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Robertson (search for this): article 9
ttle as soon as offered; and the battle of Saturday afternoon was fought between the advance under General Banks and the advance of Jackson; under Ewell and himself. After endeavoring in vain to rout and drive Banks's corps, Jackson found himself compelled at height, by the rapid movements in front of him, to fall back to a stronger defensive position to Color mountain, and finding his lines of retreat becoming insecure, on the succeeding night he retreated altogether, retiring beyond Robertson's river, and again beyond the Rapidan. The result is that Jackson is again fooled and forced to abandon his operations, and his prestige has been seriously impaired. He will be rapidly followed by our army. Incidents of the battle, &c., Stragglers from the battle field to town have all been arrested by Gen. Pope, and by to-morrow a list of missing can be obtained, with accuracy. Capt. George Tannett, of Prince's staff, was mortally shot in the breast. The 28th Pennsylvani
Quantrell (search for this): article 9
Stonewall Jackson on the previous Sunday, and an additional reinforcement of twenty-five thousand on the following day. Miscellaneous. The Federal account of the fight between Gen. Morgan (Federal) and Gen. Stevenson, (Confederate,) near Cumberland Gap, on the 5th inst., says the Federal captured large quantities of forage, tobacco, and mules, and killed and wounded 225 of the enemy. Independence, Mo., was attacked by Confederate guerrillas on the 11th, under Cols. Hughes and Quantrell, and the Federal force captured after an hour's fighting. The Federal report their own loss at 20 killed. The steamers Commodore, John Brooks, State of Mains, and ship Louisiana, arrived at Philadelphia on Monday with an aggregate of 1,400 sick and disabled soldiers from the hospitals of the Peninsula. Three hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton arrived at Cincinnati on Tuesday. The Lady Pike brought 348 and the Major Anderson 36 bales. From Fortress Monroe the news is q
Travers (search for this): article 9
Later from the North. We have received Northern papers of the 16th instant. On the night of the 13th inst., the steamer West Point, with 221 convalescent troops from New port News, for Burnside's army, was run into at Aquia Creek by the steamer George Peabody, Capt. Travers, and sank in ten minutes. Seventy-three lives were lost, including the wives of Major Dort, Lieut. Col. Scott and Capt. Cummings, of the 6th N. H. regiment. The negro brigade of General Hunter, at Belton Head. S. C., has been disbanded, as "the negroes could not be made soldiers." A large number of Yankees are going over the Canada line and taking the oath of allegiance to the British Government, to avoid being drafted. In Washington, on the 14th Lincoln addressed a delegation of "colored men," who waited on him by invitation, to "talk over" the subject of emancipation. His address is reported in two columns of the New York Herald, and includes two verses of poetry! Gen. Pope in his official report of t
Bayard (search for this): article 9
ver again," but consoles itself with the announcement from Washington that the Federal army is going to "try it over again, " by advancing on the Confederate forces. The correspondent of that paper gives the following account of the action: Bayard's cavalry brigade is known to have been stationed at Burnett's Ford to guard the bridge of the road from Culpeper to Gordonsville. Buford's (formerly Hatch's) brigade is known to have been posted at Madison Court-House. In the latter place threas been captured. A considerable force of the enemy were not far from it at the time. As I approached my destination the cannonading had commenced. A line of dust above the woods indicated the road upon which our troops were advancing. Gen. Bayard had been driven back from the Bapidan, and Gen. Crawford's brigade had been sent out to support him. Their forces joined at Cedar Run, and took position. Besides his four well tried regiments, the 28th New York, 46th Pennsylvania, 10th Maine,
Lincoln (search for this): article 9
the steamer George Peabody, Capt. Travers, and sank in ten minutes. Seventy-three lives were lost, including the wives of Major Dort, Lieut. Col. Scott and Capt. Cummings, of the 6th N. H. regiment. The negro brigade of General Hunter, at Belton Head. S. C., has been disbanded, as "the negroes could not be made soldiers." A large number of Yankees are going over the Canada line and taking the oath of allegiance to the British Government, to avoid being drafted. In Washington, on the 14th Lincoln addressed a delegation of "colored men," who waited on him by invitation, to "talk over" the subject of emancipation. His address is reported in two columns of the New York Herald, and includes two verses of poetry! Gen. Pope in his official report of the battle of Cedar Run, says that his loss was 1,500 killed and wounded, and that Monday night the Confederates fled from the field, leaving their dead untitled and wounded lying along the road. The Quincy Herald, says twenty-one Confedera
Porter (search for this): article 9
Independence, Mo., was attacked by Confederate guerrillas on the 11th, under Cols. Hughes and Quantrell, and the Federal force captured after an hour's fighting. The Federal report their own loss at 20 killed. The steamers Commodore, John Brooks, State of Mains, and ship Louisiana, arrived at Philadelphia on Monday with an aggregate of 1,400 sick and disabled soldiers from the hospitals of the Peninsula. Three hundred and eighty-four bales of cotton arrived at Cincinnati on Tuesday. The Lady Pike brought 348 and the Major Anderson 36 bales. From Fortress Monroe the news is quite meagre. Commodore Porter's mortar fleet was still at anchor in the Roads. "Great satisfaction" was felt at Norfolk, Suffolk, and in their respective vicinities, in consequence of the determination of the Generals in command there to exact the oath of allegiance from all the inhabitants, or to compel the recusants "to leave and seek protection under the so-called Confederate Government.
