The gallant Hamilton's division was assigned Skirmishing had also opened at various points the post of honor on the extreme right, his right in front as soon as it was light, and it was conresting near Beauregard's old works, and at Fort stantly thickening into the magnitude of battle. No. 1, stretching from the south side of the fa- Now and then there were brief intervals of quiet, mous Purdy road, his left resting behind Fort but swiftly followed by furious volleys. The Richardson. General Davies's division joined main lines of the enemy were still invisible. It him on the left and in consecutive order, six com- was known however that they were forming upon panies of the Yates's Illinois Sharp-shooters, the roads in the forests, and their debouch was Burke's Western (Mo.) sharp-shooters, Stanley's anxiously awaited. Shells on both sides were division, consisting of two brigades, and McKean's doing their work. The enemy had opened bat

teries from several points, and our guns directed and posted themselves under cover of the portico their shots on the line of fire. A shell whistled of the house, and behind its corners, whence over the town and crashed through the Tisho- they opened fire upon our troops on the opposite mingo hotel, tearing to pieces a poor wounded side of the public square. Seven rebels were soldier, who was striving to go to the rear. An- killed within the little enclosure in front of the other perforated a grocery, and scattered the General's cottage. The structure is a sort of stores; others exploded in the streets, and fright- sieve now-bullets have punctured it so well. ened fugitives into a panic, while our own fierce But the desperadoes got no further into town. missiles ripped up the forests. Battle was raging about Fort Richardson. GalIt was perhaps half-past nine o'clock when the lant Richardson, for whom it was named, fought bitter tragedy began to develop in earnest. A his battery well. Had his supports fought as prodigious mass, with gleaming bayonets, sud- his artillerymen did, the record would have been denly loomed out dark and threatening on the different. The rebels gained the crest of the hill, east of the railroad, moving sternly up the Boli- swarmed around the little redoubt, and were var road in column by divisions. Directly it swept away from it as a breath will dissipate opened out in the shape of a monstrous wedge, smoke. Again they swarmed like infuriated and drove forward impetuously toward the heart tigers. At last a desperate dash with a yell. of Corinth. It was a splendid target for our bat- Richardson goes down to rise no more. His supteries, and it was soon perforated. Hideous gaps ports are not at hand. The foe shouts triumphwere rent in it, but those massive lines were antly and seizes the guns. The horses are fifty closed almost as soon as they were torn open. yards down the hill toward Corinth. A score of At this period the skilful management of Gen. rebels seize them. The Fifty-sixth Illinois sudRosecrans began to develop. It was discovered denly rises from cover in the ravine. One territhat the enemy had been enticed to attack pre- ble volley, and there are sixteen dead artillery cisely at the point where the artillery could sweep horses, a dozen dead rebels. Illinois shouts, them with direct, cross and enfilading fire. He charges up the hill, across the plateau into the had prepared for such an occasion. Our shell battery. The rebels fly out through embrasures swept through the mass with awful effect, but and around the wings. The Fifty-sixth yells the brave rebels pressed onward inflexibly. Di- again and pursues. rectly the wedge opened and spread out magnifi- The rebels do not stop. Hamilton's veterans, cently, right and left, like great wings, seeming meantime, have been working quietly-no lungto swoop over the whole field before them. But work, but gun-work enough. A steady stream there was a fearful march in front. A broad of fire tore the rebel ranks to pieces. When turfy glacis, sloping upward at an angle of thirty Davies broke it was necessary for all to fall back. degrees to a crest fringed with determined, disci- Gen. Rosecrans thought it well enough to get plined soldiers, and clad with terrible batteries, Price in deeply. A rebel soldier says Van Dorn frowned upon them. There were a few obstruc- sat on his horse grimly and saw it all. "That's tions-fallen timber-which disordered their lines Rosecrans's trick,” said he, “he's got Price where a little. But every break was instantly welded. he must suffer." Maybe this is one of the apocOur whole line opened fire, but the enemy, seem- rypha of battle. A rebel soldier says it's truth. ingly insensible to fear, or infuriated by passion, But Hamilton's division receded under ordersbent their necks downward and marched steadily at backward step, slowly, grimly, face to the foe, to death, with their faces averted like men striv- and firing. But when the Fifty-sixth Illinois ing to protect themselves against a driving storm charged, this was changed. Davies's misfortune of hail. The Yates and Burgess sharp-shooters, had been remedied. The whole line advanced. lying snugly behind their rude breastworks, The rebel host was broken. A destroying Nemepoured in a destructive fire, but it seemed no sis pursued them. Arms were flung away wildmore effectual than if they had been firing potato- ly. They ran to the woods. They fled into the balls, excepting that somebody was killed. The forests. Oh! what a shout of triumph and what enemy still pressed onward undismayed. At a gleaming line of steel followed them. It is last they reached the crest of the hill in front and strange, but true. Our men do not often shout to the right of Fort Richardson, and Gen. Davies's before battle. Heavens! what thunder there is division gave way. It begun to fall back in dis- in their throats after victory. "They" report order. Gen. Rosecrans, who had been watching that such a shout was never before heard in Cothe conflict with eagle eye, and who is described rinth. Price's once "invincible" now invisible as having expressed his delight at the trap into legions were broken, demoralized, fugitive, and which Gen. Price was blindly plunging, discov- remorselessly pursued down the hill, into the ered the break and dashed to the front, inflamed swamps, through the thickets, into the forests. with indignation. He rallied the men by his Newly disturbed earth shows where they fell and splendid example in the thickest of the fight. how very often. Before the line was demoralized he succeeded in restoring it, and the men, brave when bravely led, fought again. But it had yielded much space, and the loss of Fort Richardson was certain. Price's right moved swiftly to the headquarters of Gen. Rosecrans, took possession of it,

