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DAILY GAZETTE.Cm. Um-*MW«»P^,lywH86,«m1mG ward, 1 n« M,lw*U«t», t months *1 *0, pCINCINNATI DAlfif GAZETTE. 1VOL. 73.MONDAY MORNING APRIL 14. 1862.NO. 249.•km. A light bnwi nmnmir.dgunboats, Taylor ud Lexington, were edging uneasily op end down the benks, eager to pot in their broadsides of heavy gone, bat nneble• eUrtlingly close, end ■ bo wed 1 i were in earnest attempt to carry tat of driving na into the rirer. 4for safety, and who were telling tb fnl stories of the rebel onset and 1 of their own particular regiments, rily fresh fugitives same back, o: hand, and all giving the same thickening disasters in front.nd Prentiss' entire divisions we in disorder, sharply pressed by tl rwhelming numbers, at all poin s had already lost part of j it, too, was fallipg back. TheTHE FULL DETAILS. DEFEAT ON SUNDAY. Regained Lost Ground on Monday Noble Valor ofour Troops DESPERATE FIGHTING. The Morning Surprise.BEGIJHBKT8 THAT BAN, AND WHY. Tlie Troops Engaged.DIVISIONS AND BRIGADES.Generals, Losses, Incidents, c. c.j ^ Field or Battls,^ ^ JPBBL1M1NARY-FIGHT OPENS.Fresh from the field of the Great Battle, with ite pounding and roaring of artillery, and its keener-voiced rattle of musketry still sounding- balls,nd brill-confused ly and indelibly upon the brain, I essay to write whqt I know of lhe Battle of Pittsburg Landing.Yet how bring order out ef such a chaos? Dow deal justly, writiog within twenty-four hours of the closing of the fight, with aU the gallant regiments, of the hundred present, that bravely won or as bravely lost, and with all that ignobly fled in panio from the field? How describe, so that one man may leisurelydred and fifty thousand antagonists, fighting backward and forward for two long days, inadvance, under eight division oommandera onnecessarily small a panorama so grandly great? The tank is impossible.But what one man, diligently using all hi. powers of observation through those two days, might see, I saw, and that I con faithfully set down. For the rest, after ridpg carefully overOwr peat Tennessee expedition had been up the river some four weeks. We had occupied Pittsburg Lauding for about three; had destroyed one railroad connection, which the rebels bad sectored in h day or two, and had failed in a similar but more important attempt on another. Beyond this we had engaged in no active operations. The rebels, alarmed bytroops under our eyes. Presently they had more in the vicinity than we had. Then we waited for Buell, who was erossiog the country from Nashville by easy marches. The rebels had apparently become restive under our slow concentrations, and Gen. Grant had given out that an attack from them seemed probable. Yet we had lain at Pittsburg Landing, within twenty miles of the rebels that were likely to attack us superior numbers, without throwing up auglebs batter^, and with the brigades of on stretched from extreme right to ex ft of onr line, while four other Divisarrived.On the evening of Friday, April 4, there wa a preliminary skirmish with the enemy’s ad vance. Rumors came into camp that some o our officers had been taken prisoners by a oonpickets bad been firing. A brigade, 7*d, and 48th Ohio, was sent out to i it. They came upon a party of relthe 72d Ohio, and i the 70th, prisoners, teen, and driving thave already in p no great distanoe from our lines. Wallace's troops at Crump's Landr Crocket, ofiru some six-1, batteryAdamsville, half way bet wee Purdy, to take position then attack in that direction. Than ordinary pieket fight, : more. M*jor-G*neralid there was great probataking any preparation forRichmond, as being absolutely necessary, as a last hold stroke to save the falling fortunes of the Confederacy in the Went, though of that, no one, I presume, know anything.largely outnumbered Grant,they knew equally well that when Buell’s entire Kentucky army arrived, and was added to Grant’s forces, they could not possibly expect to bold their vitally important position at Corinth against na. Their only hope, theievident it tUl and that* considerable portion of th* army mart be already engaged. Hastily springing on the guards of a passing steamboat, I bar-ir,Hacking party. Revert!f the first act in cr Sunday’s tragedy—to thlt; reliminaries and the opening of the assault.TOFOGUAPHICAL POSITION OP OCX T BO OPS.And first, of onr positions: Let the readeir a narrow ravine, down which a road the river bank, between high blufis on either le. There is no town at all—two log huts Inprise all the improvements visible. Baokis bayonet, t in jmsition, v side of the ei shot down as they wlt;toward th* river. The searching bullets found other poor unfortunates in their tents, and there, all unheeding now.xultant enemy their readiness to surrender.Officers were bayoneted in their beds, and eft for dead, who, through the whole two days’ earful struggle, lay there gasping la their ago-iy, and on Monday evening were found inheavy wood* till they gained a protecting ridge, firing as they ran, and making what resistance men thus situated might, Sherman’s msn succeeded in partially checking the rush of the enemy, long enough to form their hasty lineto^.