Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1861-09-21
THE BATTLE L5t:g' ~ zen ELOYD
AMI EksBSENSEANZ.
PULL PAnrI0ULARs

From me Richmond Dispt CD If tho 18TH
Surgeon Clark, OF Col. WhaTton's regiment,
in Gen. Fiold'5 brigade, and AdJdtant Otey, of
| the same regiment, reached the city yesterday
evening fTem the camp OF Gems. Floyd and
Wise, at Tie foot Of SeweI Mountain, which
they left on Friday noon They bring dis
patch, to The government. The former gen.
tleuan relates to us he following particulars
OF The engagement al CsrniiaX Ferry
Gen. Floyd had warning Of the approach OF
ROsencTsrZ, and had thrown up a small earth
TS& in the center Of bis lne, which was
formed Scr0ss d bend 10 the G3uley Just 1t the
ferry. Some logs, rails, aud brush were also
larOwn up here and there before the regiment,
forming . very imperfect protection, not de-
serving tie name and anything in the world
but he powerful fertilization spoken OF By
Rosencrauz. For the center 5Tesstwork there
were six smooth bore guns, possibly ten pound
ers, and one Ti0ed cannon. These has js5s ar.
rived. under Capt. Guy, ct Goochiand, nd but
FOR them the general would have had none.
Taese seven cannon ars msgnihed in Ro5en-
cranz's report to sixteen! ont OF five regj-
mems, Gen. Floyd had seventeen hundred
available men; RosencTanz estimates them al
Ave tnousaudf
R5seucraz had eleven thousand maa under
his Immediate coglland below Summersyille
Five thousand Of 49, be ordered TO the at
tack Of Floyd's HEnt about three O'Clock o.
Tuesday, the 10 b inst. Six thousand were
held in les, rye. The a tack was received
firmly, and the fire Of the enemy was vigorous
r. returned. Three attempts were made to
dsuk cur Itttie army, and each was rspulsed
with severe loss. Oae bold charge was made
thGLs The battery; but such 4 -%terFiilc nre'
- ~5Ssseted raont bs dsssilSn's By Capt Guy,
that thev were swept back, aud did no5 renew
the attempt. The last chaIge Yves made on
the extreme lef5 by a German regiment, Shich
Wds driven back with heavy loss; AMI thus IS
the regiment which is said to have been
'scAlled ofn Il WAS not until after dark that
firing ceased and The enemy retired.
Gen. Floyd, asceTtsinIng The uumber Of bis
adVers sTv, and moreover that tour thousand,
besides the eleven thousand in ffOnt OF him,
bad been sent above Summer syIile to cross the
Galley at Hughes eFTY, and. to march by
way Of Meadow But 70 ge beh nd him, de
termiGed to Te-CTOss ths river that night, and
! at once pTOceeiei 10 do 50. His means OF
crossing consisted Of one small boat, that could
hold only one wagon az a time, aud ~nail
foot bridge, very iRgeH.Ously built by Engineer
Fr0stbuTg, a STrde, attached to Col. WhaT
tours regiment. Every soldier, well, sick and
wounded, was safely taken across before day
light; but owing to the absence Of a large
number of wagons, Transporting stores from
the railroad depcts, there we're not enough to
secure the entire OF the baggage, provisions,
etc. 4 portion Of these we're unayoId4bly left
behind, including some tents, CsTtn ~, etc,
A part Of Gen. FiOyd's private baggage sud
also that II some Of his officers, was with the
abandoned effects. Il is proper to notice that
to the humanity toward tue sick, Of whom
there were d large Number, much Of the loss is
attributable Some five horses, and twenty Of
thirty cattle also fell into the hands Of the
enemy.
Gen. Floyd lost not a single man. This re
suit is extraordinary. The battle lasted touI
hours, and the enemy's loss was heavy, VIII lie
on our side there were only six men slightly
WOUNDED and not one seriously. Gen. FlOJd
himself was amongst .he wounded. A muskei
ball az the first FIRE Of the enemy, iufscted a
1esh wound just below TIE elbow, but it occa-
stoned no Inconvenience to the general
The enemy's loss was certainly heavy. Ro-
sencranz's first report said 70 killed and 70
wounded. His second raised his figures to 20
killed and 100 wounded. Gen. Floyd took six
of the enemy prisoners. By their account the
killed and wounded were from 300 20 500. One
man said that sixty were killed in his regiment
alone.
The wounded on our side were Martin and
Gross, Of Capt. Henley's company, Amherst
John Philips, Of YoIHg's company, GraysoB
Adjutant Smith, OF Tompkins' regiment and
one man In McCauseland's regiment.
Early on Wednesday morning, the enemy
appeared on the river and fred q few shots.
Gen. Floyd formed a junction With Gen. Wise,
and The combined force returned to Sewell
Mountain. A mess7ge from Gen. Lee met
them there about noon Friday, and they went
into camp. What that message was is not
known; but we nay hope lt indicates reinforce
ments
Thursday, Col Hownsbell, with 700, men re-