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THE DAILY EVANS V IIXE JOURNAU? VOLUME XIV. EVANSVILLE, IND. SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1862. NUMBER 291. s REGULATIONS FOR 1862. TjCfi All Advertisements amounting to $3 or less must invariably be paid in advance to secure attention. All Job Work must be paid for on delivery. Transient Work must be pre-paid. RATES OF ADVERTISING. 4 5' 60" 1 Afo. 00 8 00 10 is 12 U) 14 10 2 . ii (. 8 5 II 5 i I i:i 75 I 10 (X 18 75 SMo'.. 4 Mot. 7 50 11 25 15 UO I 1 7i 22 6u 26 25 W It 75 17 00 A 2ft 25 50 I 29 75 fi Mo': 10 Oil 15 00 20 ( O 1 25 (HI 3'l 00 36 00 9 Mot. 13 CO 19 50 56 00 32 50 390" 45 5 I 12 Mo'. 1500 22' 3'. 375t 45 10 52 50 SADDLERY. Still On Hand and Determined Succeed. to GEORGE THORNIIILL takes pleasure in infor ming his uld customers that iu the quality and style of his work, hr Patters himself lie cannot lie excelled. He has removed to Bray's New Build ing. Second street, bet. Main and Lis-uat street, streets, when- the choicest Harness mid Saddles of every description can be obtained ou the best of terms. IW Repairing done with neatness and dispatch. Second-hand Harness always on hand. jel SOLDIERS' CLAIMS. Agency for Soldiers' Claims. W.McBRIliE AND A.T.WHITTLESEY, T. prisrure Invalid Pension,, Bounty Money, Arrears of Pay, aud Land Warrants, under the several acts of Congress. Fee moderate, ami no part of their charges col lecte' till the claim is secured. Htnee on north side "f Third Street, between Main and Locust, Evansville, Indiana. fcb!5 McBRIDE A WHITTLESEY. AUCTION & COMMIS'ION Old Auction House and a New Auc tioneer. J J. COnN, HAVING RENTED THE OLD Auction Boom on the corner of Main and Third Streets, Evansville, for a term of years, will continue the Auction and Commission business, and attend to selling all kinds of Goods, Furniture, Wagons, Buggies, Carriages, Horses, Cattle, all kinds of Manufactured Articles, Ac. Liberal ad vancement tuauV on consignments. Prompt attention will be given to all goods en trusted to uiy care. (mari-) J. i. OOHN. AUCTION AND C OMMISSION.- H NELSON A CO., WOULD INFORM THE . pnblic that they- will attend to selling on Commission at Auction, or Private Saje, any and all kinds of .Merchandise. Particular attention given to selling Real Estate. We will attend to arlling 1 1 r - - Mules, Wagons, Carriages, aud Vehicles. Particular attention -iven to, . wdlin Household Furniture, Isith old and second band, and Wiill attend to auction sale in any part of the city or county. H. NRL90N will pay particular attention to collecting debts or claims , will act as agent for renting houses and collecting reuts, and any and all business tiiirnsi.il tu us. Office on Main Street, opposite Court Houir, one door from Crescent City Bank, Evansville. ray 15 H. NELSON A CO. DRY GOODS. GREAT BARGAINS IN Dry Goods, Boots & Shoes, Hats, Caps, &c. TERMS CASH. JOHN J. MERRITT, -M K TO JT. S- Jaqness V Co., AO. 10 tHUt BTMMMT, Offer gnat inducements to RETAIL Cash Custom rs In the selection from their Large, New, and Elegant Stock of Fashionable Dry Goods, Boots, 6hoes, Hats and Caps, At Wholesale Prices ! LINENS, HOSIERY, WHITE GOODS, Ml DOMESTICS, Offered at 25 PER CENT. LES8 thsu heretofore rx tailtsl at in the city. All are invited to come and compare quality and rrico with anv other house in the city. J. 5. J.VJl ESS A f., pll-ly-cUt No. 10 First street. RESTAURANT. Dum Vivimus Vivamus." St. Charles Restaurant, "CHARLEY" HABBE, Prop'r. rrilK ABOVE NAMED HOU8E HAS JUST X been rminired and refttb-d, and is now ope to the public. No expense bos Iwen spared to place the St. Charles in first rate trim, an I it will be kept aa a first clsss house iu all respects. Game in t lie SeaHOii, OYSTERS, And everything edible to be purchased in the mar ket will be wrved up at the ST. CHARLES at nit hours. In a style which will suit the most fastid ious epicure. Choice Brandies and Imported Wines; the hes brands of old Bonrlsm and Monongahela and No. 1 Liqnnrs of all kinds will be found at the bar of the St. Charles. Imported Cigars, All the favorite Havana brands always on hand. Br;- The patronage of mv numerous friends aa th public generally is