The loss of the rebels in this battle was very severe. The field on which they fought was one of unusual extent for the number engaged, and it was almost covered with their dead and dying.supposed to be our own, opened a terrific fire From their torches we could see that the enemy was busy all night long in searching for his wounded, but up to daylight the following morning there had been no apparent diminution in the heart-rending cries and groans of his wounded. The unbroken, mournful wail of human suffering was all that we heard from Glendale during that long, dismal night.

ROBERT COWDIN,

Colonel First Massachusetts Volunteers.
CAPTAIN BRADY'S ACCOUNT.
HEADQUARTERS LIGHT BATTERY H,

FIRST PENNSYLVANIA ARTILLERY,
NEAR FORT DARLING, July 1, 1862.

Night came, and we lay down by our guns in the wheat. This morning, though

"The dew on our mantles hung heavy and chill," we rose gaily to our posts, ready to go forward, as I understand the order.

Poor Easton was shot through the heart in Friday's fight. His cannoniers stuck to their guns till the rebel cavalry actually knocked the ammunition they were putting into them out of their hands. They took the battery and cried We have had a victory! Five thousand rebel out to him to "surrender." "Never!" was the prisoners, and thirty pieces of artillery. In the reply, and in an instant he was knocked out of morning, every thing indicated a hard-fought his saddle with a shower of bullets. field and a retreat before dark, as some of the Lieutenant Monk, of McCarty's battery, and troops had already begun to fall back towards the Dougherty, of Flood's, in Sunday's skirmish or James River. Orders were given to push all the fight, gave the enemy's cavalry a lesson in diswagons under cover at a certain place, simultane-mounting on the charge-unsaddling some two ously with the commencement of the action. So hundred of them. Many of them were strapped the struggle began in right good earnest on the to their horses, and of course were dragged or right, and then shifted to the left. Secesh ap- fell with them. Altogether, it was a lively time peared to have it all his own way till the proper time came, and then, to his surprise, he was marched back again, without orders from his superior officers, as if it was understood that they had gone far enough with the joke.

McClellan was there in person, and attended to their case himself. Our army would not budge an inch for them. The enemy could not understand this kind of retreating. Counter-marching back again, the right falls back, and then marches to the left. Secesh sees this and is exalted. He takes another swig at his canteen of whisky, (a thing which they are all well braced with, for canteens of whisky are found on all the killed and wounded,) tightens the straps around his legs, (for he has to be strapped, lest he fall out of the saddle,) and rushes forward on our lines head foremost, only to be mowed down by our left wing, that had marched to the place of the right. Of course, Jeff did not see this. He thinks he is following our retreating troops, but he finds his drunken army pitching on to advancing bayonets. They cannot stop. Onward they fling, like madmen, and once broken, they cannot be rallied. Secesh has found that McClellan has retreated far enough. The action was a magnificent

for these batteries.

We were stationed on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, guarding the railroad bridge. It was a laborious duty. Mr. Fagan, with two of my guns, I posted at Bottom's Bridge. In due time, the bridge was burned, and when the final order came to return, the train, which was composed of many cars and a locomotive, was fired and run into the river, as it contained a great deal of ammunition. It blew up, throwing fragments of the cars and locomotive thousands of feet into the sky. It was one of the grandest spectacles I may ever witness. We were within about fifteen hundred yards of it at the time. It must have astonished the secesh, who were constantly hovering around the bridge, with about five thousand troops and some artillery.

On Saturday they made a demonstration with their guns upon Mr. Fagan's section at Bottom's Bridge. I heard the firing and knew where they were. So, after Fagan gave them a few planters, I opened, along with a brass piece of Mr. Wilder's, from the railroad track, silencing them in five rounds. They were completely scared. Every shot told, and coming from a point not reckoned on, compelled them to respect Mr. When the rebel lines had been completely Fagan's position and withdraw. It was inferred broken, and filled up by Smith, Corney, (sic) Mc- that this party had run out of whisky, for they Call, Sumner, and Meagher, with his Irish bayo"dried up" very soon. When the train was nets, the gunboats pitched into Fort Darling, and blown up, our artillery ceased firing, and was then in about twenty minutes blew up the magazine ordered to James River to rejoin the corps. There of the Fort. It was a grand spectacle. Then is every reasonable appearance of a victorious enturning on the flying foe, they hammered them trance into Richmond soon. back towards Richmond.

one.

