The New York Herald Newspaper, December 23, 1862, Page 8

‘Graph se Accounts of the Battle from Richmond Papers. “THE VALOR OF THE UNION TROOPS, Death of Generals Cobbd a) Grege. SKETCHES OF THEIR LIVES. oN Bret shock ef soorps were tp dijierent lines H, ill’s division was drawn up in J. uncer a long Mil,in rear of eur ive they remaiwed during most of the day, being rime to tune to the right or left as the exigencies of the baile diewated, Shortly afier the infantry fight began, a brigade of this division was meved at the double quick mie aud @ haif to the right, aud posted in a dense ch of pines ia supporting dhetance of Stoart’s horse artillery. Ta ten minutes they were brought back to their original petition, The coherity of this movement would be incred- ible to any ene who bad not witnessed it. To an observer the sight wes singular aud exciting. A long black line sh: ots trom the position of the reserves, crosses the r road at Hamilton's station, skims ac oss the and in 8 few moments is ket’ in the pines, nearly two miles away. After scarcely a breathing spell, the same line emerges from the pines, retraces fis’stops into its original poriti Ag this bri, ade resumed iis position in reserve, the fire-of musketry directly in us front elackened. A few crackling shots were heard to our left, along Longstreet’s division, aud then a succession of yollpya, which were kept up at intervels during the remuinder of the evening. The mveketry firo on our right was soon renews, and the battle raged with increased fury. Our batteries along our whole (vont again reopened, and Colonel Walker's art composed 0; Latham’s, RICHMOND. UNION PRISONERS [ m@PORTANT FROM NORTH CAROLINA, Ree Ree, he. Lercher’s, Braxton’s, Pogram’s, ‘shaw’s, Johnson's Metered and Melntosh’s batteries, stationed in the open low } ‘We have received additions! news from the South | g/ounds to the cust of e railrcad at Hamilton’s Statiou, moved ‘orward several Ahrongh late Richmond papers, among which are the fol! rdred yards iu the direction of Fredericksburg. Hill's and Ear roops had driven towing — the onemy trom the woods and acres the railroad in the Savannah News... $ ssseeeDee. 11, | direction’ of their pontoon bridges, near feep ron, Our Richmond Enguirer... -Dec. 15, 16,17, 18. | Men pursued them a mile and a half across the bot- dynchborg Virginian. veeeeD@e. 15 | tom jand, and fell buck only when they had gotten Richmond Dis; at h. ‘ wnder the shelter of their batteries, “ Our troops Richmond Whig. By PA Dec. 18, | then retired to tho south side of ihe | allroad. Again the enemy rallied and returned to renew Prom these papers we make the following selections of | 310 Conipct, “hut? were agar, about five. o'slock ‘ateresting reading matter: P. M., driven back. All the batteries of Jockson’s corps were »t this time in full play, and in the approaching twilight the blaze of the guns aint the quick tlashes of the shelis were more distincuy visible. The scene along the valley was at once splendid and terrific, The Great Battle of Fredericksburg. | {From the Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 16.} Tho batiie of Saturday, taking into consideration the gumber of men eugagsd, the quantity of ariilory and The resuit of the tight on our right wing may be other engines of war employed, the valor of the enbat- | summed up BR Oe a Met Mpc yk peg a ‘nts and the skill of the generais, was probably the . | threo toone, and at night hed the ground occupied by @st battie ever fought o: this continent, It was fought by | the enemy's batteries ia the morn; ‘Tbe enemy hat weirly two hundred thousand men aud several hundred | twenty Yioasind men engages on cts wine, while alto pieces of arti It was contested for ten he gether, (fom tirst to last, wo had nov more than ten thou sand in the line of fire. '8 victory was even more complete. the enemy into the streets of Fredericksburg, gut kast five to ove, At dusk the firing ceased peousiy on both sides, {Correspoadeuce of the Richmond Examiner} Tesuked in a cvinplete victory to the Confedernte Wo say compirte, because, althongh the enemy's force was not annihilated—killed, captured or dispersed—the fastore wos outirely owing to the near neizuboriond of their stronzholds,to which they ted when. they found Shemselves unable to face our forces any longer in the tela Had the battle been fougnt twen Mit, SeVEN Mns FROM FREDEKICKSHURG, @ the Rappahannock river there would bsve been Dec. L4¢ 186: Fout «s the world dti not witness in the forty-six year Tho victory ot yesterday was much more important than ‘that clapsed between the baitle of Waterloo abd the fist | was at Wrst ally beifeved. .\ gentleman who spent baitie of Manas as, As it was, it has proved to the Yan- Kees that nos periority of numbers or of preparation ca avail (hem m a pirched battle with the forces of the cun- federacy—a truth so patent and go often exemplifird that we believe they are the oniy peuple on earth who venture to deny it Yor loss bas been heavy, but bears no comparison whatever to that of the euemy, We have to regr-t abou twenty-five hunured killed, wrundet and missing, while, ral lee’s headquarters informs me the 1 plowed with the resuit of the battie, d says that vr troops behaved nubly, and bore down y at all porns L shail iow attempt to supply some of the deficienci my tai i sof jon troops, beaten by our right wing on yes- y e"Figuting Joe Hooker's,” supported by kroakhn’s corps, ahd numbered thirty thousand men, We * y a@ecording to the report of those best sk io | had fourteen thousand men io ube tht on the right. making estim.tes of thie description, their los Ybeenemy during most of the day folght as well as oes not certainly fail short of ten thousand. aud in | they hw dono, but ubort jour o'clock P.M. ail probability ‘greatly eeds it. ‘This will nat wud gave way on all quarters, It be regurled ag at ail improbable when we take into con then that Frankliv’s mea y ht into giterutioa ‘he relative position of the opp on, aud were also repulaed, artillery, Tho Confederates were op the hexhis, wi ther less ‘iecess: wcannn. The Yaukoos e in the jow grounds, sub.ected to a murderous fire of artilery and rousketry as they advan-ed. Every shot told, and shose who wituessed it say that the slaughter was awl | bey d anything yet witnessed in the war. General Lon treet succeeded in getting ,o-session of a long - tone wall on the outskirts of Fredericksburg, and in placing who divisin behind it. The Yankees, with more bold. ness thau they usnully exhibit ou such occasions, at tem tod be xot possessinn of it. They were repulsed with ‘appara teled s) uxbter in every attempt, and.at last broke an. Lot In eruiusion. Zhe Yankees, we presume, will wait for the arrival of Sige! s oor. 3 before they try their luck again. What may de tho strength of this body we) have no means of det maining; bet we feei convinced that it is not suMleient great Waiter the result, and that, if, after its ar from sheli an} sharpehuoters, The: another attack shall be hazarded,'the end will be-the | cussous were sitoraliy pe fam. The general hope bere js tbat the trial