The Battle Of Tuesday July 1st

The battle of Tuesday was perhaps the fierccst acd most Bsngainary of the series of bloody conflicts tliat have signalized cach of the last BeVefl days. We have already advertcd to the part phiyed in the aetion by General Jaekson and others, but ns yet, have made little mention of the cperatior.s upon the occasion of General Magruder and tho Iroops un der liis command. We now propose to give sut'h particulars as we have obtained on the field after the battle. Eaily on Tuesday niorning the enemy, from the position to whieh he had been driven the night before, eontinued his retreat in a south-easterly direetioo toward the gi'.nboats on James Kiver. At o'clock A. M. Magruder recommeneed the pursuit, ndvanciug cautiously, but Pttadily, and shelling the forests and swamps in front as he progressed. This rr.ethod of advar.ee was kept up throughut the moruing, and until 4 o'clock P. tl., without con.ing up with the enemy. But between 4 and 5 o'clock our troops enched a largo open field, a müe long nd three-quaiters in width, on the farm f Dr. Carter. The enemy wcre disovered sti'Otigly iutrenehed in a dense orest on the otuer side of this field. - Tieir artillery, of about 50 pieces, could e plainly seon brisiling on their freshly onstructed carthworks. At ten minutes efore 5 o'clock P. M., (Jeneral Magruer ordered Lis men to charge across the e ld and drive the euemy from their josition. Gallantly they sprang to the encouner, rushing into the field at full run. nstantly l'rom the line of the enemy's reastworks a murderous storm of grape and canister was hurled into their ranke with the .most terrible effect. Officers and men went down by hundreds; but refundaunted and anwavering, our line dashed on uutil two thirds of the Jistance aeross the field was accomplished. Hero the carnuge from the witlierine fire of the enetny's combined artillery and musketry was drcadful. Our line vvavered a moment and then feil back to the cover of the woods. ïwico agaiu the effort to carry the posi tion was renewed, but cach time with the same results. Niglit, Tit length, rendered a further attenipt iujudieious, and the fight until ten o'clock was kopt up by arüllery of both sides, To add to the horrors, if not the dai.gers, of the baltle, the eiieuiy's gunbouts from their position at Curl's Neck, two and a half miles diitant, pourcd on the field contiüucd broadbidas from their immense riñe guns. Though it i questionable, as wo have suggested, whcthcr any serious loss was hiilieted on us by the gunbouts, the horrors of the fmlit wer aggravated by the monster sheUs, which lore shriking through ibe forests and exploded witli a concuísinn v.liich seemed to shiike tho solid tor tb itself. Tho moral eífect on the Yankees f' íjiese tuiior iufpiriiig aliics raust bavu bet n very great; and, iu tli is, wo beüeve tonsistcd their greatest daniage to the arniy of liie Soatb. It must not hc iaferred frtm the above account thtit the fsjaughtpr was all upon our side. We havo the best. reasons to linow that the well directd fii-e of our cuniioi) and musketry, buth before aud subsequent to our otfurts to stom the eucmy's pdsition, fl] w'ith heavy effect upoti li is heavily niassed forcea. At 10 o'eloek F. M. the last gun -was ürcd from our side. JJacli &ide held the poflitiou occupied wLen tbe fight begun, and, during the rtmainder of the uijiht, eath was Lussly engaged removing their woundcd, The ruinble of the enemy's ambulances and wagous, in rapid and hurriod motion, did uot ceae even with the davvn. At 10 o'elock on Wednesday mnrnii g they wore still buj, and diucontinued tbeir labora, nut beoau3o their woundod had boen removed, but for fear of our advanco. Our wüunded were carried froro the field directlj to the fannhouses in Ihe neigliborhoüd, wlienM, after tbeir injuries had been examined uu.l dressed, thcy were bronght to this city. Buring the morning the enemy evaeuati.d Lia posïtioa and rot reated. stil] bearing in a .--outheasterly directiou, and apparently uot attempting to lessen the .distauce betweeu him and bis guuboatr-. Tlie battle-ficld, surveyed through tlie cold rain of Wednesday" morning, presen ted scènes too shocking to bo dwelt on without auguish. The woods aud the tield before meulioned were, on the western side, covered with our dead, in a'il the degrees of violent mutilation, vvhile in tho woods on the west of the field lay, in about eqmil numbers, the blue uuiformed bodies of tho enemy. Many of tho latter were still alive, having'been left by their friends in their indecent haste to escape from the rebela. Great numbers of horses were killed on both sides, and the sight of their disfigured carensses, and the stench proeecdiug from thein added mui-h to the loathsonie horrors of the bloody field. The corn-fields, but recently turued by the plowshare, were l'urrowed and torn by the iron hiissel. ïhousands of round shot nnd unexploded bLcII lay upou the surfaue of the earth. Among the hittor were uiany oí the cnormous shells thrown from the gunboats. Thcy were eight inchos in width by twenty three in kngth. The ravages of these monsters were everywhere ceruiblo throtigh tliu torens, iu some places long avenues wcro cut tlirough tiee tops, and hcre and there great trees, three aud four leet in thickucss, wore burst open and split to very durada. In ono rem'ui kable respect this battle field dirrered in Hppearnnoe ñoñi anv of the precedinrr chiys. la the track of tbe euemy's Highfthere wen no eaetav;y blue greatcoats, no blankets, leDtB, nor clolliiug, no luttui-s, and bo wasled conmiioiuiy stort. He bad evidently, befora rcaching this nsiBt, thron away everyihing ihat oould retard hia h)sty rtftröat. Nblhng was to bo found on this portion of the tield but killed und vvoundüd Yankees, and their guns and knapsaeks. THE TEÜ1GLE BtFFERIN'GS rllÜM TIII3 YANKEE BAÏTl:lilKS. The battlt; of Tuesday ovening has, 'oeen inado tnornorable by its nielanchüloly aionument ot carnage, wbicfc cccuried n a of Gen. Afagruder' corps, hich h.-id boen ordcred i:i verv inadeqnatu Jorco to charge ono of the enemy's buttenes. 'iliere are various espianations of ihis afluir. The fire upoa the few reiments who wc-re ordi:r'ei! to lake the cnemy's batttry, whiüh was .snpp'oited by two heavy brigades, and wbicfa sWegt the tbin lines uf our devoted men, who had to ipproach it across a. stretch of epen grmind.is said to have been an appalling sight.