The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-26 00:00:00

General Pope, General M'Dowell, and all their staff.
They only saved themselves by flight through the
fire of their enemy and of their own en, who
opened with musketry from the woods on t he horse-
men, and forced them to fall back. So i e accounts

say this event took place next night. 1 ope himself
was directing the R hole movement, hich was in-
tended to end in the passage of the Rapidan, after
the repulse of the enemy, and he slept at Culpepper
Court-house the night before the battle.
The pretence of superior force on the part of the
Confederates is met by the statement from Federal

sources that on Friday night M'Dowell's corps was
four miles south of Banks's corps at Culpepper ;
Sigel's corps was eight miles distant. But "it was

never supposed that the enemy had more than a

few regiments." Jackson, instead of waiting to be
attacked at Gordonsville, came in with a rush on

Culpepper and seized Cedar, or Slaughter's Moun-
tain, completely commanding the route to the river.
The total force of the Cmifederates is estimated by
the Federals at 27 battalions, of which the names
are giver, but in the paper in which it is stated
that only 7,000 men were engaged the names of
21 Federal regiments are mentioned in which

severe losses occurred. The result is declared to be

" a glorious victory for the Union arms." The value
of this assumption may be estimated by the fact

that Stonewall Jackson sent an officer to the Fede-

rals to inform them "he would give them till two
o'clock on Monday to bury their dead, but that they
must not take arms, tools, or ammunition from the
ground, as he claimed the field and its contents."
This fact is distinctly stated in the correspondence
of a New York journal. The Federal wounded lay
for two days on the field till permission was given
to cart them The action, it must be remem-
_

bered, was fought on Saturday, the 9th. On that
night Popo bruught up all his troops, but lie did uut
attempt to attack his enemy the next day; on the
evening of Sunday he was very nearly taken pri-
soner by a charge of their cavalry through the guns,
and on Monday Jackson retired at his leisure,
carrying off his prisoners, wounded, and thousands
of arms, having buried his dead and given permis-
sion to the enemy to do the same. There is no cor-
rect estimate of the loss, but Culpepper is " a vast
hospital," and some Federal regiments have only
"50 left out of 500." The Federals say theirs was
3,000. The following is a list of the Federal regi-
ments of which mention is made in the reports in

the various papers
109th Pennsylvania, 110th Pennsylvania, 102dNew Pennsylvania,ork, 12th United States, Bth United States,
3d Indiana, 2d Massachusetts, 3d Wisconsin, 27th
Indiana, 28th Pennsylvania, Bth New York, 12th
Massachusetts, 13th Massachusetts, 46th Pennsyl-
vania, sth Ohio, 7th Ohio, 29th Ohio, 66th Ohio,
10th Maine, sth Connecticut, 28th New York.
The names of the officers which occur in the
papers would make a long list of killed and
Wounded, but of the higher ranks there are killed,
Colonel Stone ; taken prisoner, General Price.
Federals.—Wounded—General Augur, General
Geary, Colonel Ceale, Colonel Donelly (mortally),
Colonel Steinwehr, Colonel Chapman (mortally),
and Colonel Creighton.
Among the Confederates the following are said to
be killed :—Generals Weinder and Trimble.
Wounded.—General Jackson (slightly), and
General Saxton.
It is characteristic of General Pope that having
received this most severe check he should telegraph
on the night of Tuesday, the 12th of August, to
General Halleck, " The enemy has retreated under
cover of the night. His rear guard are now crossing
the Rapidan, towards Orange Court-house. Our
cavalry and artillery are in pursuit." It is wonder-
ful he did not add they had " taken 10,000 pri-
soners." So far, General Pope's campaign has opened
inauspiciously, and 114 diversion in favour of
M'Clellan has received 'a signal discomfiture. All
over the Western States the war is sporadic, and
assuming on both sides an aspect of greater atrocity ;
the savage Indian tribes have been arrayed on both
sides and Choctows and Cherokees and guerilla
bands are stepping in on the bloody stage, which is
, broader than all Europe.
Guerillas, "wiped out" in one place, rise up and
take a fern in another. A sick Federal General is
murdered in his ambulance, the Federals lay waste
the district, hang, the people in the neighbourhood,
and burn the houses. Tennessee is swarming now
with bands of patriots on both sides, and the poor
people are plundered as they were in the days of the
old war. A Confederate General is assassinated by
a Tennessee Unionist. Missouri seems handed over
to marauders on both sides. The report of the cap-
ture of Baton Rouge is renewed, and there is no
confirmation of the destruction of the Arkansas.
It is impossible to make anything out of the ac-
counts of these fights, except that Morgan or Quan-
trell, or Porter's bands are killing people or taking
or leaving places, or are being killed by other Ameri-
cans-50 here, and 150 there, all over vast tracts of
country, that railway trains are fired into, bridges
cut or burnt; mails stopped; that blood is flowing
like water, and that Union feeling is not to be
found in the South under the keenest search of
the bayonet. Sickness is nearly universal. Gene-
ral Butler is uneasy about his position in New
Orleans, his spies prove untrustworthy, commerce
does not revive, nor can it at all cheer him to hear
of the " rams" preparing at Mobile. The insecurity
of the garrison at Hilton Head is admitted, and
Pulaski is looking out with all its eyes for the new
rams fitted up at Savannah. These statements are
contained in the American papers by Americans of
Americans. Because they are sifted and repro-
duced here, the A' ew York World piously hopes
they may " be even with our English cousins some
day." And for what it would be hard to say,
indeed, except that this holding of the mirror up
to the Federal face causes disagreeable reflec-
tions. The recruiting which is going on actively
is admitted to be caused by the desire to get the
bounty, which would not be paid if the men waited
till they were draughted, and the vanity and con-
ceit of the people is nursed to a degree bordering on
insanity by their papers, which talk of " the march
of a million of soldiers with their glistening bayo-
nets and well-trained cannon."— Times.

The following letter has just been received by a
lady in Glasgow. It is interesting as showing the
feeling entertained by the citizens of the South to-
wards their former friends in the North. The writer
is a young gentleman, a native of Charleston, who
was educated at Edinburgh University, and re-
turned to America about 18 months ago. Ho had
intended embracing the legal profession ; but the
outbreak of hostilities changed all this, and, as will
be seen, he is now a corporal of volunteer artillery
in the service of the South :

" Camp Whilden, Adam's Run, South Carolina,
June 26, 1862.
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‘,/ dear Mrs. B.—There is but one pen in camp
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in the first
place, to carry abort least I have found it s:v,iet,i,l it 1,
you the convenience for
writing with you; and, secondly, it is not easy
to get a place to sit down quietly to write a letter
with ink. Here I am writing on a board supported
on my knee ; on my left a party or four playing at
seven's-up for 25c. a game, making as much noise
with their jabbering as if they were four women. I
am a soldier in earnest now, subject to courts-mar_
tial, and liable at any moment to have a six-foot
chain and a 24-pound ball attached to my left leg,
or any other little pleasant exercise which military
tyrants may choose to impose. But what care we
for the despotism of military authority, allowed as
it is for the time, for the purpose of achieving in
the end real liberty and independence from the
hideous and disgusting despotism of a vulgar mobo
cracy. If the people in Great Britain, deceived by
the falsehoods of the Northern press, think we are
near the point of subjugation, and that the North
are already triumphant; and laetly, that cotton will
flow into their seaports and feed their mills as for-
merly, they will, I can assure you, before long find
I themselves vastly mistaken. If we were to succumb