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Ii.’ho link, I Ml niftl t3i.lv .Jvnnsn^, iii l-Jhi'nlh i:: ill vi:• iiii', im v opom :.i thr ir lira on the left, ■ ' in t.i;c woc't'l.'i. a ml c mi pi..-!h*d the rebels to n? ii 1 ' : • i ’•I tire; but otiiy In cu no on with fresh troops. ; tis . . . I• The ball'tics,-—Bui bV and Allen’s,—of sis. j « guns ouch, and sevorah hnvviizers, two ol'.F which were in my command that day, m\V •! , opened with b-hut u id shell, Sumo cavalry ! , on tin* onomv’s riel t dismounted and fought ; (■ - ' ! jlike veterans, upon which tiic enemy retired j (for t; nod. From in On-until dark it was likerquo continu'd pen of thunder. Nothingcould ho heard but the roar of cannon, Thorattle of musketry, and tho horrid shrieks of the wounded. ihgiment vied with regiment, but. in every Jnse the rebels gave wav. A.s darkness set in wo could distinctly- hear them take their aril lory away. liy daylightthey had skedaddle 1 out of ranch.. Both divisions of our army slept on the Held, ready to renew the cm gag mien I in tho morning.The battle of Pn irio Grove was the most bloody bnttlo that I as taken place during the rebellion. 1 walked over the buttle-field and saw both ciur own i nd the rebel dead. In a small field I here .vere 587 dead rebels. I saw forty-six dead i\ another pile, and so cm through the woodu 1 saw the rebel Gen. Steen lying dead among ten others The slaughter among tl era was terrible. I also went to the hospiluS.Tuid saw their wounded.T11ey ran away without leaving theui atvy j. ‘rations orsufBoion.: surgical aid. Their loss . in killed and woun led is not loss than three thousand. Our to*Fin killed, wounded and missing is now use* r Ini mid to be nearly one thousand. The 2«-th Wisconsin regiment suffered the in os t. No Wisconsin regiment has fought better I lan the 20th. The noble behavior.of that rlt;gimont has beers the subject of eon versalio i ever since the battle.— The F.Hh Inwa suf ■ red heavily nUo.I culled at the cfemp•of Ihu 20th, and win not a little surpii ed to find Orderly llllis and Svrglt;*»r.t Wil Farnsworth there, both IV.an Whitewnter After partuki ng a eu p ‘ of coifei*. piece o[ bacon, and hard broad, I left them and rein •nod;to my own can-.p. ; •■ wr 1TE-W ATE BANIAN:.
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Whitewater Register
Whitewater, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Jan 09, 1863
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