Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-08-01

A carriage was taken, which our infor.'
mant was told belonged to Gen. Winfield
Scott. 1t contained asword with his name
upon it, and also his epauletts. He Is be-
lieved to have been on the ground, and to
have made his escape by abandoning his.
carriage and adopting some other convey
ance. His carriage when captured WAS drii.'
wing furiously, perhaps to draw Of pursuit,
from himself. = O.. 70
I have conversed with many persons who
were present in the battle on Sunday. They
inform me that the wagons captured BY our
army, over 500 in number are all new, and
Of the most substantial and costly descrip.
.ion. They were built at Baltimore, Phila.
delphia, New York and Boston, and are,
supposed to have cost about $500 each. s,
They much resemble the large size wagons
used by the Adams Express Company, but
are covered. On each was marked sTo
Richmond" and In each one, was q large
quantity of provisions. It is thought by
many that we have secured provisions e.
nough to feed an army Of 100000 men
for six months. -'1a-- 80 - -7Ts7Ee ~
THE "pEr LAMBs"-wHo KILLED THEM.
Two cars were appropriated to the trans
rorta.ion of wounded Yankees, twenty. three
in number, the majority Of whom belonged
to Ellsworth's Fire Zoaaves. There we're
among them, however, great variety Of
uniforms One fellow, with bright red
pants and blue jacket, told us be belonged:
to the Fourteenth Regiment Of New York
militia They were all wounded in the,
most horrible manner, and as their wounds
bad received no attention, they were in .
truly pitiable condition. W, = z y
Their friends having run of and deserted
them, they had lain on the field Just whers
their injuries were received, until picked
up BY cur troops, and our surgeons being
more than busy attending to our own. woun-
ded, their cases were, of necessity, post.
poned until after their arrival in this city.
The most Of them had been shot in the
lower extremitiss. One fellow had both
legs crushed, and several had one leg bro:
ken. One Of the Zouaves presented most
dreadful spectacle. A rife ball had en-.
tered just below bis right eye. His whole
face and head were SO swollen and distor.
ted by Inflammation that it is no great
stretch of language to say thai shis own
mother would not have known hin" -
From another of ElIsworth's Zouaves,
whose left leg had been shattered by .
musket bullet, but who seemed at the ting
ito be suffering little pain, we derived CON
siderable information. He was very in.
telligent fellow, and disposed to talk. , He
told Us that there were not ten Zouayes in
the regiment of an hundred and fifty who
did not rejoice when Ellsworth was killed;
that he was one of the most brutal and ty.
rannical men that ever lived; that he never
issued an order without accompanying it
with an oath or kick. He also complain
ed that the Southerners had done great
injustice both to Ellsworth's and Buffers
Zouaves, by snpposing them tosbe ,compo-
sed Of the same material as Billy Wilson's
"Pet Lambs" ,z,.,.,.--
On inquiring at what time during the
action he was hurt, and. BY what Regiment
the Zousves we're opposed, be said he had
been wounded during the second hour Of
the battle, and was captured BY and carried
to the rear of the Second Regiment Of the
South Carolinians, Kershaw's. This Reg
iment it was, be reports, that annihilated
the Zouaves He said he had been but
few moments behind the South Carolini-
ans before he was fully convinced that the
Yankees could never whip these people
He says that no description could do JUS
tice to the coolness and nouchalance Of the
Palmettos during the most terrible carnage
Of the fight. He says that, as the wounded
fell and were borne to the rear, though
they: in many cases, must have been suffer
ing agony, they jested and laughed as
though nothing had happened, and they
we're in the midst of peace and security.
One demure looking fellow seemed to
think his fate an uncommonly hard one, as
the moment he arrived on the field, before
he had even cooked his gun, a bulle: struck
him full in the belly and passed entirely
through him.
These men were carried temporarily to
Harwood's factory, where their wounds re-
ceived the attention they so much required.
To-day they will probably be removed to
the General Hospital. Under any other
circumstances, we could not fail to feel
at the sight Of so much suf-
fering; but when we consider what would
have been the fate of ourselves, our homes
and families, had these fellows been trium-
phant, all of our milk of human kindness
becomes acid, and our pity turns to hate.
THE CAPTURE OF sHERMAN's BATTERY.
From Lieut.. Warren Wilkes, of the 4th
Regiment of South Carolina volunteers, who
arrived here yesterday in charge of the re.
mains Of his brother, Adjutant1 s. NJ.
Wilkes, killed at Manassas, We obtain the
following particulars Of the capture of this
celebrated battery. The battery was mask.
ed in a pine thicket, from which position it
opened fire, at about ten minutes past 8
O'clock in the morning, upon Major Whites
battalion of the 4th South Carolina Reoi.