Gen. Van Dorn's attack was to have been simultaneous with that of Price. The generals had arranged to carry Corinth by one grand assault. In their reconnoissance Friday evening they found no fort where Fort Richardson was, and they overlooked Fort Robinette. Ugly obstacles.

When they drove their wedge toward Corinth, one flange on the Bolivar road, the other on a branch of the Chewalla, they intended both wings should extend together. Topographical and artificial obstructions interrupted Van Dorn. He was obliged to sweep over a rugged ravine, through dense thickets, up hill over a heavy abattis with his left; it was necessary for his centre to dip down hill under the fire of Fort Williams, Capt. Gau's siege-guns in the rear of the town, and under heavy musketry, while his right had to girdle a ridge and move over almost insurmountable abattis under a point-blank fire of both Fort Williams and Fort Robinette, supported by a splendid division of veteran troops. The latter fort had ten-pounder Parrotts, three of them the former thirty-pounder Parrotts, which devour men. It was a task to be accomplished, or a terrible failure to be recorded. Price had comparatively plain sailing, and lost no time. Van Dorn was seven or eight minutes behind time. During that precious seven minutes Price was overwhelmed, and Van Dorn was left with a feat of desperation to be accomplished. He tried it audaciously. His men obeyed magnificently. Evidently he relied chiefly on Texas and Mississippi, for the troops of those States were in front. The wings were sorely distressed in the entanglement on either side. Two girdles of bristling steel glistened on the waist of the ridge. Two brigades, one supporting the front at close distance, moved up solidly toward the face of the fort. The Parrotts of both redoubts were pouring shot and shell, and grape and canister into them from the moment of command-"forward-charge!" shouted clearly from the brave Col. Rogers, (acting Brigadier,) of Texas. They tell me it was a noble exhibition of desperate daring. At every discharge great gaps were cut through their ranks. No faltering, but the ranks were closed and they moved steadily to the front, bending their heads to the storm. Dozens were slaughtered while thrusting themselves through the rugged timber, but no man wavered. Onward, onward, steady and unyielding as fate, their General in front. At last they reach the ditch. It is an awful moment. They pause to take breath for a surge-a fatal pause. Texas Rogers, with the rebel flag in his left, revolver in his right, advanced firing, leaped the ditch, scaled the parapet, waved his banner aloft and tumbled headlong into the ditch. A patriot's bullet had killed him in the moment of triumph. Five Texans who followed pitched forward through the embrasures like logs, and fell into the fort.