resjssctfully solieited. oc4-6m CHARLEY HABBE. GROCERIES. "ELLIOTT'S." 1 f DOZ. NICE LARGE YOUNG CHICKENS, 1U Jnst received at Elliott's Family Grocery. POWDER 100 kegs Frontier Rifle powder. ISA kegs BlMting do Just received and for sale for cash only at Elli ott's Family Grocery. ix CORN MEAL. jO buahtds trash ground Corn meal, for saW at ELLIOTT'S MgK Family Grocery. Vj I I i I I - I Z X ? ? IP I ' ' r ' r i i . Jtop. 60 .75 1 oi 1 25 1 W " l" M I 2 DaV 75 1 1 U 1 60 J I 9 2 i 2 ) a iMp. I 1 00 1 ill l75 a 26 2 75 S 6 Daps. t to io t so I "a w 4 2i I no fyftTl 1 ft tT 3 Hi -1 75 4 50 I 5 25 2 WX I i 75 I 5 W I f 25 7J 3 Wtri, I 3 uu 4 5 ' 0 1 7 ff I 8011 I lOJKl 4 (Hi I 00 8 00 10 U I 12 00 I 14 10 REGULAR PACKETS. REGULAR Evansville, Paducah and Cairo Packet. THE SPLENDID AND SWIFT BUJHUN Passenger Steamer GEN. ANDERSON, Hm tacn nlaccd in tin- E v.i n--, i .vnd ura Packet Trade, iu blare of the J. &rH. llo:.e. Tin' Auderson i unsurpassed fur speed and pas- sengcr accommodations, and will leave Evansville regularly every Monday and Friday at 2 o'clock P. M .. and Cairo every Wednesday at in o'clock A. M ami Saturda' at 6 o'clock P. M. my 7 LEWIS DAVIS. Capt. REGULAR Louisville, Evansville, Cairo and MEMPHIS Accommodation Packet. rjMIE ELEGANT LIGHT-DRAUGHT STKABC- 003X31 BJRC1AL, Oapt. J. B. Archer; Lew. IHrini ami Jadei n . Green, t l.rks. Leave Evansvilu- coing up every toMay at 8 A. M., reins: down Wednesday at 4 P. M. The I'oniDK n-ial ia nrarly new, very light draught, .(,! will run regularly in the trade, transacting all ; business at Packet Kates. v JXO. B. HALL. Agent. mySOtf No. li. Water street. Past Mail Passenger Line TO PADUCAH &, CAIRO. Semi-Weekly Boats from Evansville IOR ALL POINTS ON THE OHIO ' Hirer, (Sundays aud Thursdays excepted.) THE MAIL PACKET Si A I T I T T.TT . ' M- - ' J m . J - Capt. JOSH. THBOOP. CI S. DI'SOUCHET, Clerk. Leaves Mondays, and Thursdays at o'clock, for Cairo and all Way Points. Leaves Cairo Tuesdays and Fridays, at 5 P. M. THE MAIL FACET COURIER! Capt. H. T. DEXTER, leaves Evansville, Tuesdays and Saturdays, promptly at Uo i loik, for J Cairo and all Way Points, Leave's Cairo on Wednesdays anil Sundays at five P. M. CONNECTIONS MADE AT CAIRO WITH St. Louis and Illinois Central R. R. AL80, AT EVANSVILLE, WITH E. & C. R. R. and Louisville Packets. IMiFor Freight or Passage, applv on board, or to P. D. V1ETS, A. in, aplS Office uver the Canal Bank. REGULAR Louisville, Evansville & Henderson Pass.nger Packet. THE NEW AND SPLENDID U. S. M. PACKET, k HtMi- (irey Eagle,' J. Ht NTs.iKFii.LEa, Capt. W. G. Voitu, Cl'k. LEAVES EVAN S V I I. L E F O R Louisville, every Monday at I : o'clock, uud every Thursday at seven o'clock P. M. Returning, leaves Louisville every Wednesday and Saturday at 5 o'clock P. M. bcuT COX i HUMPHREY, Agents. REGULAR Louisville, Evansville & Henderson 1 . S. MAIL PACKET. THE SPLENDID PASSENGER PACKET, Big- Car i i y Eagle! Capt. H. Bt Ncr., J. A. Lt eK, Clerk. 1EAV LS KV ANSV lLLr r.l.i J Toesdavand Satnrdav at 4 o'ebick t P. M. Returning, b-aves Louisville every Monday and Friilav, at o'clock P. M. api4 COX A HUMPHREY, Agents. REGULAR Evansville, Paducah and Cairo PAOKMT. THE ELEGANT AND FINELY APPOINTED PASSENGER STEAMER, EUGENE! Capt. T. S. DlsoV'HiT, M. J. Dalli m, Clerk. THE ABOVE STEAMER HAS been placed iu the Mail Packet Trade between Evansville and Cairo. The Eugene is unsiinmssed in eleeance and spa cious accommodations for passengers, and will leave Evansville every Tuesday and Saturday, im mediately after the arrival of the train from Terre Haute. JOHN B. HALL, Agent. yl lvd PAPER HANGINGS. C. SCHMITT & STARK, Wholesale snd Retail Dealers in French, English and Ameriaan PAPER HANGINGS, 3Inslin and Paper Shades and Fixtures, C SUSTAIN GOODS, GILT CORNICES, CUB- TAIN Pins and Parlor Mirrors. No. 3 axii 5 FiustStiiiet, Evansville, apl;i-dly Inn. CLAIM AGENCY. Thomas E. G vrmn. Jaskh Reio. WAR CLAIM AGENCY. GARVIN & REID, Attorneys at Law and Real Estate .4 0 X TS, Office on Third Stroet, EVANSVILLE, IND. Have peculiar facilities in Washington, and will give prompt attention to the procuring of Pen sions, Back Pay anil Bounties, and the proeecution of ( isims against