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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], The armies below Richmond. (search)
hern accounts of McClellan'sdefeat in Virginia. North, July 9. --A special dispatch to the Tribune, from Grenada, yesterday, says that Northern papers of the 6th contain copious accounts of McClellan's defeat in Virginia. They try to claim the capture of 700 prisoners, and acknowledge the loss of twenty thousand men, thirty pieces of artillery, and a large amount of commissary and ordnance stores. They admit the capture by the Confederates of Gens. Reynolds and McCall, state that Gen Gaston was killed, and Gens Mende, Burns, Sumner, and Heintzelman, and numerous field officers were wounded. They state that the strength of the Confederate army was 200,000 men, and its loss 30,000. They say the Federal army is encamped on high rolling ground on the banks of James river, fifteen miles from Richmond. Their transports are at the wharves unloading supplies for the army. McClellan, they say, was confident of his ability to meet any attack the Confederate army may make on his