2"SP0TT§_Y_LVANIA. '
A Race on the Road to Rich-
? mond.
inn: coursnsmrns WIN AGAIN.
They Block the Way with Intrcnchmente.
Death of Maj. Gen. John Scdgwick.
The Corps of Hancock. Burnside, War-
ren and Wright Unite in Desperate As-
saults—Murderous Work in the Bloody
Anglo—Stirring Deeds from the 9th to
the 12th or May, 1864.
The orders for the movement of the Union
army away from the Wilderness battle field
wore issued on the ’Ith day of May, 1804, the
day after the heavy fighting there ceased.
At that time the Union lines extended about
four miles in a direction slightly east 'of south
and reached from Wilderness run to a point
on the Brock road, where the unfinished rail-
road crosses it. By following the Brock road
four miles southeast from the extreme left of
Hancock’s line (on the Brock road) the troops
' would reach Todd’s Tavern and the junction
of the Catharpin road, which extended west-
ward into the Confederate lines. About four
miles farther southeast was Spottsylvania
Court House, where numerous roads inter-
sect, several leading westward and south-
westward into Lee’s territory and toward
Richmond. There is also a good road be-
tween Spottsylvania Court House and Fred-
ericksburg, where it now became necessary
to establish a connection to receive supplies.
In leaving the Wilderness region the Union-
army would lose control of the crossings of
the Rapidan, and a short distance east of
Fredericksburg there were good landings on
Potomac creek for heavy vessels coming from
Washington.
On the 7th the pontoon bridge at Germanna
Ford, on the Rapidan, near to Leo’s lines in the
Wilderness, was removed and all the Union
trains were sent back toward Fmdericksburg,
guarded by Sheridan’s cavalry. The Con-
federate cavalry, under J. E. B. Stuart, ad-
vanced eastward on the Catharpin road as
far asTodd’s Tavern, and were driven off west-
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ward alon the Catharpin road, and south-
ward on 0 Brock road towards Spottsyl—
vania Court House. But Stuart had observed
enough of the movement of the Union trains
southward to suspect Gen. Grant’s plan of
drawing out of the Wilderness. When Stuart
communicated the facts to Lee that general
had already learned of the removal of the
bridge at Germanna Ford, and within one
hour after the Union troops egiot inmotion,
orders were issued in the Conf crate army to
get ready to move south. .
Gen. Grant’s orders were that Warren’s
Fifth corps should march at 8 o’clock the
evening of the 7th to Spottsylvania Court
House; Sedgwick’s Sixth corps to a. point
half way between Todd’s Tavern and Spott-
sylvania; Hancock's Second corps, after hold-
ing the lines on the plank road until the other
troops had gone, toTodd's Tavern, and Burn-
side’s Ninth corps back on the Catharpin
road, two miles amt of Todd’s Tavern, to pre-
vent a possible lunge by the Confederates at
the Union communications with Fredericks-
burg. These plans were made with the in-
tention that as soon as Warren seized Spott-
sylvania Scdgwick, Hancock and Burnside
would close up on that position. The corps
all moved as ordered and all secured the
points assigned them excepting Warren.
Lee’s orders were that Longstl‘eet’s corps,
now commanded by Gen. R. H. Anderson,
should move on the night of the 7th to Spott-
sylvania Court House. Anderson‘s troops
were the nearest to that point at the time,
and their route was three miles shorter than
Warren’s route. Starting near midnight,
Anderson had his troops in position, covering
the roads to Spottsylvania, at daylight on the
8th.
Warren’s corps moved off promptly, pre-
ceded on the Brock road toward Spottsylvania
by Merritt’s division of cavalry.
STUART’S TROOPERS BLOCK THE
WAY.
At 8 o’clock in the morning Warren’s in-
fantry had overtaken Merritt’s cavalry a mile
below Todd’s Tavern, and found them engaged
with a Confederate force that proved tobe
Fitzhugh Ike’s cavalry, that had been driven
down that road a short distance from Todd’s
Tavern by Sheridan on the afteronon of the
7th. After waiting some time for the cavalry
to clear the enemy off the road, Warren sent
in his leading division under Gen. John C.
Robinson, and although the wood had been
obstructed by felled trees, and the cavalry
keptupasharp fire, - \' g) ' ’
the troops made ’ ‘ i '
h e a d w a y, a n (1
about 8 o’clock a.
m. (on the 8th)
Robinson reached
the outposts of An-
derson’s line, now
intrenched across
the road two miles.,, (
north of the court 44},
hon se. Robinson “A? '
formed a line and .5
charged, and was :
himself so severely
wounded at the I
first fireas to suffer ‘ ’
the amputation of a GEN. JOHN c. ROBINSON.
leg. Rapidly no»! Warren deployed the di-
visions of Griffin on the right of Robinson,
Crawford on the left, and drove back the
enemy and established a. line in the woods
east and west of the clearing. From prison-
ers taken here he learned that Fitzhugh Lee’s
cavalry and the divisions of Field and Ker-
shaw, of Anderson’s corps, were in front of
him. ‘
Sedgwick’s advance division under Wright
came up and formed on Warren’s left, cast
of,the road, and preparations were made for
an assault. But the Union troops had been
on the road all night, without food or rest,
while the Confederates had secured both, and
were fresh. Every advance was repulsed
until a portion of W'right’s men, about 6
o’clock in the afternoon, passed around An-
derson’s right flank. But now Ewell’s corps
had arrived to strengthen the Confederate
lino. The position at Spottsylvania court
house was important because it was close to
the railroad between Fredericksburg and
Richmond and had good w 'r n roads run-
ningin all directions, including a good one
direct to Richmond. 0n the morning of the
9th Ewell’s corps took position on the right
of Anderson’s, east of the court house, cover-
ing the Fredericksburg road, where they in-
trencbed. During the day Burnside’s corps
moved south from the Wilderness region and
took the Fredericksburg road to Spottysl-
vania, forcing the passage of the Ny river,
and threatening the court house on the east.