For a long time we were drawn up on a large plain covered with wheat ready for cutting, three miles each way. You could scarcely see a horse standing in it. In there were a hundred pieces of artillery and many regiments of cavalry, ready to pitch in and spill the rebel canteens.

But we were not wanted, so we had to stand there and listen. Every thing was cast off and ready for action, with our guns shotted. But our troops held their own and won, and the charges were withdrawn from the guns.

JAMES BRADY,

Captain First Pennsylvania Artillery.
THE BATTLE OF MALVERN HILL.*

REPORT OF GENERAL HOOKER.
HEADQUARTERS HOOKER'S DIVISION, THIRD ARMY CORPS,
CAMP NEAR HARRISON'S LANDING,
JAMES RIVER, VA., July 18, 1862.
Captain C. McKeever, Assistant Adjutant-Gen-
eral, Third Army Corps:

After withdrawing from Glendale, our march was continued to the Malvern Hills, without in

This battle is also known as the battle of Turkey Bend. Further official reports will be given in the Supplement.

losses sustained by the division I have the honor to command, since the first day of June last, I herewith forward it. The number, as will be Under a heavy fire of the enemy's artillery, seen, is eight hundred and forty-seven, making Grover's brigade was strongly posted on the right, the aggregate of my loss in battle, since the openCarr's on the left, and well sheltered; subsequent-ing of the campaign in the Peninsula, two thouly, Sickles's brigade, held in reserve, was posted sand five hundred and eighty-nine. in rear of my right, protected from the enemy's shots, and well in hand to reenforce any part of my line.

Osborne's and Bram's batteries occupied higher ground, where they could reply to the enemy's artillery, or open his columns of infantry should he attempt to advance. Webber's and Bram-emy, whether involving the whole force of the hall's batteries were located in rear of those, and held in reserve.

The battery took a fine position, and delivered its fire, with that of the whole brigade and division line, with marked effect, until after nine P.M., when the enemy gave up the field.

withdrawing Captain Moser's battery, and al- range, but with little or no effect. In the mean though the ground was admirably adapted for time I was again reenforced by two other Pennsylthe play of artillery, I was left for a time without vania regiments, under the command of Colonel any with which I could reply to that of the en- Barlow, from General Caldwell's brigade. The emy. A little before nine A.M. the enemy suc- firing now became very heavy on the part of the ceeded in placing a field-battery about one thou- division on my left, and by the aid of a glass I sand two hundred yards in advance of our front, could discover the rapid movement of bodies of and a second battery at a more distant point to the enemy to my left. At this time a division our right and front. When the enemy, without staff-officer came to me for any assistance I could any annoyance from us, had quite completed his send to our left. I immediately ordered the artillery arrangements, he opened fire upon our battery and the three last regiments that had lines with his two batteries. Their artillerymen come to my support to the left. The enemy were without the range of our rifles, and I order- again came down upon the left and centre of our ed the brigade to lie down and wait the advance division in strong force, and was again repulsed, of their infantry. The rebel battery nearest us Colonel Nevin's regiment, the Sixty-second Newwas worked with much spirit, and some skill, York, on the left of my brigade, gallantly joining occasionally doing some little injury within our with the left of the division in the repulse. The lines. But the battery more distant was not enemy again rallied, and the firing continued worthy of any notice, doing us no manner of in- sharp along the whole line of the division. About jury, or even approaching it. When the rebel this time, between six and seven P.M., my bribatteries had continued their fire to their satis-gade was reënforced by Captain De Russy's regu faction, the enemy threw forward, under cover lar battery of the Fourth artillery, which was at of the woods in our front, a large body of infan- the time of great assistance, as night was coming try, and attacked our centre. When the attack-on and the enemy seemed determined to make ing force came within the range of our arms, our one more last effort before abandoning the field. whole line sprang to their feet, and poured into the enemy a withering fire. The rebels stood well up to their work, and largely outnumbered us, but our men had the advantage in ground, and were determined not to yield it. The firing continued with much violence on both sides, but the fire of the enemy, being generally too high, did us comparatively little injury. Soon, however, the advantage of our ground and the superiority of our arms became evident in the effect of our fire upon the enemy. The enemy began to waver. I then ordered the One Hundred and Second Pennsylvania, Colonel Rowley, which was held in reserve, to advance with our line upon the enemy. Nobly and gallantly did every man of the regiment respond to the order, and the impetuous dash of our men the enemy could not resist, but gave way and were sent back much cut up and in disorder over the ground on which they advanced. This success gave us much advantage of position, by allowing the left centre of the brigade line to rest upon the woods, some eight hundred yards in advance of our first position, and at the same time affording us a crossfire upon any second attempt of the enemy upon our position. At this time I was reënforced by detachments from two Maine regiments, which, being posted on my right in support of the Ninety-third Pennsylvania, gave me much addi

