Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-07-24

report Of their missing 10 a. follows One COM
missioned and ak non-commIssIoned officers and
sixty privates Col. slocum lies at the in6rmary
o! flesh wound In the thigh-not dangerous.
Lieut., Col Chambers, although wounded In the
leg and back, conducted the review As this re-
giu,ent Wa In the thickest Of the battle at Ball
Run II isnot unlikely that their loss may be looked
upon a. more than the average Of the other regi.
meno engaged ; and as twenty-five Of their men
reached camp near the close Of the parade, Il 10
very probable that their loss In killed, wounded
and missing will prove much less than is above
| announced.
FLAG or TRUCE.
Yesterday morning, we learn, Gen. Mcdowell
dispatched his aid, Major Wadsworth, with a
| Gag Of truce, to the enemy's lines, charged with
the duty Of making the best possible arrange
ments for the care OF our wounded and the burial
Of our dead, necessarily left on the field He was
| stopped by the enemy's advanced pickets at
| point about two miles this side Of Fairfax Court
| House, and turned back, his communication
being forwarded TO Beauregard, from whom an
answer had not been resolved up TO eleven q m.
to-day.
GRIFFIN AND cEErTs BLrrRRIEs
| The enemy's batteries on the right were twice
| silenced by Griffin aud Ricketts, companies Of
| Light Artillery Of the o. =. Army, and Burn
| sides r hode Island Batteries. Griffin and Rick
| etts companies advanced under a raking Gre to
| the right Of the large work Of the Confederates
| Capt Ricketts, received a mortal wound, and 1t.
| Douglas Ramsey's (son Of Com. Ramsey, 8
N, Of this city,) head carried away with
rife shot. Captain Griffin was on foot, gal
| lantly endeavoring 10 rally a volunteer infan-
l regiment In tba lint
| daring efforts met with but little success
Lieut.. Ames, Of his battery, was wounded In
the leg, ia the early part Of the attack, but
| instead " retiring TO the rear, mounted caisson
and rode thrnug bout the contest until exhausted
| with loss Of blood Lieuts. Kensel, HazIe:t Has.
brouck, and Reed, miraculOusly escaped with
their lives. but sere ,al Of them had ih-r horses
| shot dead from der them
Captain Grimm lost most OF c.s men and horses
| HIS remaining men have been ordered to garrison
| Fort Albany, nea. Alexandra. GfIalu's battery,
| with the SeventY-hrst Regiment and Rhode
Islanders, (infsntry,) quite demolished the Six
teenth Alabama Regiment.
| RECOVERED GUNS
Capt Hunt not only brought in safely all his
own guns, (light artillery,) but eleven more that
he found abandoned In the retreat; making six
teen IN all. Our real loss in artillery will no:
prove more than two batteries, IL that. Blen-
Kerr brigade recovered and brought In six guns
| SECESSION COLONEL TAKEN PRISONER.
| Col BARLEY b. Boone, Of the Fifth Mississippi
Regiment, was taken prisoner in the battle on
| Sunday.
SAVED BY "TIMRo FRox ETERNITY
Private J. w. Burgess. (of Hartford First
| Connecticut Volunteers, now in the Georgetown
hospital, owes his life to the watch In his fob
| bullet went through his wrist, and would have
| pierced his breast had IL not struck his watch
| and lodged In the case, where Il now is The
| watch Is not now worth much as a time keep
but will serve Mr.. Burgess as an eloquent re-
| minder Of eternity
WHO GAVE TnE ORDER TO RETREAT
| Weare assured by officers Of standing who know
The facts In the case that the order TO retreat was
| NOT given by Col. Miles, L. 8 A as alleged. nor
| could 1t be given by him, as be had command of
| reserve force, and knew nothing Of the order 10
retreat until he saw giment after regiment stam-
pede past bis position.
1 OUR sHARP-suoorRps
Capt. B!rthschneider formerly Of the PrussIan
army and the Crimea) with his brigade of picked
sharp shooters rendered most efec:ual service in
performing scouting duty.
THE BARBAHITY OF TIE ENEMY TO DER pRIs,1RRs
Lieut.. Elliot, Of the 18th New York Regiment,
| (Highlanders,) e reliable ofacer who did oood
service on sunday last, asserts positively that our
wounded troops were shot and run through with
the bayonet by the secession soldiers, as we have
heretofore stnted. Chaplain Wiley, Of the I'd
Connecticut Regiment, we understand, makes
! the same statement, which comedies with the
| accounts Of many officers and men
DISPLAYING FALSE coLoRs.
| The secession forces several times during the
! engagement took advantage OF our men nv rama
| s'nting themselves belonging TO our force,
| displaying United States Gags, &c The con..
quence was our men got so distrusul that they I'm
! several instances fred on each other
| A SHOT AT THE 'wHIrK HORSE" OF yKFr pIyr,
The loss OF the secesson!sts must have been a.
great or greater than ours. The havoc mod. NV
/ our rited batteries was terrible One officer
/ counted nearly $50 dead bodies In q wood into
which Grithn's battery had been firing. LENT
] Green displayed great coolness He fred one
round into the group Of officers, where the white
! horse, (since asccrtsned to have been ridden bv
| Jefferson Davis,) was conspicuous, and there was
| an Immediate scattering Of s,eeds and riders to
seek a safer position.
SWORN TO STAND BT THEIR BATTERY
Rhode Island solds, states that after the
| capture Of one Of the Bull Run batteries forty
eight dead men and one wounded Of the enemy
| "o'o iouho Piicu UP at Tue guns The wounded
man, on being asked how they managed to stand
by their guns SO long. answered that they had
taken an oath never to leave themn
| ARruLFRY BROUGHT OFF.
Col. Einstein, OF the Pennsylvania TWENTY.
! sixth Regiment returned to the atte.flsld ,bon,
| III O'Clock on Sunday night and brought of .Ix
pieces OF artillery, which he delivered to the
| commanding officers on the Potomac yssterd,v
| evening The Colonel reports that the fsld ma.
clear, and not an enemy in sight.
HORSES sEor UNDER HIM
Capt William ID. Wbipple, Assistant Ad,u,,n,
General, lad bis horse killed under him vii.
passing over the field, by a cannon ball striking
MIN full In the breast. The horse had been ,,rpcS
twice with rifle balls before he was killed bv N.
| round shot. Captain Whipple also had bo,.e
| killed under him In affair with Indian, IN
New Mexico, a little more than year since.
OVER THE RIVER
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