The line: now drawn extended from the Po
river, near the crossing of the Shady Grove
road, eastward, acrom the Brock road. This
part of the line was held‘ on the Confederate
side by Anderson, and Warren’s corps con-
fronted him. From the right of Anderson’s
corps the Confederate line ran northeast
about a mile and a half, then east, and again
making a sharp bend south, forming an angle
nearly a mile across at its base. Ewell’s
corps occupied this part of the line and was
monaced by Union troops on the northwest
face only. Hill took up an intrcnched line
running south from the angle and confront-
ing Burnside. The
Union troops op-
posed to Ewell on
the northwest face
of the angle were
the left of War-
ren’s c o r p s and
Scdgwick’s Slx th
. corps. While su-
' pox-intending the
- i placing of his bat.
tcrics behind log
parapcts, w ll 0 1' e
they could cover
his trOOps during
the impending as-
sault-s, Gen. Sedg—
GEN. JOHN SEDGWlCK.
wick was killed by the bullet of a sharp-
shooter. This lamented Officer had served
in every campaign of the Army of the Po-
tomac, and was known familiarly by all the
old soldiers as “Uncle John.”
Hancock's corps came up last and took
position on the right of Warren, with a
line that followed the direction of the PO
river at this point, namely, northwest. 0n
the 9th Gen. Sheridan “cut loose” from the
army with all his cavalry and proceeded to-
ward Richmond. In the morning of this
same day Hancock recennoitered the ground
far out on his front, and under orders from
the commanding general be crossed over the
divisions of Barlow, Gibbon and Birncy, in
the face of some opposition by the enemy,
and pushed his line southward to the Shady
Grove road, but failedto reach the brid e
across the Po. This movement was direct y
across Lee’s l"ft flank. Darkness coming on,
Hancock mm for the night. On the morn-
ing of the 10th it was found that the left
flank of Anderson was strongl intrenched
and pirateetcdflta road and the {ridge Dur-
g t emorning orders reached Hancock to
morass the P0, with two’ at , ons to his for-
mer.“ minimum Wlt e
536 WW 5"“: (whomsncceeaeu smgwrc'u lit
the h of the Sixth corps) for a general
assault of the Confederate position west of
the angle.
THE BATTLES OF THE 10TH.
The division left by Hancock on the south
side of the P0 was Barlow’s, and soon after
the other two, Bimey‘s and Gibbon’s, had
withdrawn, Barlow was fiercely attacked by
Heth’s division of Hill’s corps. This com-
mand had been sent during the night by a
roundabout road to make a flank movement
on Hancock troops that had been discovered
in the attempt to seize the Shady Grove road
and get in the Confederate rear. The roads
that Hancock was on the point of securing
were those occupied by ‘Lee’s wagon trains
coming in from Louisa Court ‘House. Heth
attacked Barlow, and Hancock turned about
to the assistance of his lieutenant, when or-
ders came from headquarters not to bring on
an engagement at that point. Reluctant] ,
then, Barlow‘s troops were withdrawn in t c
face of the enemy. Gen. Hancock’s state-
ment of this affair is as follows:
“The enemy regarded this [Barlow’s with-
drawal] as a considerable victory, and Gen.
Heth published a congratulatory order to his
troops. Had not Barlow’s fine division, then
in full strength, received imperative orders
to withdraw, Hcth’s division would have had
no cause for congratulation. ”
The order for the grand assault from “far-
ren’s position had been fixed at 5 o‘clock p.
m., but at 3:30 p. m. Gen. Warren reported
that everything was ready and the opportu-
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nity favorable at that hour. The order was
given to go ahead. Warren’s line consisted
of Crawford’s and Cutler’s divisions of his
'own corps, and Gibbon’s division of Han-
cock’s. Wright formed a column out of his
Second and Third divisions under the leader-
ship of Col. Emory Upton. On the extreme
left of Wright, Mott’s division of Hancock’s
corps was ordered to move for out on the
left and come in on the flank of the Confed-
erates, a direction which would bring him
upon the point of the angle.
The enemy’s position was generally screened
by a. dense wood, alow growth of dead cedars
having long pointed branches, near to the
ground. The soldiers were obliged to pick
their way, singly, through this thicket, and
wherever there happened to be clearings the
ranks of t e assailants were swept by Confed-
erate ' ry. In front of
trenchments the
ground was clear,
but obstructions of
abatis, or pointed
trunks and limbs of
fallen trees, formed
an almost impass-
able barrier to com-
pact columns of
men.
Gen. War r on ,
dressed in full uni-
form, and his men ~
followed with such
enthusiasm t h a t
they m a d 0 way
over all obstacles, and, though they were
received withagalling fusillade of bullets and
cannister, the line reached the Confederate
abatis in pretty fair order. Some of the
men, in numbers, passed the abatis and
scaled the breastworks, there to be shot
down. Brig. Gen. J. C. Rico, who command-
ed a brigade under Warren, was mortally
wounded in the assault.
This attack Of Warren’s fell upon the
troops of Longstreet, under Anderson, and
was repulsed by them with but little less to
themselves. The position selected by Wright
for Upton’s assault was upon the northwest
face of the angle the left of Ewell‘s lint.
Freon Wright's position in the woods there
was a broad clearing extending to within
half amile of the enemy’s works, and from
that distance there were zigzag openings,
where a small column could wind around, un-
der cover of the tram and elevations of the
ground, to the very trenches of the enemy.
The column was in four lines, and, moving
on silently, came within 200 yards of the ob-
jective point. Meanwhile Wright’s guns on-
filaded the salient line of the angle where the
assault was to strike, and by a signal this fir-
, ing ceased at the proper moment and the men
went forward with a rush. The first line of
breastworks was carried gallantly, although
it was defended for some time in a hand-to—
hand encounter. Pressing on, Upton secured
a second line of intrenchments and a battery,
but on looking around he found himself un-
supported. The Confederate reserves rallied
ckly, yet Upton held on until dark and
then retired under orders. .