^.prang hasUiyto ame sweeping up against theirlong Sherman’s whole line on the right.Luck land’s Brigade had been oompelle^ o abandon their camps without a strugglewithout firing a gun. Col. Appier’s Md Ohio is loudly 00mplained of oa this seore, and others are mentioned. It is certain that parts ofms, ran disgraoefally. Yet not wholly without were raw troops, just1 frlt;»f them had never heard a gun fired their officers, for the most part, were ixperienoed; they had been reposingperhaps the greater part thickly wood i some underbrush. The soil iselayey, a: roads on Sunday morning were good. Frc the Landing a road leads direct to Corintroad, the other the ridge Corinth listance ouL another osses LickWeek, aie right, two separate roads lead off to Fardy, d another, a new one, across Snake Creek to amp’s Landing on the river below. Besides ese, the whole eountry inside our Hues is outid beyond the lines is the most inextricable axe of cross roads, intersecting everything d leading everywhere, in which it was ever y ill-fortune to become entangled.On and between these roads, at distances of m two to four or five mile* from Pittsburg Landing, lay five ditisions of Major General Grant’s army that Sunday morning. The ad-•nce line was formed by three divisions— rig. Gen. Sherman’s, Brig. Gen. Prentiss’, id Major Gen.s and Major Gen. Smith’s, com-i absence (from sickness) of that er, by Brig. Gen. W. H. L. Wal-gade of Gen. Sheri, lay Col. J. Stuart’s bri-n’a division. Some three I brigade, on thew er Corinth road and e to Pordy, lay the remaining brigades ol lerman’s division, McDowell’s forming th« ■trszne right of.our whole advanee line, Hil-brand’s coming next to it, and Buokland’irather behind a portion of Sherman’s McClernand’a division, and b Stuart’s brigade, already metila right. Suoh was the position of our troop* ,t Pittsburg Landing, at daybreak Sunday corning. Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace’s Division sy at Crump’s Landing, some miles below,seven o’clock that day.It is itsy to be vthe reader will hardly fail to observe theessen tial defects ef such arrangements. Nearly fou miles intervened between the different ptrts o Sherman's Division. Of ooura* to commam the one, he must neglect the other. MoCJer nand’s lay partially behind Sherman, am therefore, not stretching far enough tlt;ud P«s did Ied heights, e And the whlt; ill-adjusted.ngement was oonfused aDuring Friday and Saturday the rebels had marched out of Corinth, about seventy thousand strong, in three great divisions. Sidney Johnston had general command of the whole army, and particularly of the center. Braxtoni and odee, Polk, Breckinridge, held subordinate commands. Oa Thursday Johnston issued n proclamation to the army, announcing to them in grandiloquent terms that he was about to lead them against the invaders, and that they Would soon oelebrate the great, decisive victory of th% war, in whiched TeiL the Southern s said by pris-ittark on each sideecomplish this, they should have t ef the three brigades of Shermai which lay on our right, and thend’s, which ca fronman’s left. By some mistake, however, they struck Sherman’s left alone, and that but a few moments before a portion of their right wing swept np against Prentiss.The troops thus attacked, by six o’clock, or beforeit, were as follows: The left of Sherman’* brigades, that of Col. Buckland, was composed of the 72d Ohio, Lieut.-Col. Canfield, commanding; 48th Ohio, Col. Sullivan; 70th Ohio, CoL Cockerel I; and 53d Ohio, Col. Appier.