Newbern weekly progress., 1861-08-06

| were soon brought up by battery led by A body
| of our men, aud in turn ran and scattered dowr
the street soon. however, rallying again ant
/ making road through scattered frees,
At CentreviIle our troops attempted to make
stand and they rallied for easou-some three
regiments in all while large numbers kent O!
their retreat. This, however, soon after o
verccme-the enemy having heavy gun. taker
from MS III position. They fred again and again
and thus came the second panic and third retreat
A fourth retreat followed in the course OF the
night of ali our forces, and well TO the banks
If the Potomac, and to the Notifications at Aarl
ngton, C4rcoran, Alexander and elsewhere.
CANDID EXPRESSIONS.
The correspondent of the New ORR W ofId
writes:
And now in what order shall I describe the
event of yesterday? Even now, how shall one
pretend to give a synthetic narration of the hole
battle. based the Heterogeneous statements OF
! thousand men: battle whose arena a
tract miles in breadth and length, insersprrsed
! with hills and forests whose conteuding forces
were divided int" 4 dozen minor armies, confln
ually interclianging their positions and never all
/ embraced within the cognlzance OF any specta-
| ter partiCipator.
Even tie general commanding the Federal
| columns was ignorant at the close, of the posi-
ti"IIs Of his several corps; was ignorant, at The
! beginning, of the topography Of the dangerous ter
! ritory which he attacked overPowering
! foe. Was either general of division b tier in
formed Of the movements of even his own forces
/ doubt it, only know that at sunset last e. en-
ing generals. cOlonels AMI majnIS, all re-
firing, devoid Of their commands. no more re-
spcctcl or obeyed than the poorest private in the
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disgracefuil" ueedless disrupted and blottcd.
as it were. cut of existence in single day This
IS the truth. and why sho Id it not be recorded
WHAT THE LONDON TiMiS c"F;iEsPoNbENr
THINKS OF THE FIGHT.
snociaI dispatch 20 the Baltimore Exchange
from Washington. says that Mr.. Russell. of the
London Times. Who vas, present at the hattie
states that the loss in killed sr3 worndcd of tlr
Fedcrals must amount to - GU0-and that the
loss of tile Confederates will probably reach
foUO He states that history records no such
defeat for the past ccutury--no rout so utter and
coirpletc as tlat of the Federal folccs The
igItug of fhc Southern mon, he saws, mag
nifcent They fred 18th the precision of vete-
rams They would fall to permit their artiIl ry to
fire then rising Al Il discharge their nuskcts and
charge hayonets in splendid order. Some of the
evoutIons were SUPERB, and performed with per
feet rapidity, GOODNESS and discipline.
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