In his report he says that belost about
1,000 men and captured about that number,
together with several flags. Capt. Burham,
of the Forty—third New York regiment, was
killed after he had seized two Confederate
standards and was carrying them back to his
line. The support upon which Upton’s suc—
cess depended was Mott’s division. Gen.
Mott was a gallant officer, as was nlsohis
leading brigade commhnder, Gen. Robert
McAllister. The division was formed and
moved forward to the attack promptly, but
during the whole time it was in plain view
of the enemy, who made every preparation
to meet it. The Confederate line overlapped
Mott and was able to cnfilado his column.
[Ipton‘s assault had been a complete surprise
to the enemy. For his gallantry at this time
Col. Upton was promoted to be a. brigadier
general, the announcement ~ coming from
President Lincoln to the field by telegraph.
During the day, and under the some orders
for assault that affected Hancock, Warren
and Wright, Gen. Burnside pushed out two
divisions of his corps in front of Hill's line
on the Fredericksburg road, east of the Court
House. A position was secured here that
was held until the battle was ended. Gen.
Thomas G. Stevenson commanding the first
division under Burnside, was instantly killed
on the front line, where his troops made a
gallant assault and carried a commanding
position. Gen. Stevenson entered the war
as acolonel of the Twenty—fourth Massachu-
setts and served in Burnside’s Roanoke ex-
pedition and afterward in the operations
about Charleston in 1863.
After these assaults had ended. Gen. Han-
cock mado preparations to renew the fight at
dusk. Birncy’s and Gibbon's lineswent for-
ward twice over the ground of Warren’s as-
saultof the afternoon. The woods between
the lilies were now on fire and the men in the
assaulting columns became somewhat
from the strange experiences of the day, th
complex movements and countermanding‘ 0
‘orders, and the enterprise was suspended. At
the close of the day all the Union lines,.ex-
cepting Burnside, occupied their origmal
groun
THE “BLOODY ANGLE."
On the morning of the 11th the secretary
of war, at Washington, transmitted to Gen.
mg
”BLooor ANGL a”
MAP OF THE BLOODY ANGLE.
John A. Dix, commanding the Department
of the East, with headquarters in New York
harbor, the following extracts from a dis
patch sent to Washington fiom the field of
Spottsylvania by tho general-in-chicf:
“We have now ended the sixth day of very
hard fighting. The result to this time has
been much in our favor. Our losses have
been heavy as well as those of the enemy, and
I think the loss of the enemy must be greater.
We have taken over 5,000 prisoners in battle,
while he has taken from us but few except
stragglers.
“I propose to fight it out on this line if it
takes all summer.”
The same dispatch asked that rercnforce-
meats and supplies be hurried forward to the
army by way of Fredericksbrug, the new
base.
During the afternoon the order was given
to Gens. Meade‘and Burnside to prepare
their commands for another grand assault.
The attack was to be made at 4 o'clock on the
morning of the 12th, and was to be aimed at
the salient. Hancock was to transfer his
whole corps from the position he then held,
west of Warren, along the Po to a point
about one mile north of outer line of angle
and charge directly upon the'ccn‘ter. Wright
was to hold two divisions in readiness to
move on their own front or. to go to the sup.-
port of troops in other parts of the line.
Warren was to keep his corps pressed close
to the enemy both on his own line and on
that abandoned by Hancock, and which now
tell to Warren to hold. . Burnside was to
movohis three divisions forward and press
in the lines southeast of the angle.
The ground where Hancock was to charge
was the same as that where Mott’s division
had operated on the 10th, a stretch of open
fields exposed to the view of the enemy and
swept by his guns. The corps moved in the
night. which was rainyamléiufkl and reached
the enemy’s in-
NOBWALK GAZETTE, WEDNESDAY. MAY 29, 1889.
th‘e‘posftfon ufioppommm
The column consisted of Barlow and Birney
in the first line, supported by Mott and Gib-
bon, in all six lines deep. The ground was
sloping, upward, toward the Confederate
lines, and when about half way up the slope
the men gave a hurrah and at one rush
burst through the abatis and into the enemy’s
trenches. Of course thero was opposition,
but it was with musket fire on] .
0n the previous day Gen. urnside had
been ordered to recross the Ny to the east
bank and had done so, but as it was a mis-
take hc was directed to reoccupy the ground
after nightfall. His first movement had been
reported to Lee, but not the second. Also the
movements on the 11th of Warren’s and Han-
cock’s men opposite the Confederate left had
been seen, and the belief on that side was
that Grant intended to carry out the opera-
tion begun by Hancock on the 10th and cross
the Po to the Shady Grove road and turn the
line held by Anderson. In consequence of
this Lee ordered all of the cannon withdrawn
from the extreme front of the angle, where
Gen. Edward Johnson’s division of four bri-
gades was posted. The artillery was re-
moved in the evening, but during the ht
Gen. Johnson was apprised of the format on
of columns for out on his front and sent word
to Lee asking the rctm‘n of his artillery. Tho
cannon having been removed Lee ordered it
back to Johnson’s front by daylight of the
12th, and at that time the whole battalion
was on the ground, but was not In battery
for firing.
Johnson’s infantr was drawn up in the
works when Hancoc charged and gave what
opposition they could, but Hancock’s col-
umn overwhelmed them and captured nearly
the whole command, including their leader.
Gan. George H. Stewart, commanding a
brigade, and about 4,000 men, twenty can—
non, several thousand muskets and thirty
flags were the prizes. The encounter at the
breastworks, though brief, was determined
and the casualties inflicted were made with
the bayonet. The sur rise was a complete
disaster for the Conf emtes. and the men
who were so fortunate as to escape fell
VIEW OF THE BLOODY ANGLE.
to the second line, held by Gordon at the base
of the angle, pursued to this point by the ex-
ultant men 0 Barlow and Iruey and their
supporting comrades. ‘
A COUNTER CHARGE.