the Government. BLACKSMITHS. BLACKSMITH'S NOTICE. rpo CLOSE OUT OUR STOCK OF IRON ON I hand, we will sell at less than manufacturer's prices for CASH the follow lug sizes : ;ij 2x 4, t. 1 , in. oval, and aliout 2 f lbs. Plow Wings. Also, have ou liund Moss and Gambles No. 1 Horse Rasps and Files. For sale by the dozen at present New York prices. JACOB STRUAB A SON, ungT 75 Main street. COUNTY ORDERS. Notice. Avmtob's Orricit, Vanderburgh Coiinty. APPLICANTS FOR COUNTY ORDEKS WILL file seaksl proposals at my office until Septem ber 13, 18 I, for such amounts as they wish to ob tain and the figures at which they will purchase the same. The amount appropriated by the Board of Commissioners aud to be disposed of is 5 and la intended for a Bounty to be paid to Volun teers. The board reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids thns moil.-. VICTOR BISCH, Auditor. August SZdtd White Wheat Flour. inn EXTRA WHITE WHEAT FLOUR, X JJ warranted eaual to any iu the market, for sue at tiiiauTT'S Family Grocery. PUBLISHED BY JAMES H. MtNEELT. F. M. THAYER. - JNO. II. McNEE'T. MM the Finn or the Evansville Journal Company. Journal I3uilding-i!i9 . LOCUST STREET, BETWEEN FIBST AND WATER. 13 ATTLE WEEK. VERT LATEST FROM THE FIELD. The Great Eight of Friday. THE ST R UGGLE OFSA TURD A Y SIGEL THE HERO OP THE DAY. Correspondence of the New York Tribune. Centkkville, Va., 5 a. m. Sunday, ) August 31. i The battle of yesterday and the day before, on the already elastic field of Bull Run, will rank with Napoleon's bloodiest. And more than one lireneral fought in them to' tvhom, ere this hour, he would have given a Marshal's baton, while he would have made proud a hun dred privates with the ribbon of the Le gion of Honor. Let me first detail the movements by which the two days' struggle was brought on. While at Warrenton, early on Wednes dav, 1 learned that Jackson was in our rear, and that we should once more try to trap him. Gens. Sigel and McDowell marched that morning up the turnpike from Warrenton towards Centreville. This road passes through Bull Run bat tlefield, five miles west of Centreville. Hooker, Porter and Reno moved from our left (now, as we faced about toward Washington, becomes our right.) toward the same point via Manassas Junction. Sigcl, in advance of McDowell, reached Gainsville, four miles from the Bull Run field, that ninht, and came upon the en emy s cavalry and stragglers. Resting a few hours, by 3 o'clock he was moving. The enemv did not appear in front, aud leaving McDowell to take care ot the road, Sigel turned to the right to con nect with Hooker at Manassas Junction. Hooker had fought there on Wednesday, of which 1 will speak in a moment, and it was possible he needed help. When within two miles of the Junc tion, Sigel learned that the enemy was on the Warrenton road, and turning short to the left, he marched to the south side of the Bull Run field. It was then o p. m. McDowell, who, as before stated, had remained on that road between the enemy and Warrenton, had been throw ing shell some hours, and now we could hear musketry. Gaining the hights where Hunter fought a year ago, and ap. proaching the turnpike, we could locate the scene of the engagement by the line of musketry flashes. It was King's Di vision repelling the enemy in his attempt to escape toward Warrenton. The affair lasted two hours, and King held the field We had come upon the enemy's flank. Schenck's Division became par tially engaged, gave the enemy's cavalry a few shell, then the whole corps rested for the night At the very time King was fighting on the Warrenton road, Ricketts was engaged fighting rebel re enforcements coming up through Thor oughfare Gap, five miles farther Wefct He was compelled, having suffered a loss of 250, to withdraw and join King, after the latter had finished his day's work. Reynolds' Divisiou (Pennsylvania Re serve), then temporarily with McDowell's corps, was in the same vicinity. The situation then, Friday morning, was this: Sigel's corps (Divisions of Schurz, Milroy, Steinwehr and Schenck) on the Bull Run field, fronting to the west, was close against the enemv. Mc Dowell's corps was nearly connected with Sigel on the