Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-08-15
3EN. ANDERSON TO TAKE THE FIELD.
Skirnish in Grafton, Virginia.
AFTERNOON DISPATCnES.
Further Particulars Of the Battle IN nis
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R"LLA, Aug l3
The following additional accounts Of tn battle
near Sprin gheld is furnished by an eve vitn .ss
Who left Spring6eid on Monday morni NJ and anne
through ~ this place ON horseback:
Our army marched out Of Springfield on F, iday
evening" only $500 strong, the Home Guards re-
hs'nlng in Springfield.
| our rces slept on the prairie portion Of III.
night, ana about sunrise saturday MORN r.p
drove IN tho outpos 5 Of the enemy, aud soon at
/ terwards the engagement became general
The attack Vas made il two columns by Lyon
and Sturgess Gen Sigel leading = fankinR force
of about : thousand men sod tour guns on the
s,uth OF the enemys camp.
! The 6ght ragged from sunrise in the morning un
| til one or two o'clock ia the r. NJ
The rebels In overwhelming forces charged on
| Capt. Totten's battery three separate times, but
".re rePuised with -reat Slaughter.
Gen L;on foil early in tae day. He had been
previously wounded in the lex aud had = hors.
| shot from under him The Col. of one of the X an
| - regiments having become disabled, the bo, =
cried out "Gcneral you come and le I'd U.s." he did
0, and ut once putting himself IN frcnt and .hi
cheering the men on to the cha, xe,recieved q bull
let in tue left breast an fell fIon, his horse II,
Was asked It he was hurt, and replied ms not
much, but IN = few minutes he expired vi hout
u struggle.
Gen. ,igel had y very severe struggle and los,
3oi his guns. His artillery .or-es were snot il
their hirness. and the pieces we're disabled. He
ndeA, ored to hAai them oG wt,h a Number o.
prisoners he had taken but was finally compel led
to abandon them. first, however. sp,k:ng The gun.
and disabling the carriages. About .clock r
Il. the enemy seemed 20 be in great disorder, and
'etreaiing they set Ere to their train OF baggage
wagons. Our troops we're too much fatixued AMI
cut up to pursue, AMI the b title may be- consider
d drawn one The t, flowing i. u Ia r,ial lit II
tho killed and wounded our side:
Capt. Grats. OF the LIT Missouri regiment was
aitcSel. 81 Tsn; IS S1uass... =. - '-s C"l
Major Shepherd slightly wounded; Capt. Plum
mer wounded; Capt. Miller of tho Missouri lst
seriously wounded Capt Cavender woun led in
shoulder. apt burke slightly wouaded, Colonel
ni'xel wounded in the leg, Cspt. Farland, If Isl
Kansas regiment, supposed nortaiiy wounoed.
The following belonging to the lst Kansas regi
nent were killed: e. Agnel, OF Co. X, C. l..
Jones Of Capt Walkers Co. n. C. Gonog.n, OF
Capt. Mct ooks' Co., X A. barker WAS shot in the
mead
The lst Missouri, l Kansas and lst Iowa regi.
ments uttered most.
Gen. Price was not killed.
There acre ru'nors on the field that Mccullough
Wa killed, but the rebels deny it
On >aturday night ,'r. Murcher and others OF
our army wsut back with influences to the bat
tie field from spring fell TO see abo the kill,
and woanded. they found the enemy on the
6e. IN were CONSIDERABLY treated. ten. Lyon
Doiy had been treated with great respect, nd was
prought back with some Of the wounded to Srng
field.
Major Sturges took command on the battle field
after the death Of Lyon, and Gen. Sigel took CON-
maud after the battle.
Our loss is variOuSly estimated Of from $50 to
300 killed aud several huLdred wounded.
Tho enemies loss is placed at 2,VO0 killed and
wounded
Dur boys captured about Loo horses. One Of the
enemy's regiments carried two flags the Confed
rat n nd the SfaPS and SfPlDPR
Gen. Sigel marched back TO Springfield in good
order. Alter perfectlng his arrsngem nts, gath
ing tho baggage belonging to HIM. blowing up
what powder he could MT carry and desuoying
ot,er p,operty shieh he did not wish to
all into the hands Of the enemy, he loft Spring
6el {, aud o. Sunday night encamped thirty mil.s
this side o. ths' place the enemy not pur. .uing.
Tho only hostility observed during the day
sas firing . musket from distan:e 1T the roar
guard
field against the force they had engaged, but be
VA fearful Of reinforcements coming 70 them from
the South w est, AMI thst hiss line Of commune
tion to Rolls would be cut Of.
Gen Lyon began the attack upon receipt Of in
tell,gen . hat the ooemy were expecting rein
forcsments from Hardee's column, which WAS sp
preaching from the South-East.
A PORTION OF the aItillery Of the enemy Was ad
mir.b served. Their infantry IRE Vas also very
severe.
The Springfield Home Guarts were not in the
fight. They. With = l~rg- number If citizens Vi
Springfield, are in NigeI'- camp 1t was tuoIght
that gel would fall back farther than I.eDs-
non whore reintorcements would meet them.
Froa Wsshisston.
WASHINGTON Aug l3
The following are among the returned -urgeons:
J H. stewart, LIST Ninn.; J. N. Lewis I'd Wis.
The Asst surgeon Of tho Let Minne.ota refused
70 accept the parole, and remains = prisoner II
itichmOR1.
Tribune Despatch.l
A general order is issued giving Provost Mar
shal Porter authority TO grant passes over the
pridxes within the lines, which are to be given
only to those having .ficiai business, except BY
the special order Of the secretary Of War and the
Go. erul in-Chief.
Inform alton is received that Geu. Fremont vas
going 10 give Gen Sigel oil the aid in his power.
On the the order Of the War department b re,
forces Fl ON ohio Itdiana and liiinois, are nov
uDAoL Lbtedly in Mi-souri, to reinforce Cen Sigel.
Col. Barker, in crmwsnd Of Fort Lafayette, in
chs of the Baltimore rebel prisoners, will, Of
course. bo sustained " g ve, nment 10 . orposi
ton 70 the efforts Of lawyers md traitors get
he guilty frso. Orders went on to-day, 70 h'm,
10 dv,epd himself il attacked. and to Gen. Scott,
70 reinforce nim il necessary.
Two Of the released Surgeons, agree that our
,unded as. y III cared 10 700 faie and good.
someVhat crowded accommodations. Insy deny
that our wouneed we're Layonetted Of hospitals
shelled. One Of Beauregards Aids told them
that but 1900 men were engaged on their side,
and confessed that il their 20 diess bad tean