But the success had been too great for Han-
cock’s men. The whole column had urcd
over the enemy’s trenches into the ang e and
were packed in a line twent deep, broken in
formation. The whole of well’s corps had
been put under arms before daylight to meet
this assault, and but for the abmnce of the
artillery would doubtlem have done so.-
As It was, the musket firing was not
rapid enough to tell upon the vast numbers
in the charging line. ' However, Gordon‘s
reserve division was in line, and when Bar-
low’s men finally halted at the second Con-
federate intrenchment, Gordon advanced and
engaged them, finally forcing his wa to the
breastworks of Johnson, while Barow oo-
cupied the outer side. On the right-of Han-
cock, where Birney was, the assailants, after
crossing the first line of breastworks, halted
on the west face of the angle. South of this
part of the angle the troops of Rode’s divi-
sion, of Ewell’s corps, were quickly formed
and sent against Birney, swee ing his lineout
of the angle and behind the reastworks’ on
to the outer side. Inthis encounter Brig.
Gen. J unius Daniel, of Rode’s division, Was
killed.
The position on this part of the line was
such that Hancock’s troops, upon the outer
side of the works ‘ .
at the point of the
angle, could fire
dovm the sides, and
for some time the
Confederates he 1d
aloof and poured in
what firothey could ’,
from the center of ,
the angle. lVithin '
one hour the assail- ,
an ts had been
driven out and
could show for
their work nothing GEN mum's Dmn
but the ca tives '
theyhad e in the swoo and their po-
sitions outside the breastwor s. In order to
recover these, Gen. Early, now commanding
Hill’s corps on the right of Ewell, sent over
the brigades of Perrin, Harris and McGowan.
These troops, after some skirmishing, tak-
ing advantage of the shifting f0 and the
smoke, pushed their wa into t e gapbe-
tween Rodo’s men on t 6 west face of the
angle and Gordon’s on the east, and entered
the trenches. Perrin was killed and Mc-
Gowan was Wounded. The battle of the
angle from this time on until nightfall was
at very close quarters, and on parts of the
line at arm’s length. As soon as Gen. Meade
learned of Hancock’s good and ill fortune, the
capture and loss of the angle, he ordered
Gen. Wright to move up and relieve Han-
cock’s right flank.
The Confederates were continually sending
in small detachments to occupy the inside of
the trenches. Wright brought two divisions
—Wheaton’s and Russell‘s—mud advanced
to the west face of the angle, relieving Bir-
ncy’s men. Part of Russell’s troops got into
the trenches where the enemy held the reverse
side, but as their aim was restricted there,
the line was soon drawn back to higher
ground some yards from the works. The
Confederates had protected themselves with
traverses, or short breastworks, running at
an angle with the main line, and for the con-
test that now ensued, they had a decided ad-
vantage. Tho battle of the 12th has been va-
riously named, and probably the description
rayon by that cool and discriminating soldier
n. A. H. Humphreys, in his “History of
the Virginia Cam aigns,” isone best suited
to the occasion. 9 calls it ‘Titerally mur-
derous.”
Hancock posted his cannon about 300 yards
from the point of the salient and kept up a
fire over the works into the angle. Guns
were run up to tho intrenchments soasto
rake the inner line down the sides of the
angle. The men and horses around these
cannon were cut down by the bullets from
the numerous points of advantage held by
the enema;
Brig. n. L. A. Grant, a participant of
the Sixth corps, Is quoted by Gen. Humphrey:
asfollows: »
"It was not only a desperate struggle, but
it was literally a. hand to hand fight. Noth-
ing but the piled up logs or breastworks sepa-
rated the combatants. Our men would reach
ever the logs and fire into the faces of the
enemy, who would stab over with their
bayoneis; many were Shot and stabbed
through the crevices and holes between the
logs- men mounted the works, and with
mus ets rapidly handed them, kept up a con-
tinuous fire until they were shot down, when
others would take their places and continue
the deadly work. * * ’3‘ Several times
during the day the Confederates would show
a white about the works, and
when our slackencd jumr over
and surrender, and others were crode
(101m to fill their places * * * It was
there that the some:
what celebrated
treewas out of! by
bullets, there that
the brush and logs
were cut to pieces
and whipped into
basketstuff; * * "'
there that the Con-
federate ditches
and cross sections
were filled with
the next day. The “
sight was terrible
and sickening,
much worse than
at Bloody Laue
(Antietam). There .
(at Bloody Lane) a
great many dead
men were l ' g in
the road on across the rails of the torn down
fences, and out in the cornneid; but they
were not piled up several deep and their
flesh wasnetsetorn and mangled asatthe
‘angle.’ 3
The Confederate - general, McGowan, who
was on the other side of the trenches, stated
in his Official report:
“Our men lay on one side of the breast-
wcrk, the enemy on the other, and in many
instances men were pulled over. * * * Th9
trenches on the right had to be cleared of the
dead more than once. An oak tree, twenty—
two inchesin diameter, In rear of the bri-
gade, was cut down by musket balls, and ‘it
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’fell about 12 o‘clock Thumday night ( 9
12th), injuring several men in the First South
Carolina regiment.”
WARREN AND BURNSIDE ATTACK."
Promptly at 4 o’clock Potter's division of
Burnside‘s corps advanced to the assault south
of the angle, when) the Confederate lines of
Ewell and Hill jained. At 5 o’clock he had
captured a brigade front and two guns, but
as the enemy held the base of the angle his
fire raked Potter’s line. At the same time
Engygenjgjflobrigodes of Hill's men uoon
rasfifisttber'ammn "tarzsailimfbackfie-
capturing the guns. Stevenson’s division of-
Burnside, now under Gen. Thomas L. Crib
tendon (from the Army of the Cumberland),
made several asaults upon Hill’s works, south
of Potter’s, position, but was bloodily re-
pulsed However, at 9:15 Potter mode a
junction with Hancock’s left at - the
angle; but Hancock’s line was fast
and could not advance. Still to the
left of Crittenden, Burnside sent in Willcox's
division and the men advanced close to Hill’s
intrenchments, but the Confederates were
massed here, and Willoox’a ground was raked ,
by guns on the high ridge of the salient.
