Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-09-06


to retreat, and had found his true position
with the battery. He come safely into
Washington, is now recovered of his
wounds, and ready for another fight
From 1IissOuri.
From the St. Louis Democrat of Tues
day, we Gull the following items of intel
ligence in its correspondence:
On Friday evening party came up with
10 or 100 horses to the barn of farmer
named Seatou, residing only seven miles
They pressed an unthreshed oat stack and
fed their horses, besides making free with
things generally. They then added insult
to injury by showing on him full pay in
confederate scrip. They then departed,
after taking his only horse left. They fol-
lowed up their exploits in the same neigh
borhood by robbing two families of all the
furniture and clothing. gun, saddle, blan-
kets, etc., they could lay their hands on.
They stole pai= of baby's shoes. The
poor tenants were obliged to hide and
sleep over night in n corn field, for fear of
personal insult, and also to keep watch of
their horses which the robbers failed TO
discover.
Nine hundred of the wounded Missouri
ans among the rebels are in Springfield.
| mentioned that Mr.. McFarlnne was
wounded in the head. | was shown the
bullet extracted from the wound. He re-
laLes that when he recovered from the con-
cussion produced by the shot ne raised his
head for moment, when two batteries
were playing over him, and throwing
perfect storm of missiles like hail.
When the firing ceased, singularly
enough, his ears were greeted by the de-
| licious warbing of a small bird, which
poured forth its notes from tree over
head, and suggesting pleasing change
/ from the death-lealing thunder diaphsOn
which had so suddenly ceased.
| y boy belonging to the First Missouri
was shot three times. Wien the last ball
struck him he exclaimed: boys, I'm
shot; believe | am killed, but here is
three cheers for the American flag lie
fell cheering his country's flag.
1t was remarked that not one of the dead
bodies was disfgured, and no buzzards or
crows were seen lowering about or la d
disturbed the grim repose of the field of
death 1t was noticed, however, that the
pockets of all our dead were turned inside
out by the secession jackals, who evident
| ~ had not neglected such an opportunity
to plunder.
4 number of the enemy's dead were not
yet buried.
The following remarkable circumstance
related Six of our wounded men lay nine
days on the field before they were accident
ally discovered by Union man travelling
| over the field, who took them home and
had them cared for, some of his ueighbors
assisting in the humane work.
One of the men thus found was named
Grouert, n German. He was wounded in
the leg, and after lying about an hour, the
wound becoming painful, he changed the
position of the wounded leg by placing it
OH the we'll one, when he was shot in tic
foot of the same leg that was injured. The
poor men obtained nourishment to proIong
existence by crawling about and getting at
| the contents of the haversacks StrCWn about
the field amid the carcassas of men and
/ horses.
Two men left Neosho Wednesday morn
ing and reached Rolln last evening. AT
Sarcoxie, Jasper county, they met an ad-
vanced guard Of McCulloch's forces, about
| 800 strong. AT Mount Vernon, Lawrence
county, 5000 Arkansas and Texas troops,
under McCulloch and Churchill were pass
cd They were told that McCnlloch was
along, and were shown his horse. This
WAS Thursday morning.
IuTee Inherent eGplanaIlOnS were given
by the citizens of McCulloch's plans and
the object of his movements, each of
which was the opposite of the others
One report had it that McCulloch was dis
gusted with matters in Missouri, alleging
that he had been deceived by jackson :;
! that the State was not in favor of seces-
sion as was represented to him that he
came not for the purpose of subjugation,
but to relieve the people from their OPP
pressors. He was going to wait until he
saw the future action of the State.
The second solution was that he was
moving across to Carthage, on the way
to join Rains, who was marching on Fort
Scott.
The third was to this effect. McCulloch
had received intelligence that fifty thous-
and Federal troops were marching on Tex
rs from California and Oregon, and he was
fastening back to protect his own State.
Stephen Lunsford, of Crawford county,
was taken by five secessiOnists on Monday
night, and Suspended by the neck with a
grape vine. The executio=ers supposing
him as good as dead, left him but he had
strength enough left to unloosen his hands,
which were tied in front of him with bril-
die rein, and with a powerful effort drew
his jack-nife from his pocket and cut him
self loose.
A GENTLEMEN who has just escaped from
Eastern Virginia, via Fredericksburgh,