The New York Herald Newspaper, August 8, 1861, Page 2

2 THE BULL RUN BATTLE. Additional Rebel Particulars of the Fight. Rebel Diagrams, Showing the Topography of the Fiekl and the Positions of the Porces, Names of More of the Killed and Wounded, &eo., &. NOTES TAKEN ON THE BATTLE FIELD. {Correspondence of the Charleston Moroury.y Huu Row, Sunday Morning, July 21-—10 o'clock. On the Fictd of Batile—A Sublime Scene—The Dark Co: tumns of the Enmy Advancing--His Batteries Pire—Our Mnat First Lie Perdu—Our Flank: Move men'—Terrible Piring—The Enemy Driven Back—Scene the Conflict Changed to the Stone Bridge—Gallantry of reneval Beans’ Smail Force—Our Losses— President Do ‘ets om the Pild—How He was Receiwd, de. It ssemod to be conce fe1 that this was to be the day of trial for which we have boen working for many mouths past, and, incommon with the immense mass of men as- sembled here, 1 have taken my position upon Bull run, to share the fortunes of the contest. The scone @ momont since, and yet, !s unutterably svbtime. Upon the hill, just ono and a third mile off, the enemy are placing thelr artillery. We see them plunging abovo Mitebeli’s Ford, and deploying to the right and feft. Dark masses are drifting on with the power of fata in tho road. Wo ace the colnmns moving, and, as thoy deploy through the forests, we see the cloud of dust float ing over them, to mark their course. When the dust ceases wo ate sure that they have taken their position. The fir fog now commences from two batieries to tho right ‘and left of tho road Tt ia constant, ant anocher bas been opened about a mile lower down. That, how- ever, bas been firing for an hour pas The guns are served with great rapidity und precision, and, as we are within range, and uncertain, therefore, when they will favor us, there is quite an mtorest in the position, Onr own troops are in the dense forest that Hos below us on Bullrun. They are siil!, nota gun has yet beon fired, a sand there would seem to bo nothing to indicate their pre: sence, Of thelr presence und their readiness tho en is advised, however, and is making all the hondway ho Of the precise position, how they aro still un- advised; and in every clump of trees,'and all along the Tine, they are plunging shots. So far, however, none have told. Our own battories are in reserve, ready for a spring | Conny point that may comp to be available. Tho hos pital is again the object for their fire; and the battery T | mentioned as a mile below the ford, haviug heavier ging than more field pieces, and ono at least rillo’, is now play- ing upon it, The object, however, of the most. inton line of dust ‘that begins to rise above tho lying for miles away to the right of the enemy. ‘That tt 48. a moving column is evident, but whother of our own or is tho principal question. nemy in flank, if i ere is no corresponding Movement promiaes success. Tho enemy ma: Pag a force in anticipation, but if not we fail upon their jan HALr-Past Tes o'CLoen A ‘There ia fring on our flanking column. The eucmy opened their batlory upon it half way. The c sponds. The firiug becomes rapid—musketry—rapid. Generals Reauregard, Jobastun and © just come to the hill whore | have been standing. The whole scene is before us—a grind moving diorama. Tho enemy ave sent @ ball from their rifled cannon at us. Another, pass over us with a sound that makes our flesh AN have left the spot but Gonerals Beau- regard, Bouham and Jotnstoti and their aids. The firing has cvaxed at the head of our flanking column. It is re- newed again, nearer, I think, to the enemy, Another ball exactly over our heads. A very sustaining force follows our flanking column. The enemy, firing atour generals, bas dropped a shot among the wagons in the edge of the woods beiow, and Uhey dash off. Another shot follows thom as they fly, and plunges in the ground but a few feet behind one of them. EN O'CLOCK. The fring has been awful The heads of the flank rig and Fesisting mns are distinctly visi- ble from thé smoke that rises above them, and thoy stand stationary for a long time, bot at last the enemy's column goes back—a column of dist arises in thetrrear—« shout, Tises that roars loud asthe artillery from dur men—the ny’s fire slackens—our reserves advance—the dust on to the position lately occupied by the enemy—we triumph, we triumph, thank God! The dust euitl rises in ‘the rear of the enemy, as though they were retreating idly. itt QvARTRR BEFORE TWELVE O'CLOCK. The cnemy make another stand, Again, there is the roar of musketry, long like the roar of distant and pro- tracted thunder. Again the roar, but always at the head of the enemy's column. A column of dust rises to the Jott of our forces and passes to the enemy's right. 1s must be intended to flank them. It ia fearful to think how many heart strings are wrung by the work that now we many brave men must be maugled and iv anguish, ‘Again the enemy has fallen back to another point, half a mile in the rear; and the spirals of the smoke carl up ‘the side of the mountain in the background, The wholo aacene is in the Piedmont valley, which I have often no- ticed to have slept so sweetly to the west of Centreviile, and sweeping on down to the south. It iv nearly lovel, seems 50, and the Blue Ridge rises to form the dark back- ground of a most magnificent picture. Twetv® O'cLocK, Noex, ‘The batteries first opening have been silent for half an hour, and the whole extended valley is now the thick of the ae . Whore tho enemy last took his stand rotreat- ing, the Aight fs fearful, the dust is densce than the emoka, Atisawful. Thoy have boen repulsed threo times—so it tie aay by a courier—and now they have taken their bloodiest and final stand. Hauy-rast Twatve o'CLocK. The fring now is at iteheight. Never, until now, havo I dreamed of such» rie; for one leng milo the whole valley is a boiling cratur of dust and smoke. Quarter Errors Oxe o’CLoak. The fray ceases; Generals Beauregard and Johnston dash on to the scene of action, and as we cannot doubt that the enemy bas again fallen back, it lodks ag though they wore ‘on their way to Washington. Own 0’Cxoax, Coluron aftor column ta thrown in fromall along the line of Bull run to fall, upon the left flank of tho enemy, and the firing is again renewed, as though uothing bad ‘down done. An cffort would seem to have been made to out. flank us, and it has brought on another engagement fur- ther off, but on ajine with the first. The cannon establish- ed on tho bill was a firnt at Mitcheli’s For: 4, while ot both armies the effort was to outflank, ‘These ‘guns now but play at tho columns of dust as they riso from the infantry and cavalry as they tramp past; and as those crlumns are near the point where I stand, they have brought a dozen balls at least within 100 yaris, Firtkey Mrvutes Past Oxe 0'Ctoce. The firing has almost entirely ceaged, but still our re. serves are pouring in. Theeremy seems to be making an attempt to crossat Mitchell's Ford. All at Mitchell's Ford | fs afeint, and it is now certain that the grand battle | ground for empire is now to the west, beyond the Stone Bridge, on Bull ran, and I go there, \ Evexiva At two o'clock T arrived on the ground; but of the fur. ther scenes of this eventfal battle T have hothing more to say, save this only, that at tlve o'clock the onemy was driven from the ‘fied, leaving most of the gina of Sherman's battery behind them, with an awful list of dead and wounded. It will bo evident to any one who becomes familiar with the events of the day that I misapprchend many of the occurrences. The attack was maile ata point abovo the Stone Bridge, on Bull run, by the whole disposable force of the enemy, Id by General McDowell. The importance of the movemout was not at first estimated, and it was ~ by General Evans, with only the Fourth Sout, @ wet regiment, Colonel Sloan, the Independent |," « — isiana Bal talion, Mayor Wheat, and two guns of thy * tillery. The charge.of the enemy wag * | «astington ar pidity that was beyond all prvjen, pee, set with an intre of the enemy was hekt at". 7") 4 the whole column These were ladon be --O*Y,4F" at reinforcements caino Roeser 7 Colour, Jackson, Colonel Bartow, & fe as ornertl-“nes The conflict went on in and Tortiblo Firuggle of tho coufederato troops Sr erent odds Atm amidst Lerrible slaughter. one BS ement two regiments of South isis of the SUgagemen s AC thy 6 vahaw'é AYR vegke Sere ordered 10 ad 5 Kershaw’s Kempor’s battory was AUQC!