*To the right of this was Col. Hildebrand’s brigade, 77th Ohio,, Lieut -Col. commanding; 59 th Ohio, Col. Pfyffe, and 53d Illinois. And on th* extreme right, Col. McDowell’s brigade, 0th Iowa, (Col. manding), 40th ]h Michigan, 16th Wisconsin, 18th Wiseon-, 18th Missouri, 23d Missouri, 25th Missouri1 01st Illinois. _THE BATTLE ON lOIDAT.of the Division camps and beading dm « either tank, the fine, dashing, com piInto th* Jnst-^sed camp* thronged tmmumgzzzind wives andsome should run. H alf as much cause d panic at Bull Run, for which the nation, i man, became a loud-mouthed apolegiat.of which last more in a n my did not fail to profit by the wild disorder. As Buckland’s brigade fell baek, MoOlernand threw forward his left to support it. Meanwhile Sherman was doing his best to raily, his troops—dashing along the lines, enoouragingnded their offer oime, they made a gallant defense, while what eas left of Buckland’s was falling baek in uch order as it might, and leaving MoCier-isnd’s left to take their plaoe, and iheek the wav* of rebel advanoe.CXBTtmC OF GSW. PRBMTISS.Prentiss was faring searoely so well. Mostinto line, but strangely enough, the Hue wai drawn up in an open space, leaving to the enemj the cover of the dense scruboak in firoat, fron which they could pour in their volleys in com parative safety.The men held their position with an obstinaDown on eitheihflank came the overwhelo enemy. Fiercely pushed in front, with a of bayonets closing in on either aide, liked their advantage. They a our lines; they had driven all its oamps, and nearlyeide of the rebels, now closely pushing Prentiss. His men at once opened vigorously on the enemy, and for a time they seemed likely still to save our imperilled division. But com-he enemy, their positions were not well ehosei .nd all had to fall back together.Brig. Gen. Prentias and three regiments wit dm, the 23d Missouri, of his own division, an he 12th and 14th Iowa, of those that hatoo leng. Almost before they were aware of their danger, the flanking forces rushed iu from either side behind them, and they stood, perhaps two thousand strong, in the midst of thrice their number. They threw down their arms; and the rebels signalized their first attack by marching three Lincolnite regiments,I by this fresh disaster, withoi i General to organise them, with still hott. md hotter fire to their front and flanks, tl emainder of the division, whole regiments i t time, gave way in disorder. Fora short tinng, halting, firing, courting death by remain-og in isolated squads or companies, to n ittle longer the overpowering advaneiapid retreat. Berne regiments earns off the Leid in a degree of order; the meat in sad eoind thns by tirregular discharge of muskets by guards and pickets, to clean oHt their guns, a practi which, to the disgrace of our discipline be said, was well nigh universal, and renderedfiring meant anything at all, beyond ord disorder of our own soldiers. But the o ned rattle of musketry ■composed as follow: 1st brigade, Col. Hare commanding, 8th and 18th Illinois, ilth and l»th Iowa; 2d brigade, CoL C. C. Marsh commanding 11th, 20th, 48th and 45th Illinois, Cols. Ransom, Marah, Hayni* and Smith, (the latter is the “Lead Mine Regiment”); 3d brigade, CoL Raitt commanding, 17th, 22th and 49th Illinois, Lieut.-Cols. Wood, Farrell and Pease, and 43d Illinois, CoL Marsh. Besides this fine shosimminent danger of being entirely cut off, and back they fell too, still farther to the right and rear, among the ravines that border Snake Creek.And here, so far os Sunday’s fight is concerned, the greater part of Sherman's division ont of view. The General himself was, andlittle weight in inclining th# scales of i. The General bore with him one token B danger to which be had exposed him-i musket ball through the hand. It waslightly was wonderful. Whatever may 1 faults or neglects, none ean accuse him lack of gallantry and ®n®'gy hen the aSunday morning.To return to McClernand’s division, I have poken of his sending up first his left, and then is center brigade to support Sherman, shortlybring in his brigades again to proteot 1ebels were foiled in every iwa# nothing to prevent the rebels from coming in, farther out on the road, and turning Me-Clei nand’s right. Prompt to seise the advantage, a brigade of them went dashing audaoi-ng up the roadbattery cf rifledregiments was at last too mueh for our inferior Bumber*. Msjor Eaton, commanding the 18th Illinois, was killed; Col. Hayni* was severely wounded; Col. Ralthnecessary; Msjor Nevins of was wounded; Lieut.-Col. Ransom of the same regiment, was wounded; three of Gen. MoCler-nand’s staff, Msj. Schwartz, Maj. Stewart and Lieut. Freeman, were wounded, and carried from the field. Line officers had suffered heavily. The batteries were broken up. SchwartzDresser had lost several of his riflsd pieces, three caissons and eighteen horses. McAllister had lost half his 24 pound howitzers.The soldiers fought bravely to the last—letul disadvantage. Gradually they began fall-ng back, more slowly than had Prentiss' regi-□ents, or part of Sherman’s, making more de-zllying and repulsing th* enemy nrn for a hundred yards, then being beaten k again, and renewing the retreat to somer position for fresh defense.line with Hurlbut’s. It still did some gallan fighting; once its right swept around anddrov^ the enemy for a considerable distanoe, but again fell back, and at the last it brought up near the position of W. H. L. Wallace’s divi-demand werei how Prentiss, Sherman, Moe Generals. General Grant did e field till after nearly all these owded npon us, and eaeh Divlipanic-stricken regilt was commanded by CoL David Stuart, (of late Chicago divorce ease fame, and ex-Con-gressman,) and was composed of the 55th Illinois, Lieut.