Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-07-30

From the New York Evening Post of Tuesday
Our Volunteers In the Battle Of the Twenty
t. First. 81 - :.
Perhaps the most distressing, certainly
the most mortifying circumstance, in the
accounts which We yesterday had Of the
battle Of the 2lst Of July, was that our
army was represented as abandoning It.
self TO q transport Of fear, and running
away from the enemy as fast as their legs
could carry them. The more correct stste-
ments Of to day, mesgre as they are, put q
very different face on the affair. The first
stories Ct the dreadful carnage and the
shameful fight were told by persons who
went ont as spectators of the engagement
and who, half frightened to-death them
selves innoeenty magni6ed both the
fright Of others and the disasters Of the
day. Nothing 80 beWilders the imagina-
ton and fills it With empty phsntoms as
the passion Of fear.
On looking over such Of The later ac-
counts as we have Of the battle, we see that
our men behaved calamity and nobly;
standing their ground like experienced
troops while their comrades were every
where falling around them; and rushing,
when the order was given, upon the bait
teries CT the enemy with fury and i'm
petuOsity which the rebels were unable 70
resist. Never did men affrOnt danger with
"a more heroic courage. Three Of the
enemy's batteries, while they were deal-
ing death among our ranks, were carried
in this manner; and the rest would have
been successivsly occupied by impetuous
assault, If the number Of troops engaged on
our side had borne any proportion to those
by which they we're RithstOOd.
Il may not be ont Of Dlaea fo menfiar.
here q remark made BY an eyewitness OF
the Crimesn war, in . confirmation With
Senator Wilson and q gentleman Of this
city. Mr.. Russell, Of the london Times,
: said to them, that Lot st Inkermann, nor
at any other place during the war Of the
Crimea, had he seen such brilliant and gal
liant charges as our troops made in carry
ing the batteries Of the enemy.
It was not until, upon the junction OF
JoAnston's forces with those of Beauregardi
swelling their number to ninety thousand
men, the enemy came pouring upon Oul
armv like a food, sweeping US by mere
force of numbers before them, thHt cur gal
- liant soldiery gave way. They gave way
hut il Wasnot fight-it was aFeffest be
fore numbers 50 overwhelming that Il would
haTe heen madness &c attempt Keeping
their ground. The retreated as the mos
renowned warriors whom the world ha
ever seen might have retreated. 81 {
The retreat was effected in calm and de
Hberate order; the panic and flight
which 50 much has been made, took plac
only among the followers Of the army, tn
spectators of the battle and the strsgglin
soldiers not in the engagement and Wer
r. oeoasioned BY a sudden charge Of about tE
hundred Of the eRemy's cavalry, VII
dashed in among the baggage-Wagons.
All the while that our soldiers we're SUI
tanning murderous FIRE capturing the hoI
tile batteries, and Waging an unequal con
, bat with increasing numbers Of their foe
thew were suffering under bardships an
priTstions which would have sdisheartene
The boldes. and best disciplined veteran
Thev were weary with . long march, Il
sun was pouring his beams upon them VII
tropical feroeness, they had tasted nOthiE
all day but dry biscuit, and for nine hou
had not moistened their lips with Ester.'
FEaE Foluntsefs under such oircuTnstane
men wholly new to War-sbould have
hated themselves with 6uoh steady gala
stry, is certainly marvellous.
What nov remains is 70 make the best
the disaster which our troops have suffer
In this first Of their greet battles. Il y
not surprise us to hear soon that Genel
TYLER has allowed himself 70 be betray
by his love Of adventure, into the ind
eretion Of beginning the battle before
eeiving orders from his superior otie
Ii viii sppesr, We believe, that Gene
Patterson has been inexcusably remiss
allowing Gen. Johnston to push on
ioin his forces with that Of BeauregI
without making any vigorous attempt
delay his march. But Of the vslor Of
Toluntesrs there is fortunately NO dol
and every new piece Of intelligenee
We rsceiVe from the Virgins side ma
this more and more clear. But the di
ter We have suffered should be repaired
new exertions and new sacrifices Il
already, If We hsTe rightly observed
aehrrsnt sf public feeling, added new '
3 to the general determination to prose
the var With all the means which Pr
dence has put into our hands, tin the
stitution Is vindiested and the laws Q
ed. All our resources are still left
those Of the enemy are not increased
five fail TO- put forth the energy. Y
the occasion demands, We shall deseT
become the seorn of the nations.
Physical, nIOrnls- and RelIsislg ArEuH
in Favor Of Slaverys