latter's left, but was not within fighting distance of the ene my. Heintzleman's corps (Divisions of Hooker and Kearney, and Reno s corps) were at Centreville, moving down the turnpike, which would leave them upon Sifrel's riht. Porter was far back seven or eight miles in Sigel's rear. These corps Sigel's, Reno's, Heintzle man's, McDowell's and' Porter's were all that were engaged at an- time dur ing the two davs, Friday and Saturdav. Thev came upon the field in the order 1 have named thein. Fortunately, 1 had been with Si"cl dur ing his two days march to hnd the ene mv, and was with him now that it fell to him to open the main struggle. His corps had held the advance under heavy artillery lire on the Kappahannock the four previous days, had now marched two days, a part of the time in line of battle, and taking but tour hours rest moved into a battle not a skirmish, not an affair, not an action, not an engage ment, but it great battle, for such are the names given to lights in the order of their magnitude. Long before davlight Sigel had visited evcrv position of his line, had seen to the placing of every battery, and with the daylight his artillery sounded. The "Jessie Scouts" (transferred by Fremont to igpi) reported the enemy as massed in and beyond a stretch of woods a mile long, west of and running nearly paral lel with the road. Their line, liowever, extended on their right to the road, where they had guns on commanding heights on their left to Bull Run stream, with a battery or two across upon the north side. Sigel's line was opposite, on the !-outh side of the road. The first hour it ivas all artillery. Si gel was advancing battery after battery to this and that eminence, supporting each with a brigade, hearing the reports of scouts, sending cavalry now far to the right, now far to the left, gradually ad vancing his divisions in cover of hills up on which he had placed guns in a word, feeling for the enemy, rapidly advan cing, but cautiously every step. The enemy disdained to make any sign, but not long. His artillery was compelled to answer ours, and, pressing on, we un- earthed his infantry. There was a light ; rattle; then a roar of musketry. Milroy, j in the advance, had come square upon j rebels in masses. Our line of battle : was formed, Schurz having the right, i Schenck the left, Milroy the advance ! center, and Steinwher the reserve cen- j ter. Just at this opening of the battle, I i saw, from the hill from which Schurz was going into action, a column bearing , dowu upon our right, aud at first sup- i I posed them to be rebels. Unaccounta-1 blv, they carried high over their, heads sundry white flags, and appeared to j , march stragglingly, and it was soon seen ; 1 they were unarmed. i They proved to be 634 prisoners, tu- ! ken by Jackson, when he appeared at . Manassas three days before, now releas I ed on parole. The enemv could not feed i them, and would themselves starve un less re-enforcements should push tw them with supplies. A little after Milroy, Schurz became engaged. They drove the enemv a mile or more and rested from outright fa- I tigue. During this time Schenck had I been engaged on the left, but not henvi- ! lv. 1 ough old Heintzleman arrived at I 1 this juncture from Centreville with his ' ! whole corps. Schurz was withdrawn for j j Kearney and Hooker to take his place. Reno arrived soon after from the same I direction. Stevens division of his j corps marched to the left to support I Schenck, and the attack was once more i along the whole line. I should have sta i ted that some time before the cessation, I Milroy, after two hours of musketry in tornadoes, was driven back, much cut ! to pieces, and replaced by Steinwehr, : who was assisted by Schenck at his left. It whs now 1 o clock. Sigel's corps only had been engaged, and we had on the whole gained ground at the right nearly a mile. It was reasonable to sup pose that with the assistance of Reno and Heintzleman, and most of the day before us, we should utterly demolish the enemy. It has since appeared that simultaneously with our re-inforcements, he received larger ones. Longstrcet's whole command, whose passage through Thoroughfare Gap Ricketts had dispu