®n Ww geen troops advanced, they were joined by Pi; g brigade, A tremendous charge waz made, which decided the fate of tho day. After acts of incredible valor, the enemy wore driven off far to the As they retreated on the Braddock road to Cen trevitie » charge was mate upon them by a portion sf My cavalry, and T think of the Rudford RengeRyoleano The PRon them about a mile awn re ten Myre ites.capeon's Logi) euifercd greatly. Tt exe anh t and marched directly Tuto ‘vattie, When I went pon the ground T heard that Coionels Hampion a n were both kille bul sflerworae T Colon ton riding from the Held, wounded bad : at the thought that his men had exhibits: trepldity, and that General Deaunreccn hinwet nok 2 Hievoed tilin and led h's Legion into battle sie Colonel Sloan's Fourth regiment South Caro! teers suffered as much. They stood decimated fire unti! retuforcements came Fomnant of t Of Volon every and they exhibit a sat 10 noble body of ere [os i body of men that entered Second regiment, Colonel Kershaw, did fo execution at a rerk af the contest, but euifored lem | The Fourth Albama regiment, Colonel Jones, the moe Georgia regiment, Colonel Gardner, suffered | ‘Wearied and worn and sick at hoart, I retired from the field whose glory is scarcely equal to its gloom, and T ba’ ‘Hot the strength or time to write more. | gend my field e, Boles as they are. resident Davie came upon the ground just as the ¥ ended, and the wildest. cheering grectnd him He rode tong the lines of war worn mee who bed toes drawn off jon, and he seemod proud of them aud of his mand such noble men, but it was t a fooling of regret that tp ir right to his re vindicated at 60 dreadful « acti ered pect bad Baer v jee. Many wound. ed e1i!' stood in the ranks, and exhibited the unalterable yp “pose to stand there while they had etrength to do so, How many of the enemy were k we bave no nacnt vowing, but It must have been much greater | than wh, Our men shot with the utmost possible vuln 1 precision, and they must have claimed this ay w a's battery, sixteen guns, and throe Uories that opened upon us fit, above | me on the ground at sun correct, Thave hesitated best. eW’s Ford, in whi ‘ | t | as to appear almost incredible. feat aud onl a b mi vi Pository are sattl al 8 v A large division of fresh troops, with heavy guns in posi wu py scattered und were chased Like bares from their lost posi tion; nor did. onr cf ni ul to Bd @ large table spread with a sumptuous dinuer, and almost untotiched, as the rout, whi the fashionable hour for a dining fe.st, had left but poor stomachs for digesting rich food. had invited his friends to enjoy with him on the reute to down the Centreville road to tho apex of the eminence | Richmond, indicating that they expocted to repose a short time at Fairfax Court House, vi as to the cuisine. Twenty-five baskets of champagne and ceutre of “good things,” and a soldier who was present has just informed me that when onr brave bungry buys arrived at tho village and took. puasession, thoy commenced a, during whic nock companies, named Hopper, mounted upon the table then relioved somewhat of its load) and propos.d the go shower of gi It ch WHAT THE REBELS SAY THEY HAVE CAP- TURED, Twill send @ corrected list of our casualties to- pAOrLOW. There was an engagement at the batteries above Mitch- the Fifth, Seventh and Eighth South ‘urolina regiments were engaged, but the facts have not ranspired beyond the taking of guns, [From the Correspondont of the Memphis Argus } The serious results of the victory have been aseertained at the war department to be sixty-nine pieces of artery, 23,000 stand Of arms, 800 wagons laden with stores atid munitions of war, aud a quantity of provisions se huge Never dreaming of do ly occupied with the advance of their grand rmy, the Hberat commissariat for thoi tam 1d converted the town of Centrevil niles trom tho battle, ito one great isions and army stores ‘The provisions of every kind capture t, the President arelouse Tor pro it this grand re- ts, to feed an paign, ‘To rmny of fifty the Our t are pouring in every day from the South, and. it Bout “Johnston” chose they can plant the hated Palmetto tree beside the Bunker | their midst of ow Hilf monument, which was erected to commemorate the | same principles for which we are now fighting, and to which a degenerate race hus proved recreant. They have forced this fight upon us, and after exhausting everything | operations there, but honor for peace, it is (heir turn to sue for terms. Tnever had any idea of military selene before. Beau- regard und Jobnston play ‘out seeing tho enemy's move, a move was immediately ordered to put him in check | The times are eo oxciting here that T cannot yet fore. | quick, On they went, plunging into the midst of the fray, see my movements. enough for th and having no commission left and came up to Rich mond to sent down many things ne¢ thinking I could serve them better im this way than av other, and Johnston choose to lead them, it like @ game of chees with- he board—when 4 messenger came and told had surgeons | T found that low Is at Manassos, | wounded in the hospital dod for the patients { ave their iinm 9 Wealth of stores, it was at Centre. ile that Mets ttempted to ral his flying army. jon, met the remnants of his vanquishod forces and fore 4 them intoa momentary halt; but so demoralized wer: is mon, that at sightof our pursuing columns, they ag: 2 cease from their bloody busi cas of cutting up and riding down the cowardly hounds intil within four mil’s of Artington heights. At this place (Coutreville) our troops had the good Juck ich commenced about A correspondent from Manassas has just shown m¢ a umber of bills of fare tor the dinners to which McDowell Manassas, and other con enient localities on the way, The bills of fare are mostly in French and quite costly dozen of claret were also found at Centreviile—the at ones ut havoc upon these delicious drinkubles, sprightly officer iu one of the Rappahun Howin impromptu t.a-ti—“Our siucere thanks to the mty old Scott; may his captured batteries. soon send a pe from which he can All his wine boitles,”’ is needless to add that our lieutenant was vooifero heered, and the boys, out of respect for the great mai memory , drank standing and in silence. ti re Fy last. missed the road to Arling’ gi th muking their way out hi ti Co surrounded last Friday, and kee officers, who were’ not quite active enough in their and wer sumed that they will b {From the Richmond pispatch.} It ts reportod here, aud almost universally believed, 1at five full commanivs, attached to one of the Yan'e> iments which participated im the battle at Manassas last day, surrendered to Goueval Beauregard on Friday ‘Theao men, it x in their huste and fright, sand bocame lest in tho Vir uta forests, near the Blue k sue, famished with hun y i requested that their ‘condi Jd before Genoral Beauregard. All surrendered, kindly furnished with nourishm: It is pre ent to Richmo It is also stated that a hyuse in the vicinity of Fairfax ourt House, which was suspected by our troops, was found to contain sixteen Yan dled one of our scouts 1 be movements last Sunday, and took refuge in this building. qT uw the crew of the privateer Savannah, DESCRIPTION OF THE pee er p N th battle which has yet come to hand, and, aided by refer. cuce to the sketch which we publish, the reader can ar- ve aba very correct idea of the plan and progress of ne @onfict. "It will be realized that if we had had all the ri ti army of Manassas on the ground, none of McDowell's army would have returned to Washington to tell the tale. ose who escaped the slaughter would have been eap- Th tured. The enemy's feint on tho centre was a masteriy iananvre, which would have distracted heads less coot than Beauregard’s and Johuston’s, and they would have drawn all their forces to that point, They kept up a per: ent attack there during moat of the day, and our gene battle of Manaseas, which brought « nation into existence, aud the scone was grand aud impressive beyond the Power of language. We foresaw tho action several days ahoad—the enomy were knowa to be advancing in im. met f could get down on the other side. Johnston's troops m ra in th th aud Jobnston, and thelr staif officers, 1 went immodiately to