will of borses kived is aimust tnc. edible. DI havealready mentioued as stationed in tue open plain ob ovr exirome sight to the east of Luimilton’s cross. Jug, was inte in the day reinforced by the Second Howitz- ers. The Thom.s artillery and several other batteries drove the enemy's batteries, Dusted higher up the val from ali their jwsitions aud shattaed bis columus of fantry with an enfilading fire. The evemy’s batteries at this poiut were strongly’ posted behind ‘a road crossing te valley and fred through gaps cut in a brush fence. Be hind the same fence the Yaukey sharpahooters kept up an incessant and dadty fire un our baiteries. The enemy was not disiodged from this position until we opened on thom at two hundred yards dixtance with grape and canister. Having Muted these batteries onr artiliery opaned ou othe edistant, Aiter his latantry had rey sed the enomy’s artilie y ceused During emeni our artihery [a the vailey suffered greatly ¢g mace, so confident ure ail in the valor of our army ana | 7 1 Battery occupied an exposed position on a Sg cunsitnmate skill o: its great leader. It seems wo | hil. pposite the enemy's centre. Their loss, which we debdoudted whethor General Lee pormitted the eucmy give beow, exceeds that e, any artillery company we t ome over, or whether he coujd have prevented 2 it had he tried. It seems to us fhat he bal every | That some idea of the extent of the artillery fighting reason to wish them to come over. Bis deid of attic, and had thoroughly studied it, ae Na- Puleon had done the field of ansterlitz. whon ne fell back thirty miles to draw his enemy to it.and aa Wellnmyton ts 8aid to have done at Waterloo. He had an army ful! ‘f confidence in themselves and in him. The disparity © force as not s@gre:t as to render victory atull impr bi be when the composition of the two armies and the avi muting spirit of each are taken into consideration. If they sere determined to pass, he could b rdly bh: veuted them, since they had possession ofthe he: He had sel-cied | may be formed, I will state that nearly all of the batter es epgaged on the right fred two hundred ronnds to the gun. A Georgia regiment, about throe o’elr ek, took a battery of eiht guns, bot being unsupported avd having ex hausied ther ammupity n were forced io relinquish it. Our joss in Kited, wounded and missing,on the right Wing, wilt, we think, be found two be about twe dred, though Dr. Gill, General Lee's medical ¢ reported to bave said that tht number will loss along the whoe Hive, All ir wounded that 1 {he ~taflord sive. and Bad crowned them with inpumora. | have converred with say our killed will bear no pro- Die batteries, Wuat may have been his motives it is im- | portion to the wounded, the latter being eignt or poraible for us, of course, to say: but we understand one | ten to one of the forter, fery Sutfered Of his officers, very high in rank, expressed Limsel more severely than the infu in officers is, +30 strong terms, anxious above ail things tor them to come over, aud try their fortunes on the very ground which was the the -Lre of the battle several weeks ago. | This i* the tenth pitched battic im which General Lee has commanded, withiu jess than six months, and in all as usual, very igneral Maxey Gregg was shot through the spine witha Minie bail, and now lies, it is wuzht, mortally wounded at the house of Sr. Thomas ated at five thon- ef them Lie has been victorious. No other cam, ign ex- | gand men, ki!) onl wounded aud prisoners. 1 have cept that of Italy in 1796. and thatof France in 1814, | seen about hy} vt of the latter. ‘The only officer of presente such» result. Our people are chocred '. rhe | note om ido that we heart being killed is reflection that their armies are commanded b. wene- | General Je ne of bis aids, Major Zentimey: rais who have no rival in the art of war—Lo the | ports the ot bis chief. Rappahannock, and Johnston in the Southwest. THE LATIVR OX TOR LoET ‘are us superior to the Yaukee generals in every qual shat constitutes the military ehief as the soldiers they Jeaa are to the thieves and cut-throats that Lincoln has went Lo subjugate them. (Correspondence of the Richmond Examiner.) Hamiiton’s Crossine, Dec. 14, 184! ‘Of the battle of yesterday you have from other sour Jearned the main result—the driving in of the cnemy Mgnt batteries and the repulse of his infantry. 1 wi supnly such particulars as came under my observation. Bot before doing so I must endeavor to give you an idea Of the positions eccupied by the hostile forces at the — of the action. om Frodericksburg the Rappahannock flows nearly due east. The valley of the river, lying mostly on the south side, is @ mite in width pear the town, and widening es you go duwn stream. At Hamilton's crossing on the wailroad the valley is three miles across. From Hatti fon’s crossing to Fredericksburg the railroa¢ and the old Richmond stage road, both runping parallel with th: river, skirt this valley. South of the railroad, beginning @ear the town and ronning to a point at Hawuilton’s disustrous to tae enemy, and much less put three o’ciock P. M . the evemy sal ickeburg and auvatced against Long. Strect. His first attack was made ou a hill south of the Taiiroad, open which the Washington artillery battalion was posted bebiad breastworks. Hetweon the bt!) and the town there isu wide. clear plain, over which the enemy hag touivance, The Washington artiltery reserved their dre un tiltho Yankees arrived within two hundred and fifty yards, when they opened on the heavy mavses with grape and canister. atthe first broadside of the sixteen guns of the battalion hundreds of the Yankees weat down. and at every successive divcharze great furrow ughed through theit ranks. They steggered re- ity, Dut were ar often rallied snd brought forward. Bat when within less than two hundred yards of the foot of the hill on which the attalion was posted, being unable longer to withataud the murderen bat nt avery discharge war d:cimating their rar @ and Ged ir confusion, and in al} directious—apwaris ef » thousand—-thinking to escape the tire which they were suffering, ran forward an¢ jam} to a cot of the crorsing paraile! railroad; but foand lettle eater: the movemeu', ae the Bilis en Te aka oe a cut was swept froin end to ehd by a batteuy farther np on pine” the road. The main body of the enrmy, however, dea its northern — bord: v p Mgr) occupied the | whele Procipitately back towards the town. Whie the Was! nariillery hag veen mowing down the centre three br fur fitantry hed Won busy op the and when the enemy gave way yataet 6 ent eway tothe eastward, tbe extreme right, uuder A. P. ‘ili, crossing the railrond et Huutilion’s crossing, and @tretchiug into the valley towards the river, Our front wer about six miles infength. Most of the batteries 0° both corpe were posted in the skirt= of the forest, aloug he line of railroad, the seven batteries in Coi. ‘Walker's regiment and Stuart's horse artillery bring ata- penne pew Lager on the bn ny Bean - ‘crossing and the river. enemy's s occupied the valley north of the railroad from Frederickeburg to ‘within half a mile of