ted the day before, had now joined Jack son and Ewell, whom we had been fight ing hitherto. Longstreet would natu rally join Jackson at his right; it was upon our left, and occasionally upon our center, that we were most severely press ed the remainder of the day. Up to this time Sigel hat command of the field. He had made the dispositions of thefigUt, and conducted it successful ly six hours. Pope arrived from Cen treville about noon and assumed com mand, but wisely and generously defer red to Sigel the rest of the day, as being best acquainted with the position. At 2 o'clock the fight was raging along the whole line terrifically musketry like Gaines' Mill and artillery like Mal vern Hill. There was not ten minutes cessation at any time for the next three hours. We advanced not a step; we re tired not a step. The enginery of war, men, guns and " villainous saltpetre," seemed equal, each side to the other. At 5 o'clock Schenck was ordered back from the left, and the artillery of that wing fell back to the next eminence. During the three hours, scarcely a regiment of the three corps on the field that bad not been into the thickest. Promptly and skillfully, as a command would become exhausted, it would be re placed by another, but only for a brief rest, then to up and at it These splen did "passages of lines," as such move ments are technically called, seem to me a feature that ought not to pass uncom mended. Gaines Mill would have been victory had such movements been made promptly and orderly. Hie withdrawal ot the left was not a giving up ot the battle. Iroops were rushed to the right, and a redoubled on set made there. Again the enemy was forced back. His left was swept upon his center; we took him "endways,' in Hank. While the infantry fought those, our artillery, eleven batteries in line, played stunningly, each gun pointed well to the left, that no unlucky shell might harm a friend. We could move the rebels no further than their center. Musketry in rolls, in crashes, sounded out of the spot of woods where our advance was stayed; how ten aciously the enemy held their ground I cannot hope to adequately express. How Schurz fought ask an evc-witness ot the conduct of his men, led by the orator fighter. It was 6 o'clock. The enemy not only hold his center, out advanced upon our left. It was carried. Opportunely, JMcUowell s corps ap peared coming to our relief. Two brig ades (Hatch s and Doubleday s) imme diately met the enemy's advance upon our left, and although suffering terribly, staved him until dark. The day's work was ended. We held more ground than in the morning, but not 60 much as at noon. Waking in my fence-corner sleeping apartment at daylight Saturday morning I first walked to the summit of the hill to ascertain the position of affairs. Evcrv thing indicated a renewal of the battle. Already columns were marching jn eve ry direction, men at the left being brought to the right, and rice term, being brought from front to rear and from rear to front, Generals with staffs and body guards riding over the field, each, of course, with a purpose; but ,to an eye witness seeming, with the other movements, like " confusion worse con founded." Every few minutes a shell from our battery furthest to the left, re plied to as often by guns whose smoke clouded in the far western horizon, made me question whether the enemy had not retreated. While my horse was eating mv hav bed I had SDoken with several Major Generals' staff officers, and they participated in the fear that the enemy had sprung irom under our hnper. The day wore away until noon, with a continuance of desultory ("bumi'n." the butternut prisoners call it,) Gen. Pope on horse the whole time, giving orders rapid and imperative, each carried in stantly by a galloping aid, receiving re reports from all parts of the field, and I right was firm, and only at the calm dis never detaining the messenger long for j cretion of its generals. Unaccountably his reply, from each eminence sweeping to me at the time, so soon as we fell the position with his glass he was evi- back from the left, the musketry almost dently ascertaining the position of the ' entirely ceased. We were pursued by enemy, and