headquarters. full feathor, and T of course felt at homo’ in hig camp, wi mined to attack them in several columns at once the next moring, go as to cut them up before Patterson co! morning, informing the genecais that the enemy had been in motion since two hours before day, which settled the question ag to their intention to make the attack. regard, who had overy hill, ravino and pathway—Mad made all the noces- sary arrangements aud planned tho battle, Not knowing at what point of a semi-circlo of ten miles around Manas: wi the right and centre to aid their sorely pregsed left which 4 jew thousand wearied -heroes were holding agalpat the thirty-five thousand fresh federal troops, ey were bagged, of course, and wil! be securoly bd ntil it ig a ‘ertained what disposition isto be made of FROM DR. J. (From tho Mobile Evening News, July 30 Fe permitted to publish the following portion of a te letter from our eminent tawusman, Dr. J. C. ‘ott, addressed by bim toa friend inthis cily. It gives no most comprehensive and striking impression of the ‘e thus prevented from withdrawing their troops from, DR. NOT?’S ACCOUNT, Rucawonn, July 23, 1861. Dear Hartestox—I havo seen the great and glorious masses from Arlington towards Fairfax, and the stroke was at once made, to order Johuston down m Winchester, by forcod marches, before Patterson arched all twenty-six miles, then crowded into the ailroad, camo down in successive trains, without sleep- ig OF eating (15,000), and arrived, many of them, while ho battle was raging. 1 got to Manassas tho morning of tho day provious to hw fight, and knowing woll both Genorals Beauregard Zac. Deas, among the rest, was there ib here 1 spent the night. General Beauregard deter- juld arriv®—bat our scouts came early in the Beau studied the whole ground around—knew A. The columns of the euemy making the feint attack B, B. Tue columus of the enemy, 35,000 strong, making the real attack on the left of the Confederate lines 1. Manassas Junction, with Confederate troops bolding the fortified camp. 2. The 16,000 Confederate troops who fought the battle and defeated the 35,000 federais who attacked thein, 3 The centre of the Confederate lines, a battery in position 4,4, 4,4. Positions of troops forming the Confederate tines, where they were kept in line to meot an advance from avy quarter. ments were sent down from these positivus to join in the Sixt co the left. 5, Measured by the arc or directly across from right to loft, ty not clear. i ANOTHER REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE. Although more than a week las passed since tho great battle of Manassas, and the public have daily been fur- ished with narratives of deeds done on that there yet remains much to be told. The following statement war proparod by a distin guisbed officer, who bore a conspicuous part on the feld Of battle on the 21st of July:— It may not be unacceptable to_your’ readers to learn soracthing of the battle of Manassas from an oye witness, who had better opportunities of observation, perhaps, than any one enemy was at fivo minutes past six o'clock the morning, batterios tre as «# feint our loft. General Beauregard, with their staff, rode off to theuearest Point of elevation, ‘and observation convenient to the Cetitre, and there awauted developements whilat the iron hail whistled around and over tn conception seemns to pervade the pnblic mind which has not yet been corrected, that Gen. Beauregard fought the battle, and that General Johnston yielded to preconceived plans.’ Whilst, according to General Beauregard all the merit to which he is cntitled—and thero does not live = more gallant gentleman and officer, nor one for whom I have a bigber admiration as a Gcneral—tit ts due to Gen- SE A! he planned the battle, Kxsen. u er risked during the’ campaign any battle where our chances were not, ee LESSEE Le en Tho above sketch comprehends an aroa of county @ about olghteen milearby fifteen, POSITION OF THE POROES, one 1) 4% 45 EXPLANATION OF SKETCH. 5 the centre of the Contederate lines. It is understood that some ce: Railroads which make the junction at Manassas From the extreme left to the extreme right of which formed nearly @ true semf-cirel was ten miles; but whether this distan {From the Richmond Despatch, July 20.) jody field, THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS. Ricumond, July 27, 1861. else. The iret gun fired by the in opening against our cen- to conceal the movement against A short time afterwards General Johnston aud A singular mis- ®@ man of judgment, General Johnston has nevi ood. our men murmered vastly when or- to go backward from Harper's Ferry, from Bunker's dered ‘HIN, from Darkeville ard from Winchester, no one can now dare to dispute the sagacity which planned all the move. | Captured officers, was al aus tho enemy would attack, bis force had to bo scat- Wred tm such @ way as to guard all points, provent a tlank | ments, To havo risked @ battle by attacking eaperior Tovemont on either side, and guard hs tatrenchments | mumbers, entailing defend pea, un, would doubtlens have and sapplics in the centre, crushed our proud republic in its inception. When Gen- ooffec and remained quictly laughing and talking at head- q ing nows from the enemy. At® quarter past six in the still, bright morning, wo heard the first deep toned sound of & cannon on tho cantre of our line, about three m: away ‘Qt which cannon, like minute guns, bad continued slowly to fire on road, which they saw above the low trees, some time at the point they were firing at, and some twenty or thirty balls of their rifled cannons whizzed th mark of Cuddy to his mother Mauso, t butlet bas nae diserction” and might take my head off as upslowly froma quarter past s1x tilleleven, when we heard a gun fire on the extreme left of the semi-circle, and we w fe. 8u cs re hous were roaring and the musk6tgy sounded like a large Dunile of fire-crackers, ab the fonstant roaring of the | defending the various fords. By turning our flank tb¢ big guns, th! TR 8 ind of Fitled cangnhe. iat ritles | line Of Wattle was changed to a direction porpend*:ular and muskets, wit “yo bursting of shells, made one feel | to the one which wo had assumed, o4) oom hat death Wa “ying his work with feartul rapidity. mencing at our left extended back for 4 mile and a ‘The one” y paid concentrated all his forces on title one | quarter, When the musketry betrayed Yue scat im the point, > too it ants * sake ry ¢ u | position coolly an rs i than human nature could sland, the regiments were torn to pieces thatT feared the day was the chemy was telegraphing hel'been won, and secession was about to be crushed. hind me the with almost equal speed, wagons ing number and Vknew that th they would have ‘We got up in the morning at daytight, took a cup of uarters, while the scouts were passing in and out bring- tes off, We waited Wl nine for further informa. at nine the generals ordered to horse, and dashed to the bill overlooking the points enemy could hot seo any of ing at the dust kicked up along the Wo were for ar troops, but wero od prough the air above us, and I felt very forcibly the re- ba straggling ell as that of anybody else. The dring at this point kept then satisfed that the tiring in front was a mere int Tua few minutes:the cannon firing came in rapid cecssion, as if one battery was answoring another. The srals then ordered ‘to horge” again, and away we je to the seat of battle, about three miles aff. When arrived’on the top of a bill, in an old geld, we could Jimpses of the fight through, the woods.’ The can- 2 nile ours were scattered around @ half circlo of niles, and the few regiments who received the first susot were most terribly cut up, Tt was far greater odds overwhelined by nambers At this stage of the game » Washington that the battie driven back, and s w load after load of our s brought and strewed on Dr. My heart failed me as Ts: poor wounded and dying soldi the ground, along the ravine where | was at work. assimilating to asem)circlo. On Saturday night General Jobnston ussumed command, and nearly was consumed by the staff’ of both generals in writio orders to the different brigades to prepare for a forwar movement in the morning. were to be carried out ia @ great measure, and the rout of the enemy would have been more signal, and doubtless ‘Washington would now be in our possession if our atiack | had not been converted mtoa defence by the movements | of the enemy. We intended to move about eight 0’ and they commenced their attack before our movement could be made n my, dated July 20, mine P. M., and afterwards found by the writer, their position wag taken and movements com- menced at that hour. ‘To understand the battle you must know that our line was faced towards Bull run, aud immediately back of it, ci meal tub,” away went the Generals *"p4 their staff, flying upon the wings of the wind tor .ch thy scene of action, | distant three miles. The (0 ,¢ry was a rolling ono, thick- | ly Interspersed With pi. thickets, a was an open 100 feet abe about 600 4 ment of Moziments um, “ached Sudiey’e spring, a ford much higher than it W%, anticipated they would cross,as the Stone Bridge ‘was the pomt we were defending upon our eral Jobinston (who has always been in correspondence with Goneral Boauregard in r armies, and who for wecks President the absolute necessity of such a movement) re- rived orders to form the junction, it came at a fortunate moment, whi twenty-four miles distaut, aud had placed it out hia power to attack us in the ree our columa arrived in time for the battle, but they wore enough. ‘Toreturn, however, to the battle, Our line was extend- ard to the junction of the also pointed out to the ed to Charleston of Only ten thousand of Patterson had mov over a distapce of eight miles, tn a position nearly entire night General Beauregard’s plans lock, From u letter written by one of the ene. dd the battle ground Hey © cna bill upon cach side, rising seme "low ground, and distant from each otber ards. The straggle was an alternate move- When the head of MoDowell’s col- 2 treme left, until Janthray , who belonged to Genera! Johnston's staf, and ] quietly they sneaked along, getting in behind us, nye iw ‘ust ting fully to work, when an old sur- | discovered,! believe, by General Evan's brigade, who ‘on, whom I do not kuow, came lo us andsaid the enemy | opened fre upon them. ti : i arrying everything before them, and ordered ug, i rent tok succession the enemy's regiments: doployed to fall bac nother pomt with ounded, ap Ueey | in line to their right, whilst ours came, or on our left, yan ths Tata ould soon be upon were tarning our fly" Acc rately The ¥Stnded were taken ap and we fell us ¢ misses of wounded’ bodies which strewed 8 they passed along For half a mile be- road pissed down a gradual slope, and through Mocked back Teould geo a "rogiment of ah thee Sight puskets after these followed, loaded with ammu. “push abead boys,” ition, ke, sereaming all’ th Ine rey eut, which bad been driveu back by overwhelm. was Low supported, apd 1 soon perceived tat the tiring was gett.ng further off, a8 Thad expeeted, © "pet lambs" now could only be eaved jn the morning, while urs were scattered over ton miles and had to rainrdbeough ho mid day sunshine. If our men bad been equally frech one straight into their intrenchmente at : ) Lo conflict, but the Arlington, But T will not speculate on the fa! for netl y gt Mu ture and | time hat come for action ig their epurs into Weary you with details which wil! reach” you tbrough | the quick footed #teeds, away went the ganeraleand there j Pant long before this. SIAM into the thickest of the fut ‘ory was dearly bought, but stil! blood is the | Price of (réedom; and we can atleast, while we dropa | Johuston placed the color-bearer by his horse's. Side and Cver the graves of our fallen friends, feel the proud | moved on—cach and all of the staff, with the gonorals consolation they have dled like beroe ing with each other in words of envourn, to the given | vie rations le The eng ~ bering 25,000, while 8000. Slowly bur had been cut to p ing our lines, the take it, and r} Yankees geeme: concealed, and. por seemed to melt away f a Dumber wo met by the b tired, Sighting bray Fegimenteutfered terribly, all of iis field officers bet shot down, and two (Colonel an lost bad remained anxiour spec Alabamians, who were ‘yoeir column pum. vse them at the be. t surely the he ment grew hot and heavy . = e | ginnitue-x@pt'on its march, prosatig our line 4 y it after following the Revbulances for a mile, we / x} o + et on paumgshat bey wera to Uolaen ath oway,lo Maser iar: | weight of numbersy aud moving *, me ae about four mi ser Se 4 cul pitied out position we rage Ur sitnesine rb a snes UC reinforeemen: Fe allan rev pone .t°. TRG Yho rapidity aud eagerness of a fox chase: | 2 "oe leaf gyn gf Be Se ep Q isfled that they would drive everyth » | Struggle for the righs. and, Gospite y Fee them No ene can imagine auch a grand, wlorieue’ pie, | feiment threw tac? x) the way, dispatiog “the fire ne these patriots pretented, rushing’ 10. the eta | Mecr pgedtels Fegardiess m the Tuck that ite prode ne or dwe,versed. A bate: bth Georg.’ Fegiment was o; ered fo ight well did they Ae) $0) but a myriad of wh’ had bitherto beet fire py 98 OWF column, It © enow beneath » 18 1 ammer’s sich + then would come a battery “1 Colone] G: sh ne | r aL dow «3 prison hoe peng ag Cees Crowded with men and drawn | but afi our mee ey the Ri ay fon OTSCR fi galley e 7 rf cabot ti bese ti von aio ee came troops of caval The Eighth, compelied to retreat with uearly Mut itd ed or killed, the attack of the enem te of General Bee, composed of Mist > ans and Ajab: a3 i pitch into the d-—d Vankees,"' ‘drive them into the Po- Seanee ain. tater in the day Cafone T felt ea atta Kept up from about tnid-day Gil dark, and | near this spot, whiio leading: 1 fen 48 if the Alps themeelvoa could not withstand | ment, commanded by Colsuel wa harush. Thecasnoa and email arms were roaring | brigaie could not witbeland the ie ce tornado of shot ike a thunder storm aa they rushed to the battle field | aud shell awoeping through Its rank and slowly re. Fourth Alabama!) y all the tine. Th Jones ani Major Scott) left by thetr ie aaa Upon the felt. Colonel Jones was captured, but after. | bisarm. Notwithstanding his sufferings feor the pr els Superior Leola About this time, 100) the last of | wards retaken durigg the rout. Falling back wpon tha | of bis wounds, he appeared on tr pintform of the core: in site the battle ground. to th arriv Fathyey e CATS, Oppo- | position taken by pton's legion, whore prowess can | response to the calls of the eager crowd assembbad, and four thousand, and aldhoughy thee pete po come, three or | clearly be shown by the heape of dead iu front of their | gave agwwing and elovrent deacription of the fight in without siecp, they jamrago they had been two nighte | line, a momentary check was thrown om the enemy’sap- | which he had ao gaiectly particnated. Tha stays ‘ute »Ahey Jumpel from the ears apd cut across | proach ments of this brave eyewituese confirmed jn the Against their 364000" und’ Yo, nM, Collected about 16,000 | | ‘They had now retreated to the brow of the hill, where | matu. the details of sat victory which Ggolnat their 80,000, and, from all pecounta yh fed fox | the brigade of Geueral Jackson was lying perdu, and thie | we bave received and” by the Te ns did theae cowardly wretcbee be moet, er point of the day. Figh Severephica’ vinaiy » i er accoutred in every reypect Nder Lot sim, without a drop of water py letens hi han pur ten one bait oF wore of whom ind 10 take of our men could not be excelted + het epee eck om Baty forced marches to Pano ‘ ‘They had selected their | cucturances has ita bounds, and ail seemed xboy f wiy OW distant from tbe ecene press ng 0 two genet the knoll ne: Cot ing up Brat to tie ni without a teld offloer, G were ptocemeoa, And (ined was this ano vermont Already our Ii ne upon the hill top was giving away, but incited to fra deeds of heroism by the y m by the appearance in Pgenert apparently bringing up rein- forcements, they pitched into the fray with vied ardor, and from that time not an inch of ground. General Beauregard, riding Over to the took charge displaying bis reck|« very by ridi everywhere in the face of the enemy's fire, and kaving his horse killed beneath him, fortunately escaping uninjured himself, The tide of battle thud ‘checked, away went | General Jobuston’s staff to hurry up the reserves and as- | Sign them to proper positions. “The first were met two miles buck, covered with dust and coming at doub.e and the sunshive of certainty did not gleam from beneath