-Col. Malmbourg, commanding; 71st Ohio, Col. Rodney Mason; the 54th Ohio, (Zouaves,) CoL T. K. Smith. It was posted along the circuitous road from Pittsburg Landing, up the river to Hamburg, some two miles from the Landing, and near the crossing of Lick Creek, the bluffs on the opposite aide of whichdown to join Prentiss’ DivUion on its right In selecting the grounds for the enoampmsnt ef onr army, it seems to have been forgotten that from Corinth an excellent read led direct to Hamburg, a few miles above this left wing of our forces. Within a few days, the oversightmake all safe. It was unfortunate, , that Beauregard and Johntson did l for us to perfect our pleasing arranjreached th* bluffs of Lick Creek, comma Stuart’s position.During the attack on Prentiss, Stuart’i ade was formed along th* road, the left resting near the Lick Creek fbrd, the right, 71at Ohio CoL Rodney Mason, (late Ass’t Adjaant-Gon eral of Ohio, and Colons^ of the 2d Ohio a Manassas,) being nearest Prentiss. The firstafterffard muslets were seen glinting amo th* leaves, and presently a rebel eolui emerged from a bend in the road,'with bann flying and moving at double-quick down lt;The rebel column veered on further to th* ight, in search of Prentiss’ flying regiments md fer a brief space, though utterly isolated,In an instant the batteries of the rebel foroesite, by approaching on th* Corinth and Hi burg road, were In full play, and the orchardsIng only for attack In the opposite direction,; were swept with the exploding sheila and l^pilTHE BATTLE OF PITTSBURG L1YDIYG, TEYY.,FOUGHT SUNDAY AND MONDAY, APRIL Sth ASD 7th, 1882.Ing Lieutenant-Colonel Kyle, in a dying condition from the field they were abandoning. Ohio lost no braver, truer man, that day.As they reached the next woody ridge, rebel cavalry, net had crossed the oreek lower down,quarters of an hour the brigade stood here. The cavalry, finding its purpose foiled, did not some within rang*. In front they were hard pressed, and the rebels, who had followed Prentiss, began to come in on their right. CoL Stnart bad sent across to Brigadier-General W. H. L. Wallaee, then not engaged, for support. Brigadier-General MoArthur’s brigade was promptly started across, but mistaking the way, and bearing too muoh to the right, it speedily found itself in the midst of the rebelMcArthurius render Stuart’s brigade no assistance, but he vigorously engaged the rebels to his front and flanks, fell baek to a good position, and held these troops in bay tillto the brigade,But this brought Stuart’s isolated brigade little help. They were soon foroed to fall baok to another ridge, then to another, and finally, about twelve o’clock, badly shattered and dis-orderd, they retreated to the right and rear, falling in behind Gen. MeArthur’s brigade to reorganize. Col. Stuart was himself wounded by a ball through his right shoulder, and the loss of field and company officers was suffisient to greatly discourage the troops.This clears our entire front line of divisions. Th* enemy has foil possession of all Sherman’s, Prentiss’, and McClernand’s oamps. By ten o’clock our whole front, except Stuart’s brigade, had given way, and the burden of the fight was resting on Rarlburt and W. H. L. Wallaee.^ Before twelve Stnart, too, had cometwo divisions stood between our army and doStill all was not lost Hurlburt and Wallaee began making a most gallant stand; and meantime most of the troops from the three driven divisions were still to some extant available. Many of them had wandered down the river—seme as far as Crump’s Landing, and some even to Savannah. These were brought back again on transports. Lines of guards were extended to prevent skulkers from getting Lack to the landing, and especially to stop the shrewd dodge among the cravens of taking six or eight able-bodied soldiers to assist some slightly-wounded fellow into the hospital; andbe gathered and offioered,me into play. Our weakest point ght, and to turning this the rebel ;em to have paid so much attention oing, Mqjor General Lew Wallace was oome in on onr right and flank the rebels 1 marching across from Crump’s Landing belo Yet strangely enough, Waliaoe, though