The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-27

and tho capture OF Colonel Cocswc ten other officers
naming them 1t further states that Colonel Evans
command were from Mississippi and Virginia. the three
Mississippi regiments being commanded by Coloncis
featherstono Burt and Earksdalc.
Another dcspatch reported BY the Examiner 10 have
been received at The War Department at Richmond, as
late ten O'Clock On Tuesday night states loss Of tie
oderals to have been in killed and wounded about ono
thousand with six hundred prisoners ,aen and twelve
hundred stand Of arms
Still another despatch to the Examiner, dated Manas
sas October %, said TO have been written by Adpant
General Jordan states that General Evans with twenty
Ave hundred confederates engaged General Stone, with
ten thousand federals at Leesburg, Monday that the
battle lasted all day. and the confederates were vcto
rious that the federal loss four hundred killed aud
wounded five hundred and twenty taken prisoners and
three hundred federals drowned while trying
the Potomac. It is stated in the despatch
that the confederates had three hundred killed and
wounded
The Richmond D,pdtch OF the 23d inst contains all the
above, and the following in addition
OFFICIAL.
HEAporARrE ARMY or POTOMAC
CKyrREvnIE, Oct. 22-f030 P. Ii.
In ad1G concerning tho victory Of General Evans,
have to report the capture Of nearly six hundred prison
and twelve hundred stand OF Their killed and
wounded and prisoners between one thousand
and twelve hundred The rout total. The fight
infantry engagement exclusively The forces engaged
the Eighth Virginia and Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Mississippi regiments, the Thirteenth Mississippi being
held in reserve. No artillery was fred by US.
THOS JORDAN, Assistant Adjutant General
telegraphc despatch TO the Richmond Dispatch from
Manassas, dated the afternoon OF the 22d, says The
fight near Leesburg serious than rst reported
Five hundred and twenty edcras brought 10 Sud
ley Church this evening Between four and FIVE hundred
of the enemy were killed. and three hundred drowned
in the Potomac The prisoners will be here 70
morning Our loss is also heavy, say three hundred
killed and wounded"
The Richmond Whg OF the 24th inst giordes Colonel
Evars, 'swho, on the day Of the battle, was made
General z for having "achievcd victory with twenty
five hundred men against ;en thousand rcderalsn
This is the style Of lying the rebels adopt 10 inspire
their people. The article concludes IS follows
1--WE are yet without tic names of any Of The brave
men who have fallen our sidc.n
Tho above extracts from rebe accounts Of The gh
Leesburg give .be lie direct the fellows who hurried
this city on Tuesday last and made statements that
the affair was batto at all, bit nero massacre Of
our men, who showed fight, and That Of The re.
bes killed s,atemtn;s ot this kna have reached
the public through some Of the pgess.
II should have been stated before, that The account Of
the battle contained in this correspondence n last Fri
days HERALD, authoritative one, furnished to
your pondtn at General MeCieans headquarters
after his return from an Investigation Of the whole ar
fair in person.
The gentleman who brought the Richmond papers re.
fcrrcd above states that there reports in Rich
n,cnd on Wednesday, when he eft that several officers
Of distinction had fallen in the battle Of last Monday and
that the loss much greater than the RiQhmsnd
papers announce