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charge.Tim© moved on, and soon it was three o’clock, yet no word of Blunt. My smallforce was still engaged, and badly cut up.Hold out till night we must, and so I told the officers.Just at four o’clock a battery opened on my extreme right, and the shell of it went into the ranks of my skirmishers. A second ball lodged in the same place. It seemed to be the enemy’s guns, and our case looked tough. Taking Captain Clarke, I went out to examine it myself, and found about one mile from my right wing the advance of Blunt comTng up. Sending word to hitn of the enemy’s position, I kept up the fight on my left till darkness closed upon me.We had advanced from our position in the morning about a thousand yards, and occupied a portion of the enemy's line. Resting on our arms in the very face of an enemy, we distributed ammunition and prepared to finish the job next morning, but the bird had flown. Under cover of the night they bad wrapped the wheels of their artillery in blankets, and had escaped over Boston mountain. The field was our•», and such ©he Ting you never heard. But many a brave soldier had paid for the victory with his life. One thousand of our men lay dead and wounded on the field, w’hile twenty-five hundred of the enemy lay at their side. It was a bloody, desperate fight, and for the number of troops engaged oil my side, the loss was heavy.— Of my command, the 2d and 3d Divisions, the loss was nine officers killed, thirty-three wounded, and seven missing, am} eight hundred and forty-three men killed and wounded. This out of (our thousand men engaged.General Blunt’s Division was about 5000 strong in the fight, and his loss 150 killedand wounded. The total Federal lass will he Sbout 1000. The loss of the er.ttny is terrific. After their burial parties had Wen on the ground for three davs we had to turn in and bury two hundred for them. The country for twonty-flve miles arot.nd is full of their wounded.Wa bar# captured four mis* oa oil of air •
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Cedar Falls Gazette
Cedar Falls, Iowa, US
Fri, Jan 02, 1863
Page 7
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