the murky clouds until General Kirby Smith arrived with 4 portion of his division upon the ground, Coming from Winchester, he heard the roar of the battle, and without iting for orders he at once disembarked his men, Col. hed hurriedly to our assistanc 's and Colonel Cash’s regiments arrive upon the groun the same moment, and with these tour thousand men General Smith promptly took the extreme Jet and turned the tide of battle, ‘The enemy had 80 far turned one flank as to bave gotten entirely behind ns, and nearly 4,000 were ma:ching up to attack us in the rear; seeing this, General Smith deter minod to cut them off, and would have done so but for his misfortune in being shot through the neck with a grape shot just as Colonel Kershaw was within twenty yards of him for the purpose of receiving orders. His plan of eut ting them of was, consequently, not carried out, and they wore enabled to join the main body, hotly p ued by our men. General Jackson's brigade hud been lying for hours sustaining with unflinching courage a most terrific fire. ‘The General had his horse shot up him anda finger of the left hand shot off, but, cool aa acucnmber, he still uged his’ “boys” to be steady, aud steady they were whon they charged and butchered the Fire Zoutyes and other regiments right and left, “‘ThevGenerai bas a way of holding bis hoad up very straight, and his almost tneari response to any remark is ‘Very well,” whilst b in KOCINS Ley ing to get up towards Lhe top of bib Lead Tho writer romembers, in the midst of the ght, to uave ‘n tho Genorat ‘rallying bis men, while his chin Reemed to stick out further, and his “very wells" seemod to sound more cupheniously than evor, and when tho writer wished W pour a little whiskey upon the shattered tinger, he was told that it was “of uo consequence,” and away went the General, with a battery following him, to take position tn some advan taeous spot. If any one was ever ent ticd ty asoubrt quet, the General certainly deserved that of cuot Tt is worthy of mention that in alt the vicissitudes of the battle, Lhe enemy at no Lime took Oue of our pieces ot artiliery, and they thundered away all the time, dom wre execution and carrying dismay ito the heurts of 0 Bigs wene of carnage was beyond description, Here a pile of dead and dying meg; there strugging, crippled horses, and over the surface of the hitherto peaceful foite tho surging, angry waves of battle still addi its victims to the lomg ist Our light artillery batteries seem to have been more (hat a match for the eile canvon at @ short distance, for our gins would be tired three or four times to their once. But it muat be wdmitted that some of their battortes were fired wiih tLe precision, wunost, of a rifle at one huudred yards' distance There was a constant struggle durin, enemy's batteries ‘Time and again tho day over the v they captured by our men, and very often retaken by tho euemy The most excited creature on We battle feid was the Rev Mr. Repetto, Captain of the Voge county, Va, Grays, who claimed the honor of taking Rickett's (Shorman’s) atte ry. Of bis whole company, noarly one buudred strong, he had oniy elghteen uninjured Another ‘of our reve rends, Colonel Vendlcton, a graduate of West Point, resident of Lexington , Virginia, and an Fpiace patian minis- ter, was quite busy during the day, and doubths® did more than any one else w check the’ advancing enem: inqniry among the prisonera was very geu manded that buttery on the left that killed many of our ment” Our reply was that it was a saint named Pendleton. About five o’clock our anxious minds wore relieved by the cessation of cannonading fom thuir side, whilst upon ours the thunders still rolled out tong and loud Then we kuew we had them. A loug bine of dust towards Centreville proclaimed that the “stare and bars" waved triuinphapt over tho field. A loug line of fugitives defiled across the flelds, and the cavulry were ordered to pursue. The history of that pursuit upon our part could wel! be written in words of blood, for more men were killed then and there than had fallen in the battle. Our infantry hurried on as rapidly while our batteries gave a parting “fre in The amount of plunder strewn upon the road {s almost tu- ible, The quantity of arms taken it is hard toget at, i many of them are in the hands of those who first took em. “For instance, one company of Virginia troops, in returning from a paral, ptured enough MMinie mus- kets to acm the whole command—elghty strong. estimated, however, that twelve thousand. small arms will be added to our Stock of ordnancé. Enough powder was taken to supply the army for another big battle, and sixty three pieces of artillery, with the caissons full of projectiles, whieh will be returned shortly, with our com: pliments, to their former masters. Many hondreds of our brave boys now sport splendid dive overcoats, the owners of-which did not have Lime to call for them, ‘There is no earthly doubt that our army was overcome sevoral times between twelve and three, and that the Dullotins sent by the enemy are, in the’ main, correct; but alas! ‘the best Inid plans of men and mice aft gang agiee,” wud in this instance, verily, was there a grcat “slip between the cup and the lip.” With all their proparations made, their ‘grand army’? complete in every department, it is too bad that destruction should come upon them when vietory seemed porching upon their standard. And they cannot lay the blame this time upon ‘t] infernal masked batteriea."" They chose their own ground, and we met them in the open fleid with no other intrenchiments but bright steel bayoucts above our brave-hearted soldiers, The whole plan of attack had been mapped out, as was shown by @ splendid map of the ent dongs which the writer received from Colonel Wilcox, of Michigan, commanding the Second Bri- gade. Upon tliat map, which had been drawa up by or- der of the War Department from the coast survey re- cords, showing the topography of the country from Wash- ington to Manassas, it was evidont that the plan of action had been mapped out by old Scots. “At Sudley Springs where the ceossing was made, three columns indical Uhat the crossing was to be made th ‘The number of men actually engaged.om our side was 18,000, ih some think it was less. The number en- gaged upon the other side, taken from the admission of bout 37,000. What was the secret ir success ‘against such odds? The enemy fought ‘Dravely—there can be but one opinion about that—and forced our lines back more tan balfa mile. Our success can alone be attributed (boyond that which Divine Pro- vidence acceded torus) tO tho dauntlers ball-dog courage of our men. They could not quit fighting. Said one of Lincoln's officers, “What sort of men are yours? We broke your regiments ull to pieces, and yet we did not whip you.”? And gp it was. ered as they were, ever! man went to Aghung on his own hook, and you could have: shook a thousand at any time out of the pine thickets who didn’t know where their companies were, but kept load. ing and blazing away. From these scattered fragments of Companies General Johnston gathered scveral hundred, and requested Colonel Thomas to take them to a position, which he indicated a short distance off. It was In per- forming this service that this gallant gentleman fell, pierced to the heart. The artillery captured upon tho field had splendid horses attached to themn, caparisoned in the best style. Sixty-two of them were brought together the neat morn- ing. In the rout, however, the artillerists, to save them- selves from Colonel Stuart, of our cavalry, horses and left the cannoa in road. The mortality was izmevse upon both sides. Uj ours the returns will show about six hundred killed and twenty-five hundred wounded. Upon theirs about fifveen: huadred left dead and forty-five hundred wounded. We could have had as many prisoners as ten thousand, but what goad would it have done to take thom aod thom? HAVOC IN ALABAMA REGIMENTS. The Montgomery Mail, of the 24th ult., says:—Wo are truly sorry to hear of the sad havoc which befell these noble companies, members of the Fourth Alabama regi. ment, in the recent . Thirty-two, we Yearn, from both companies, are kilied and wounded, seven of whom were instantly killed, The wounded were doing as well as possible up to yesterday. LOUISIANA REBELS IN THE FIGHT. ¢ “feed ‘The Richnond Enquirer, of