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InUI•s, By this time night came on. at:d wo i-]ept in the en p ero.v 9 camps 011 the totth field, whe-e the a.-Ad »nlt;i ►h dying were thick on ail Bides., The fifth Te.vts InI uboutlUO killed and wound* d The 4th Turnover 200, the 1st about iOil the 18th Ga. over 200. Out Company, the Dixie Blues, suffered moie than anv it.the regiment; we had 15 billed and wounded, viw 1 1lwi°»w'\0hy R i)^?0,d, a noble boy. Jell by side while In the chatge. Brave'y. bravely did 1he die for his country, as thousands have already fle heiotc him, and a* tboosar.ds will yet do in defuve o‘ rh our liberty. Bob Pearson, frm rbrave fellow, wa« killed before we made the charL by * n^L°Da J? lher^rufrom aGi Heglawt. Mose* nCooper, a true and brave fellow, was killed by a bomb, • *“ . ,a'he fiWowCn* *ere the ir.iunded hi our corapeny-n LUut.Nagh, in theann^l.Khtl.v; oclinR KldrHgc,n WMjSi Wrw. .to; Boliver Smith, do; P;lmWilson, do: .'em Coffleld, do; Jessie Loti, in th»i rl'J/w aIie\ 0r,V°od’ 8li*htlV I’ctc -eadow.;a 11 g-titJy and taken prisoner, h we rec - u red h m l n ada,«r Yanhees with him; t'sc.r Patrick?llghtlyu.y,a 10“b °n tbe leg! Dan Dots and McAIH-' ter, Biightlv. These were nil of the casual „ |n our. f,0,?Pr?? (P’X “u The 4th had their Colonel1 killed the first fl e. and their Li.-nt. C ol. Is tbouehtt?v?i^tally wounded. Cap'. Hutchinson waa kilM, This battle is admitted to be the most bloody conflictof the war. Vie had about 00,000 men engaged on. this p-rt of tbe field, he-idcs those fightin on theother aide of the Chickahomhr We captured onthis part of the field 1 100 email nms, 20 pieces offine cannon, vast quantities ot ammuniti n, comtnia-Bury stores swords, pistol* and everything nertain ing.to a defeated iiroy. We captured In thisen^lmen I two Brigadier Gens, and any quastltv of other officers of different grades. Our army, which I am of1 n|)T.)n out,nui?her8 McClelland are nuraut j l,*8 B»m (Mclj.) ?nd his retreating and demoralised »i army. It is believed that he and his »rmy will be ' j captured—rs they are mrrounded on all hides. We I have now captured between H,000‘ and 10 000 prisoners, arobalances, c., *n great (jmntities. I wentthrough the thickest of the fltHbt and came tbrouzh ( without a scratch. bI- Iv.!f/.1 t.he.','ly after we hai the flght’ °n account of 1 inability to keep up whh the regiment—T was takenwith a high fever and vomiting, caused from ex u tfon ai il over heat and the want of water We suffered much for watei; when we bad drank all the water in our canteens, we would cut the canteens from off the dead Vaukeea a, we passed to quench oure9te
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Tri Weekly News
Galveston, Texas, US
Tue, Jul 29, 1862
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