ninth was behind the Twenty-seventh supporting it; the right of the Forty-third joined the left of the Sixty-third, forming a right angle with it, and extending to Fort Williams, behind the crest of the ridge. The Eleventh Missouri, Col. Mower, (U.S.A.,) was formed behind the Sixty-third Ohio, its left in the angle, and the regiment faced obliquely to the right of the Sixty-third. The positions of these gallant regiments should be described, because their actions are memorable. Colonel Fuller, perfectly collected, required his brigade to lie flat on their faces when not engaged. While the enemy was steadily approaching he warned them to wait till they could see the whites of their eyes, then fire coolly. It was at the moment the Texan Rogers was flaunting his flag on our parapet, that the Sixty-third was ordered to fire. Dead Capt. McFadden gave the first command of his life to fire in the field of battle, and he fell mortally wounded. There were only two hundred and fifty of the Sixty-third in the conflict, but their volley was fearful. It is said fifty rebels fell at once. Six volleys were fired and the rebels were gone. The Sixty-third again laid down. Directly the supporting brigade of the rebels advanced. The Sixty-third was ordered to make a half left wheel to sweep the front of the redoubt, and the manœuvre was handsomely executed. The Eleventh Missouri moved on the left into line into the vacant space; the Forty-third moved by the right of companies to the left, and the Twenty-seventh half-faced to the left. Suddenly the enemy appeared, and a furious storm of lead and grape was launched at them. The Sixty-third fired five or six volleys and the rebels rushed upon them. A terrific hand-to-hand combat ensued. The rage of the combatants was furious and the uproar hideous. It lasted hardly a minute, but the carnage was dreadful. Bayonets were used, muskets clubbed, and men were felled with brawny fists. noble fellows were victors, but at sickening cost. Of the two hundred and fifty of the splendid Sixty-third, one hundred and twenty-five lay there on the field, wounded, dead, or dying. The last final struggle terminated with a howl of rage and dismay. The foe flung away their arms and fled like frightened stags to the abattis and forests. The batteries were still vomiting destruction. With the enemy plunging in upon him, brave Robinette, with his faithful gunners of the First United States artillery, double shotted his guns and belched death upon the infuriate enemy, and now he sent the iron hail after the fugitives with relentless fury. The abattis But we anticipate. Remember that the two re- was full of them, but they were subdued. Didoubts are on the same ridge, Fort Williams com-rectly they begun to wave their hankerchiefs manding Fort Robinette, which is in front. Had the rebels taken the latter the guns of the former would have destroyed them. They were separated by a space not exceeding one hundred and fifty yards. The Ohio brigade, commanded by Col. Fuller, was formed behind the ridge, on the right of the redoubts. The left of the Sixty-third Ohio resting on Fort Robinette, its right joining the left of the Twenty-seventh Ohio; the Thirty

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upon sticks in token of submission, shouting to spare them "for God's sake." Over two hundred of them were taken within an area of a hundred yards, and more than two hundred of them fell on that frightful assault upon Fort Robinette. Fifty-six dead rebels were heaped up together in front of that redoubt, most of whom were of the Second Texas and Fourth Mississippi. They were buried in one pit, but their brave General

sleeps alone, our own noble fellows testifying Major Spalding, Col. Burke, Col. Lathrop, Chief their respect by rounding his grave smoothly and marking his resting-place.

A great shout went up all over Corinth. The battle was a shock. It really began at half-past nine o'clock and pursuit was commenced at eleven o'clock. The pursuit of the beaten foe was terrible. Sheets of flame blazed through the forest. Huge trunks were shattered by crashing shells. You may track the flying conflict for miles by scarified trees, broken branches, twisted gun-barrels and shattered stocks, blood-stained garments and mats of human hair, which lie on the ground where men died; hillocks which mark ditches where dead rebels were covered, and smoothly rounded graves where slaughtered patriots were tenderly buried.

The carnage was horrible. The facts we do not accurately know. They say our dead will reach from five to seven hundred-wounded nearly one thousand. And the rebel dead were more than two to one and as many wounded. Of prisoners, we have one thousand five hundred and fifty, and more coming daily. Strange to say, the rebels did not use more than one battery of artillery. They got two of our guns away, we three of theirs and many small arms, with four standards. They had artillery, why did they not use it? It was not in line at all, and when they retreated it was all in front.

of artillery; Lieut. Sears, of the Eleventh Ohio battery; Lieut. McLean, Eighth Wisconsin battery; Capt. Williams, and Lieut. Robinette, First United States artillery, greatly distinguished themselves. Others, also deserving high praise, will be mentioned hereafter.

Among the regiments which are most generally lauded, are those of the Ohio brigade, the Fortyeighth Indiana, the Forty-seventh and Fifty-sixth Illinois, the Yates and Burgess sharp-shooters. The troops engaged were, as nearly as can now be ascertained, as follows, namely:

GENERAL HAMILTON'S DIVISION.-Fifth Iowa, Col. Matthias; Tenth Iowa, Col. Perczel; Seventeenth Iowa, Col. Rankin; Fifty-ninth Ohio, Col. Alexander; Forty-eighth Indiana, Colonel Eddy; Twenty-sixth Illinois, Col. Boomer; Fifty-sixth Illinois, Col. Kirkham; Fourth Minnesota, Col. Sanborn; Eightieth Ohio, Col. Eskley; Tenth Missouri, Col. Holmes. Gen. Buford and Gen. Sullivan commanded brigades in this division.