After repuleing a desperate assault.Willcox
intrenched and held his und against re-
peated attempts to drive im away. At the
hour appointed, 4 o’clock, \Varren Opened all
his cannon upon Anderson’s line, in his front,
advanced his skirmishers and drew close to
the intrenchments of the enemy. His first
assault was repulsed and he found Andersen’s
lino completely manned. Also, the Confed-
erate cannon, admirably posted near the base
of the angle, swept down this face, just ,as
they did on the round where Burnside at-
tacked. (Tho artiller of Anderson and Hill
had not been remov , as bad Ewell's, in the
angle. and was all ready for immediate oxe-
tuition.)
Gen. Humphreys, who was chief of staff of
the Army of the Potomac, states that he
was overlooking Warren’s movements per-
sonally, and he gave the order, in Mcade’s
name, “for the assaults there to cease,” being
satisfied that they could not succeed. The
severe fighting at Spottsylvania ended when
Warren’s last attack closed on the 12th. The
Union losses in the Army of the Potomac on
the 12th were: Second corns—wounded,8,043;
Fifth 00 wounded, 010; Sixth co
wounded, 0. The total killed in these t co
co was 880, and the missing about 500.
The total killed and wounded in them
corps was 4 733, and when the losses
of the Ninth corps are added, the
Union 109 in killed and wounded on the
12th amounts‘t00,020. By. adding to this
numberthe lows on the 10th in the Sec
ond, Fifth and Sixth corps, 4,100 killed and
wounded, the total lossin direct attacks on
the angle and the lines closely adjoining it
amounts to 10,120. The firing across the
le continued during the evening of the
12th, and earlyon the morn of the 18th
Itwas discovered that the Co ederatee had
. abandoned the outer line of breastworks and
retired to the second line across the base of
the angle. -
In (1 endingmtlse key point of the angle the
Confederates lost in killed and wounded
between 4,000 and 5,000 men, and of (prison-
ers a like number. Two Confederate gen—
erals were killed, Daniel and Portia, and fOur,
Walker, {Ramseun Johnston (R. D.) and Mo-
Gowan, were wounded. On the Union side,
Ma . Gen. H. G. ergbt and Brig. Gene.
We band Carroll were wounded. On the
13th the Fifth corps was moved from the
right to the extreme left, below Burnside, on
the’FredeI-icksburg road, and the Sixth corps
followed. The situation at this time seemed
to be very satisfactory to Lee. On the 14th
he isued an order to the Army of Northern
Virginia, congratulating their cause onga. se-
ries of triumphs in the spring campaign of
all the armies of the Confederacy.
Shenandmh Valle , he said, Gen. Imboden
had routed the U n force under Gen. Sigcl.
InWest V Gena. Morgan and Jones
had Averell’s command; Kirby
Smith had defeated Banks’ army in Louisi-
ana,and the Union army under Steele, in
Arkansas, had come to disaster. Sheridan’s
raid on Richmond and Gen. Benjamin F. But-
ler’s demonstration on the same point had both
beenrepulsed. Speaking of his own imme-
diate followers, he said: “The heroic valor of
this arm , with the blessing of Almighty
God, has thus far checked the principal army
of the enemy and Indicted upon it heavy
losses.”
Both armies, Grant‘s and Lee’s, were now
re-enforced. The Confederate division, under
Breckinridgo, that helped Imboden defeat
Slgel at New Mar- ,
hot in the valley,
and the commands
of Gcns. Pickett and
Hoke, that had
checked Sheridan
and Butler around
Richmond, were or-
dered to join the __
mainarm . On the
15th of y about '
10,000 infantry
joined the Union /
army at Spottsyl— ,
vania, but a great GEN. cannon.
many effective soldiers who had enlisted in
1861 were discharged about this time on ac-
count of tho exph-ation of their terms of
service. -
LEE’S FLANKING MOVEMENT.
On the 15th Gen. Hancock moved two di-.
visions down below Warren, on the N y river,
south of the Court House. Warren’s move-
ment on the night of the 13th had already
caused Lee to move Anderson‘s division from
its old position to this point, and Hill's corps
had been spread out in a southerly direction
in order to oppose the Union demonstration
against this flank. Another
against the angle was now organized by
sendiu the two divisions of Hancock back
from t c Ny to the ground where they had
fought on the 12th and uniting them with
the Sixth corps, which was also ordered back,
to astault the new interior line of the enemy.
The Confederate trenches had been strength-
ened since the 12th, and heavy slashings, or
felled trees, and lines of abatis had been
placed in the woods and across the
open fields to impede the march of as-
sailants. The artillery and infantry had been
posted to sweep every approach. . Hancock’s
men advanced to the attack at 44o'clock on
the morning of the 18th. Burnside and
\Vright advanced simultaneously with Han-
cock, and the Fifth corps opened fire all
along its front with artillery. After several
ineffectual efforts the assault was abandoned
and the Sixth corps returned agalnto the
ground on Warren’s left. Hancock also
moved his whole command around to the ex-
treme left of the army, and all of that line
north of Spottsylvania Court House, run-
ning west from the an 10, was given up by
the Union troops, and well’s little corps of
about 8,000 men were unopposed. Gen. Lee
now directed a movement around Grant’s
right flank, and on the morning of the 19th
Gen. Ewell moved his corps by a long march
northward around the right flank of the
Union army and seized the Fredericksbnrg
road about three miles east of Spottsylvania
Court House. This was exactly in‘ Grant‘s
rear and on the line of his commu-
nications with l-‘redcricksburg. .The only-
Union troops at hand. were some fresh
regiments, coming on from Washington.
But they had veteran commanders, and
among' these was Gen. R 0. Tyler, former-
l the leader of an artillery brigade in the
Army of the Potomac. Ewell had no artil~
lei-y with'lilm, because his march had been
across the fields where cannon could notbe
moved, and he found more than his match
in the forces with Tyler. The battle opened
about 5 o’clock p. m.,- with an attack b
Tyler‘s men. The sound of firing reach
Gen. Meade’s headquarters, near the Ny
river, and-the Maryland brigade of Warren‘s
corps and, Birney‘s division under Hancock
in person, were sent hastily to the field.