our extreme right. Hie light bat tories were posted over the southern extremity of the | valley, at from ® quarter of a «ile to @ mile from the Tai‘road, while the hills on the northern banks of river from Falmouth to Fitzhugh’s farm, five miles low Fredericksburg, were studded at vais of half mile with his batteries of heavy guns ‘The opinion had prevailed on the night before that the enemy was to attack our lines on yesterday morniag, but when the day broke without the sound of a gun being eard ia front it began to be thought that he bad defer- red bis advance until this morning. ‘The sun rose clear, but « dim feg shrouded the vatey limiting the vision 0 a short balf-mile. The enemy wa » be within @ mile of the raiiroad xt ry crossing, but there ware 0 indications of his ¢ motion Genersis fee aud | shiuytou bres Wed the sport intensely. ameunis to five hmodred works, aud are Suid to Lave Our whole joes on this wi killed and wounded. ‘the Washington artillery bad teeut, wounded, Among our Killed is General Thome 1k. R. Cobb. We have heard no estinute of the eneray's lass in this engagement, dui it amounts to macy thousand. TSpecial correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer.) Bavine Fiat Naan Dawe con's Cross ivee, 14, 186: ‘Thier day, which wae expected to have eopeuminated a { great victors or a defeat to our arms, has and, save some little artillery duelliog newr some picket skirmiehing on our ieft at Jr nothing of note has transpired. § tiave rid | the doy, along our entire back lines as bill overioukiug the town, aud have gath could rely upou as trathtul. The gehts | Fredericc#oarg and near Stansbury | town, wae of the most despor: af advantage 1 points, These repuises were achic presence. | oss to our side in numbers, though with | At half-past eight A.M. Gen. Lee, sttended by his stad, | the death of the gallant Gen. T. Hh, i. Cobb, of Ge wgia, | rode siowly along the front of our Kues from wes: io east, | who fell near the spot where hie mother wae twarried and halted in the valley a mile to the east of Hamiiton’« | The on our side was conducted with jud croming, aud ba)f a imile io the rear of our batteries on the | cretiou and sgnal suceoss. Our men were a extreme right. Atnine o'clock » column of our troops, | bokind the stune fonee running slong the which proved to be Ewell’ division, General [arly | side leading from Howissun's Mill to commanding, advanced up the vailey from the di- { where the telegraph and turnpike roa fection cf Port Royal, and defiled {ato the | enemy were tormed im r woods to the left of Hamilton's crossing. The men were | the {uit grounds, marching ai a very leisurely<paa Ing gait; hut there was that io demeanor which told that each, though undwunt fonscious that the next hour might be one of stern butile { and death. scarcely bad the rear of thit division disap poared in the woods, when directly im their sront the ar- | aud with 4 care) quiet dign' a! dod Vireraily dae th : We had the adyautacoof an elevated position and “Stonewall.”’ The enemy wos therefore competed to the atvane in the face of a raldng Sire up this tnelined plain Ullery of the Old Stonewall brigade—Woodis, Bration’s | other batteries—opened @ brisk fire on the ene my’s batteries north of the railroad, ‘At this time, owing to the fog, few of the enemy's infantry ware visible. After | events proved tbat they were iying Coe the somth back af the river, The cannonading soon became general along pe anew beg oo. aw minutes from the time firing their Gest gun, the Danville buttery, Captor Woudiee bnd lost Mfteea tien kiSted com valy tm ment the denis. daling fre which aur men on surery and ceadity okvet wpm them. The enemy fought v Oor lorees did beter, and the remit is, the Y foiled in their © on to Richmond” scheme, tay upon the oars wm! day to-day without an effort to bury their dead or alleviate the suflerings of the wounded, 6 is said of truce was sent in ral Lae requesting p bury their dead, but thee raquest was refused not vouch for the trath of tis ber of horses, and had two yun disabled vo Staubucy's bill our wen beld their ow ‘Uhe enemy's battery, eight Lumdrod yards distant, bad | Iantly, though the enemy attempted toldly dhe exact range from the frst i cessfully to xterm Ube position. fre. fn the inning of the action the lows of the other batinr er teintorson fivision were also quice Reavy. Our toen fired with great Precision, their shells bursténg Mm front or directiy awore he opposing batteries, In the course Of an four (he rtillery fight had become eo general ‘that it Was alraost inposeibic for an observer to Cistioguish What psttioniar Dattery of the enomy was engaging the attention of t batlery of ours, and tice rersa Kearcely @ battery ‘hat bad been unmasked oo either wide but war exposcd ws direct and enfiladiug Gre. The roar of cannon along # line of six miles was tremendous. The air was resonant North Onrolina troops in the fleld at qith the savage music of shells and solid etot. The | Fredericksburg sevders their bravery nuquestioned and is Of exploding sbells were every. | stamps their cosrage as lhe highest order. Cook's ! On our extreme rickt, where the gaiiant Janiesoo aad | the intrepid A. P. Hill commanded, we drove the enemy | fully a tile, und conld Lave parsued them farther la tot been deemed injidieions to pueh our advautay owing to the fact that the enemy's rege guns on toe op posite share protected their retreating forces, ‘Que tons thus far, all told, will hot exosed one thoneand In Fongetreet the lows 1 some 450. In Junksou's | and f it 500. A great many are wounded it it | © the of the forest, whiew bid | brigade fought well alse Pender’s, a thear. The Geor | ; gishy, oo, wader Gonerat Tom Cob, belaved az vallantiy | awar be | ge ever men dit. To whew you the extent of Yankes Id be the rive, nn benel pat ‘Do wonnded of bot ar bot there was nothing by | Tome#, Geveral Cook (who was wounded jn the eugage- | Which to Wdge that the advantage rested with elibar | mant severely tborgh not mortally) caw atone time, as he | Bile. | d, @ romgiaent lying tr 8 i wn At noon the fox had cleared away, but there war a | A peetion, however, fey vite the fact Pick haze |) the atmosphere About (hue time the one tent tiey bad made their inet ¢ B's ‘afaviry moved forward (rom the river towarde ous | for WhO Inet tite on thelr arms 20 abd were resting They wera dead. I saw {| audor the whole just above the knew hip. General Cob’, on being struck, | tourniquet. Ari with tue loss of as many men as the town captained in- habitants, and that he shelled iis defenceless houses, tunaing its people out of duora, killing its non-combatants and infiieting want and sutering vpon those who had not the power to harm him or to protect themselves. Our brave troops, however, will yet make them rue the day they crossed the itappahanvook, " ‘The estimate of Yankee tosses mentioned above applies to the fighting after the crossing was effected, and not to their casualties in forcing the passage of the river. Their lows at that time murt have been frightful, and all who were near agree that i! was. All praise