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I It was a terrible battle, and onr part of it jwas especially so. After driving b*ck the enemy and ^holding him in check for two hoursj yjre , were completelyflnked, and the only way of * escape wasfto cut our ctat. We bad oodh left entirely .alone. The artWery faad beenl xe-moved. The line to our right had given ^ay. Ojar^eft had been turned and the rebels bame ,doyrnia$ our backs ^mandibg* our, aurrdnaer. We .prefgiTed a running fight, hut, alas, this severe. We^ere closed upon by two parallel lines, and in running the gaimtiet bntffew escaped. . The 110th was on ourrightand started first and thereby avoided much of1 the enemy’b raking fire. The, 84th was last to start and consequently suffered! most': Thefithjloet in killed, wounded and niLaing twd hundred and nineteen, and the 110th forty-three. jThe 12th New Qaznpehire fought in another flt;art of the field and fought bravely too, And loet heav-ily. Its aggregate loes was three hundred! and sixteen. Total loss of brigade five hundred and seventy-eight, and yet I see it stated in the Wafihtogtoa!. Qiromde that our loss was pnlytwenty-throe. .. . i j :u ]General Whipple, our division commander, afcraveand good man, passed unhurt through the battle, and was killed by a* stray ball the next day. ffia death Is universally mourned. He lived lung enough, however, to tell us we * /• . ^ -u __-t-i. ^ thafc we*had done onr dutyto admiration'; and omgwM^Me Colonel Bowman for his admirable conduct, assurihj; him we fi537*hy'^ryiaKl|6‘and gallantry, skved thefortunes df the day, almost before sunrise in the morning. * *h '|D Golonel Orowther, of-the 110th, was killed, 1 and Major Jones wounded and jnade prisonefr. \ The corniest of these officers is highly spoken ’ of. In fact, these two regiments cannot be sur-I pasd in a! fight; and it ouiy tb be regcettedj that regiments oh’ the right anddeft upjsotstood by us. If thishadbben donei tbe rebels ! would n’eVer have crossed* ‘ that' linei ^ I fdu a list of casualties. ■ - - • u v? ayOU __.I Gapt. Gd^0,i 84th P5.2** v
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Harrisburg Evening Telegraph
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, May 14, 1863
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