Ewall had captured a train of wagons. and
these were retaken, and the attack was forced
with such power that the Confederates re-
treated after dark, and lost several hundred
risoners in the march back .to their old
lines. The whole Union army was now alert.
and prompt pursuit was made. Ewell lost
900 men.
The Union lines were broken up at Spott-
sylvania on the 20th and 2lst, and the troops
moved southward or by the left flank on
separate routes toward the crossing of the
roads leading to Richmond over the North
Anna river, an unfordable .stream running
southwest about ten miles from Spottsfivania.
At the some time Leo moved his whole army
by parallel roads and the march became a
race for the new position. Lee observed to
his colleagues at this time that he must strike
Gran another blowaud not allow him to
ms t. . New: Anna. without 21 battle»
The losses of the Army of 19119 Potomac nod
Burnside’s cogs combined, at Spottsylvanla,
were 15,722 lied and wounded. and 2,001
misslng,or 17.793 in all. The Confederate
low is nowhere definitely stated. but the best
estimates place it between 0,000 and 10,000
in all. ’ -
The way in which this result came about at
Spottsylvnnia isvarlously explained. Gen.
Grant says in his "Memoirs.” page 211:
.-“I,ee by accident beat us to Spottsylvania.
Our wagon trainshad beenoxdered casterlyof
the roads the troops were to march upon be-
forethc movement commenced. Lee inter-
ted this as a semi-retreat of the Army of
he Potomac to Frederioksburg and so in-
formed his- government. Accordingly he or-
' . x , dared Iongstreet’a
_ L .. corps—now com-
son—tomoveiuthe
morningoftheBth
to Spott lvanla
[from the ilder-
nose]. But the
woods being on
five Anderson.
could not go into
bivouac, and
‘marched directly
on to his destine-
Iion that _. ht.
By this ach out
at lvania. It
,- - 3
can Arm mama .15 t. . .
filmPo ble tosay
now what would have been the result it Lee‘s
order had been obeyed as given;- but It is cor-
toin :that we would have been In Spottsylvo-
nla, and between him and his capital. * * *
But accident often decides the fate of battle.”
0n the Confederate side. Gen. A. L. Long,
who reconnoltercd the Union lines in the
Wilderness on the 7th and made a Special 1‘0-
rt to Gen. Lee of the movements ,wit
rant’s lines, states in his ”Memoirs of Rom
E. lap" 95. fellows:
In the .
movement '
manded by Andery
' lions.
“Huvifig been informed by Stuart on the
afternoon of the 7th that the wagon trains
of the Federal army were moving southward,
Lee at once divined Grant's intention, and he
hastily tool: the necessary measures to forc-
stall it. He ordered Longstrcot’s corps. l'llan
commanded by R. H. Anderson, to pix-coed
that night, by a circuitous route a few' miles
to the right of .the left flank of the enemy, to
Spottsylvania Court House, situated on the
main route to Richmond. While Anderson
was in rapid progress toward that point, the
Federal army was advancing in two columns
for the same place.” -. .
According to'the report of Gen. Sheridan,
Spottsylvania Court House was occupied on
the morning of the 8th by Union troops. He
says that on the evening of the 7th Gen.
Wilson was ordered to move to Spott-
sylvania with his division of cavalry
and take pomession on' tho morninc1r Of
the an, and that accordingly ho (was...)
proceeded to that point, captured it and held
it until driven out by_.tho advance of Lon -
street’s corps. Tho Confederate general, .
M. Law, commanding a division in Long-
street’s corps at the time, states in his narra-
tive of this period, published in The Century
Magazine for June, 1&‘57, that when his com-
mand reached Spottsylvania Court House on
the morning of the 8th the place “was found
occupied by Federal cavalry and artillery,
which retired without a fight.”
Gen. Sheridan explained that 1.11..) «mandon-
mcnt of the court house by his cavalry under
Wilson was owing, primarily, to conflicting
orders which he received, leaving him in the
dark as to the purpose of the commanding
general.
In the death of Gen. Scdgwich the Union
lost one of the most conspicuous and able
fighters that fell during the whale nvul'. Gen.
Sedgwick had led a division in Sumner's
SecOnd corps in the Peninsula batflas, and
also at Antietam and Frcdcx’icksburg. Dur-
the Clmucellorsvplo campaign be com-
manded the left wing of Hacker’s army and
carried the famous Maryc‘s Heights by a des-
ignate amault on Sunday morning, Iiay 3.
cm that time on he led the Sixth corps
until his death.
Gen. John C. Robinson was permanently
disabled for field service by the loss of his
leg. Gen. Robinson was also a favorite leader
and an able soldier. "
Gen. J. G. Stevenson, who fell at the head
of a division of the Ninth corps, :was a new
man in the Army of the Potomac. Shortly
before his death, while there was no sound
of firing around him, he was rostrated by a
sudden tremor and called or a drink of
water. It was handed him by Maj. L. C.
Brackett of Gen. Willcox’s snug. and he ral-
lied and went to the front. In a very short
time he was borne back on a stretcher with a.
bullet through the head. '
A, YOUNG WOMAN'S woes.
The Care and Anxlety which Her Mother
Felt and Bow Near It came to a :5
. Ending. '. '
The daughter of one of the leading Iawyerso!
Boston a young ladon fourteen. bison lest sum-
mer,toeomplain of weaknessande engines. Her
parents did not think, It necessa) y to consult a
physician. and so day after day I Mundane
_ gmw pale); and weaker.
' "Like 9 worm In the
bud," so mething seemed
to be consuming her life.
Her mother sought the
cause. It was not head.
trouble; It seemed to be
some mysterious malady.