to Barksdalo’s gallant Mississippians for it. [Special Correspondence of the Richmond Enquirer Barney Fusip, Dec. 13, 1862. This morving the sun xtroggied up through the ob- geuring inists which overbung the jaudscape, but bis rays were for au hour or two iutercepted by some ashen clouds siowly drifting overhead. liverything was stilt as on apy mild December morning. Scarcely a breath of air wafted the falling leavea or stirred ihe tringes of the pine. The fog aud smuke thorougi!y mingled through the night, ane shrouded bill and pinin im @ grayish, dia cloud. As thi began to rise, about cight o'clock, the roar of ‘the everby’s artillery woke the stillness of the scene, and signalled the coming great buitle, astuing to thefrovt, Tobtaineda WORDEEVE VIEW OF THE HarTLe PMD. ‘The observer, who avcencs on his that rise ab- rupily from the suburbs en the western side of Frede ricksburg and casts hip eye to the southwost, sees stretebing before him a fel plain to where the haimock, making a broad curve with the rising the north bank, forms Wid horizon. six niles long, with a mean breadth of two ond & huis miles. On thy ‘right the plain 1s scolloped by spurs of hills, gradually sloping down into the bottom Lud, at ine tervals of abous a mile, ad with dark pines and lees oaks. Gu the leit, where the Rappabannock along, bid by its bich banks, a succession of bilis rise much more abraptly than en ‘the right, the fuce of the hilis bare or clothed with stragyling pines, and summits crowbed with deuse timber. These bili sides ave white fi mys touts and traipg, apd tr bristle in countless protusion as far «yecan reach Now, let us exst cur eye again down this broad stretch ‘of bottom jand 4 birdseye vie at- eps rdly enough to att observer. ‘Then the plain is vowest in the middle, but ace vel few jog marrow groves + break the monotony, aud here e elnmps of cadar are ‘Ihe dels, ON an average a b ivees, are separated by wood, stouee and « ed Uy lines of low hey plain, and in some piaces heir colum r from tus poin eto be dark eiuraps ot cedar, spot tar out into the fie Iu the esnire of their line, near the river, on rising ground, is posted a battery of tweaty one heavy guns—there may be more—but these only ai Just in th dy the lung 1 opposite bank toon bridge ayans the ‘his batte e pies the lett of this «which the eas al re is able to jndge ron the nd omerge near by,a pon 4 Single bridge Tau wid. mist ol che pietare A short dist next to the opserv row glove oF diagoually into the » halls iuilo perbaps, termipa- ting in low marshy ground. A deep gully extends the length of this grove aud is spanned in’ the miudl railroad beidge, the line the railroad and there by patches of red earth, wh leugth down the lett side of the v: Tu a's grove the enemy find & brigade, whick keeps np a random fire on until dislodged by « regiment sent froin 100" Nothing bet 5 the undergrowth a cate the presence je c.ouds of sun tugging up tbrougia nt duet ik aud heavy: te bank oF are geen ceho ‘Th they with bayonets, in a stream whi fountain tuensan ture at this there uro sixty thousand, tary battory of sour guns, commanded Braxton, is to be seen on coms to vome from an ineshaus lack with them, teas of y Captat ‘the tire ! euemy's battery of tw us Opens jipon it, but it Makes no their shots towards it; b ty made uj its inind mot éto be hurried. ‘The enemy. now formed vances to aitick our right; towards the woot! tread, with in three heavy col fi A long light. Whe ory the skirtof the toot of the itis, a ciend of smoke, groarand ractle of musketry, their: whereabouts. Tho advanced column halts, delivers a hasty fire. A continvous stream of fg scour across the fields res: formed in squads, bur cai ney the front. exe. pt at the point of Ui OW mostly shite the itives from the front some are hited and Bad job. hag ‘opened ment makes it which it is hau The manu plimen ary their work nobly mo = alul precision with rention OF all obsery notion will be uottced hy As, 10 oflleia) reports. but they, with oth e ( of the engagement on ihe right, tust wach can have justice done ius an exton storming billet + Witt six Drigades, and r times, wil immens: langhtur. "Shey nv by bund ondred amd titty by only one Hy until tree battery neld the heights. pouring @ murderous fire inio the advancing columns, The bat tories on the various bills nebly assisted the battery on the heights, keeping up 4 coutinusl stream of fire, exch voiley thinning the raths of the enemy in a. terribte er. ber. ‘he battery of Capt. Miles ©. covered Itsel with giory. The Are was epevsil oa t Storming regiments by this battery. The raitroad gap at one time was filled with Vabkees. vben a well directed Shot from the battery exploded iu thei intdst, ii ebout ifty of the virelugs. Capt. Alaooa's ry wis hotly engageti ou the 11th, 12th aia! With, and won the ad. mirating of afi tbe coramunding ulfcors vy the coot wad preciaion exh: dy the men fn bavelimg the ULE, APtoUishing Lo say, Mot A m~wn vf (Dis Cor amy ‘ile or wounded. One rifle piece of Cam. Lwhbank'’s battery. a t centre, bas been uel Ou y cade driven by Fu! Sernard's the battory haz been uuder a past, but has fortunately snfte ‘of Oupt. Exbank’s guns are 90 disposed that wey wit perform efficicat service when ealled ayn, in which event we expect to chrouicis @ brilliant achievement on the Port of thia gallant command, Late in tho rou Comes the mu; regiment Gf/Hood's uivision acroae the plain, rou a Drignde [fom the tine of the raurcaa, and wh the ceucerdrated fire of a battalion the enemy from the skirt of woods ‘apturing forty one ‘ bodies were regiment, mon This portion of or er glory. 4 cn », he } adjutant, Captain Uprring, Ger adineant, Captatr aud Captain # wding in | the telegraph roud, near the Reeve vasnell | exploded int Cobb on the thig on th explosion Cu SkiNl could devise. brit in ON i freoly giving up tg bile ta dedance ut his out dor {lvrom ¢ tunond 1) 1s We linve already ‘aid bavore p the ulannock P eDOEY « " day, aud the fighting whieb envi and drouud th town of Frodericksburg. {tw fumniiar with the tinve required t position large bodies of betwoen'the two armies wou expectation was di nted, an day amounted te liste raore thay ing for position, moat of the firing by the s'owly advancing columns ut ightion d. and by ait ) s tid be tally jotue't at day dawn on . With this view the divisjous of 1), i (the latter oouiraauded by Goowru! parly) fromm cae extreme right in the dicuction About nine o'elovk on si to (he west of the a Ewe were ordered t of Port Moyal, iny took ros Marnfitea'e crossing. Rofore the cf) what 4 wartare © twedi | and tnat dhe morel* of vis army—badt before—waa com Jine of Battie bart Ye le 4 shame! Who ever [pletely cestroved ty the defeat of Saturday, and no alter do worms. | native was vett to him but to withdraw to the north side “nud be | of the river. which be did under cover of darkness, and extending to w 40f® tuiloot Froderike- | periarin ed with | Lineoiay | ta mow doobt test contemplating sume new base of opera br The line was noariya semicircle, ind reacmed | cag dug. ol that We Gould oe tiny” The toree | tions