determined to fight if he shells only. It is probable that the eue stood or if he ran. my dared not advance lest Heintzclman The division commanders were seeing and Sigel should fall upon his Hank as that their men were provided with ra- he should pass by them. Sigel liad not tions, made a difficult matter by the ; forced cross marchings of the week which prevented quartermasters from knowing where to conduct trains. For once red tape was summarily cut, and rations is sued to every unsupplied regiment from whatever stores were at hand. I heard Sigel exclaim that crackers were " worth as much as muskets." Porter's corps had arrived on the f round at 9 o'clock from Manassas, ma ing five corps ready for action. The number of men comprised in these I should estimate at 60,(W0. Hooker's di vision had but 2,441 men in the ranks, so terribly has it shrunk by battle aud disease. In the order of battle for the day Heint zelman commanded the right, Porter the center and McDowell the left; and Sigel, whose corps had bore the brunt the day before, the reserve. At ten Heintzcl man advanced skirmishers into the wood on the right of the battlefield of the day before, aud found it only held bv a few troublesome bushwhackers. Driving them back, large numbers of wounded got off and passed to the rear. I rode in with these skirmishers as far as I deemed prudent At any rate 1 got upon ground where the corpses attested the fighting of. the day before. First I came upon bodies in blue; these were our fallen. Then there were those in blue mingled with others in gray and non descript. That ground had been fought over. A little further there they were all blur, and nondescript. And there the bodies were thickest. Upon ground that I judge to be not over half an are, I counted 7'J bodies, dead and wounded Advancing further etill 1 saw a Union soldier seized, not ten rods from me, and earned off by bush whackers. 1 retired (in good order) satr isfied that the enemy's loss exceeded our own. At 2 o'clock, by the movements of troops from right to left, I inferred that the position of the enemy had been found in that direction. By this time our line wits different from that of the day before. Our right was further advanced, our left withdrawn, so that we fronted almost to the South. At Bull Run, a year ago, we faced exactly South. At 3 o'clock General Stevens attacked at the right, and soon after General But terfield at the left. The enemy's shells seemed equally distributed along the whole line, and at each point of attack he met us with musketry. I was at General Sigel's headquarters. That General was certain the enemy in tended to turn one or the other of our flanks, and said we must ascertain which, or the result was at the best doubtful ; for his scouts had just reported that Lee, with the entire remainder of the rebel army, had come up and assumed com mand. The scouts were correct. On Saturday we fought the whole rebel army. Posting myself in the center within view of both portions of the field where infantry were engaged, I cotill not de termine which had the best of it. Evi dently but few troops were engaged, and I surmised that we were fighting mtrolv to learn where lay the enemy's main force. At length our force r at the right was driven back, and I thought General Pone liad been out-generaled When he moved men at an earlier part of the day from right to left A quarter of an hour later, I wish he had moved a still greater proportion to the left I have heard the musketry of the best contested battles fought in Vir ginia, and I say unhesitatingly that the fire which broke out at the left and up to the center, was by far the heaviest of anv. Talk of volleys, rolls and crashes! It was all these continually accumulat ing, piling upon each other in mighty swelling volume the wrestle of rushing tornadoes, such as chaos may have known. From my position it seemed that artillery played from each of the cardinal points upon the devoted center where 1 knew men were strug gling, but I could not see them strug gling. The smoke of gunpowder pre vented that, but I knew they were there, and trembled for the result A few min utes later, Schurz, who was in reserve, was ordered