Casualties in the Valley fight.
We it as a little singular that no one has takes the trouble furnish the press a list of the killed and wounded in the battle near
Kernstown, so far as can be Deep solicitude is fell by those who has friends in the engagement for their we fire and a publication of a complete list would be gratifying to a large number of readers.
We have from day to given details as have reached as, and yet nothing that we have received and the longing anxiety of those who had relatives and in the and whose latest are yet unknown.
We have seen a letter from the gallant Them, of the Battalion of
Virginia in regulars, who was slightly wounded — We received a had through the pocket amen pocket, which so checked its force that it merely broke the skin and the sligh . He also received wound in the right hand, from which temporary inconvenience may result.-- in the lighted terms of pra of his company.
They with thirty six muskets, lost one killed and nine wounded.
Lieutenants Randolph and How states, are jured.
We have been informed by private source of the fall of
Capt. Wm. Bay
Rector, of who commanded a company in the 424 regiment.
He behaved most and when shot was standing on a mp, waving his sword and cheering on his men. The
Orderly Sergeant of the same
Walker Brown, son of
Rev. Richard of
Campbell, was also killed There were four others wounded and four
At a late hour last night we had an interview with
Capt. Thom, who had just from
Staunton.
The elements which he game us fully confirm the previous accounts of the hero of our troops.
He exhibited the perf ration in the left breast of his coat, made by a Minnie ball, which struck a Testament in his pocket and glanced off upon his vest.--His escape it miraculous.
We regret to learn that
Capt. J. Z. Janes, commanding one of the companies of the was shot down during the battle.
It is to be hoped that his wound did not prove total.
From all accounts that we have received, the batt ion must have fought with desperation.
The fact that so many of officers were wounded, is a proof of the as tion
Our last news from
General Jackson encourages us in the belief that should the enemy give him another opportunity for a fight, he will add fresh dicey to the
Southern arms.
The number of on a wounded in the hospitals at
Staunton is about 180.
Philip Williams,
Esq. Rev B. F. Brooks, and other cit of
Winchester, were permitted, two or three days after the fight, to come out from
Winchester and bury our dead, and report that there were 83 found upon the field in all. When we consider the small number of prisoners taken by the enemy, we have a full confirmation of previous accounts that our loss was by no means so great as that of the
Federal.
Other persons who left
Winchester after the fight that the consternation of the
Yankees was intense; that they were fully aware of the fact that they had encountered " wall" whose strength was ready
Lieutenant Jack Heth, heretofore reported among the killed, was buried in the M. E. church yard at
Newtown.