of debating the mecessity of going inte winter | wbout four miles from the extreme left to the cight wing. | of Cs remark ueeds no comment to iow fle wortneney. | quarters, About 91; 0 he worming wf tbo first gun was | MORK PRISONERS, ~ henrd at Manlton’s 4 away offto the ffi, io the | Thee were oma eighty-five prianners castured on the toteresting from North Caroll a a of the bown hort times « sive re. | ovlslirts of the town pesterday ty spevial Despayw to the Richmond Whig, Deo. 17. ports of argiilery told unnaitiakably that ali wag niore were favndt aston © i Gorpsnono, Dee, 16, 1862, Opening, and alovg the whole line of the right wing the wideneas Ite in the day. Wher Ap artillery duel at White Hall, #ixtoen miles wont of troops buckled on tnoit armor for the eonfiet before ike AO MANS whoop’ iia this point the Neuse, bas been goin since this them. Aa the morning wera on, and the whieh Pad | ¥ of traneg rors jot. morning. | The fring ceased about one o'clork. The abo- partially obscured the light was iifted fron: the earth, the | A YaNDPR THOS. Litioniate acem vo have ‘chal their bane’? No nonading becwme more general report became wo unintertrapted tear. so general wag | this canuonade that am unprecticed oar bs HeaECeY dias cent charge of a | uatl about eleven | | @olock, when what Lad vefore been but a ccensiowal | hour should However, Severe, both sides contesting the | hepe, yet Froud “with ‘nore "than usual “obstinvey. "Here, | praleo and to the left of the right wing, the bat’ | come our troops en- | that ‘mat cs tle raged for perhaps au hour, gaged Letne A, P. Mill’s division and @ portion o: Early’s and ‘Laliaterro’s torees. Meanwhile the enemy's columns were observed to falter, and presently to recede, when it very soon became evident that the fire was tov wa:m ‘or the hour caa accord them, correspondence of the Richmond. Enquirer. Svannr, Eicut MLKs Buow Frepenionsnurc, Dec. 16—1 P. M. E é thet, and thet they were yielding and gradually xiving | Yesterday was comparatively oaim and quict. Save Way a8 our own forces pressed on. Fora «istance of | gome hale antillene dueling the day passed’ off without about one mile they were followed by Our men, who theD | any demonstration of a hosul ructer, It is reported withdrew from the pursuit and retired to the west side of the railroad, in the woods where the line was first 1orm- ed, Later in the afiernvon tig euemy renewed the at- tack. which was met with su@h apirit that it was but taiotly sustained, and they agarh ‘ell buck in the direc... Uon of the river. This cuded the heavy fightiag on the right of the lu@, and the battle was principally fought and won by the troops of Hiil’s division, aided at times by the other troops of Jackson's corps. While these operations were <oing on on the right, Loogstreet’s corps were hotly engaged with the enemy oD the lest, immediately ip she meixhborhood of } redericks- burg. The right of the enemy's line was formed a iow hundred yards from the southern limits of the town, and our iorces confrouting them were posted un a range of that two flazs of truce were sevt 1m for the purpose of ob- taining permission t bury the Yankee dead, It is said General Lee refused the first, because it did not come from General Burnside, but that the latter wus granted. Our men during the day seemed ag careless and uncon- cerned as it nothing had occurred, @hd could everywhere be seen collecting up and cooking their rarious. The road from the. point to the immediate rear of the battle line was jined during the whole day with the am- Dulances and wagons, which were ongaged in conveying the weunded to this point, 1som whence they wiil be sent by the waiting trains t your city, where fair and zentle woman will much better attend to their wants and alle- viate their sufferings than the surgeons can do here, though I must say I think every effort has been put for- hills about baif a mite distant. “The dybting at this point a, ; . was very heavy , and continued thr ughout the afternoon, ward nae to 0. ,all $a. ib. was. posable, to do for the during the whole of which time our position. was main ‘True, in some instances, there may have been eases of negligence op the part of the Surgeons, but these cases fo'm the exceptions, not the rule. 1 have been at some paius to ascertain our loss, and, as th: result of my effort, have obtained from Dr. J. C. Herndon, the polite surgeon on General Lee’s staff, the following statement, which may be relied upon as cor- Tect:— tuined without a reverse, and late in the day the enemy were signally repilsed and driven back at the town. We were informed shat ScLaw 8 division sustained the principal shock of battle en this gnd of the line. When darkness drew on the ring of suiall arins ceased, and Lhe stillness o” the nignt wes only occasionatly inter ted by the report of heavy guus. The reai!tor he day's Moody work is easily suinmed up, Atevery point of attack the enemy wore ofiectusily repnised,and at WLAW’S DIVISION, nigh! our forees slept on their arms on the ground occu poobiehoae Lecauereiang bel oy a pied by them iv the morning. The number of prisomrs | \ershaw's 2 aso oy during the di Steeupiling cases eee 000, and we think Scar onartis DIVISION. hese aro a number of m Wilcox’s brigade ‘ : eer) Mahoue’s...... oie ab gence. 100.000 men, Cook’s brigade. . » 295 A. P, Hilla divisi a, about tage W our arms on Batard Farly’s and Taliaterro's commands, abou shuee te War oommeuced i Sete ne ont feoking amony their troops Washingto ry On stndax morning General Lee expressed himself aa | roa Nighy gratified with the result of the previous duy’s work, He thiuks our loss cannot exceed 1,200 ta kided Pieket's division, and wouude.t. : Hovd’s.... . INGDENTS. After the severe wound of General Gregg was received, oneral Jackson, \\ om he had a long terview, en it was apnennced that the wound was considered mortal, he rejuested rue of his aids to send several messages ty dillerent frisads in Sucth «aroima. Among others wos ene Governor Pickens, whch was ted to bs as Lollow fell Governor Pickens, tf 1 am to dio at this tine Id ny life chee ghtiig for the indevendene uth Caroli Total. . atts eeeeeee nner eee a ww ly The most modexate estimate of the Yankee loss is >,00 and soine put it at 8,000. DEATH OF GENERAL THOMAS R. R. COBB. frrom the Kichmoud \ uquirer, Dec. 15.) The intelligence of the siceess of our army on Satur. day was coupled with the loss of several of our best ge- nerals. Ove of these was lriyadier General Thomas R. R. 88 will be deplored throughout 10, On the left, where the fighting was intense Geurnal Cobb possessed imteliect of a the »: wih Carolinians, commanded by high or extensive cniture and unusual ability asa Kersbaw, suttared heavily. Tho ihird regiment writer und an orator. His profession was tbe law, and Tn te ourly: lieutenant cojone! Carola Volunteers was nearly anpibilaced. part oi the ongagement tneir colon aud major, were ail wounded upon the senior captuin, whi nites atter assuming the command. His place was sup: in, and he, too, feli mor- ‘his reputation was already very high when the culmina- tion