the 26th says;—Lacutenaat Dickinson, of New Orleans, now in this city, and who was shot in the thigh wich a Minnie bull, in the battle on Sun day, says tnt was a member of Major Wheat's bal Hon, and out of £0) which constituted thatcomm —« werd not more than Ago that cate dea'’ - ee Wheat wee shot through the body." ouinds. pet iE ad Hs Survivibg On Wednesday, although bis ¢r9 Licuteuan’ Dickinwon sleGGape’ too fp ges ST ecedingly critical. Guerrillas, Captain Bahgrp,, Or the Catahoula (La.) he thinks his command = ught with desperation, and od. TL onpla aa nearly all killed and wound- f Cartend ..wough for a long tjta> in the hottest ve the DBP" escaped unhurt. He also says the Tiger Rifle , 1 Louisiana, in perfect shower of bullets, bombs Ku balls, threw down their rifiee and charged upon the | enemy's lines with their knives, and put them to fight Pranab ni SaLLANTRY OF Barrow. From the Charleston Mercury. ] flinéry upon the field was most conspicuous, rd ‘polite: gut to him a battery to be iL will take 1, Wiivorfal man’ an jt. je first led up the Fighth Georgio regna val al took the battery; but anding Ujmself tinable to bold it, he retired. Almost immediately Mlerwards be iéé up the Seveuth Georgia regiment, in the peyformance of which duty he was shot. The only words he uttered thoy have killed me, but never give up this fel encn Barthy’ When Beact taken, he replie been st B which the Le SPEECH FROM A WOUNDED REBEL (From the Knoxville Register.) ‘The traty from the East yesterday brought down Cap- tain Wrison, of Atianla, cre of the wounded op tho glori- ous atic Geld of Monaswar. Captain Wileon w@s in the whole of the hard fonght battle of the 2let, was wounded ju the heel while on horseback, and recetyed # contusion ‘op the jeft shoulder from acannon ball, which paralyzed d. He led a large body of Juded, f be brave and the almost in n making ther om. staternents of the Os4 reported on our Side, Lhe immense wiuughter of | In troops, and the great expttre of arma, muni | Liops and prisonere made by our troops. ‘aptain WW. was followed by. a gentionan whore name we did not learn, but who was « chaplain va the Coutede- | my, just from Rickinond, and whe confirmed the atements, The t moved off while the | Y | have been taken prisoners. cut loose the kil 'd did not lead the Hampton Legion | VISIT TO THE BATTLE FIELD NEAR MA- iE BATTLE fd stuemanes omar tr wacees tee Al . 5 would require thirty -s a (From ib Biches aoa half millions of }) and over twelve thousand wagons r.) The writer of this,on Monuay last, 29th uit., passed over the scene of the battie of the ist, uear Bull tun. It ‘was gratifying to find, comtiary to rumors which bave ined seme circulation, that dead, not only of our ‘Own army, but also of the enemy, have all been decently buried. “ia the whole area of’ that terrible ouset 00 ‘heman corpse, and not even a mingled limb was to be fceu. The earth had received them all, and go far as the J. man combacants were concerned, nothing remained to tell of those Wao bad fallen victims of the shock of battle, save the mounds of fresh earth which showed whore they had becn lai! away 14 thoir last sleep. Many of these mounds gave evidence of tho pious care of surviving co1 sures were butit around the graves, and branches of evergreens cover the spot. § times boards mark the head and fovt,on which curved or painted the name and fellowship of the de to anoighboring treo told ground adjacent contained the fallen of a certain pany | horses, scattered over the area ang ts of flying aruilery were captured br where come officer was diemonnted. The prostrate fences, too, served to mark the track of the batule, Where thy intantry crossed they were broken down go that a man mighi step over, and wide gaps showed where te acullery carriages had thundered along. The ground, too, tramped by the feet of rushing meb and Lorges, evidenced where the struggle had beca Hreest © relics of the Wattle alvcady wnt fow ron fl Id bas been sea ched and ghaned hy daily pounds, and pd thousand horses to transport the amount, ‘The officlal returns show that the government lost but twenty-one wagons, ANOTHER ESSIMATE OF THE REBEL LOSS. : New Orleans ofuly 27, publishes a letter from Manassas dated July, 24, which coutains the follow. ing important admission —From a very accurate report, just placed in my possession, it would’ appear that ous Joss in killed on the fleld was only between 600 and 600. This 18 a great logs, it is true, for they were the bravest of the army, and from the’ splendor-with which charged were the bost targets of the cnemy. eee | od will number botween 2,000 and 3,000. Very many of them aro only alightly hurt in tg hand, foot, arm, &e. DISPENSING WITH EXTERNAL MOURNING. Tho Richmond Whig soggcea that the usual emblems of external mourning be dispensed with by those whe have lost retatives who were bravely sustaining their country’s right, aod w this met with a glorious death, The reasons for the suggestion are, that it would give the strects and churches « distressing and gloomy aspect, that many famiites cannot sflord it, and the loss of father, has. baud or brother, 1 uot, under the circumstances, ¢ for that bilterness of mourning which attends the > Bary dispeasations of Providence, because the gloous um wgbtened by iue giory of triumph in the discharge ef the holiest obligation of duty REBEL OPINION OF A PRISONER. {From the correspondent of the Richmund kuquirer.§ here the batt ‘disabled visiters, Keeking for mementos A few bullets that bad | Amoug tm : Y ran thetr errand, gome fragments of expided bombs, & | now Hichmoua eae te Semtarian, Ha cates i Rae haversack, and a fow other things, were all that an ¢ banks, and bei ine ‘Adjutant of the Michigan regiment, tennis & nble brought under our ‘das monn cut fr He hatis (rom Detroit, by trade ho is a sho-maker, am@ the bate aise consider ably in deman by nature he 1s heact onde ‘The enen umn of advance, as shown by the battle | ard t Ot tbe eset tear aakent, heactod, abolit fered Lo carey grou vented a front ef abo't ono mile. Their on- ward march from cho point whore they encountered our advance bocies to the limit where they mot our full Ilae, and the full battle was joined and the fate of the day de cited, was about @ nitie and a balf. A paratiologram of about'a nile by a miloand a ball, therefore, covers the svone of the great confict. In this area are included Ave dwelling houses, all of which we visited bore evidences of tho stoim which raged about them Many were Killed in the yard of the house of Mr. J. DeDogan. A bullet bole in wehamber dor to mains & metento of the battle family escaped just fas tho battle Jo Bat tt wax ou the hill south of the turnpike road, whore the ener: host advanco was checked, and where (he foal issic was fought, that the iuwrapped dwellings showet most p'ninly the fry of the fight. A bese bere, late the abode of a widow lady—MMrs. Judith Hear y—was riddled with eaunon aud musket shot Hisomg projectiles Con the caunou of our enemies had passed Ubrough the wills and roof, until We dwelling was awreck It ix asad story that we tell This estimable lady, who bad spent bere a jong life, illuetrated by the graces that adorn the inock Chrislian, was bow bed-rid da. Thee she lay amid the borrid din, and no loss than three of the missiles of death that ecoured-through and haters of the South that ws anywhere su God's breath around ib a wicked carcass. He is the same am dividual Who was 80 urgent-to have the clergyman urcewt- od in Alexandria tor praying for the Confederate States, thrown inte tne Regro pea, and there confined until Be repented. He was equally anxious to have several of tne Jadies of Avexandria hung 48 &2 example of the manner which tne aboutionists imteaded to treat As you now Laye au excellunt him to vest the beauties of bus U that the fellow be Kimdiy treated, ap bread and water, and that twice a day a commitwe ladies call apon nim aad, with & rope, stretch bie unt! he i perfectly satisted with the houor conlerced upoo him, Afterwarde, | would exchange bun for sume miserauie Cur, and shoot the dog MR. RUSSELL’S LETTER. He Explains Hits Definition of Treason North and So: TON, July 8, 1881; ‘Wastin The rail and the river stil! cougeet South aud North te- gether With all the hate of the South towards the Norte, and with ali the anger of the North towards