The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-07-26
THE SITUATION.


twenty-four hours, except as regards the reor
ganizaton of the routed army at the different head
quarters of the regiments and divisions.
If we can rely upon the balloon explorations
of Professor Lowe, made on Thursday, there wa
considerable force of the rebels at Fairfax Cour
House, and for mile OH the Washington side o
that point, and quite large number of them ex
tending from Fairfax to Manassas Junction
The government is pressing on the work of rein
forcing the Union army with great vigor.
The ordnance department of the Washington
Navy Yard is turning out rfcd cannon with extra
force One is nearly finished which will throw q
projectile weighing sixtyfour pounds four miles
and half. The gun itself weighs ten thousand
pounds. There is great activity in the ordnance
department night and day.
Regiments of fresh troops are being offered and
accepted from various quarters of the country.
Governor Morgan has issued proclamation calling
for twenty-five thousand additional troops from the
State of New York, and they will, no doubt, be at
once supplied
The rebel accounts of the battle of Bulls run,
published in different Southern papers, at Louis
vile, Nashville and New Orleans, and which we
copy in our columns to-day, are most extravagant
and not little amusing. They represent that
fifteen thousand of the Union troops were killed.
that JEFF. Davis commanded in person: that
sixty three cannon, and twenty-five thousand
stand of arms-Uust three thousand more
than the Union troops had on the field al.
together) were captured by the rebels, and more
OF the same kind 1t has been popularity how
ever. of the Southern newspaper accounts of every
action. great and small, in Missouri, Western vir
ginia and on the Potomac line, since the opening
of the campaign, to reverse the facts, by repre-.
sentng the number Of killed and wounded guns
-pptured, and wagons abandoned by the rebel
)rccs, as the casualties which occurred to the
Union army, while the numbers so reported were
tally true of the rebels themselves This looks
Exceedingly like as if the telegraph reporters for
the Southern journals had instructions to that
ehtc.. Nothing could be more absurd or further
from the truth than the accounts of the battle of
Bulls run, referred to as publised in the South.
We have taken the trouble to ascertain the real
facts of the case, and although no official report
has yet been made by General Mcdowell, the re-.
turns so far as we have been able to obtain them
and they come from high military authorty-we
can state to be as follows:-
hllicu OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 3SO
wounded. ............... ........ 500
Wagons with provisions lost. .............. %
Cannon spiked and lost. Observation-Disclosures. IT
Small arms dropped (about). .............. 1000
OF the wounded fully one hundred were very
little injured though struck, and of the small arms
dropped on the route, one half were picked up by
the ordnance wagons next day.
Major General Mcclellan arrived in Philadelphia
yesterday, on his way to Washington to take COM
mand Of the army Of the Potomac. He met with a
grand ovation, and made speech characterised.
cally brief and pointed. He will arrive in Wash.
ington to. day, and assume the important command
which devolves upon him.
General Banks and staff have arrived at Harper's
Ferry and assumed the command recently enjoyed
by General Patterson, who has returned to Balti
more. Before leaving General Patterson issued a
proclamation, announcing that as the term of mos,
IF the troops from Pennsylvania had expired
Ind nearly all Of them were returning home
)e. by order Of the War Department, re.
inquishes his command. General Patterson
las also published letter, dated al Harpers Ferry
on the 22d inst, explanatory of his movements
while in command in which he says" General
Johnston retreated to Winchester where he had
thrown up extensive int,cnchmen,s and had a
large number of heavy guns. could have turned
his position and attacked him in the rar. but
he had received large reinfotcemen,s from
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. total
force Of over IS 900 rebel troops and 600 Virginia
militia, My force is less than twenty thousand
men. Nineteen regiments whose term OF service
was up, or would be within week, al refused &c
e,ay an hour over their time but four, viz.-TwC
Indiana regiments, Frank Jayretts (the Eleventh
Pennsylvania), and Owens the Twenty fourth
Pennsylvania). Rive regiments have gone home
Two more go to-day and three more tomorrow
To avoid being cut off with the remainder, | s.s
back and occupied ,ls place.
Some of the returning regiments from Washing
ton, whose term Of service has expired, will reacl
New York to-day. The Eighth New York Stat,
Militia left Washington ~ Wednesday night, anc
started from Baltimore u noon yesterday. tn
SiXty-ninth and Twenty-eighh New York raei
ments and the First Connecticut and Pask New
Jersey. left Washington at noon yesterday. Al
tileac regiments will be due in this city during TN
day