GENERAL DAVIES'S DIVISION.-Twenty-second Ohio, Major O. Wood; Eighty-first Ohio, Colonel Marton; Seventh Illinois, Col. Babcock; Ninth Illinois, Col. Mersey; Twelfth Illinois, Col. Chetlain; Fiftieth Illinois, Lieut.-Colonel Swartwout; Fifty-second Illinois, Col. Sweeny; Fifty-seventh Illinois, Colonel Hurlbut; Thirteenth Missouri, sharp-shooters, Col. Burke, and Western sharpshooters, greatly distinguished, and Seventh Iowa. Generals Oglesby and Hackelman commanded brigades in this division.

Ohio;) Eleventh Missouri; Eighth Wisconsin;
Forty-seventh Illinois, Col. Bryner, (the Major in
command;) the Twenty-sixth Illinois, Colonel
Loomis; and the Fifth Minnesota.

The lists of our dead and wounded will not be perfect until the army returns from pursuit. Of officers we lost many whose names you have already received. Col. Thos. Kirby Smith, of the GENERAL STANLEY'S DIVISION.-Twenty-seventh Forty-third Ohio, was seriously wounded in the Ohio, Major Spalding; Thirty-ninth Ohio, Colonel face early in the action. A musket-ball struck Gilbert; Forty-third Ohio, Colonel Thos. Kirby him above the upper lip and passed out of his Smith; Sixty-third Ohio, Colonel Sprague, (comneck, lacerating his face dreadfully. Col. Gil-manded by Colonel Fuller, of the Twenty-seventh bert, of the Thirty-ninth Ohio, acquitted himself bravely throughout the fight, but in the last terrible shock his horse became frightened, plunged violently and threw Col. Gilbert upon his head. He was insensible two hours and is still prostrate. Adjt.-Gen. Clark, of General Rosecrans's staff, was seriously wounded while discharging his duty bravely in the field. Col. Mower, of the Eleventh Missouri, (West-Pointer,) was also seriously wounded in the face. He was on the left centre with two companies skirmishing, and fell among a strong force of the enemy. He advised them not to fire upon their own friends, and deceived them. Directly he undertook to escape and they brought him down. He was carried to the rear a prisoner, but when the rebels were beaten they forgot him. He states that many privates of the retreating army were anxious to surrender, but that their officers drove them for-guished for good conduct. ward at the point of the bayonet.

It is impossible to announce who are worthy of mention. But it is just to say that officers and men are enthusiastic in the praise of Gen. Rosecrans. They regard him invincible. The army gave him a magnificent ovation after the battle. Gen. Stanley, Gen. Hamilton, Col. Fuller, commanding the Ohio brigade; Col. Mower, Colonel Sullivan, commanding brigade; Colonel Sprague,

Gen. McKean's small division, of which one brigade was commanded by Gen. McArthur, was also engaged. The regiments are not yet ascertained. The following were actually engaged, namely, company M, First Missouri battery, Capt. A. M. Powell.

Third Michigan battery, Lieut. Lamburg; distinguished for execution.

Company F, Second United States artillery, Capt. Thomas D. Maurice; distinguished for admirable service.

Eleventh Ohio, Lieut. Sears; greatly distinguished for skill and conduct.

Tenth Ohio battery, Captain White; distin

Twelfth Wisconsin battery, Lieutenant Miles; honorably mentioned.

Eighth Wisconsin battery, Captain H. Dillon; honorably mentioned.

Company D, Sixth Missouri, Captain Richardson; greatly distinguished for fidelity, courage, and skill. Captain Richardson was killed at his battery. He lost some men and thirty-four horses killed.

Company K, First Missouri, Lieut. Green; honorable mention.

Company H, First Missouri, Lieut. Thurber; Brigadier, supposed to be Herschel V. Johnshonorable mention. ton; Col. Martin, commanding Fourth brigade, First division: Major Jones, Twentieth Arkansas. Of the wounded were Colonel Pritchard, Third Missouri; Colonel Daily, Eighteenth Arkansas; Col. McClain, Thirty-seventh Mississippi. Some twenty lieutenants are prisoners.

