Affairs in the West--fight at Munfordsville, Ky.--blockade of the Ohio at Hamilton.
A dispatch from Munfordsville, Ky., dated the 16th, says that
Gen. Bragg attacked the
Federal that morning, and the fighting continued all day.--The dispatch says:
‘
The Union forces, under command of
Colonel Wilder, are fighting bravely, and are determined to hold the post.
The enemy's forces are represented to be large.
We learn that a portion of
Gen. Buell's army has arrived and are engaged with
Bragg's forces.
The
Journal, in its editorial to-day, appeals to the authorities to have the city fortified.
’
Brigadier-General Jackson's division was reviewed this forenoon by
Major-General Gilbert and staff, and made a fine display.
A train of eleven cars, that conveyed
Colonel Dunham's regiment to
Bacon Creek, was attacked by a squad of rebels.
Some rails having been torn up, the regiment, after taking out all the ammunition and most of the provisions, abandoned the train, when the rebels pushed it on the bridge and set fire to both.
Louisville, Sept. 16, 1862.-- The battle of Munfordsville was renewed at an early hour this morning and continued all day.
The rebels were heavily reinforced, supposed by
Generals Polk and
Buckner, and both engaged. --Their force is estimated at 25,000.
General Wilder still held out at last accounts and was fighting desperately.
The
Unionists have been reinforced since Sunday by one regiment and a battery of light artillery.
The telegraph wire was cut in several places between here and the battle-field.
It is reported that
General Buell was at
Dripping Springs yesterday morning, moving north.
The fate of
Green river bridge probably depends upon his arrival.
Ex-Governor Helm,
Harvey, Winter,
Smith, and several other prominent Kentuckians from
Elizabethtown, were brought to this city under arrest to-night.
It is reported to-night that
General Buell has got up and is engaged.
The mail boat succeeded in getting to
Cincinnati from
Louisville, on the 16th, under convoy of a gunboat; but the line has stopped running since.--A dispatch from
Cincinnati says:
‘
A gentleman who passed last Sunday within the rebel lines at
Florence, reports them to be thirty thousand strong.
Humphrey Marshall having joined, with a large force, within the last few days.
The rebels blockaded the river yesterday at
Hamilton, nine miles below
Rising Sun. No mail boat has left for
Louisville to-day.
Our gunboats went to
Hamilton this morning and shelled the woods for several miles, but the battery had been withdrawn.
’
A dispatch from
Gallipolis, Ohio, on the 15th, says that, ‘"no particulars"’ of the fight at
Charleston,
Kanawha, had been received, but that the ‘"rebels were repulsed with great loss."’ It adds:
‘
Lightburn's forces marched through in perfect order, taking the
Ripley road, going towards
Ravenswood, on the
Ohio river, where they arrived this evening, bringing his baggage train through in safety.
Steamers have been sent to his assistance.
The Forty-seventh Ohio, Ninth Virginia, and Second Virginia cavalry, who were cut off at
Summerville, succeeded in joining
Lightburn, and were in the
Charleston fight.
This place is full of refugee contrabands who came down the
Kanawha in boats, most of whom are in a destitute condition.
There are 500 sick and wounded soldiers here, sent from
Charleston before the fight.
The enemy is supposed to be moving slowly down the
Kanawha.
’