I inclose herewith a list of the casualties in the brigade during the day, and when it is considered that the brigade was under fire over twelve hours, and a portion of the time hotly engaged, I think the whole loss sustained, being in the ag gregate two hundred and eight, will be considered small.

More than thanks are greatly due to Captain
J. Heron Foster of the One Hundred and Second
Pennsylvania regiment, a member of my staff, for
the gallantry and untiring energy with which he
performed far more than his duties from early
morning until late at night. He was the only
staff-officer during most of the day
had, the
other members of the staff being disabled early
in the action.

I am, Captain, very respectfully, your obedient
servant,
A. P. HOWE,
Brigadier-General.
Captain FRANCIS A. WALKER,
Assist't Adjutant-General Couch's Division, Fourth Army Corps.

LIEUTENANT THOUROT'S REPORT.

The following is the official report of the picket

skirmish, in which companies of regiments in
Gen. Howe's (late Peck's) brigade participated:

HEADQUARTERS FIFTY-FIFTH REGIMENT
N. Y. S. VOLUNTEERS, July 4, 1862.

Brigadier-General Howe:

tional strength. I was soon again reenforced by Captain 's battery. I immediately placed it in battery in a favorable position to bear upon the rebel battery that had annoyed us with its fire in the beginning of the action. The battery at once opened fire upon them with fine effect, SIR: In accordance with your instructions rethe spherical case-shot doing good execution in ceived from you, my regiment was posted, on the their teams and among their artillerymen. The first instant, on the brow of a hill opposite a rebel battery replied spiritedly for a time, and wood where the enemy was known to be in force. after a sharp cannonading from our battery it As near as I now can judge, the enemy opened fire drew off the field. During this cannonading the from their batteries on our own position at about enemy kept up a sharp fire of musketry at long-eleven o'clock, and kept it up nearly three hours,

the enemy being exposed to our fire during the time. At about two o'clock the pickets which I had detached from the Fifty-fifth, as well as those from the other regiments of the brigade, were driven in by the superior advancing force of the enemy. After the pickets had rejoined the regiment, and by your order, I gave the command to fire, and in a short time my men, with those of the Ninety-eighth Pennsylvania, advanced to the bottom of the hill, where the concentrated fires of musketry and artillery becoming so hot, we were forced to retreat to a more sheltered position in the woods on the left.

I cannot refrain from here expressing my admiration of the cool and daring conduct of your Acting Assistant Adjutant-General, Captain J. Heron Foster, whose bearing under a terrible fire, and in a most exposed position, was brave in the extreme nor can I close my report without thanking you for your noble example in exposing yourself as you did - showing the men under your command that you are ready to share the same dangers as themselves. I annex a list of the killed and wounded, and remain, General, most respectfully, your obedient servant,

N. THOUROT,
Lieut.-Col. Com'g Fifty-fifth Regiment N. Y. S. Volunteers.
Killed, Sergeant Vogel; wounded, 33; miss-
ng, 1.

