The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-10-24
The Fight at Harper's Ferry Confirmed.
A Handsome Victorx

BALTIMORE, Oct. lS-A gentleman who spent
the whole of yesterday at Harper's Ferry, saws
thatthe accounts published there of fight on We'd.
nesday, are, IN the main, correct. The cannon
captured ls hnc new siege gun, well mounted
and in good order with the exception of a freot-
above the axles. During the night it was - ar
ed near the abufment of the bridge. ar .Iation
ny nail was driven IN the vent .oeis' teHpen
been drawn out. The Ri winch has ALREADY
not participate in The ode Island battery die
on the MarylaD" hght' Ihey We're stationed
to discri9li"> nights. ana round Ii Impossible
foe - die in the distance between friend anC
W.. Ie fight lasted from a. m, till D. m. II
IS Il regular skiImish with variable esuts the
rebels wnen hard pressed, retreating into the woods
and at other times diving the Federal troops bach
| into Bolivar.
| The main fight being beyond that town, on the
road to Charlestown, at two o'clock Col. Geary ad
venced with three pieces of cannon with which he
soon senced the guns of the enemy and put his
entire force to flight
| A chaplain of the rebels who was taken prisoner
| says that before he was captured, 81 killed anC
| wounded rebels had been carried from the field
There was nothing positive known as to Col. Ash
| ley being killed. 1t was not generally credited
An officer supposed to be him was shot during the
final retreat of the rebels The Federal troops re-
NAMED on the field all w Wednesday night and yes
| terday morning, having brought across the river
the remainder of 5000 bushels oiwheat captured
from the rebel militia department which they were
about transporting to Leesburg. An order wat
given for the whole force to retire TO the Maryland
| side.
There is no news from there this morning as t.
whether the threat of the rebels carried out Of
not The river is still too high to ford, and the
troops were carried across in sc0ws. The prison
| ers admit that their whole foIce was 1900, while
the wdole Federal force was $50.
The change that has taken place in Harper
Ferry and the thriving village Of Bolivar is rep
resented as most sad and shocking; ruin is every
where visible and the inhabitants are bowed down
with sorrow. @9-
LATER eFl'
| BALTIMORE, Oct. lS.--Geptlemen direct from
Harper's Ferry announce that the rebels again ap
peared on a sudden at Bolivar Heights this morn
ing. and renewed the attack ON the Union forces
under Major Gould, with artillery, Maj. G0Elc
fired upon them with canister from the columbi
ad captured on Tuesday, and drove them back
but not until they had burned the mill of A. IL
Herr, Esq. and taken the miller prisoner, whC
they charged with giving information to the I'm
ion troops of the Il 600 bushels of wheat being
brought there to grind The firing was progressing
when our nfcrmans left, and women and children
were fleeing in great terror to the Maryland shore
in anticipation of the town being burned. Majo
Gould was throwing shot and shell from the Mary
land Heights after the rebels, and confident
that he could keep them off until reinforcement
could reach him. Col. Geary's wound is only
slight cut in the calf of the leg, caused from thu
| axnlosiO n of n shell