Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-08-12
con. a1epo,reIl,s Report.

2Eus a4CDONGAA1 SgAs " eAG SstNAG AIs-A
Manassas, on the 2lst ult., has at length
made It's appearance 1t is too long fol
oui columns, aud our readers must be con-
tent with brief synopsis of its contents.
The report adds very little to the knowl-
edge which we previously possessed OF the
aRair. The returns of the killed and
wounded show considerably larger num-
Der THAI has been before given. 1t is
stated that our killed amounted to nineteen
officers and four hundred and sixty-two
non-commissioned officers and privates, and
our wounded to sixty-four officers and nine
hundred and forty-seven uon-commission-
ed officers and privates. Many of the
wounded will soon be able to join the
ranks, and will leave our total of killed
aud disabled from further service under
one thousand. The return of the missing
IL very Inaccurate, the men supposed to be
missing having fallen into other regiments,
or gone of to Washington or other places.
The advance movement into Virginia
was to haze been made on the 9th of July,
but was delayed by various causes till the
18th. Even then the army was not in
ct state or properly provided for the expe-
ditIou. Why it was sent on in this un-
prepared state we are not told.
As to the battle itself, on the 2lst. it is
declared to have been fought with the
utmost gallantry and valoI, in strict ac-
cordance with the plan of the General,
and with the complctest success, up to a
time Of the afternoon when it was uniyer-
sally supposed we had gained the day.
Eighteen thousand men only were engaged
in the actual attack, and throughout they
eomported themselves with the most de-
termined bravery. They drove the enemy
before them for some distance, silenced
their batteries, and had the advantage in
every respect.
General Mcdowell says: "The enemy
was evidently dishearteped and broken
but we had been Sighting since halE-pnst
ten o'clock in the morning, and it was af-
ternoon. The men had been up since two
o'clock in the morning, and had made what,
to those unused to such things, seemed a
long march before coming into action,
though the longest distance gone over was
not more than nine and half miles and
though they had three days provisions
served out to them the day before, many,
no doubt, either did not eat them, or threw
them away on the march or during the bat
tie, and were therefore without food. They
had done much severe lighting"
But at this juncture, when our men were
exhausted by almost superhuman efforts,
the powerful reinforeements of the enemy
arrived. 1t was the expectation of Nc.
Dowell all along that. Patterson's column,
would occupy the attention of johnson,
but that was net done; and Johnson arrived
on the field OF action at the very spot at
which we hoped to turn the enemy's left
flank. Opening an instant fire of cannon
aud musketry upon our hungry and worn
out troops, they compelled a retreat, which
being communicated to more distant regi-
ments, soon degenerated into a rout In
the confusion we lost some guns and some
prisoners, but by no means the amount of
either which the inflated reports of the
enemy represent. he was in no condition
TO follow, or to avail himself of the results.
Under all the circumstances, the result is
nOta surprising or discouraging one. The
chief wonder is that We should so nearly
have achieved complete triumph against
such overwhelming odds, aud that, after
the dlSorderly retreat Of our forces, the
enemy should have derived so little real
advantage from our rePulse,