Show wards brigade of hookers corps storming the battery and digging out the guns mr J A daugherty corre correspondent d ell t of tho the louisville JO journal with tile the army of tho the Cum cumberland beiland in g giving ivi a an 11 account of tile battle of resaca ez says avs general ward moved his baig brigade a d c which he had formed under cover ol of tire woods out into tile open field ant and prepared to move towards the knob on oil the very summit of this alm almost ost inaccessible inon illon knob the enemy had con coi sti acted a redoubt for four 0 guns no sooner had war maids ds troops erner emerged ged into tile open ground round beyond the works than the 1 little ittle redoubt belched fortha torrent of missies that overshot the column arid and failed to injure a man mail from tile rebel kifle pits on oil the right 0 flank however a and rid irom from the rebel infantry on oil the knoll came a sleet of bullets in which it seemed almost if not quite miraculous that anything 0 could live through it all this t the lie column pressed the indiana rising tile slopes entering thicket and pushing toward tile redoubt doubt ic the artiller ests apply their matches to no effect up tip go the alie men they enter embrasures embra shoot the gunners it at their work and the flag 0 floats from froin tile parapet gen ward was wounded in ill the charge arid and upon the young arid and gallant harrison Ha irison devolved the command of tile brigade just in real lear of the redoubt runs a splendid line of rifle pits ri rising 81 ilar P aloni behind which the rebels pouted ill in such withering volleys that we were forced to retire froni from the work through 1 h the inter slices now arid and then as the 1 I carries off the sulphur cloud tile the fl flag 1 ir 0 is been waved by the faithful color bearer finding that the brigade was not strong enough to carry the rifle pits colonel hari hanison ison determined debei mined to withdraw his troops under cover of the fort arid and hill the boys were determined not to let the guns slip from their giamp and about huddled under cover of the redoubt arid and picked off every enemy that endeavored to take them out was ever battery in such an all anomalous position within grasp graap almost of two parties and yet it would bo be almost death to either to attempt 1 seizure there with straining nj eyes lays the disputants hour after hour killing and maiming each other and yet both determinedly clinging to the trophy after dark the rebels made n I 1 charge for the battery but the staunch drove them back arid and retained pus pos session about 11 at night the men were relieved by a detail winch which with spades widened the cili embrasure brasure and dragged out the guns colonel harrison grandson gi D andson of the old president in whose chos e veins courses the same patriotic ardor that so dis tin gushed 0 liis his grandfather made application in in conjunction action with general ward fur for permission to charge tile the line in rear or of the redoubt but the general regarded the sacrifice as unnecessary and the request was riot not granted |