Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH especial TO THE DAILY UNION VEDETTE NEW YORK may ay 12 the heralds emeralds correspondent says of tuesdays battle that a most deter mined and persistent effort was made in the alie fight of this locality to turn our right charge after charge was made by the enemy on our right our men repulsed each charge at length the fifth corps drove the enemy compelling him to fall back into his third line of defenses the effect of this repulse was apparent the rebel dead at points lay piled in heaps we n made a general assault at 1 7 p in it was the most magnificent ma ent and terrible one of the war batteries of the ath corps placed in very advantageous position as likewise batteries of the other corps opened simultaneously and hurled murderous missiles into the ranks of the enemy a accompanied by a general volley valley of musketry F from rom this hour till dark the combat deepened night left us victorious on every side our lines now advanced and we had taken more prisoners than we had lost but it has been another expensive victory our losses are arc heavy but it is believed that of the enemy far exceeds ours AV we e expect tile the battle to be decided decided in tile the our men are in good spirit there is no give way to them times washington ashington C special specia lof of the ilah says a distinguished 0 officer who left grant in tile the saddle as late as 10 this morning sums up the bloody of yesterday thus the fight opened all along the lines LOD long g streets corps under hill held bold the rebel right resting about two miles northeast of Spottsyl Spott sylvania vama grant pitted burnsides ath corps against it at a given moment later in tile the afternoon burnside precipitated his entice command except the colored troops upon the rebel front driving and completely crushing it and capturing three rebel bri brigades ades and four t 0 pieces of cannon the fight continued with a ferocity never before witnessed until 9 p mahon ro when nig night lit closed upon the bloodiest field of the war the losses on oil both sides are very large of the rebel brigades captured some escaped es during the awful carnage which followed bat twelve hundred of the captured were wera sent to the rear this morning 0 our informant talked with some of them before leaving today they said they had ha d been in every principal battle of the war but never experienced such terrible fighting 0 the battle ceased at 9 our line having advanced burnside occupying at the end of the conflict the entrenchments held by longstreeth Longstree td forces at the beginning a of tuo tile fight at 10 oclo pk burnside hold tile the same position loos army waa ivas then pan 9 i into a sort of horseshoe horse shoe form in and about the town of spottsyl vania court house butlers movements south of richmond have be been on felt and appreciated TUNNEL HILL ga may alth after three days heavy skirmishing in which all the corps participated the enemy were driven back to rocky ridge and buzzards roost from which we are fast expelling 0 them everything is going on in the most satisfactory sa ti way HALIFAX may africa from liverpool queens town 1st ast the danes have evacuated frederica and withdrawn to aurlea island |