to advance and cany the batteries
in his front at all hazards and any cost ; fg the
latter to cany the woods next in front of bire
to the right, which the rebels still held. The
order to Franklin, however, was practically
countermanded, in consequence of .a mesppgh
from Gen. Sumner that if Franklin went'-on
and was repulsed, his own corps was, not yet
sufficiently reorganized to be.depended,on ,as a’- ; -
reserve,
Franklin, thereupon, was directed to run no
risk of losing bis present position, and, instead
of sending his infantry Into the wood, conten
ted himself with advancing bis batteries over
the breadth of the fields in front, supporting
them with heavy columns of infantry, and at
tacking with energy the rebel batteries imme
diately opposed to him. fils movement wak a
success, so far as it went, {be batteries main
taining their new ground, and sensibly affect
ing the steadiness of the rebel fire. I‘hat being
once accomplished, and all hazard of the right
being again forced back having been dispelled,
the movement ef Burnside became at once the
turning point of sueeesa, and rite fate of the
day depended on him.
How extraordinary the situation was, may
be judged from a moment’s consideration of the
facts. It ie understood that from the on Wet
Burnside’s attack was expected to he decisive,
as it certainly must have been if things went
well elsewhere, and if he succeeded in estab
lishinghimself oh the Sharps burg road In the
rebel rear.
Yet Hooker, Sooner, Franklin, and Mane
field, were all sent to the right three mile* away,
while Porter seems to bare done double duty
with bis single corps in front, both supporting
the batteries and holding himself in reserve.—
With all this immense force op the'right, but
16,000 men were given to Burnside Cat tbs de
cisive movement of tbe day.
Still mure onfortunste in its results was tbe
total failure of these separate attacks on&A,,
right and left to sustain, or in any manner-oer
operate with each other. Burnside hesitated
for hours in front of tbe bridge which should
have been carried at once by a coupde main.—
Meantime Hooker had been fighting for four
hours With various fortune, bat final success,—
Sumner had cum up too late to join in-the de
cisive attack which hie earlier arrivald would
probably have converted into a complete suc
cess; and Franklin reached tbe scene only
when Sumner bad been repulsed. Probably
before hie arrival the rebels had trui-u. red a
considerable number of troops to tbeir r;ght to
meet tbe attack of Burnside, the direction of 51
which was then suspected or developed.
Attacking first with one regiment,' then with
two, and delaying both for .artillery,- Burnside
.was oof over the . bridge before "2 o’clock—per
bapg-nut'tiH 3. f/e advanced slowly op tto
dopes in bis fronts, bis batteries in jsar eortf-
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