of tue slavery ugitution in 1860 led bim into the ly to the result which folle time plied by the second senior capt the frst he had ever ming! in politics, tally wounded ina very ehort Lime. but he was at once chosen xs one of the {Sp co of the Richmond Enq . representatives from Georgia to the Previsional “Howison's FARM, 11 MULLS PROM FREDERIORSEORG, | Congress of the confederacy. As the war began Dec, 16-10 P. Mf to assume larger proportions be determined to raise Tue great battle o' Fredericksburg Mus veon fought and | *!e3 nig he readily accomplished, and after seeing much bard service as coonel was lately appointed to the rank of brigadier general by tho President. Wo know bardly any one.whose career promised so much of foture useiulness. A true patriot, an exemplary Chris Hab, a statesman and a gentleman in every sense, he his fallen worthily upon the field ot a victory which will live forever in history. Virginia, on whose so!) he died, niourns with Georgia over the loss of one of ber noblest sons. We also hear Brigadier General Cregg is mortality won, To-night those of our yi troops who have eseapod Onbarimed from b; pt and discas quietly and confidently on theic well comforts ble hospitals bope that human edthen Ma tion to our cause by Un rious but fatul Seid. on this gio- ch be ever Sherishea hy. feelings of | Wounded. This, we fear, is too trae. In the death of yatitnde and tanta 988, 4s mei » Lave given them. | Gener y the country will lose a brave and skilful ae ty an this revolution, Bold His regiment was the very first that caime to Virginin at the outset of the war, and his memury de- served #/ ecially to be cherished by our people. VME LATER REBEL GEYERAL GREGG. {From the Richmoud Examiner, [ ” my mM yesterday thet Frodericks- nrg had hoon evacuated by'the enemy and was aguin iw Our DOSFeRsION proves tr So soon ax [finished my letter’ at the cars yesterday 1 ied back to visst the town, It $s reported that on Sunday night G was ght L conctuded te hokt ina dying condition His wound was trom a Minie ball, pat T have gathered from citizens who which strick him inthe skte, traversing the neighbor- town duriug the dey, hood of the spine, 8 ‘The uame of Geuera! Maxcy Gregg is historical’ in this ation,” sk of ve ng,” or “ehare | revolution, and there is no need of any detuiled review of whiehover it may be called. was commenced dents in his career to remind the public of his virtues bight abe iown, and was concluded about day- od His name is tamiharly coupled wih the ts at which timo they touk up the last | thst movements of the war, he haying bo pomted to of their pontoons, act the command of the iret Seath Carolina regiment, the tory by ‘calling by lirst force trom tha Their agparture gives unmistakable evidences of panic and hi Abont the town are found commander, Colonel Grogg, re- subsequently reorganized’ the there ave one since heen coustantly aud couspieu. ro ne dead: on Speeder lens than ly indervice. Its commander was made a Brigadier ground. ‘Th sot fur Los | General several mouths ago, } pital purnoves by tho ¥. haste af de Genera! Grogg,althovgh the eccupations of his life were parture, come twenty of their wounded were left Lelind, | principally professional, had a large and brilliaut political 17 TENT O¥ OUR. VICTORY. reputation in his State, He was a leading member of the Aa (hed miat ri 1 the thebt, and the ok bar, and procticed bis protession with distinction and away: fe08r tt the "esteas suctess for period of more than twenty years, we be- the Yanke begine.to. show f. intelligent | lieve, in Columbia. In politics he was an extreme State Yankoes &@ loss during the whole icksbarg say that the rights man, and stood, with others, at the head of that and t party in sow He took a ment part in fayor of the policy of reopening the slave trade, which, it will be recollected ihe subject of some excited aud 5 the Sonth some years ago; he and exiGovernor Afams, of South Carolina, being associated he lenrng representatives of that {dea in the cotton es. passage of the rive bt fighi of 15.000. It a8 iruscworthy authority, rs Word anxtous to renew the Might , but that tho mea wore demortiized aud could not be gotten up tothe mark. Some of their priseuers, likewise, confirm the report that bayopets aud sharp- eneral Gregg was remarkable for his firm and un- used fu forcing np the den to the tereeto | flinching temper. In the army he had an extraordinary lurday; ud they further say that thy Toputution for self-possexaion and sang froid in battle, dwith the fre of their owa batte they fuiter, 1 think it canvot be ques! rai ; applied tne s Dever disconcerted, and had the happy faculty of iring the courage of his troops not so much by words by his cool determination and even bebavior. A cha- acieristic anoodote is told ‘of his manner, on the occa- jon of the affair at Vienne, in the summer of 1861, when ho commanded, and where oceurred the first of our Dril- Kant exploite in artillery in this war. The alarming news was brought by a courier that an overwhelming force of the opemy was approaching. Colonel Gregg inquired the the enemy. Tue reply was, *+At least tive thou- 5 Only five thousand,” edid the commander; “only five to one: is that ally” The coolness of the speech is said to have given a confidence to our troops. that the Most elaborste Larangues might not have inspired. DEATH OF A SON OF BON. T. BUTLER KING. {From the Richmond Enquirer, poe) Capt. Henry Lord King, aid of Major General McLaws, aud son of Hon, Thomas butler King, of bree ‘was one of the inartyrs to liberty inthe late Fredoricksburg bat- He fell piarcea by tive bullets, ene of them through the heart. Ue had passed unliart through the battles of dibg into action. "But all this was to no purpose. Yankees had essayed a task which no army ever mar- sballed or that ever willbe organtz plished. To have driven our eogth of onr position it_maust be seen, bal “Stonowelie'@at doth ends right und the stone fence on BY wsburg. No other wan than Rurnside wonld have attempted so aiiienkt er eo teothardy an wl. +n uly tnay it be wald tbe Yankees slain in battle bave been ‘sbntchored 19 make « Lincoln holiday.” They have faued herow ly. They tony try the Tori Royal mute; if thoy do Muey Will tlud the same character of ob- Slacies there us hore: tle came advantages to our side, of brave spirity to oppost lost, and choice positions im the left, at Preder ‘which our Tien curarrange to ed owe march, The Le eng “alee g oon , and was atthe suis ure giorions. Lee, Jackp and Tongenrret, ex | cupinre: wjier's Farry, was distin. gollant men under (heir exminand: deserve. J’ enished for his gallantry, His narne is po longer on the bor Ueetr cessing thanks. — er chee tae ature ee aa ea 198 TANELY WeUNToty, who gave « 3 for their country. body will be AL tueenuumnit to y wide with our | CoBVeNed South for bariai. te the ¥ the same care CNION URWOXBRS AT AI (CHMOND, {From the Pichmond Enquirer, Dec. 18.) Yesterday saorming £29 abolition prisoners bad‘ arrived at the Abby prisea from the line of the Rappa- ‘anvck. “Anionyg theta were Captain §. 