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Show BATTLE OF FElCUTRfcE CREEK. V C.M'H VL OP fcHOT AND fillKLL that Could iie iicabd tiiikty mi&. Speaking of I'eachtreo Crrek, it was one of tlie gems of battlo between be-tween Itcsaca and Atlanta, and was really meteoric, lasting only a few bourn of an afternoon on the SOtli of Julr, 1S7J. II00J was In command com-mand of tlio Confedcrater, and he andoubtedlj' mado up lib mind 10 make a savage attempt upon the center of bhtrmau's rnagnlHceut liuenud cut it In two and demoralize demoral-ize things generally. Kowton's line was weal., and Hood camo down ttemcndously upon it and an almost hand to-hand fight insued. Tor an Iicur the b'uo and tho gray were pretty well mixed, aud bayoneting andclubblug with the buttaof mus-kctsamong mus-kctsamong the sjldlera and the ubo of pistols and swords among the officers offi-cers were not infrequent. I never heard or saw tich a rain of canlfr tcr and grape for forty or fllty minutes-; and the "Itibelycll" above it all mado things hum. Gen. John II. King, wLo commanded tbe regular, reg-ular, vi as hurried up and put in reserve In a beautiful pleco of woods, aud a Pruian artillerymau wliDTi we called ''Leather Breeches" Breech-es" secured a small elevation near by with his six guns and everlastingly everlast-ingly poured shell an J canister into the advancing enpmv Oncua Rebel regimtntoflnfantry divide.1 itself by tUree in attempting to take thla battery. Not far ott" a Michigan battery Joins In the dl-ipisoii dl-ipisoii and sends hundreds of impetuous im-petuous Southerners to ' that undiscovered un-discovered country." K very human being under Hooker is at work, an J Newton, Butietfielil, Gear., and Sweeney are flgbtiug like devils. Yankee as will us Rebel ytlls mlnclo vrltli the tocifiratious of shell and scbrapnt.1, and tho tnrn and branches of trees are falling as if lightning liad fctnick them In hundreds or places. "Thero'ai old I'apThoma, like a fool," exclaims King, "still mounted'" and then King and Fetterman and Mulliiran go and forcibly take Thomas olThis horse and stand him behind a tree. Hooker Is In front mounted, fighting ills old corps for all there Is in I. Ail the rtserves are behind treed or down ou their belllc?, and shot, shell, grape, bullet, and can-ifter can-ifter make niulc In their inidet. Talk about your symphonies. It was a carnival of tones that could have brn heard thirty miles, and It was kept up until dork, whin firing rased and King was ordered to close up an ugly gan that had been made in Newton's division Hooker covered cov-ered hlnifeir with smoke and glory, aud went right into the Jaw of the battle and staii there until hu whipped whip-ped the enemy out of sight and he slept that night with dead and dying, dy-ing, collapsed caissons and gun carriers, and wounded horses all around. I saw him at daylight the next mornlnir. anil lii. Tnnbml I though he had becu dragged through a stubble field. ''Where are they?" I asked. "Agoodmanyoflbemare in hell," he replied, "but the most of them are in Atlanta." Ho was right regarding tho latter, for we soon had order3 to march, and we never ncard a bullet or a shell until tbe whole army had moved In line of battle up to within two miles of the foitlfletf Uty. They checked us with their demoralizing aerial messengers of hate, and we went Into camp and staid there until tho victories at and near Jonesborough Au. 31, which five us Atlanta the day following, did not hear tho rcbil bands play "Dixie' again until iate In November. Novem-ber. A: 1'. Tinxct. |