Weaker and weaker she
grew until I doctor was
caller. but he either did
not understand her case
. S‘ .
fr ‘ ’5' or cmld uotreachit.
, Oneevenlng the mother Inreadlng‘tbe pa r.
saw an account of: dung lady who ad
suffered ustasber own In hterwassuficrlng.
andhad nreetoredtol 1;.Mouiudespair
t
than be the mother i ed be same mums.
M Ey rgoover her health;
I
and saw 1101;3th th' u: p
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Remedy. pure and yet werful com-
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glass for both you and gt! eeInAInerica.
Dr. Vanda ,0 New ork. openl asserts
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agedwomen w 0 suffered
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their heal h, com lexlons
and lives seem to be
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an look not a day over
twenty-five. wholly
through the use of the
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The frank declaration
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the b
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nlarlty of this valuable compound. Itlsnow
bgfieved b the best Informed. flint few
women a suffer from the afflictions of their
sex who use this remedy Intelligen and re-
gularl . Certainly It is verifying ., in the
canoe allthosew oaresouslagl
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F. C. PAYNE, Superintendent.
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III! N [TIRE
A Full Stock of Furniture '01 all‘klnda-
PARLUR AND BEDROOMSETS
a specialty.
DAVID STOW,
MainStreel opp. Depot
SOUTH NORW ALK,CON1N
' 1 GENERAL MARKET.
Meat." Fish, Vegetables, ac.
LOCKWOOD IIANDBEWS,‘
MAIN STREET.
Allklnds of the best qualities of Meals, Fish,
Clams, Vegetables, etc., are kept constantly on
hand. and will be sold by us as low as can be pro-
cured at any market, In Norwalk. We mom to
'prove to Our customers that. we deserve their
patronage by fair and generous dealing.
.1y40 LOCKWOOD Jr. ANDREWS.
F. KOCOUR,
Merchant Tailor.
ls ready to show the finest and largest stock of
SPRING &SUMMER GOODS
which he will makeup In the Best of Style, at .
the Lowest Prices.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
18 and 15 Main street, Norwnlk, Conn.
FOR SALE.
Aclambination Billiard and Pool Table, In'flrst
sit!
Coordcr. Forsalc at a bargain.
fl Applyut GAZETTE OFFICE
JULIA 'Isaonv. Winnlpauk. Conn. nu.
GLYBEIIIIIE‘
pA‘r‘ Miefilbs” a‘ co. ‘
Stretching away on why side
A fair domain you see;
A part belongs to Pat McBride,
A part belongs to me.
I own the golden light of morn,
With all its tints that play
Upon the springing grass and corn;
Pat owns the corn and hay.
Pat rlsca when the mom is new,
And so, sometimes, do I;
l see he has enough to do
As i am passing by.
His muscles seem to be of steel,
\Vhlle mine, sometimes, relax;
But he so sturdy seems to feel,
I let him pay the tax.
No man has wealth enough to buy
My part in this domain;
I would not sell my clouds and sky—
My shadows on the plain;
I would not sell this golden light-
Thc tales these breezes tell;
Gold has no power to buy my rlght;
Fm- money. Pat might sell.
I gaze at case, on ev‘ry band.
At our possessions fair:
Pat plows and sows and reaps the land
And keeps it in repair.
So Pat docs me a world of good,
While 1 do Pat no harm:
And on these terms, well understood,
We both enjoy the farm.
—0. F. Pearre.
Rest in n Rocker.
In his book on “Jonathan and His Conti-
nent,” Max O’Rcll describes how Americans
enjoy themselves at the winter resorts in the
south. He tells somewhat dcrisivcly of how
they get up and breakfast and then sit on
rocking chairs on tho piazzas and wait for
lunch time—thou to rocking chairs again,
where they wait for dinner—after dinner
rocking chairs again until bedtime. This .is
a good deal the style of it in the southcm re-
sorts, but the rather dull Frenchman seems
to think they would be better engaged in pic-
bios and excursions, and fishing or going
about, but if he had known Americans bet-
ter, he would know that to many a rocking
chair, on a piazza with the pleasures of fresh
air, warm sunshine, peaceful quiet and books
and papers is picnic enough; that to go hel-
terskcltering over the country in pursuit of
pleasure and excitement is not the American
idea of rest.
After the whirl and excitement and mad-
ding crowd of city life, nothing for a time is
more rcstfully blissful under southern suns
than a rocking chair on a piazza, where the
gay and giddy world can be seen passing as
In a panorama before those who find in the
sky and air and breeze and balm of flowers
the rest they crave and love. The French
idea of a. holiday may be to be forever “on
the go,” or god—rushing hither and thither-
but to the health seeker, the tiral man of
business or the run down housekeeper, 0. pi-
azzn and a rocking chair and something to
read have charms beyond expression. It
may not be a French fashion, or so English,
you know, but it shows that Americans enjoy
the liberty of doing as they please and of
spending their holidays in most striking con-
trast to their rush of business—Aiken (S. C.)
Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch. ,
A Snake in Court.
If there is any one in the world who can
beat a backwoods member of the legislature
eating roasted ground peas that person is the
average superior court bailiff. N ow, there is
a bailiff in Albany who is no exception to
this rule. One of his friends know this and
he set a trap for tho bailiff. The friend fixed
up asmnll paper bag with a few peanuts and
a small dead snake in it. He walked into the
court room, eating away on some ground
peas that he had in his hand; the bailiff, like
a warhorse scouting battle, caught one whiff
of them. It was too much for him; he
couldn’t stand it; so, getting up from his
seat, he walked rapidly by his friend, jerking
the bag, snake and all, out of his hand. With
a chuckle of delight, off went the officer to
acorner of the court room. He turned up
the bag to pour the coveted goobers into his
hand, when, horrors! out came the snake.
The man just gave one look at his hand—the
snake seemed to move—and, with the single
exclamation of “Oh, my Godl” the peanuts
were scattered broadcast over the floor, and
now Jim Greer swears that he will never out“
another ground pea in court as long as he
lives—Albany (Ga) News.
