Nelson's advance.

To the left we were slower in finding the enemy. They had been compelled to travel some distance to get out of gunboats' range Nelson moved his division about the same time Wallace opened on the rebel batteries, forming in line of battle, Ammon's brigade on the extreme left, Bruce's in the centre, and Hazon's to the right. Skirmishers were thrown out, and for nearly or quite a mile the division thus swept the country; pushing a few outlying rebels before it, till it came upon them, In force. Then a general engagement broke out along the line, and again the rattle of musketry and thunder of artillery echoed over the late silent fields. There was no slogging this morning. These men were better drilled than many of those whose regiments had broken to pieces on the day before, and strict measures were taken, at any rate, to prevent the miscellaneous thronging back out of harm's way. They stood up to their work and did their duty manfully.

It soon became evident that, whether from change of commanders or some other cause, their bels were pursuing a different policy in massing their forces. On Sunday the heaviest fighting had been done on the left. This morning they seemed to make less determine's resistance there, whilst towards the centre and right the ground was more obstinately contacted, and the struggle longer prolonged.

Until half-past 10 o'clock Nelson advanced slowly but steadily, sweeping his long lines over the ground of our sore defeat on Sunday morning, forward over scores of dead rebels, resistlessly pressing back the faced and weary enemy. The rebels had received but few reinforcements during the night, their men were exhausted with their desperate contest of the day before, and manifestly dispirited by the evident fact that, notwithstanding their well-laid plans of destruction in detail, they were fighting Grant and Buell combined.

Gradually, as Nelson pushed forward his lines under heavy musketry, the enemy fell back, tell about half-past 10, when, under cover of the heavy timber and a furious cannonading, they made a general lady. Our forces, flushed with their easy victory, were scarcely prepared for the sudden honest where retreat had been all they had been seeing before. Suddenly the rebel masses were hurled against our lines with tremendous force. Our men halted, wavered, and fell back. At this critical juncture Captain Terry's regular battery came dashing up. Scarcely taking time to unlimber, he was loading and sighting his pieces before the caissons had turned, and in an instant was tossing in shell from twenty-four pound howitzers to the compact and advancing rebel ranks.

Here was the turning point of the battle on the left. The rebels were only checked, not halted. On they came. Horse after horse from the batteries was picked off every private at one of the howitzers fell, and the gun was worked by Capt. Terry himself and a corporal. The rebels seemed advancing — A regiment dashed up from our line, and saved the disabled piece. Then for two hours artillery and musketry at close range. At last they began to wayer — Our men pressed on, pouring in deadly volleys, just then Gen. Buell, who assum-

ed the general direction of his troops in the field, came up. At a glance he saw the chance. "Forward, at double quick, by brigades." Our men leaped forward as if they had been tied, and were only too much rejoiced to be able to move. For a quarter of a mile the rebels fell back. Faster and faster they ran; less and less resistance was made to the advance. At least the front camps on the left were reached, and by half-past 2 at point was cleared. The rebels had been steadily swept back over the ground they had won. with heavy loss, as they fell into confusion. We had retaken all our own guns lost here the day before, and one or two from the rebels were left as trophies to tell in after days how bravely that great victory over treason in Tennessee was won.