The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1861-07-30
WAR NEWS

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touac. under Cen Mcdowell. engaged ibe
reIels a Ban. Ron, aloH bait way be.
tween Ce@ryille and Mauas a Junction.
on sunday the 2ls, inst About 25,0oo
If The federal troops vefe engaged. While
tbo rebel ioroc amounted. Il Is said, to 60.
600. Uodl 2 O'Clock 7. NJ oar troop,
drove tle enemy before them bal fresh r.
serves 81 ihc enemy arriving they were
obliged 70 give away. A part olyur troops
broke ranks and fell back in great eonla-
sion the residue retired 10 order, and were
not pursued BY thc enemy. Beauregara,
Davi, ana johnson commanded the rebels.
Cen johnson joined Beaurogard At Ma
nassas before the battle. The rebel loss
is stated al 2000, other accounts say 1000.
Two Of their Brig. Generals killed. Oar
loss in killed is less than SOC. oar troops
exhibited much bravery on the field. The
Fire Zouaves, the New York G9th Irish
Req and the n. Y. list covered thcm-
selves with glory, Tic Zouayea engaged
South Carolina Regiment with the bowie
knife; they also engaged the Black Horse
Cavalry, who charged on them, and so cut
them to pieces that not more than 200 re-
NAMED. The Zouaycs lost 200 men.
II is said that the rebels committed acts
Of the most savage cruelty upon their pris-
oncrs.
Cen Mcclellan is 70 take command Of
the army at Alexandria. Gen. Banks Is
to superccde Gen. Patterson at llarpcr's
Ferry. The Army is 10 be recognized.
The regimental officers are 10 be subject
Cd 70 military examination. 10000 vol
unteers have already been accepted by the
Government since the battle, and are NOV
Ing towards Washington.
We publish the most graphic account Of
the battle we have have seen, from the pen
of the special reporter Of the IIortL who
was on The field during the engagement;
THE HEAT or TuE CONTEST.
1t was noon, and now tho battle com.
menced in the fierccness Of its most eX-
tended fury. Tie batteries on the dis
liant hill began to play upon our own, and
upon our advancing troops, with hot and
thunderous effect. Carlisle answered for
us, and Sherman for Hunters Division,
willie the great 30 FOUNDER addressed IT.
self resislessly to the alternate defenses Of
the foe. The noise Of the cannonadng
was dcalcning and continuous. Converse
4 " to the circumstances Of the former en-
/ gagement, it completely drowned, at this
4 period, the yolleys Of the mUsketry aud
riiemen. Ii bhnched the cheeks Of the
villagers at Ceuueyillc, 70 the Main street
Of which place some Of the cnemy's riaed
she'll were thrown. II was heard at Fair
4 fax, At Alexandra, at Washington itself.
4 Five or six heavy batteries were IN opera
/ ton at once, and to their clamor was added
the lesser roll Of twenty thousand small
arms. What could we civilians see Of the
! fight at this time? Little: yet perhaps
more than any who were engaged in it,
How anxiously we strained our eyes TO
catch the various movements, houghtless
Of everything but the spectacle and The
successes or revcrses Of the federal army.
Our infantry were engaged IN woods aud
meadows beyond our view. We knew
not the nature or position Of the force they
were fighting But now and then there
would be fierce rush into the open pros
pect, gallant charge on one side and a
retreat on the other, and we saw plainly
/ that our columns were gaining ground,
and steadily pursuing their advantage by
/ their gradual movement which continued
I toward the distance and the cnemy's cen
I ter.
We indeed heard continuous tidings Of
heroism and victory and those in the
trees above US told Of more than we could
discover with our field glasses from below.
We heard that Hunter had fairly rounded
the enemy's flank, and then we listened
for ourselves to the sound Of his charges in
the northern woods, and saw for ourselves
the air gathering up smoke from their
| branches, and the wavering column Of the
Mississippians as they fed from their first
battery and were forced into the open field.
Then we saw our own Sixty-ninth and
/ Seyenty-ninth, corps animated by chiyal-
rous national rivalry, press on to the sup
I port Of the more distant column. We
could catch glimpses Of the continual adj
Yances AID retreats; could hear OCCASION
ally the guns Of battery before undiscoy-
cred could guess how terribly all this ac-
emulation of death upon death must tell
upon those undauntca men, but could also
see--and our cheers continually followed
the knowledge--that our forces were grad
ually driving the right Of the enemy around
the second quarter Of a circle, until by 10
O'Clock the main battle was raging at a
point almost directly opposite our standing
I place--the road at the edge Of the woods
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