struggle, and we lost heavily. All night could be heard the groans of the wounded and dying, forming a sequel of horror and agony to the deadly struggle, over which night had kindly thrown its mantle. Saddest of all, our dead were left unburied, and many of the wounded on the bat. tle field, to be taken in charge by the enemy."

General Grant was proud of the brave boys who had driven out eighteen thousand rebels, and taken possession. of their quarters, and said to them :

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"The General commanding takes great pleasure in congratulating the two wings of the army, commanded respectively by Major-General Ord and Major-General Rosecrans, upon the energy, alacrity, and bravery displayed by them. And, while congratulating the noble living, it is meet to offer our condolence to the friends of the heroic dead, who offered their lives a sacri fice in defence of constitutional liberty, and in their fall rendered memorable the field of Iuka."

But this terrible "whipping" did not stop long the advance of Bragg toward the Ohio River-the goal of his hopes and ambition, as before stated, at the beginning of the campaign.

To command the region farther northward, the direc tion the enemy were going, General Grant took up his headquarters at Jackson, about forty miles northwest of Corinth. The rebels that fled from Iuka, by the skilful management of Price, had succeeded in reaching a point in Tippah County, Miss., where Generals Van Dorn and

Lovell could join him. So here we have united all the Confederate forces in Northern Mississippi; and by October 1st the entire army was advancing toward Corinth, resolved, by taking it, to cut the Union lines, and compel us to retreat. A diagram will show you nearly the

General Grant was at Jackson; General Rosecrans at Corinth; General Ord at Bolivar; and General Hurlbut near Pocahontas, where the main body of the rebel army lay, ready to spring upon either of the Union positions given. The enemy had only the southern line open, not far from which was the Hatchie River.

General Grant, who had been wide awake, and, by sending out scouts in every direction, had learned the enemy's movements, was master of the situation. Of the railways forming the sides of the triangle at whose apex he was intrenched, the rebels had taken possession of the track between Corinth and Jackson, inter rupting direct intercourse between the towns. Still other

lines were clear, and the telegraph working, ready to sum mon the troops to the position assailed.

October 2d, skirmishing began before Corinth. Brigadier-Generals Hamilton, McKean, Davies, and Stanley, were within its walls with Rosencrans.

The next day, about ten o'clock, the battle opened in earnest. General Grant, with his eye over the triangular field, was directing the whole machinery of the opening struggle. General McPherson, at Jackson, was ordered to join, with a brigade, General Rosecrans; while General Hurlbut, with other forces, was marching to cut off retreat by way of Pocahontas.

Noon came, and thunder, smoke, hissing shot, screaming shell, yelling combatants, and the shouts of command, were the signs of the terrible strife.

The sun sinks toward the west, flinging his golden beams over the rich autumnal landscape, and on the surging columns of the foemen, on both sides equally unyielding. For many miles the heavy roar of the artillery swells with strange distinctness, as the twilight stillness steals upon the bosom of nature. Then, darkness hangs a

veil between the fiery eyes of the grappling brethren of a common heritage, and they relax the bloody grasp, and lie down in weariness on their arms to sleep.

The next morning's light kindles upon the uprisen hosts among the dead and wounded, in battle array. Back and forth the swaying masses of armed men move in the darkened atmosphere, till noon. Then the rebel

ranks fall back; the die is cast; now, in full retreat, they rush for the Hatchie River.

From the very streets into which some had forced their way, and from the grounds without, strewn with the slain and wounded, they are chased by General Rosecrans to the woods, broken and routed, the fragments of a just now confident and heroic army, leaving nearly a thousand prisoners behind, besides the wounded. He captures also six hundred stand of arms. Our loss in killed, wounded, and missing, is about eight hundred; while theirs is greater, owing to the advantage our troops had in fighting behind intrenchments.

While Rosecrans pushed the flying foe in the direction of Hatchie River, Generals Hurlbut and Ord, who, as before mentioned, had gone to intercept the retreating troops, along narrow roads, through swamps, and over rocky ridges, crossed their path on the banks of the

stream.

A furious conflict followed for several hours on the 5th. Nothing could resist the onset, in which General Ord was wounded, and left the command to General Hurlbut; and away the beaten rebels went, like a flock of terrified sheep, over the river, into the wooded heights beyond. General Grant, in closing his despatch communicating the success, says:

"I have strained everything to take into the fight an adequate force, and to get them to the right place."

His military genius triumphed in the high endeavor

Corinth was lost to the cause of treason, and stood, the great war-clasp, holding unbroken the grand line of the Union army between the traitors and the Ohio River. Peace was restored again to Western Tennessee.

Our sagacious, unpretending hero, possessing preeminently what is termed "pluck," relieved his full heart by an address to his troops, in which are these words:

"It is with heartfelt gratitude the General Commanding congratulates the armies of the West for another great victory won by them on the 3d, 4th, and 5th instants, over the combined armies of Van Dorn, Price, and Lovell.

"The enemy chose his own time and place of attack, and knowing the troops of the West as he does, and with great facilities for knowing their numbers, never would have made the attempt except with a superior force numerically. But for the undaunted bravery of officers and soldiers, who have yet to learn defeat, the efforts of the enemy must have proven successful.

"As in all great battles, so in this, it becomes our fate to mourn the loss of many brave and faithful officers and soldiers, who have given up their lives as a sacrifice for a great principle. The nation mourns for them."

No sooner had the good news reached Washington, than the President sent over the wires the following message: