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was being assailed by our engineers. The Ohio Connection and Minnesota Regiments were variously posted thereabout; others were in distant portions of the field; all were completely exhausted and partly dissevered; no General of division, except Tyler, could be found. Where were our officers? Where was the foe? Who know whether we had won or lost? The question was quickly to be decided for us. A sudden swoop and a body of cavalry rushed down upon our columns near the bridges. They came from the woods on the left, and infantry poured out behind them.--Tyler and his staff, with the reserve, were apparently cut off by the quick manÅ’uvre. I succeeded in gaining the position I had just left. There witnessed the captures of Carlisle's battery in the plain, and saw another force of cavalry and infantry pouring into the road at the very spot where the battle had commenced, and near which the South Carolinians, who manned the battery silenced in the morning, had doubtless all day b
less, fatiguing pursuit preferred, until Beauregard and Davis, who commanded in person, led us on to positions thoroughly available for the attack of their final reinforcements. As for us, no one had thought of providing that reserve absolutely necessary to the sealing and completion of a battle's successes. It is the last conflict of the day that decides the victory and defeat. We had no cavalry to rout our retreating foe. Our artillery was not rendered efficient in the afternoon. Gen. Tyler neglected to guard his rear, and to check the pushing forward of his trains. As for the Colonels, many of those who were not wounded or killed in the engagement exhibited not merely inefficiency, but the pusillanimity which I have before recorded. To conclude: Before we can force our way through a country as well adapted for strategies defence as the fastnesses of the Peidmontese, the defiles of Switzerland, or the almost unconquerable wilds in which Schamyliso long held the Russ
A little boy named August Jenkins was run over by a car in Fredericksburg last week and so badly injured that amputation of a leg was rendered necessary. Mrs. Alfred Collins, of Fowlerville, N. Y., drowned herself recently in a cistern. She had a son at the seat of war, and was much depressed by his absence. The portrait of ex-President Tyler has been taken down from the rotunda of the Capitol, in Washington.