th» Souta, there is yet some lingering aversion to the total disrap- her chamber mihicted their wo 5 upou her. Tt seoths | tion of all ues betwien the Delligerents, ‘Tho trunk is astrange ai © life | torn from the fmobs, but the political surgeons are loth te. had been 60 gentle and sec ther | out tho tendons, and seem to act as though they thoughs end amid such «storm of brian passions, and that the bomble abode whieh hid witnessed bee quiet pligrmage should bave beeu shattered over her dying bed. Yet, even amid such terrors heaven vindicated its laws. When th conservative surgery would elfect some miraculous-reoce- Although Postmaster General cut off the mails they wink at the devices of exprossing agencies and railways to keep open communications, amé thus & man or a letter may, at risk of certae stilt alive, und she lived loug enough to say that Lor mind | contingencics, be sent through. The coutingeucies was tranquil, and that she died iv peace—a peace that | are that he or it may be if there ve the soar 0} battie and the prescuce of death, paroplied th | aught to ble iu expression insite or out—and all tis terrocs, bid uot aisiurbed, Noble matrout The | tre ermined by Loth sides as they list. So at the South wulemutate your virtues, and the | Tam here without being opened, and Tam‘bound to b ‘our sufferings! The heaps | that of wil the myths—and: they are many and) magufl- ere piled aronud your doors cent—which ave been hymned and hommed on the ruest’ A hundred yards to a Iyres ol ihe type, none bave been s0 quaintiy. fancitid, the right of the how though of Mrs. Hoary lay five horses in a upidly mendacious, as those which have boca heap, und near by another heap of (as inary in Hore | pubished to thoeftct that 1 have complained of my let- a portion of 41'S battery mate its lust advance, | ters having been “tampered with.’? just as it reached th e hill ovr riflemen, ap: ‘THE WAK SCENES IN AMERICA. proaching in another di pu, reached it 100, At once | ‘There never was @ poople which rushed so rapidly to they pou dn afire wluch cut down horses and meu, | the conclusion that the argument of ®forco was aud made the pieces unmanageable. The gallant boys | the great solvent and settler of disputes as *eur An followed the fre with a bayouet charge, and the guus were take [twas here that Lieutenant Ward (oll. The cannon were taken and retaken several times in the furt ous fight, but the horses Lud buen killed, and they could bot be removed nor used. Un tho ieft of Mrs, Henry's, distant about a fourth of a mila, 18 8 pent house be % Wo colored man aimed Robinson. A cannon bull drove throngh U. . Be tween theee two is an orchard of sinall tier ton’s Legion fought and suffered so severe! are here. One ot them whieh covers [h near relative of Hon. J. L. Orr, is marke: musket pianted as atead stone. Away on the extreme northern verge of the battle ground is the pine grove im which the Guorgia regiment met the enciny’s adyanes. ‘The galiant ban ¢ with. stood the enemy's columna until néarly surrounded. ‘They then retreated, not from those in the trent, but (rom those who wore closing around them. In this pine grove there seemed scurce @ tree that was not strack by the enemy's balls. A number of Georgians feil here, and their graves are close by. In the grove was pointed out the spot where Lamar fell, In the rear was the dead charger of the lamented Gen. Bartow, under bim, himscif to fall soon after. But the Georgians sullered not their heroes to fall unavenged, for they piled the ground before them with the slain of the enemy. THE REBEL LOSS, REBEL OFFICERS KILLED. General Bernard F. Bee, South Carolina, ‘eau brethren. See New York now—jiat 4 what it was towards the close of last Sumter cannot baye made all these banm Mareh filled ull these atroets ‘with soldiers, turned the ws into frenzied Unionista, and shut the moubs tho disaffected. Poople who argued phiiosophicalig about the rightot secession, and the impotency of the federal goverument to restrain States from exercising that rizbt, have ail of @ sudden begun w find out “We jmust muitsin our glorious Union! We must have @ country,” aud then they go off into sophistical argumeauws on the other side about the Mississippi and unity of pes- ples aad political nec asities. “Had you always held Une language, good gentiemen, you might never have had dais You strengthened the hands of the se- iouists, just as you weakened the hands of the United States government, by the indifference or actual to its meusares which fa] displayed when it required support. One half of the indignation, ome halt of the strength you exhibited after Sumber lund fallen, might have | skeabe its ever being attacked. Why are the Southerners #o much more irritated hast York than any other part of the Uniou but , in their own werds, “she deceived us at the tat iy Up Lo the taking of Sumter she pretended vo be ly, and then, when that Lappened which sbe seemed to approve, she Lurns on us more savagely thau even the lac ublicans.”” In fact, though the government may not now wich to recall the circumstances, the tone of the North in reference to vital points in policy, must haye per- plexed it almost as much as the hostility uf the secessiom- by & broken Colonel D. K. McRae, North Carofina. ists. It is all very well to talk of the outrage om the Colonel Charles F. Fisher, North Carolina but before Sumter was fred nite hud been ex; Brigadier General E..K. Smith, regular army, to insults sufficient. It bad been hauled down by free froin United States arsenals. Tho Star of the West carne: it as much ax Major Anderson's command, aud she was fired on; one shot as a casusbells or couse belli is a8 good as twenty. General Francis A. Bartow, Georgia. Colonel Lamar, Georgia. Culonet Neon, Socal Virginia rogimeat, Colonel Mason, of General rE ‘nis Ktall, moh laas Se ae 4 is J. Tho f Baltimore, . Siete nt tae bes ect When Tarrived in the United States the not a 5 WRAPS CO ei inter iy Spee Tk aie ee aimee Gael Of the surrender of, Sums a8 a abstract REBEL OFFICERS W: . question, and the i chia hare Colonel P. T. ras Vicginia Voluntoors. excited a Ianguid curtomty In the of many men, Bec ES cen Soe and Northern Journals, not merely in New York, but ia ay I Gardiner. Pennsylvania ai etter ‘States, warned te government that if they attempted to hold the one or reinforce (he other they would be responsible for the de. struction of a Union wlich at the ad manifewtay destroyed. How the tone 1s cbai . 1 can recog mie reason for the ohange in ewents, but I cam understand that bebind ali this surface show—thes varnish coating which pretended opinion—there was a solid, deop Colonel Wade Hampton, lon Legion. Colonel L. J. Gartrell, Seventh Virginia regiment. Colone! Jones, Fourth’ Alabama rogimont. Colonel H. C. Stevens, of General Boe’ Major Scots, Fourth Alabama regiment Major Stevens, Ald to General Smith. The Mempais Appeal Manassas correspondent saya 18 author! fe gratifying to boable w state, upon retiable tty, eos hele Unt the tal lone of tne confeiraboe in kitied, ronda wide which only began te hema missing wiK not exoeed tho first estimate, Bay 2,600. news, Stare OF tiieap leas than 509 are killed. It is believed very tow | LUrasl the glaze when heated by thenews that the mags is now at work. in the land in lava streams. It may be that if an attempt be made to check it the red. finods will break throngh tho offic'al crust. Mr. Ser ) With thie modest confiteneo which distinguishes his vatic was prophesying that the of the would win back the rebed earnest. over KILLED AND WOUNDED OF THEMASSISSIPPI REGIM 4 Ricumoxp, July 29, 1861, Tho following list ts all that cout be obtained of the killed:and wounded in the Mississippt regiments, viz:—~ Mnrt’s regiment lost eight killed and thirty wounded. Mntted.