to the left Before he could get fairly into position, McDowell and Porter were irretrievably broken. Their soldiers fought like brave men; if mo ments be reckoned by their intensity, thev fought long, as they surely did fight well. I doubt not they piled the ground with rebel slain, as Halleck sings of Mos lem slain by Bozzari's band. I believe there cannot be a man who heard or par ticipated in that awful tragedy, but counts the hour between 4-J and 5J o'clock the severest fighting he ever knew. It was all at one point Along the right half of the line the combatants seemed to desist in amazement at the struggle there. By half after 5 o'clock, it was apparent that wo were beaten outflanked bv a concentration upon the left Wagoners and stragglers about the hospitals scented the retreat, and soon trains of the former and streams of the latter could be seen making for the Bull Run bridges and fords. McDowell's and Porter's corps retired in comparative or der. I use this term not as a mild, but false paraphrase for driven back, but be cause it covers the actual fact in the case. I do not think that there was a brigade that could not, as it came from the held, show its distinct regiments, or rather a nucleus of each regiment to whose stan dard, ere it had marched a mile, its scat tered men gathered. Still there were several thousand hurrying pell-mell in advance of them, toward Centreville, crowding the stone bridge and wading the stream. A dozen long wagon trains centered there, but there was little con fusion among them, no desertion of wa gons, but simply a jam, where each de sired and pushed to be first They were thus cool, notwithstanding a few shell V. A . 1 A 11 - - 1 nursi among uiein. .an tins mmra uiu had his hght out, nor had neintzeiman, and the enemv was hardK in condition for another battle immediately. It is possible, also, that Banks' corps was nearing the field he was known to be at Manassas early in the day and thcy may have seen his advance and been afraid. It was all done in two hours. Another corps upon the field would have frustrated that rush of overpowering numbers upon one point Those num bers were so overpowering that they suc ceeded before men could be moved against them from any other part of the field. Franklin lay at Centreville, Sum ner at Arlington Hights. Why had they not been sent to Pope five days before, as tbey were ordered, and as he ex pected t I forded Bull Run in the dusk of the evening and sat some time looking at the crossing of men and trains. While con versing with General Butterfield. who had withdrawn his men only when ordered, although he had made the attack at that point and was in the ad vance,a shell struck the ground some twenty feet from us, and in its ricochet passed over our heads. I instinctively dodged and my horse sprang forward. Ihe General did not move a muscle until he smiled as he re marked, thai his horse was too accus tomed to those things to be disturbed by them. A moment after another shell kaocked a wagon to pieces close by. The fragments were taken out of the roads and the train moved ou undisturbed. I recalled the scenes at this crossing of the same place a year ago after that tat tle, and knew that this was no panic. Riding on toward Centreville, which is six miles from the field, about mid way I met Franklin's corps, which, hav ing learned the position of affairs, that the whole army was retiring to Centre ville was on the oint of retracing its steps I marched with it to Ceutreville. Richardson's division and Kimball's brigade of Sumner's corps arrived here during the night from Alexandria, and this morning Sedgwick's division, being the balance of the same corps, is coining in from Arlington Hights. Altogether the position appears favor able. These two corps comprise not less than 30,000 veteran soldiers, under the best of the Peninsula Generals. Besides these, there is Banks' corps, 10,000 strong, which must be somewhere in the neigh borhood, for I do not credit the rumor that he is cut off, though he may have been forced to destroy his trains. This last conjecture is strengthened by heavy explosions having been heard in the di rection of Manassas Junction last night