George B. McClellan (search for this): article 9
ochester, Auburn and Syracuse regiments start Thursday and Friday, and will go through New York en route for the sort of war. Recruiting during the day has been very brisk, and nearly 300 recruits have been passed up to noon to-day. The United States bounty is being paid with commendable promptness, and much to the satisfaction of the recruits. From the Peninsula. The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, writing from Harrison's Landing under date of August 9th, hints that McClellan is about to make a movement which it is "contraband" at present to make public; but which movement, if it should meet with trouble in the attempt to successfully accomplish it, will furnish something startling. If the movement should succeed, the account of it, we are told, "will doubtless be pleasing." The same writer pronounces the reconnaissance to Malvern Hill to have been one of the most important of its kind that has ever been made. "It accomplished the precise object for which it
Hald (search for this): article 9
ck and taken up a new position two miles in the rear. The Washington Star, asserts that Gen. Pope would promptly advance and attack them. Large reinforcements are joining Burnside with a view, if need be, of an advance in aid of General Pope. The enemy are in very strong force on the Rapidan, and their numbers are estimated at from 60,000 to 80,000. The following is Pope's official dispatch: Headq'rs Army of Va., Calar Mountain, Va., 7:30 A. M. Aug. 12th, 1862. Major General Hald: T has of the night. His near is now crossing the Rapidan towards Orange Court-House. Our cavalry and artillery are in pursuit. (Signed) John Pope, Major Gen. Comd'g. "Treason in sight of the city Hall." We copy the following from that influential German paper, the New Yorker Journal, of August 5th. In publishing it the New York Times calls it "treason in sight of the City Hall:" "We have now the guarantee that this civil war will be a contest of thirty years du
Best (search for this): article 9
d my destination the cannonading had commenced. A line of dust above the woods indicated the road upon which our troops were advancing. Gen. Bayard had been driven back from the Bapidan, and Gen. Crawford's brigade had been sent out to support him. Their forces joined at Cedar Run, and took position. Besides his four well tried regiments, the 28th New York, 46th Pennsylvania, 10th Maine, and 5th Connection, General Crawford had with him three batteries of artillery — Reemer's, Knapp's, and Best's. With this command he had stood and resisted the advance of Jackson during the afternoon of yesterday, successfully deluding him in regard to his actual strength. The Confederates had now advanced all along their lines from beyond the Rapidan. Gen. Banks was this morning ordered to the front. Cannonading commenced at 3 o'clock P. M., and the accuracy of the enemy's aim was unusual. Gen. Angur, who commands the second division of Gen. Banks's army, was upon the Jeff, and suffered muc
Dort (search for this): article 9
Later from the North. We have received Northern papers of the 16th instant. On the night of the 13th inst., the steamer West Point, with 221 convalescent troops from New port News, for Burnside's army, was run into at Aquia Creek by the steamer George Peabody, Capt. Travers, and sank in ten minutes. Seventy-three lives were lost, including the wives of Major Dort, Lieut. Col. Scott and Capt. Cummings, of the 6th N. H. regiment. The negro brigade of General Hunter, at Belton Head. S. C., has been disbanded, as "the negroes could not be made soldiers." A large number of Yankees are going over the Canada line and taking the oath of allegiance to the British Government, to avoid being drafted. In Washington, on the 14th Lincoln addressed a delegation of "colored men," who waited on him by invitation, to "talk over" the subject of emancipation. His address is reported in two columns of the New York Herald, and includes two verses of poetry! Gen. Pope in his official report of th
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