8. Marchant, Com- pany H, One Hundred and Thirty-sigth Pennsylvania: Liestenant Jonn F. Lege Tor wd R. Second *Virgi- nia” cavairy; F. Lamb, United States Telegraph con Up to Tit in tbe cariuess. right page in sur econ noreafter prond poiDt to as ilvatrating ovr cbaracter, tone and Chr Hirolty. That whew var people were didven from their | Willian Forster, « New York pedier, and a number hoimes, which were shellek aad barced over their heads, | Aullers, sutlers’ clorks, &e. Ail af the latter, except god their abaudonet property was destroyed unid wild | Captain Marchant, were taken at Dumfries, Foi and unjastiivble license, they who'were igfrictims of | | A special train on the Central Railroad brought down j their antusix ir wrongs and invaries, and | Met evening, at half-past five o'clock, four hundred and war Qiecup «wine Of naaristunert | &:t¥ more prisoners, incitding eleven commisrioned offi- core, They were ‘taken before Fredericksburg and marched to Hanover Jnnetion, where they were taken up ‘by the train, ‘The inen were in fiue spirits, and while Waiting at the depot indulged therhselves 11 ie here betore Rurny Richmond by themeeives.”” They belong chiefly to Meun- ayivauie anit Now Jersey regiments, jot fap pon ith {kaos Mw iilet stulen trom every houre, ——— the furm sely destroyed or thrown into the ‘The Latest from Fredericksburg. streete, « opou, res distgured amt de. the Richmond Whig, Dec, 18. ruthleaiy robbed of the keys — fadeed, atively qniet In the neighborhood of able iguy that d mani eport was brought by presen enemy was moving down the north nnock in the direction of Port Royal, aud that » corresponding revement was (tuklag place om our (ues, but fron facts communicated by a gentieman who lel the army yeeteriay morting, we are inclined to Delleve this t+ tere conjecture. Afier it was ascertained that the cuemy lad re.crossed the river, areconnoissance wae made towards Port Royal, bat it failed to develop why intention on the part of Birnstle to attempt a pas- Sage at any point lower down. The original plan was, doubtiess, for Siel to crows at Port Royal, had they sue: oaeded in disiodging Geucral ie on Suturday; but their failure in that atterapt annihilated alt their calculations, 8 wollaxe oousiderable portion of their army. We are told thet our troops were much disappointed when they learned that the Yankees had retreated from their immediate troat. Kvery thing kad been prepared to n t ebureh has deca i the pews hove boen ho were spread Atiow ei mM visit the main body of the edifice moe'Dr. Scott's. F. Slanghter’s and &. 8. ased a hompital Ip all, eome a destroyed, nod the lose Of pro ether cannot fall raueh shore of P things be nt mansion of foun L. Marge, was wre are eume dity eaacon’ ball SORROW TICAPE OF GENERAL FacetoN give them another whipping, and the men were in fine | ie sewail.inckson, WhO many almost befiave | wpirite and splendid fighting trim. An ollicer who visited Newel we chy Nac a very narrow e-caye. He wae | headquarters a day or two snbeequent to the battle saya: | eentohinie he wal etan ing at the time nearan oak | that Ceseral Tor exhibited an exaberance of joy alto tree, at struck oot more than two inches | gether nansual for bins, in convequence of the erent vie wbove hie bear. ihe old bare continued his obsorvasions | tury just obtained uomored t 4 ieiore eating (rom Fredericksburg the abolitioniats Ab speident at {ha sommit oo yesterday which 14 wort rseurdym; thoranghty saaked the town, and, when they fiually de- reachmaa in ont servic ron Darted, left many of Uaeir dead iu the streets. ‘The impresaion of well informed persons is that was toy ble for furneide to remain loug imactive at Frode rockebarg, that Me must either make an attack or retreat, A itoring great pain, sald tne of the moment, wittoh faity Asoce of the magnificest ruses practioed by these | alties reported ammog the eld Gilleors in the battle of Camimacuiater’’ to deceive our men, while getting offen Sunday. Bounday night, thoy propped their dead in front. of ou Dao, 16-2. M. vickets, et wo ashe thom regomble viekew, They ‘The abolitionists have certainly ‘changed their hago" to A F UPPER. $ F i Hy we aud, for our ger- vice, well equipped. A competent oye witness and judge ‘writes to the Mobile Register :—"T have never seen a diner command for its size.” We con‘ecs that, ‘ald around the Lcrizon of the war, we fee! 108i uneasy abont the Mississippi campaign. The prize of victory there would be worth more to our foes thin even his coveted Rich mond. As it is the most dangerous und important points, it should be also the best guardod one, Fortunately, the government possesses the means of reiniorcement, and u telegraphic order would give to Gen, Pemberton all the troops required to defeat the grand pinns of the enemy. We shuli be glad to know that the War Department has written the despatch. Trouble of the Rebels About the Enforce. ment of the Conscript Law. The Richmoud Hzaminer of the 20th inst. coutains an editorial'justifyiug the sudden revival of the conscription in Richmond aud tho re-examination of exempts, about which, it appears, there has been much complaint, Ther object of this revival, the E.amincr says, is to detest. forged exemption 48, which are said lo exist to » Grent extent in Richmond, and to capture auumber of iu posters who falsely elaim to be foreigners, and, by the easy procuremecat of Consular protectiou: through aa execution of the law loss careful and rigorous than is Dow imposed, have heretofore avoided the bu:dens of military ays:-—‘It is now stated, ou careful authority . that there aie to-day in Richmond from ‘four to tivo thou: sand persons, within the 8 Ol conseriptions, claiming to be fureiguers, and to be toy that re: evempt trom Siner tho fist cxl:ing our uiliitia iu this State, says the Ezvaminer. claiins for exompiion have multiplied, and it is @ most rewarkable cirentastance that at least eight out of ten of these claimr have been made on the growd of the parties bein. foreigucre. This fact alone argwes the lusiucerity anc fraud of the plea: for it is pot to be “d that tbere 0. citizen to forerse governments, aud found it comventout co avew it only when military service was required «f them, The nuw ber ¢ in this city now pio’ cssime themeelyer urently extravagar t ceases to be at wt Richmond has the-city of ; Inany of whom bave bee induced te 8 of exemption The Militia law of same of tho cotton States reiusin« to recognise their yr allegiance to foreign potent tes fr con us duty fneutradty, they h here as vultures apd birds of passe @ but to waik trough the streets ani store. of Ricbrnona to get an impession of th st number of Israelites in our marts, Tat and gaudy scripta who wait behind ihe: uteraor the e% Kvery auction room is packe with greasy n element go up: Bavuiner also 1 despatches from North Cirvlioa, suowing thie nbday’s Duttle at Kiustou the rebels dit not exceed twenty killod anu sixty wounded, and admitring tbat th» occupation of the town and brid.e by the federais prevented a body of about tive bun red reveis from es The entir rebel force at.that pot 13 set dowa at theu thou: of