It is estimated this morning, that at least 50,000 men of those engaged on Friday and Saturday are still in their runlis. ; Add to these bodies 25,000 newly volun teered men, which have been ordered here from Washington, and there is a total of over 100,000 ready, within twenty-four hours, to meet the enemy that number exclusive of Banks. The ruiy engaged yesterday is under stood to be" concentrating here, though much of it camped but little this side of Bull Run, and has not yet come up. I take it there will be no fighting to-dny; the enemy will not attack us here. But I do take it that we shall advance before three days. A gentleman just from Washington re ports that it is rumored there that a large rebel force is marching up the valley with the design of penetratiug Maryland. There need be no fears of any thing of the sort Wc have their whole force in front of us, and fought Jackson, Ewell and A. P. Hill Friday afternoon, and all these with Lee and the entire rebel horde Saturday. They still need every man they can muster to oppose Pope, who is not the man to be held on the defensive by a portion of their army. I repeat, Pope will resume the offensive before they have Time for any such maneuvers. A few incidents, and I must go to bed in a clover field. Among the last epi sodes on Friday was a charge of the Har ris Cavalry, simultaneous with the ad vance of Hatch and Doubleday, where our left was being sharply pressed Led by Lietnant-Colonel Kilpatrick, 500 men charged straight up the road into the very teeth o: the enemy s position, now may struggled was seen by no oiie, for no eye could penetrate the gathering darkness, thicker for clouds ot smoke and dust. But one-fourth of them were of the unre turning brave, and the contest was of but twenty minute's duration. The regiment was engaged agaiu on Saturday, with considerable loss. At one time in the early part of Friday, Hampton's Pittsburg Battery, attached to Schurz's division, by some changing of commands, was leu unsupported iu. t as it was charged niton. Grape at short range twice repelled the assailants, but three cannoniers, as many horses and one gun were disabled. Ine third time the rebels were seen advancing, Capt Hamp ton gave the order to limber up. The disabled gun remained with the enemv Gen. Sigel highly commended the batte ry. " While stretched upon the ground, be hind the crest of a hill, and watching rebel shells pass over me, I noticed that a part of them went pitching through the air " eend over eend," snorting and tuin blinc but never exploding, while others I could scarcely see, but they seemed to so small end first, and the sound was whistle, not so ragged as that of the oth ers. Afterward 1 found that the former were nieces of railroad iron. The enemy must be short of decent projectiles, is the logical deduction. I may remark here that I discovered mv position to be un safe some time before I discovered safe wav of getting out of it Gen. Sigel's Chief of Ordinance is Capt wT 1v 11 r . ST" 1 L ine Lanigren, son or tnc uommodore of that name. I hope he came safely out of yesterday s battle, for a more gallant officer or one more capable of that posi tion is not iu the service. Gen. Sigel, who believes that artillery should be made to tight battles, and himself knows how to use it, seemed to rely upon his youth ful Aid more than upon all others. Ho spoke on Friday night of two batteries that held a forlorn hope, if the ter n may be applied to a dangerous and important position, as having fought their pieces with cool audacity. They were Captain Hampton's, mentioned above, and Capt Roemer's. Hooker's and Kearney's Division fought bitterly, and lost heavily on Fri day, but were scarcely engaged ou Satur day. Col. Brown of the 20th Indiana, whose name you will see among the killed, and whose loss will be felt not more by his friends nt home than by his soldiers and commanders in tnc army. Gen. Stevens, better known as Ex Governor of Washington Territory and chairman of the Breckinridge National Committee, led his division with consum mate skill and coolness, had a horse killed under him and won golden opin ions. 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