wilily closed th* line, where Prentiss’ division and Stuart's brigade, In their retreat, h^j left it open. To Hurlburt’* right th* lines were patched out with th* reorganized regiments that had been resent to th*But there is still mi theory that Providence has a tendency at least to go with the heaviest battalions. The battalions were against us. The rebel General jtorted admiration in the mldsl Repulse was nothing to them, lines failed; they took their to the rear, and sent np fresh troops,s point within half sfate of Hurlburt’a lt;II. L. Waliaoe, whloh included the 2d and 7th Iowa, 9th and 28th Illinois, and ssveral of the other regiments eomposing Major-General Smith’s old division. Waliaoe had alae threes General manageiup. The musketry fth* fight began abou r described. From that time manfully bored, with IOnce or twice the infantry advance tempting to drive the continually inert enemy, hut though they could hold wha bad, their numbers were not equal to the task of oonquering any more.Four separate times In turn th*rebels attempted iu turn to charge on them. Raoh time infantry poured in its quickest volleys, the tillery redoubled its exertions, and the rel retreated with heavy slaughter. The divisionparticularly indignant at not being peri to pound away. But their supports were gone on either side; to have remained in ismlng ap-parenlanded the admiration of all, was, as it was thought, mortally wounded, and was borne away from the field. At last the division fell baok. Its soldiers dlatm—jusUy, I believe—the proud distinction of being ths last to yield, In the general break ofour lines,losing some guns, by having his wheel shot down. Capt. Walker did lose a tt pounder through some breakage in the earriage. It was recovered again on Monday.save that of W.ded in the region of Walla a circuit of half to two-th nd the Landing. We hlro ILew. Wallace’s division might turn for us—it is made of fighting men—bat where is it? Why has it not been thundering on th. right ' “ - _ . -is eoming, but he has Iwhat is isixty toes in front of ui?We have lost nearly all qnipage. We have lost nearly half our field .rtillery. We have lost a division Ganeral am #o or three regiments of onr soldiers as priaafraid to think—hr killed and wounded. Th* hospitals are foil to overflowing. A long ridge bluff is set apart for surgical uses. It is covered with the maimed, the dead and dying.w* are needing troops ia the front so sorely On the bluffs above the river is a sight thatAsk them why they don’t go to their plaoes the lias, “Ob, oar regiment is all eattopieoa “Why don’t you go to whore it is forming again ?” “I can’t lad it,” and th* halk looksplore you, I bog ef you,by the flag you love, by the States you honor, by all yon love of eountry, by aU your hatred of treason, I conjure you, oome up aad do your doty now I And ao on for quantity. “Thatonlookers, she slowly nd steams back again. Perhaps, after all, it better to have no bridge there. It simplifies i* question, takes escape out of the count, sd leaves it vlotory or death—to the eowards tat slink behind the bluffs as well as to the rave men who peril their live* to do the State »« service on the fields beyond. Prepara-g chiefly on our center and left, by which the rebels were pretty sure to advanoe. Corps of artillerists to man them were improvised from all the batteries that could be collected. Twenty-two guns in all were placed in position. Two of themfrom I do not know; what battery they 1 longed to I have ao idea; I only know tl they were there, in the right place, half a mby the left, and by the ridge Corinth road; that there was nobody to work them; that Dr. Coroyn, Surgeon of Frank. Blair’s old First Missouri Artillery, proffered his services, that they were gladly accepted, and that he did work them to such effect as to lay out ample work foif the fight, ituatlon. ItIn thearmy evident to do us much good. We didn’t yet Lew. Wallace wasn’t on the groam justice of a Righteous Cause, and in that semicircle of twenty-two guns in position, lay all the hope we could see.Suddenly a broad, sulphurous 1 leaped out from th* darkeningof lightking on our left, lying where Stuart’s 1 9 had lain on Licking Creek in the morn i stretching thence in os th* Hamburg r i across toward our old center as faiof their most dreaded antagonists, iand sixty-four pound shot soon taught I This was a foe they had hardly eountec and the unexpected fire in flank and reardark the Thirty-sin diana, from Nelson’s advanoe brigad crossed, advanced into line with Grant’s at the double quick, and had ]in ds as an earnest of what should be INelson, and MeCook next to him by a seasonable hour in