Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-08-01

nolds was the only one killed. He wa
struck in the forehead while giving tn
word of command Privates John Payn,
and Crutcher were wounded. The Wash
ingtonians took their stand close to tb'
Michigan Regiment.
Part of the Seventh and Eighth Louisiana
Regiments were in the action, but particu
lars of casualties have not been ascertained
Major Wheat was badly wounded, ant
his recovery is barely possible. His battal
ion was badly cut up.
The enemy were commanded immediate
ly by Gen. Mcdowell, who is said to hav'
had 10000. All of ours at the Stone Bridg'
were estimated at $4,000.
Gen. Scott is said by several persons t.
have been but few miles of. We hea
nothing of Patterson.
Our numbers Immediately engaged wer'
but $4,000. ~
The enemy was totally routed, and aet
in great confusion for miles.
We have captured thirty pieces of artil
lery, thirty wagons containing provisions
and 500 prisoners.
Among the prisoners is the celebrated
Col. Gorcoran, Of the famous Irish Sixty
Ninth Regiment, New York.
Col. Wilcox, captain and three pri
Yates, of the Michigan Regiment, surren
dered to the Confederate Twenty. Eight
Virginia Regiment.
Captain Edward Darlington, of Wash
ington City, VirginiaD BY birth, and I
nephew of the late Hon. VIM. C. Preston
of South Carolina, is also prisoner HI
fought vigorously against us.
Col. Kempers Alexandra Artillery die
most effective service, moving down entire
files of the enemy.
The Richmond Examiner has the follow
ing notice of the battle:
The main battle was fought near th'
Stone bridge over Bull Creek. Our army
like that Of the enemy, was seriously en-
gagged only on the left The forces of th'
centre and the right skirmished heavily
but did not close. The enemy made thei
attack on the left. Gen. Johnston, com
manded there only fifteen thousand men
the enemy brought thirty FIVE thousand up
on him. 1t is obvious that their plan wa1
to force the left and then attack the cen
tre and the right from the flank. Thei
troops elsewhere waited fer this event
which never transpired. Thus only one
third of our own army was engaged in tht
battle, and under desperate odds. Wei
did they meet them. Neither artillery, no.
the bayonet, nor charge on charge, was o
any avail against the steady valor of tha
army which had maneuvred 40 long be
tween Winchester and the Potomac. 4
the close of the day the assailant was ex
haueted and disordered; an advance of ou1
lines converted their vacillation into a pre-
c,pitate flight. The official statement de
cIares that the country around is strew,
with their arms, their dead and thei
wounded that many State flags and ont
standard of the United States are in OIL
possession 1t does not estimate the nu
merical loss Of the enemy nor our own
Our information on this point, which We
have good reason to think correct, is this
We have 400 men killed and 1900 wound
ed-a total of 1900. We have taken 81
cannon from the enemy, in which is inclu
ded the whole of Sherman's battery, and
one Parrot gun, of uncommonly heavy cali
bre.. But We are unable to present an esti
mate of the enemys loss with the same con-
fdence. 1t is certain that it was very great
-four or Eve times that of our army, as
it must necessarily have been, when they
fell under the double disadvantage of being
at once the attacking and the routed COL
umn.
All accounts agree that the burden oi
the day fell on the corps of General John.
ston, whose strategy in the Northwest has
occupied so much attention in the last few
weeks. That able general lost ground in
popular estimation by his continual avoid.
ance of general action with Patterson -
The event proves the wisdom of his con,
duct. He kept Patterson at bay by bis
maneuvres; had be engaged, his force
would have been weakened even by vic.
tory, and perhaps disabled for this more
serious occasion. Had he been defeated,
his men would have left on the field the
weapons which We could not replace, and
the battle of Sunday would have only been
another retreat of the South. At the end,
his position was in many respects similar to
that of Marshal Grouchy, near Waterloo.
Both were left to check an army which e.
qually disappeared from their front at a
given moment Grouchy remained in hesi.
fancy whether to follow it or stay where be
was, while all the horizon was red with a
lurid light, and the ground quaked under
the distant cannon-the cannon of Water
loo! So did not our Virginia general -
When Patterson disappeared his resolution
was taken.
For strength with strength doth sympathizc.
He went straight to the field where the NOR
tai struggle was about to be, and there won
a name for history.
RICHMOND, July 24.-The following is
the account of the action on Sunday, at
Stone Bridge, got from an officer of Gen.
Bopham's Staff:
Bonham's Brigade was in the centre, at
Mitchell's Ford. This Brigade was com-
posed of Kershaws', Williams, Cash's and
Bacon's Regiments of South Carolinians,