whic they siy only fifteen hundred were The Keaniner says that aller erossin v federais divided their forces. A part proceeded to Wh: vile the Contederate army lay ja (ve neighborh dall. tour niles irom Goldsboro, ntoreed about mi.uight by the Eighth a Thirty-tirvst North Carolina regiments, Ov Tuesday brisk artillery eng Whitetail, ucross the river, the Coof-derates ing Durged the bridge. These were but few casualties on either side. White this engagement was progressing « nents Occurred at federal force of cavalry and artillery went down river, burning the depot ut Olive Hull and pearing up ¢ miles of the track of the Wilmmgton add Weldon Rai road. The Command of the Middle Depart- ment. ADDRESSES OF GENERALS WOOL AND SCHENCK 11> PAE CITIZ: AND S0LPL {From the Ualtimu'e Sum, Dec. 22] Tho military command vo the Middic Department, or Eighth Army covys, will bo today vseumed by Geverat Robert ) : retiring. The latter, after visiting Washington wil proceed to morrow morning tu bis ho N.Y. [vis onderstocd he wilt be agsiyned to ant command New York cil headquirte.s, Tho following and addresses will bo ed departinent this morning. GENFRAL ORDERS—NO. 64. HeapyuaRrene, Soopie Devanngexr, Excuta Anmy Coxps. BaLriMors, Veo. 22, 1882. 5 The foltewiuy orders are hereby pubiish HeApyTARTRRS 6 Wasiiin ios, Major Genera! Jonx E, Woo, Bultia KNEE ‘ue President having aypo! Ma or Gene ral R. C. Scuenck to the command of tic Mile Depart ment and Bluth Aray corps you will tarn over to him the commiand accordingly, v Orting U0 3 ou. sa voride W. HALBCK Gencrat In obedience to the orders of the Presidaut having reported, Thereby announce that from w the Middle Popartment avd Eighth Army e under the command of Major General Rovert In taking leave T ava) myself of the to announ to the troops of my my expressions Of regret at parting irom tem, of the great satisfaction { have derived from the manner in which they have xenerally por- formed the duties devolving upon them while a.der command, and their new and gallant general, they will coutmue that de- votion to good order, divetpline and improvement'so ex sential to an efficient and patriotic eervice to the country especiaily in the present momentous struggle for pre serving, the iutegrity of the Union aguinat the evils of Trebeilion. « To the citizens of this extensive department, and es pecially to those of the city of Baltimere, with whons during the period of my command, I hive been official or otherwise ascuciated, Ihave the henor, as well us pleasure, to ex, ress my sincere thanks, for the courtesy and uniform kindness which | have very generaily re ceived at their bands, and (rem which I cannot sever my: official connection without extending to them my sincere ane heartiolt wishes for their future weitare, both & aud political. On assuming the command of this department I found the Stato of Maryland recognized as still adhering to the Union, and not tn rebellion against the national govern. ment. Considering it, therefore, as one of the loys} States, my whoie conduct has been sbaped with a view uf retaining it within the folds of the Union; and! am bap PY, on leaving it, to nave it in my power publicly w de- clare that quict, peace and order reign, not only generally throughout the State, but also in the city of gitimore, and the Jatter may,at oo eee time, be jas a Sr tor order trom the headquarters of the occasion inte command ment. E. WOOL, Major General. entering upon these dutice thus assigned ex] to the trgope composing thie oor @ oad ‘will Continue’ cvince ve wamne obedience - cipline aud good ordor which bave manifested, as i understand, ‘ool, the brave and tried d respected chieftain whom 1 With such disposition and coudnct manitestd uni ly on the Tt of officers and men, and an eudeavor on. my part Lo Pe just and considerate in all my goverment and treat- ment of thom, Iieel a good degree of confidence that our relations to cach other will be mutually pleasant, and our joint discharge Of duty profitable to the service of our commen country. ‘To the citizens residing within this military depart- ment I would aleo briefly announce the tew.ing princinle or rule of conduct by which I consider it my duty to regulate my officia conection with thom, We are now in the midet ofa straggie which involves the perpetuity and very existence of our ational geverument. To the government we all, individually, a gow citizens, owe our first aliegianee. In the unhappy contest, therefore arising from the precent#-aneeless and unnatural rebellion there can be but to Fides, with no middie ground o1 whieh any howest wan or trae patriot con stand. 1 eu inderstaud and make all die aliowance for difference. » in the expression and manifestation of Joyalty or disioval ty arising out of the varictios of temperament, axe: (ion or hubiia of thought asd education; but the esse: distinguishing principle ri Joyal and trae citizen adheres to and supports is government with a faithfulness paramount to ail sectional or personal interests or attach ments, ‘Ihe disloyal is pot ooly he who stands in open arme, boldly denying nis fealty, aud seeking by force to overthrow our Uniou and constitution, but in this: clase I think mast be included aso those who show by the expression of their sympathy. and by their daily cons versation and conduct, that they concur, and would co operate € they dare, with the misguided men who are now in open revolt. Nobody who loves var free inatitu tion will pretend that thoughts or opinions, if that werr possible, shonld be suppressed, or would desire to invade or disturd the preaness of private life or conversation but in this view of civil obligation it must net be com plained of if Lea tard or open demonstrations or decia- Yations of sympathy with treason should provoke a strict ‘and needfid observation of the conduct of the offending party, aud lead even to punishment or restraint if accom panied = acts of Comping ee anything tending to dav or disordor, This i - view of what might come the course of my duty T ly declare it, that all be notified in advance. But at the ime f trast, with Rad heart, thar jon may arime toeven Codbt the determination of pny citivea within the department upheld the bk wernment of his country, and, least of all, a citizen of Marviand. ‘on whowe part any act of disloyalty now, after the ‘noble eopres taken by his State, woukt he a double trou. ROBERT (, SCHENCK, Major General Commanding. The officer® composing the staff of General Wool have not yob received orier®, excep Whe several aid-de-camps or personal staff, These w iii eccumpany the Gencral tc Now York. Gonoral Schenek lias not yet completed the Hist of his etaoficors. These of General Wool will there. fore romuin bere for a fow days, until the Het ie complet oid and they are felievod. Mijor Constable will, until re lieved or detailed, continne to act as Military Provort Marsbal, ad all previons ordocs tn tegard to officers and soldiers will he rigidly exforwed and observed. The toad. narters of the department will, it ie underatood, be ron. tinued lu the building on Holiday street, meer the Mayor's ’