th* morning. The gap b« McCook and Lew. Wallaee wee to be filled with of Grant’s old armya to th# valley of th# S* o’clock all was h The host of eombatzfi, through th* unnatural stillness ef th* ulght. Others speedily followed. By th* task you eeuld just discern the black outline of' piratical looking hall, and s**h« boat graoofally settled into th* water a* th* re-nearly morning and it only served to remind «* the more vividly of the day’i ‘ ‘ ‘ fact that half a mil* off lay a0 d~lTHE WAR IN SOUTHWEST.ments of Gen. Pope’s Colnminediate and superficial aspect than in the effect which the intelligence wiU produce upon both the oontending parties, and the flucncewhieh it will exert in hastening the d of the rebellion, may well be styled a greaYet it is not a little eurious to oonsider that e event so long and anxiously anticipated, lould at last have been brought about by veryded for success, and at an hour when few I fer Its attainment. In looking over the matter it is a little difficult at first glimpse to y accurately the different agencies whlohis due t General Pope of bringing br of the late victory, id*to*ori finaltienoe and perscveranidea into an effective working plan,___________brought It to a successful issue.* us according to these two the first jdaeegallant deed, and gallantly p been undertaken earlier, m might have beenjmved, and33It was, I suppose, generally known, equally to our own public and to the enemy, that the Aeet which Col. Bissell was endeavoring to conduct through the bayou comprised two or threebut I think few perso I to which it was desig They were not inteiveying troops. Col.dri£p?JyaihaThe unfortunate publication of the scheme in some of our newspapers had given the rebels warning in ample time to permit them to adopt corresponding measures to defeat it. They had planted heary batteries at every available landing place for miles along the opposite sidecross perilous in the extreme, if not absolutely impossible. .It would he necessary to th* suo cess of the scheme to disable, or in some way overcome these guns. Our batteries on the opposite side could not he depended upon for this purpose. Heavy guns must be brought nearer to them. Fer this purpose two of th* largest barges were selected, carefully strengthened and divided by bulkheads into several whtar-i packed full of tight,mpty barrels,lessen the danger oi sinning, in case zue ooats should be pierced by th* enemy’s shot, and on the deck of each was mounted four heavy siegei opposite it was hopmd I ght be disabled, and th* aithose engaged in working 1posed to great danger, not only from the heavy guns of th* enemy protected behind strong earthwortks, hot also from riflemen stationedidoubtedly hav As it is hardl;ever be again called into requisition, I suppose the foregoing information is no longer contraband. I give it in supporif of my original statement that to Gen. Pop* and Col. Biseell is due the credit of compelling the surrender of Island No. 10.With this preliminary statement, although th* telegraph has already forestalled me in the more important faots, let me endeavor to give you some idea of the subsequent movements.TBS XBKIVAL or THS OCJTBOAT.The night of Friday, the 4th of April, closed ii dim and lowering. Indirt^bad 7approach-day or two been privately whispor-bo -uu-g » few, that a project was iu contemplation to run the blockade, aad the first favorable night would probably see th# feat attempted. As the signs of the eoming tempest grew imminent, anxious eyes were turned toward thecatch the first sound of the guns with w* expected the rebels would oppose the at Hour after hour passed. The wind rot moaned among the trees, the vivid flashes of sharper and fieore ~!er shook the heailightning In and peals olscntheaetero horizon, a stream of light V* rocket shot Into th# air. Another and amcasional heavy b the attemi it mightsreports ef the gunsvJ ‘j moored at theAll day Saturday the gunboat lay quietly a * landing, cleaning boilers, remounting gun id making^ other preparations for the dutieDuring the afternoon our batteries ou th. rot hank below th* town opened fire upoieeived to retire to rest but keep ready, learned afterward that some unexpected ol ele in th* path of th* transports was th* c of the delay.Oa ^Sunday iascertaining th* position and strength of rebel batteries. Scarcely had she arrived uteiy snent, rotating to make any ropiy «e u^^er°S^thr£,kitvy gent. * a 44- pounder chip's gun, and two 00 peuadbatteries f^ween Madrid head and Tipton-ville. About five arils* above the latter place a battery of two gunewhieh had keen sflaueedIMSSSeMl-i
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