From Kentucky.
There seems to be very little doubt that General Bragg has fallen back beyond Camp Dick Robinson, and there is just as little doubt that he has been joined by Gen. E. Kirby Smith, and that his command is now in a most advantageous position, wherever it may be located.
It will be observed in our Northern advices at the 18th, published to day, that the victorious dispatches first sent to the press there, intended for effect on the elections, have materially changed in their ced in our Northern advices at the 18th, published to day, that the victorious dispatches first sent to the press there, intended for effect on the elections, have materially changed in their character, and admit a repulse in every attack on Bragg.
At Camp Dick Robinson they were very sure of catching him, but were disappointed.
It is rumored that the War Department has received dispatches from Gen. Bragg, announcing his command completely successful in every conflict in which it was engaged.
driven the enemy from three to five miles along the whole line of the two armies.
We formed our lines and remained on the ground daring the night.
On the morning of the 9th, believing it would be hazardous with his weary troops to renew the conflict with a reinforced army of the enemy, Gen. Bragg or Polk ordered our army back to Harrodsburg.
We captured all the artillery of the enemy except one battery, and unknown numbers and quantities of all descriptions of small arms.
The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded was enormous.
The field of battle was everywhere strown with the killed, wounded, and dying.
In places they were piled up on each other.
We retired in perfect order, each regiment and brigade in proper position, to camp Dick Robinson and its vicinity, where our army was concentrated.
Our loss in killed, wounded and missing, will not reach 2,500.
The killed in Cheatham's division number 200, and about 1,250 wounded. This division suffered more.
quarters.
A letter, dated Louisville, the 14th, says the losses in Roussean's division alone at Perryville were 2,000.
Among the officers nine were killed and fifty wounded. It says:
I wrote yesterday detailing the situation of camp Dick Robinson, into which the affrighted rebels had tumbled in order to secure a brief respite from Buell a assaults, and dwelt on the chances of a battle at that place.
But to-day the scene changes.
The rebels are in full retreat from that doubtful fidnesday's battle — who had been left in the hasty retreat of the enemy.
We also got a number of prisoners at Danville, and captured about two thousand from the rear of the enemy's line as they frantically tumbled across the Dick river into Camp Dick Robinson.
Altogether Gen Buell has taken about five thousand prisoners in and subsequent to the Perryville battle.
A telegram from Washington, dated the 17th, says:
Later advices from the West show that there has been no bagging of the
Further from Kentucky. Chattanooga, Oct. 20.
--The last we have from Bragg's army he was at London, Ky., falling back in order towards Cumberland Gap.
Buell has a very large army, and endeavored to flank Bragg while at Camp Dick Robinson, which was prevented by this retreat.
Buell is yet endeavoring to flank him and there may be a battle any day.
The report that our army took a large number of prisoners at Perryville, proves incorrect.
f the Arkansas river, and the army of the frontier have gallantly and successfully accomplished its mission. (Signed) S. R. Curtis, Major-General commanding.
What Bragg lost and what the Yankees gained.
The Louisville correspondent of the New York Tribune, who has just returned from an unsuccessful effort to find Bragg, thus sums up the result of Bragg's invasion of Kentucky.
It is now positively ascertained that Bragg fought at Perryville, and afterward fell back to Camp Dick Robinson, in order to give Kirby Smith time to join him from Frankfort.
The latter movement took him thirty miles out of the way of his direct line of retreat, and would have placed him at the mercy of Gen. Buell had he promptly occupied the various routes through Southern Kentucky.
The precise direction in which Bragg turned, after reaching London, is not trustworthily known.
The report that be will make for Nashville is based upon -ere presumption.
The pursuit was continued to Rockca
io.
--The Paroled Prisoners,--The Atlanta Confederacy publishes a letter written by Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Alston, Morgan's Adjutant-General, to a friend, which gives us the only intelligible reason for Gen. Morgan's raid into Ohio which we have yet seen.
He says:
Burnside becoming alarmed for fear of a formidable invasion of Kentucky under Buckner — for we had reported ourselves as his advance guard — put his whole force on our track, and moved all of his supplies back to Camp Dick Robinson.
It therefore was just as safe for as to go forward as return, and now our principal object was to keep as many troops employed and for so long a time as possible, in order to give General Bragg time to make good his retreat to Chattanooga.
The strategy succeeded, and, instead of Burnside reaching Knoxville by the 9th of July, he did not get there until about the 9th of September.--The object of our expedition, therefore, was partially accomplished, and it was worth the sacrifice of
