The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1861-11-02

a correspondent of the Chicago Tn
bune writing from Louisville, Oct 2sth
gives the following thrilling account Q
ZollicofIer's retreat. 1t is notable fac
that this fight, and the battle at friedrich
town, and the disaster at Edwards Ferr,
occurred on the same day, The write
says:
The retreat Of Gen. Zollicoffer ha
proved to be most disastrous and bloody
| A letter from Camp Wild Cat, dated Fri
day last, says he had left his dead and dy
| ing strewn along the road from that poin
10 Barboursville. 1t is estimated thai
1000 men persisted in the retreat alone
and that his loss in the battle and the re.
treat will amount to / 500 men. The re.
treat began early on Tuesday morning.
The dead were left on the field to be bur.
led by the Union troops. The field was
literally strewn with them. They must
have fought like fends. The execution
was terrible, and the wounded were few.
The effects Of the long balls--the MIME
are represented to have been most ter
rible Bodies were perforated and skulls
were broken into half a dozen pieces
Many features il was impossible to recog-
nize. The grape and canister of the ar
tillery had also found many victims. They
were found lying on the hill sides in
groups. 1t appears as if the bodies on
falling had rolled down the steep sides Of
the hill, and thus piled up one on the 9TH
er. The road was blocked with them, and
the Tennessee regiments in pursuit rushed
over the bodies of their former friends and
acquaintences. Two pieces Of artillery
and all the camp equipage, with many
arms, knapsacks, and other materials,
were left by the rebels in their precipitate
fight.
But the retreat was the most trying or
deal which the rebels had to undergo -
The farmers, whom for weeks past they
had oppressed, aroused by the report of
the victory, gathered along the road to
gave them parting blow, and from Wild
Cat to Barbours,ille the rebel army run
the gauntlet From every tree and rock
upon the roadside the sharp crack of the
farmers rifle greeted them and sealed n
rebels fate. 1t is said that the retreat
was one continued fight, in which the
poor devils had no chance whatever
Ambuscades opened their fires upon them
from every side and quarter, and they
felt what it was to retreat through hos
tile country Like the English who came
to subjugate at Lexington, Mass, they
pushed on i'll haste, flying from the storm
| OF bullets that beat in upon them at every
step. They needed not who fell They
pushed on, each man for himself, seeking
safety in the hills Of the Gap. The bull
let Of the famous rifle sped on its mission.
as if exhausted. His. following fellows
stepped over his body and hurried on, nqy
stopped to pluck his weapon from his dy-
ing grasp. They lightly sprang over the
fallen body Of the steed that buta moment
before with dilated nostrils snufed dan
Eger to its master, and then fell unheedct
by him who had ridden him The retri
button for our retreat of three months agt
had come. On the list of the month
three months ago, our men had retreateC
to Washington on the 2lst of the month
they also retreated. But this retreat wa
far more terrible. The shame of on
arms in Virginia has been wiped out il
Kentucky.
1t is not improbable that Gen Zollicof
fer has fallen, though there is no informa
ton to that effect. He was we'll know
in the mountains His features and form
are not likely to be forgotten by those VIII
have seen him, even when they have les
r incentive to remember him than have til
: mountaineers of kcntuck
D0A Here is a specimen of the stuff EN-
ployed to keep up the tagging spirits {
| the rank and file of the rebel army ]
' is from the Atlanta ga. Intclhgencer {
o Oct g.:
3 A MuTINY AMONG THE UNION Tnoop
AT WAsHlNaToN-GE MCCLEL
Ian SHoT AND MORTALITY WOUNDED
We have received information from rel
able source, in regard to the reporte
slaughter of federal troops at Washing
ton 1t appears that four regiments wer
. required to change their arms, whcreupo
3 they mutinied, and Gen. Mcclellan SUI
rounded them with FIVE regiments. !
melee with stones and brickbats then com
menced, and to quell the riot, McClella
: gave the order to fire. The slaughter
represented to have been fearful. Surel
:, the Linconites have commenced the wor
! Of blood and carnage among themselve.
E A report is in circulation that McClella
has since been shot and MORALLY wounded
but this lacks confirmation.
Fl Th~ C0ulrnbands.
II is stated that Gen. Wool. at Fortres
; Monroe, who has some 800 sscontra
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