Lieutenant Robinette, commanding the battery in Fort Robinette, won splendid encomiums from the whole army.

The particulars of the affair at the forks of Hatchie you will learn from another correspondent. A list of all the Ohio killed and wounded now accessible will accompany this. Fuller accounts of the battle, by telegraph, would have been forwarded if they could have been gotten through. In the absence of General Rosecrans, press despatches cannot be forwarded.

W. D. B.

REBEL REPORT OF THE BATTLE.
GRENADA "APPEAL" ACCOUNT.

Lieutenant McLean, of the Eighth Wisconsin, was the most enthusiastic man on the field. Col. Lathrop told him to wait until he ordered him to fire. At last he got the word. McLain threw away his hat. He began to get warm, and then threw away his coat. Finally he pulled off his shirt, and at every shot that told he shouted like a wild man. He is greatly praised for his skill and courage. He is a Scotchman. And now, to whom is due the honors of the battle of Corinth? The verdict of the whole army is in favor of General Rosecrans. Officers universally assert that it was he who planned the whole series of operations by which the enemy were entrapped under the forts of Corinth. He found the position unprepared for attack, and without orders he made it a powerful place. By skilful manoeuvring he deceived the enemy. By pretending to be beaten on Friday, he drew them into a place in which he gave them terrible punishment, and almost destroyed their army. It would seem from General Grant's despatches that he claims the honors. His agency in the You will remember that the junction of the victory at Corinth is not apparent. He is, per- two divisions under Gens. Lovell and Price took haps, entitled to credit for the affair at the forks place at Ripley, on the twenty-eighth ultimo, and of Hatchie, but he did not assist General Rose- according to General Van Dorn's order, moved tocrans. After the enemy was defeated, he sent ward Corinth, Gen. Lovell, whose force numbered General McPherson to Corinth with two thou-one half that of Gen. Price, in advance. sand men, and they joined in the pursuit next day. That is all he did. It is natural that staff-officers should attribute credit to their chief, but armies are not apt to do so without reason; besides, the facts involved have great weight. There is no doubt the public will give the credit to General Rosecrans, to whom it belongs.

The army was not prepared to follow the rebels constantly immediately after the battle. After pursuing them several miles with great slaughter, they were recalled and prepared for rapid and continued pursuit on Sunday morning. The army has been gone ever since. It is not prudent to say where the fugitives have been followed. Suffice it that they have been scattered and demoralized, and that they are not likely to gather head again before Christmas. If General Rosecrans is permitted to exercise his energy, they will not be permitted to concentrate anywhere.

It may be worth while to mention that the facts go to show that the enemy attacked Corinth with fully forty-five thousand men. Villipigue certainly joined Van Dorn Friday evening, and was in the rout. He came up from Holly Springs. Breckinridge was not in the fight. The loss of rebel officers was as heavy as our own, proportionally. Among the prominent rebels who were killed were Colonel Rogers, of Texas, acting Brigadier; Colonel Johnston, of Arkansas, acting

HOLLY SPRINGS, MISS., Sunday, Oct. 12, 1862. I am enabled at last to give you a tolerably detailed, and at least truthful account of the late fight at Corinth, so far as the first division of the Army of the Mississippi, under Gen. Lovell, is concerned. I deeply regret that I am not in possession of all the facts which would exhibit the share taken by those brave and tried men under the much-loved Price.

On the third instant, Thursday, Lovell's advance was constantly engaged in heavy skirmishing, driving the enemy steadily backward, for six miles, from position to position, killing and wounding them in considerable numbers. here turned off, and taking position on the left of Lovell's division, the army moved onward. Night put an end to the fighting.

Price

Arriving at Indian Creek on Friday morning, the third, the enemy in front of Lovell crossed and destroyed the bridge, and attempted, with all the artillery and infantry he could bring to bear, to prevent our crossing. Their efforts were futile, however, for the bridge was quickly reconstructed, and our gallant boys, under a galling fire, gained the other side to see them leave.

With Price on the left and Lovell on the right, our army now steadily advanced, attacking the redoubts, breastworks, and rifle-pits as they reached them, carrying every thing, and occupying the various camps of the enemy as we came up; and after a hard day's fight, night caught both divisions within the last but one of the stone line of works which kept us from Corinth. Two hours more of daylight would have decided the possession of Corinth itself; the Yankees would have been driven from the stronghold in which they had long revelled, and scattered into utter rout, for Price, on the left, had also worked his way gloriously. It was in this day's fight that