M’nllcnhlo Glass.
Neri, whose book on glass was published at
Florence in 1612, says: “In the time of Tibe-
rius was invented a way of making glass mal-
leable, a thing afterward lost and to this day
wholly unknown, for if such a thing were
now lmown withoutdonbt it would be more
esteemed for its beauty and incnrruptibility
than silver or gold, since from glass there
ariseth neither smell nor taste, nor any other
quali .” But though unknown to the 01d
Italian, the art was practiced in Persia, if we
may believe Bailey, who says that in 1610
Sophi, emperor Of Persia, sent to King Philip
III, of Spain, six glasses that were malleablo
and would not break by being hammered;
and Blacourt tells that an inventor 'having
presented a bust of malleable glass to Riche-
lieu. 1620, was rewarded for his ingenuity by
perpetual imprisonment, lest the vested inter-
ests of French glass workers should be injured
by the new invention—New York Telegram.
\Vouldn't if He Could.
I have been what is known as a “baseball
crank” for over six years, and I havobeen
asked hundreds of times why I don’t “shake
it 011’." Every afternoon I can spare I spend
at a professional ball game, to say nothing of
several afternoons which I cannot really
spare. There are at least 100 of us in Ste
Louis, and we always get to games on time,
so as to secure seats in what is called the
cranks’ corner Not one of us can play ball,
but some of us think we could make better
umpires than the average official. I have
over five hundred score cards in a. scrap
book, and keep on adding to the collection.
You can call this nonsense or anything else
you like, but at the beginning of every sea-
son the old fever breaks out again, and there
is no medicine to subdue it And even if
there was not one out of a dozen would take
it.'——St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
[rue Enough.
“Willie Johnson,” said the teacher, ”if you
had five doughnuts, and your mother were
to give you foul-more, how many would you
have?” ‘
Willie twisted the corners of his jacket,
moved his lips. and tried to think, but he
couldn’t. ,
“Don’t count ’em up,” said the teacher,
“tell me right off.”
“I should have—a—a—a——a”—
“Well, how many?"
“Huh—I sh’d have ’nough, I guess,” said
Willie, grinning broadly. — Youth’s Com-
panion.
A Sure Sign.
“William,” said Mrs. Trembly, “hear that
horrid dog? Isn’t it awful?”
“Is that the same dog that kept us awake
last nightf”.
-“I think so. It sounds unlucky, doesn’t it?”
“Didn’t you ever hear that the bowling of
a dog was a sure sign of death in the family?”
“No. Whose family?"
"The dog’s,” said Trembly. ir. a firm voice,
as he stepped out of bednnd mocha! for his
revolver.——Merchant Traveler.
Selling Board at Auction.
the days of slavery ended in Maine long
ago, and the practice of selling town paupers
to the lowest bidder is falling into innocuous
desuctudc; but it seems that one class of
people are yet put up at auction. The re-
ports of several school district meetings con-
tainsome such clause at this: “The teacher
was also put up to the lowest bidder and
knocked off to Mr. So—and-So, who will board
her for $1.25aweek." The school teacher
has some opportunities which the average
mortal wots not of.—Lewiston Journal.
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Only a. Chestnut Bell.
An Oxford young man called on his sweet-
heart the other evening, and then tied his
horse to a. post on which the dinner bell hung,
and shortly before daylight the pair were
startled by the tolling of the bell, the im-
patient stecd having nibbled at the rope. The
futm'o fatliorshielaw, imagining the burn on
fire, started down stairs three steps at a
time, when the youth jumped to his team
and cut away, leaving explanations for his
lady love—Philadelphia Record.
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Why She Was Late.
“You are late this afternoon,” said the
music teacher to his banged and powdered
young lady pupil.
“Yes,” said the damsel, swishing down on
the music stool. “Mo. was so busy with her
household duties that I- had to wait nearly
half an hour for her to sew up a rip in one of
my kid gloves”—Norristown Herald.
My daughter and myself, great sufferers
from catarrh, were cured by Ely’s Cream
Balm. My sense of smell is restored.—
C. M. Stanley, shoe dealer, Ithica, N. Y.
Fifty colored men are studying for the
priesthood In Rome.
Do not despair of curing your sick head-
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f‘Alicnated” and “separated“ wives
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Nobody knows what I suffered for
years with those terrible racking sick
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me; if you are so troubled. I would
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Pittsburg, 111., people want insurance
rates reduced because they now have
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Quaker Mill 00., Ravenna, Ohio
GOLD MEDAL, PARIS, 1878.
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Is absolutely re and
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No Chemicals
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W. BAKER 0: 00., Dorchester, Mass.
' I have used
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Dmggists, 25c., 500. and $1.00.
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BUILDING LOTS
(0N INSTALLMENT rum.)
FOR SALE
0% lVilton Avenue
——AND——-
81m. Soucz‘ Plot.
APPLY TO
II. BYING’I‘ON,
GAZETTE OFFICE.
DR. HARTLEY’S
QATARRH REMEDY
Is the best remedy known for the cure of 0:113th
and Its attendant ailments; it is safe, painless, and
never falls to give rellef. This remedy cleanses
the nose, head and throat of all unhealthy secre‘
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When the remedy ls once tried the beneficial re—
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permanent relief 15 obtamed, '
DO NoiNegIect a Bad Cold
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Carriage Maker.
Carriage Repairing and Painting
A‘r REASONABLE PRICES. ht
Mlddlesex Banking Company.
GE MIDDLETOWN, CONN.
Organized under charter from the State Of Con-
necticut ; Capital $500,000.
6 per cent. Investment Bonds at Par and Accrued
. Interest.
B. CRAUFURD, A gem,
Room 2 Masonic Building.
Dressmakiag.
RESSMAKING done in all of the latest style
Button holes made by hand. 01d cannons
rc-cui and refitted-
MRS. FANNIE MCKENZE
No. 6 South Union Aware
ers in the United Kingdom.
Post ofilco box 654. Nor-walk.
Norwalk Chronicler