The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-10-08
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rived from an authentic report:
Lieut.. Col. Scott, with so men of the
Sd Iowa, and one piece of artillery, left
Cameron on Monday in pursuit of the
rebels who left St. Joseph on the Friday
previous. Col. Scott arrived at Liber
ty, Clay county, on the morning of the
18th, and moved from that place at ! p.
nj. AT O'Clock he fell in with the en-
envy, 4,5J0 in number, occupying a
strong position. Our skirmishers receiv-
ed calling fire, and slowly rereated to
our main body, when the action became
general Our six FOUNDER was brought
TO bear on the enemy, and few shots
fired, which proved destructive. At this
time a heavy fire opened on our single
gun, killing one gunner and wounding
two others. On this several other gun
ners abandoned the gun, carrying off the
primer and matches, rendering the gun
useless The action was continued an
hour, when our column was slowly with
drawn to move TO open grounds, bring
ing oil the wounded and dragging away
the gun by hand, all our horses having
been killed or badly wounded. About
this time Col. Smith, who left ST. Joseph
with about /. 400 men, about the time
Scott left Cameron for the same purpose,
joined the latter, having pushed forward
his mounted men and artillery at rapid
pace on receiving a message from Scott,
ten miles back, that he was advancing
on the enemy, but it being night, their
men completely exhausted and the ene-
my reported strongly entrenched in
thcket, impossible except by narrow
roal, further attack was postponed un-
I'll morning.
Early on the following day an advance
was made by the combined forces. but
on arriving at Blue Mills they found the
enemy had crossed the river before day
Light taking the boat. toward Lexing :
ton. --N
The following is a partial list of the 81
Iowa KILLED and wounded:
Major Stone, slightly wounded.
Company A-Capt. O'Neil, slightly J;
It. Duane, severely; privates W. III.
Munger, L. W. Crlchield, p. J.. Nc
{. frey, severely; Andrew Murray, mis-
sing.
Company B-Lieut. Hobbs. Sergeant
Woods. severely privales Robbins, Hart
and Woodruff, seriously.
Company C-Corporal Hunting, ser.
iously privates Droane, Maddox and
Squires, missing.
Company D. Capt. Willet, seriously !:
Lieut.. Anderson, mortally privates Mills,
severely, and Frank, missing.
Company E Corporal Nc Cowan, SER
i,usly priva:es Guthrie and Hill, severe
ly. .gEH
Company F-Lieut. Brown. slightly !;
Corporal Davis, seriously privates Win
eheIl, fsham, founders, and Hamel SER
iously. and Nolan, killed
Company G-Privates Owen, Nc Cul-
iaugh, serious ly Michael, Lalley, Nc
Culluugh, missing.
Company H-Capt. Warning, Lieut.
Fuller, severely ; privates Gamble and
Mcclure, severely Barbons aud Warner
dangerously /; and Corporal Loey, mis-
sing.
Company LII. Knight, Sergeant
Forney, Corporal Burdick, musician Bal,
combe, seriously prisates Buell., Garter
Delphi, Hawks, Pepper, Russell, Stocks,
Wilcox, Waly, WilboWne, severely
L,wlan, Merrilield, dangerously Wash
burne, morta.ly Darlan, Bedell, Mix
Brownell, killed Davenport. severely.
Total killed, 5; wounded, 81 missing
six.
Three of the missing are supposed t,
be in the hands Of the enemy, and the
balance killed. In addition to the loss
of the 81 Iowa, there were six Home
Guards and one arlillerist killed, amon.
them Capt. Cupp. aud about ten wound
ed. Four of these Home Guards were
killed in the skirmsh, about Two hours
before the battle.
1t is perhaps proper to state that Gen
Pope's orders TO Scott, were to remain a
Liberty until joined by Smith, bat learn
ing on his arrival at lhat place that tn,
enemy were five mhes istant, he sent
messenger TO Smith with word 10 that ef
feet, and pushed on and gave the rebel,
battle. Ia. ....e
On Saturday last Gen. Mcclellan ord
cred forward the advance brlSades OF The
army across the Potomac being Rich
ardson's, Keyes's and Wadsworth 's--and
took possession of Munson's Hill, which
the rebels We're found to have abandoned
Our army has also advanced to the lebe
earihworks on Mason's Hill, and Fall.
Church, aud there is evidently an oppor
tunity open for them TO continue the al
vance to Fairfax. The reb Is offer nc
battle, and their retreat now upon tho
strongly entrenched position of Manassas
is 80 like that which preceded the baflle
of Stone Bridge. that Gen. Mcclellan
will be wary about getting into any trap
So far, however, the advance is well made,
and one of its most pleasin. results is to
remove the rebel flag from the plain sight
Of Washington, from which city it could
be plainly seen floating in insolsnt def
ance at Munson's Hill. Military men
50 far as newspapers correspondents are
permitted TO know their opinions, are
quite at IA loss to account for the situation
III which they find things 10 have been
left by the rebels. Nuns ms Hill, about
which SO much has been said on both
sides, AMI Which presented an appearance