—Captala MoWillle, Licutenant Leary, of Gover- ber Brown’s company, Licutenamt York, of the Clinton | month, not only were the Prepariag to hold company, and Eddy Anderson, of J; . their own in the course of more strongly than Colonel Featherston’s ines is two kitled and eight wornd- | ever, but the Northers Skates beginning to agi- tate the questinng at issue in @ manner which have inspéred one with doubt as to a peacefit issue. Tt 1 tot tn] ble that up to the moment ot the fall of Sumbor there were in the Cabinet at Washington statesraer, who thought they conld up the quarrel, and wate North and South by Tr Canada as a drag sc cut uncer their noses. |, it would certainly be an ed. Among the killed is P. Hill. ‘The wounded are John Finneson, severely; Moore, Duison, Peden, Ivey, Price and Major Styles slight! Colonel Faulkner's toss in the Second regiment, Is 25 Hid and 78 wounded; among the killed is Lieutenant Palmer und two others, first licutenants. Colonel Boon bel ae prisoner = This company was in the hottest of the fight - | sreeablo result if the 250,900 Northern troops now in the Only two companies of the Eleventh regiment were in | feta conta be unito’ with the Southern forces, inn com the fight, anc was the University Greys. <Licutouant Bis- 4 mon rait on ipit’sh North.America and on tho Spanish lan, Sergeant Rice and private Meed, with two others, are killed and many wounded. Colonel Sleddoll lost out of theas two companies 8 feral killed and twenty-one wounded. Colonel Moore, €f this Togimont, on tho 26th, was wounded in the fuvtyfy au ag, cidental discharge of a pistot Tucher, of the Unrversity Greys, on tho Yq inst,, was possessiong. | North and South will not agree to join. Wrat come after battle who can say? At present digs cntirely frdm the mind of England the idea, ne Fatter how it may originate, that there will or can be peace, compromise, union, or seceasion till war has de- termined the issues, w gay New York is with flags | The Stars and Stripes How gay killed aceien Tho Stars and Strip Comoe Barkashis repent B48 “ne lle, but ten | Sinaowe Of of pointe om marl character eae Tigmaiy, “mone the latter 18 Menry Nash, 9’ the argt 1 3¥ory, tremon, or corpe of eccentric costume, Hlleworth, OF the Atlanta Minute “gon twoare sliet Scott, Grobio, battles and charges, Tompkins and Big In the Komper Lega one ai “utly wounded. | Rethel. There are little Zouaves led by nurses and WbY wouuded, and one i ee Zouaves. Om a FOR" cx AND WOUNDED REBELS. ae MODUP” | Jui} 29, a meeting was held at the Mer- i at rsxchange,in New Orleans, for the purpose of kang light infantry men,. abdomious and spectacled, on the batioiree All the cleric tribe are in gray or blue glories. ‘There are tents inthe public squares, tows of sheds in tha “*plsces,’” wi our soldiery quartered who came hither on their way to the seat of war; placards about books of tactics, iltustrated with staring red and scartct Zouaves in imposible attitudes. (Oh! dear me, how slightly wounded ‘athe Laue= ru action for the relief of sick aud wounded Louisiana, soldiers in now Virginia,"and those which should hereafter rer 4 hese imitations of my excellent (tention, Gencral W. A. Elmore presided. While | Ured Lam becoming of 1 s red emagiitec was cugaged in preparing resolutions ex. feiends, in which Ute ie success, except the, Dagglners PSS oC ee pays the Liccmonts coneérming arms and eq::ipage meet the oye in antec ail directions. ‘There is a crowd around a window in was then Inyiied to i . * | ‘which is displayed a secession oticer’s cap, and as itis all foglss Sen'before Wr fellow, citizens, tet procecticd to’) stalned witb Diood the exter justine, i saying. trea oC our eullge braves who fell at, Manassas, and tho | he does, Matiedityr rollorrn the Statens ; Tuarked diffrence teermeen the two armivs. He then | there is aatromy ingle OF THR RERELIJON. ad called out citizens toge Laemen Pe sanent and net a tem- alluded to the gbisct whicthn ‘The teem Cher’; fio ld be & per ar lleg aes nin Sa | porary organ zation. ire uraye pole tame nee | Marts Washington ives In dcfouce of cur homes, wives and daughter, wnw a or twenty foe above the = sass OF wag ag Hitle as we ter to th tr healt oremakable even: I ificurred the resentment and an, fart. Mordid not by: this Warkd be a protract- 4 provoked the indignation °F 8 friend by my indifference to { ae rotracted wars did i rene among the great | Pelice at Charleston, tried into my room, as a pre- civilian nations ear ba only ‘among t ns, i ay hy of the “hatte oF eee pice at of ® war nkrupt Any nation in on . Even + gbell, and unwittingly left it on tm, ley piece. Dogs { rit the wa? Of the Crimea, found herself proceed | bled beneath my window at ."iEbt; differences of | Aadmorried w the extreme in furnishing her army with | opinioy Ase among them—noises max.'"# Hight hideous supplies. For what duration of time could the North | and sieep imecesibie. I arose in my wrath, 2nd, no other hope to eustain 460,000 men? Ak tothe issue, the enemy | minsile being @¥ajlable, the Sumterian reut was { mfght ae well throw their solilions into the rivers as to | hurled forth, and Told what it and none of ite feanowe had expect (0 subjugate ua. Our cotton gave us immense power The milllons of Europe depended on it for their Dread, As for the blockarte, we jaughed it to scorn. This War must goon terminate, or the civilized nations of Exrope most become engagod in it, and he predicted our Independence woud be acknowiedged before the first day of next year. But we would carry on wis war until that ond was accomplished. Hggailaded to a meeting at the New York Tabernacle, at which it was declared that the war shou)d not ond until slavery was driven from our soil. But he felt it must continue anti! every nation ou earth should recognise our independence and our institu- tions. He «poke of the imbecility, usurpation and tyran ny of Livcoin, unparalleled since’ the days of Charles I He wouid have eaid that the North was’ almost upant- omplished—hit something, to wit, a dog, ard diepersed the assemblage. ‘Where ia my Dit of” shelly I did not know I was such a monster til) I saw my conduct piainly depicted in the ingennous face of friendship, on its owner ascertaining that his sbell had gone out of the window, and coud not be found om the pavement. This isa digression, } know; but I bave only to say further that New York js up in arms and eager for thefray,even though there is much loss and great suffering caused by -the war. See, for instance, that assemblage of women, young and oh, some with cbildren by their eides or infants in their arms, before that large house. These are wives and mothers of yolun- teers, reduced by their absence in the wars to dependence ou charity, and awaiting their turn to come before the Deusly against ve, if he had not heara Vallandigham’s | distributors of the fund raised in New York for the pur- voice. (Tr ous cheering.) But he felt there were | pose. The appearance and dress of many of these women inany brave men at the North who strongly sympathized | would lcad to the belief that they did not heloug to the uy cause. He felt the certain success of our cause'| clase nsually expored to such trials. I could not judge of right and truth were on onr side. Not till the ids would our country be subjugated. The y eloquent and was cheered throughout. pguizing the hand of God in the victories mentiog the Louisiana troops, and es- peciall Beauregard, and making sultable arrange ments for the sick aud wounded were adopted, aftor which a committer was appointed to carry the practical re n into effect Subscription liste were immediate. ly opened, and nearly $2,000 was collected before the moocting adjourned. the justice of the tmpression on my mind that the ladies aro hot as busy, ip cartridge making, lint scraping and uniform. sowing as they are down South; but J dare say they are busied with works of charity as much as their fair sisters. A NRW TURN IN PORLIO INVECTTVE. ‘The invective which was formerly directed agninat uni- versal suffrage aud cognate institutions is now, apparent- ly, employed in denouncing the corruption of contractors, and evil at the War Department; and one journal opealy speaks of “swindling and plunder” as agencies and results not unknown in the transaction of business there. There ts also much unsound advice tendered or forced on the au- thorities respecting the plan of the campaign, and writers: who are quite ignorant of war or its requirements demand AN ESTIMATE. It will be recollected that Mr. Davis, in his speech at shmond, after the battle of Bullrun, stated that the ¥ el forces had captured provisions gh to last an | that the gonerals shall iminediately push forward to Rich- army of Sfiy thyogund men one year, (leman at- | mond with an army which has neither transport, artille, i} i, a SEA SNR MeN ransom mam NW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1861,