The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-11-15

! Massachusetts 10th .3lS Al Ito
Total. .... 1901 so le6 7o2
The reoels report having taken but 500
prisoners and as that is l73 short of our
number reported missing, it is fair to pre-,
sumo that nearly all Of the balance were
killed in the battle. Of the prisoners,
probably one hundred at least are wounded.
With these additions the list of casualties
| will stand as follows
| Killed. 223
w ouhueu ........... .......'... Io5
! wounded among prisoners. 100
| Prisoners not wounded. APO
Iotdl -.............. .......... .3lo
To the above must be added the killed
and wounded of the Third Rhode Island
battery, the First United States artillery,
and the United States cavalry, which will!
probably swell the number to nine hundred
and thirty, or nearly fifty per cent. of the
whole force engaged.
CHEAT MOUNTAIN sUMMIT-TROOPs THERE.
The summit of Cheat Mountain is 1900
feet above Cincinnati. Of course, at this
season of tie year, its temperature is very
icy. The Twenty-fourth, Twenty~fifth and
Thirty-second Ohio volunteers, and the
Ninth Indiana, are encamped at that place.
A correspondent of the Cleveland Plain
dealer says OF the summit and the troops
there:
This summit is the hardest place have ever
| seen, and l sayit openly and can not be con-
| tradcted, that officers and men on Cheat
{ Mountain Summit are dissatisfied. I saw an
article in the Cincinnati Commercial of the 23d
or Oath ult., in which Mr.. Schwartz from Gin.
cinnatl says that our troops on the Cheat
Mountains are we'll satisfied. He is right if he
excerpts the four regiments on Cheat Mountain
summit Ii he includes them, he is wrong.
He has not been there. 1t is a mean, unwhole-
some spot. and will cost great many valuable
lives from exposure of the troops that have to
winter there. They are willing to fight for
their country, but to be cooped up on this
miserable spot. death by cold. wet, exposure,
and perhaps starvation, staring them in the
face, is awful.
KENTUCKY.
The Evansville Qndiana) Journal says it
would be under obligations to any one who
would point out single full regiment in
Kentucky composed exclusively of Ken
tuckians. 1t knows OF Kentucky officers
enough to command all the regiments formed
in the West. Adjutant General Thomas
report tells US that the young men of Ken
tucky-the fighting men-are with the Con
federates The Union man are the aged
and men of property who are conservative,
but these will not shoulder the musket.
That accounts for the dispatch that Gen.
Sherman wants two hundred thousand men,
and must rely on the Western States for
troops with which to defend Kentucky.
FORT PICKENs-A SINGULAR STATEMENT.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says:
1t has lately been discovered that the orders
for the fleet and COmmandant at Fort Pickens,
issued by James Buchanan, not to make any
attack, but to act upon the defensive, have
never been cOuntermanded by the navy or
President, nor were new ones issued. Within
few weeks, orders have been sent to let loose
the dogs of war the first opportunity, and we
may soon expect to hear the laundering of the
OuIOu guns upon the reDel DaLLeTleS tndC CneY
have been SO coolly building under the fort.
Perhaps the Naval Expedition. Fort Pickens,
and our grand army, will open simultaneous
fire, while Fremont in Missouri, Sherman in
Kentucky, and Rosecrans in Western Virninia,
are driving the rebel crew back towards the
Gulf The darkest of the night is before the
dawn of day.
A PRISONER TO THE sECEsH.
An old and respected citizen of Cincin>
natl, MIR. Charles Anderson, who some
three years ago settled in Texas, and who
from the first steadfastly opposed the seces-
sion movement, has been arrested while at
tempting to escape from Dixie:
The Richmond Enquirer, of October "a;
contains the following extract
Charles Anderson, brother of General Ro.
bert Anderson, of Sumpter notorety, who lives
in Texas, lately concluded to sell out and re.
move to Kentucky. He started from San An.
tonic, and proceeded toward Mexico. When
twenty.seven miles out on his pious pilgrimage
he was overtaken by detachment of our cav.
airy, sent for that purpose by Colonel H. e.
Mccullough. Mr.. Anderson is now q prisoner
but his family started for Ohio last Thursday,
by way of Matamoras.