, 1861-11-09
FROM CAIRO:


Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Ttibune.l
iCARo, Nov. s-9P- n.
1t is impossible Jet to obtain anything like
an accurate report Of the number Of killed,
wonnced a2d missing, in the engagement at
Belmont yesterday. 4 flag Of truce was sent
down to Columbus on the Memphis this
morning, AID another from Birds Point BY
land, to tie battlefield, this afterncon.
courier just in from the Memphis reports
CGl. Doughe1ty ss wounded and captured :;
that he las had leg amputatcd, and was
doing well. It ia estimated that rs Of the 22d
regiment ars missing.
Thera are thought to be $50 missing of
the It'll Iowa. Col Lanman's vonnd il not
oarge1ous; Lieut.. Colonel Werdt vas killed !;
the M:jor is wounded, and the Adjutaat MISS
Ing, REPORTED killed.
In Lngan's regiment there we're thirt7.fYe
Killed and fcr.y-sv4en wounded.
ALI but a Of Cclonel Fouke,s regiment
1crc1ted themselves at roll cal this after
neen. Bus oLe commissioned officer vas
wounded.
In Co1onel Brford's regiment lid not as
certain the loss of men, but it ia not 1tou-ht
10 be heavy.
Of Captain Tas1or'a Cnicsgo Artillery,
Orderly G. A. Everett is slightly wounded; !;
Sergeant Chase, flesh wound; George @.
White, right hand shot off BY premature dis
charge Of gan. No cannon we're lpst.-
The resr pcrticn Of two caissons had to be
left behind. They are con1 1ensated for by the
capture OF two guns, ,one twelvepounder,a and
the other Fifty. .fcurpounder. It was manu-
facturtd by John Clark, Of New Orleans, and
is beautiful piece. Both belonged to Wat
sons New Orleans battery.
A letter was found written by one Of the
officers cut down, declaring that Watson's
battery Was the best company in Johnston's
army.
One hundred and thi1ty-fou prisoners are
captured, ahout thirty Of whom being the sick
and wounded, We're cent down On the steamer
Memphis.
AL accounts concur In placirg the loss Of
the enemy az very much heavier than ours.
Col. Cooks regiment, and portion Of the
2sfb, who marched from Fort Holt to within
six miles Of Columbus, returned at O'Clock
last night.
An expedition which left Paducah for Co.
1umbus has also returned.
No reliable news from Gel. Oglesby's ccm-
msne, but Is announced that he has encoun-
tered Tlompson's force, killing 800 and losing
SO. 4 man who escaped from Jetf's camp,
Two days age, reports that he has 2,4oo in
lantry AID 800 cavalry.
LATER-11 T. II.
The Memphis has just returned. She brings
the bodies Ct Lieut.. Colonel Wendt, Lieut..
Sibley, who died On board; Capt. Monkey, Of
tie 30!b, and Lieut.. c. Gardner, Company I,
7th Iowa, fatally wounded; G. G. Renfew,
Company I, 7shcts, fatally; B. F. Chetester,
Company ], badly wounded; Geo. Eddy, Com
!any c, 7th Iowa Robt- Stone, Company D,
31st, fatally shot in the breast; Jasper San
ders, Company E, 5l5t Regiment, leg will
have to be amputated; J. ". PAles, Company
Il, 31st, shot in the leg badly; Cbas. Poslay,
COMPANY &, 27!b, shot in tie leg; c. 8. Sim.
by, Company a, 27!h, fatal wound in head.
Msjcr McClarken is shot badly in the head,
ard It is thought ho viii die.
Surgeons Gordon and Whetnell are pris.
one1s On parole 1t Columbus.
Belmont Is abandoned The rebels have
about $50 prisoners. They acknowledge $50
kjlled,tbut would not permit tie Federals to
visit the place to which they had conveyed
their dead. The dead bodies of rebels were
observed all over the field, in piles of from
three to four.
Eighty-t1ye Of our dead were buried by our
peop1e;s8 or 10 had been buried BY the reb-
ele, in mistake for their own men. They ex-
pected flag of truce.
Capt. Brooke, Of Buforc's regiment, found,
brother dead In the battle field. He WAS
Surgeon In the rebel Amy.