REBEL REPORTS AND NARRATIVES.

GRENADA "APPEAL" ACCOUNT.

tween them and the pursuing confederate column lay, immediately in their front, an open space, nearly level, about twelve hundred yards across, planted in corn, which was scarcely more than ankle-high, and edged by a deep, dense wood, out of which the confederates must necessarily advance. Four powerful batteries of six guns each were at once placed so as to sweep the entire plain. Abut half-past five o'clock, a regiment of Gen. Magruder's division, thrown out as skirmishers, coming upon the open ground, met the heavy fire of the enemy, and fell back to their main body. This force was drawn up in the woods, ready at the proper moment to charge the enemy's batteries. The Purcell battery had been already ordered to take its position in front of the wood, and had opened a brisk cannonade, when a column of not more than five hundred men rushed forward from their place of concealment at double-quick across the corn-field, and reached a point probably about one hundred and fifty yards distant from the guns of the Yankees on our extreme right. The fire had now become terrific. A perfect tempest of iron broke over the field, and to add to the horrors of the scene, immense projectiles from the enemy's gunboats on the river began to fall around the combatants.

carriage and even the brass piece itself to fragments. I saw a shell, doubtless of the same size of this disastrous missile, lying unexploded on the field, which measured twenty-two inches in length, and ten inches in diameter.

It is remarkable that not one of these explosives did our troops any injury, and not more than half a dozen of them burst at all. Just behind the Yankee batteries was a handsome mansion, which will be known in the official reports as "Crew's House." Here one of the largest of RICHMOND, July 7. the shells thrown by the gunboats, exploded I have been upon the battle-field of the thirti- with the most fatal consequences to the Yankees, eth of June and first of July, but have no pow-killing seven men instantly, and tearing a guner to describe to you the condition of the country or the evidences presented to the eye of the terrible conflict that raged there. For five miles along the road pursued by the two armies the surface of the earth is strewn with tattered blue coats, knapsacks cut to pieces, broken canteens, Meanwhile the infantry column, having been empty cartridge-boxes, and dirty military caps. thinned out to a mere handful men, by the withThe fences are down; the trees, riven and blast-ering fire of the enemy's field-pieces, were comed by the shells of the artillery, impede the way pelled to fall back in disorder, and the Purwith their fallen branches; the houses are rid-cell battery having lost more than sixty men, dled in weather-board and shingle roof; here a killed and wounded, and nearly all its horses, broken caisson stands in the middle of the road; was withdrawn, and the Letcher artillery ordered there the festering carcass of a dead horse poisons to replace it. The cannonade was still continuthe atmosphere with its exhalations, while on every ous and desolating. A second and larger body hand the blighted crops of clover, corn, oats and of infantry now marched forward on the outer wheat, tell of the ravages which twenty-four edge of the plateau to the left of our position, and hours of warfare accomplished. Perhaps the after gaining the very crest of the gentle summit most awful struggle of the war was that of Tues-occupied by the Yankees, was driven back with day, the first of July, of which I wrote you so hurried and inaccurate an account that I desire The Letcher artillery at this moment bore the to recur to the engagement at this time, to make brunt of the destructive fire of the twenty-four even the imperfect and unsatisfactory outline of pieces of the Yankees, and every moment suffered events presented in this correspondence somesome loss. A gallant lieutenant was killed at his what more full and truthful with regard to it. gun. Two of the men were so mutilated as to be The enemy, flying before our victorious troops, scarcely recognizable in death, and nineteen othhad reached, on Tuesday afternoon, an elevated ers were wounded. When it became apparent plateau of land, some sixteen miles from Rich- that this company could no longer maintain its mond, and not more than two miles from the position without immediate support, the third atJames River, where they availed themselves of a tack was made in heavy column from the centre, strong natural position to make a stand. Be- I the men moving forward in great steadiness, but

heavy loss.