Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 2 (of 2) : $b A complete and reliable history of the war from its commencement to its close ... together with a complete chronological analysis of the warStephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
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Pictorial history of the war for the Union, volume 2 (of 2) : $b A complete and reliable history of the war from its commencement to its close ... together with a complete chronological analysis of the war
Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
During this hot fighting on the right, General Van Dorn, with his corps
arranged in four dense columns, made an attack on the Union left,
advancing on Battery Robinette. As the rebels came on they were received
with a volley of grape and canister; and as they drew nearer, a
murderous fire of musketry, from the Ohio brigade, met them directly in
the front, and caused them to reel back in confusion to the woods in
their rear. But the enemy were not yet defeated; they reformed
immediately, and boldly advanced to the charge again, led on by Colonel
Rogers, of the Second Texas; but a second time the dread musketry of the
Ohio brigade broke over them in a perfect shower of death. The rebels
held their ground with a front of desperate bravery, but when the
Twenty-seventh Ohio and the Eleventh Missouri, at the order to charge,
rushed forward upon them, their thinned ranks broke into fragments, and
they fled wildly back to the shelter of the woods pursued by the Union
soldiers, and the battle of Corinth was over—an entire and triumphant
victory to the National arms.
The enemy’s loss in killed was one thousand four hundred and
twenty-three officers and men; their loss in wounded amounted to five
thousand six hundred and ninety-two. The Unionists took two thousand two
hundred and forty-eight prisoners, among whom were one hundred and
thirty-seven field-officers, captains, and subalterns, representing
fifty-three regiments of infantry, sixteen regiments of cavalry,
thirteen batteries of artillery, and seven battalions, making sixty-nine
regiments, six battalions, and thirteen batteries, beside separate
companies.
The National troops took also fourteen stands of colors, two pieces of
artillery, three thousand three hundred stand of arms, four thousand
five hundred rounds of ammunition, and a large lot of accoutrements. The
enemy blew up several wagons between Corinth and Chewalla, and beyond
Chewalla many ammunition wagons and carriages were destroyed, and the
ground was strewn with tents, officers’ mess-chests, and small arms.
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