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threaten us with nothing worse, out of the Union,t!aahnPJ(itii •«01VJlr«uAnother Account of the Great‘ JButtle of the 27th.fThe folio wing letter has been kindly handed to us for publication:]Richmond, July 1st, 1-62.My Dkir FaTHfR;—The greatest battle that wasever fought on this continent, begun on last Thursday (S6th of June) by our forces bringing on the attack, and has been going on ever since. We have been entirely successful in every at tick, having driven McClellan's forces over 15 miie9. Our General* attacked the enemy both in the front and rear simultaneously* Tne Texas brigade covered itself with immortal glory, and Won unfading laurels. The fight never become general where we were stationed, whicl was in McClellan's rear, unt 1 Friday evening. Wt occupied the right of the centre of Jacks nhTarim, corpse of OUTGO m*»n. Our brigade was held as h reserve until about 3 o’chck, aud after four nth-* brigades i;a*i be-n fighting and endeavoring to storm • htir entrenchm nts, und being repulstd successive!}wb were ordered up uy Gen. Uood. us i rave ami gallant an officer as over lived or died, tot y our strength w th the entrenched enemy. On—on, we marched in line or battle, slowly but ateaduy, until within clos, rung aud then halted in some thick wood*. Slt;w urn Yankees poured volley after vlt;diey into our ranks *»f musketry, grape auu c'inisrty We rucurne(heir fire as fast as .we could loa i ami shoot, t. t a- rfour brigades had just leu the ground we w* re fi d.t I h mg on. the smoke uasso thick that we could not'se*- i it how to shoot only from the fl^h of their guns abou **xiy yard* in our sdvuice, in Hitches. The orde w s soon gtv.m jo*‘tix i.»aonet^!ami ‘•charg.*,'* whe one lou 1 and c minuous ,vd was guen and « ti w-went djwu th- hill and over he trees 'he* had cud'Wi, in trout of their breast works, then mouuim-theirenircii hammsne put th»m to flight with tinpoint » me ha.vohec “Forward, f r-ard. bn?/' va» the cry,ami on we welt;»t with a ru»h, ve 1 nVa loud MS we could, up a smenhih. kind g ml- Y n*e. •♦,v hundreds. As'soon as we reached the top ot tinh Jl we tiati tfalt; Ya ie*'s in full route „,)(1railroad ainedthroui-h the rcHtnp*, M the time w, weie firsng .tnd loadtng as we could In fto *•f us w-ta \u np-h *b at fi Id and as fur as w • . ou . so » their iMutps commissary storey bin elm*«hpkey c . all d anted. But about thisiiiiie. u-,hundred .mr.ls i * front of us, a battery of 7 *uni w-.t pouri g grape, can sterund iioiuhu amongst us. The\ had no effect on our bravo blt;} s. We cha ged on atV o k ihe batteiy o' 7 ipautttui brass CHnuon. Oui 1 regUeut took also a whole regiment of Yankees ana *v twoflys, 2d »ud 4 th N. J. Dunnpr »ll\he lime w,nit.?.’I?.!”/*}hJLJ*.ll T*la5!‘ Ul Texa* «»d ■*» Dlt;)italt;a•rii!;uGeorKiu^were. n our I ft. Baling Hurd „i„] storming'fentrenchments, and took a battery each. T, o bri' Uadenm* 26 pieces of artilbry of the finest make. * *ay this lime night came on. and wo iept in the eri \\emv’a camps on 11,e hutth field, whe-e the (h ad a J(!dying wrere thick on ail sides., The fifth t«.v,8 fi* ubouMUO killed and wound'd The 4th 'IVvuovm 200, the 1st about 101) the 18th Ga. over 20(1. Out Company, the Dixie Iliues, suffered moie than anv it. the regiment; wethad 15 killed and wounded. V*W n into the fight with 4». Tobv R ninmi.i « k,,.. ^in
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Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 29, 1862
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