The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-10-29
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
From the Richmond DiSpatch'

From the Richmond Dispatch.
The Regiments Engogcd-T Terrible FHyItng-
Comptsfc Rout Of the Emcmy-Brorery Of our
Troops, DC.
We are enabled to lay before our readers some
interesting particulars of the great battle near
Leesburg, received from a gentleman who was
in the immediate vicinity of the fight. These
statements. it will be remembered, embody obser-
yations made on the evening Of the 2lst, before
the full extent of our victory ascertained. The
battle commenced early Monday morning. and
lasted throughout the day. The Yankees crossed
the Potomac the previous night, and continued to
come over in large numbers as the fight progress
co. until from eight to ten thousand were landed
on the Virginia side. They were met by the
forces under Gen. Evans, viz. the 9Th Virginia
regiment, Col Hunton; the 18th Mississippi, Col
Barksdale; the 18th Mississippi, Col Featherston
and the 18th Mississippi, Col, Burt. The engage
ment soon became general and the fighting was
terrible both Grdcs, the Yankees being protect
ed by heavy forest and having the advantage in
ground and position. They were routed three
distinct times at the point of the bayonet, and as
often heavily reinforced. In one charge the Sth
Virginia captured splendid brass battery and
put its men to inglorious flight The enemy were
finally pursued 10 the rivers brink where, being
unable to recroSs with facility, they made des-
perate stand, but their doom was sealed. Our
brave volunteers charged them and scattered them
like leaves to the winds and waters. Our inform
ant states that they cut all to pieces and that
the battle field was strewn with their dead and
wounded. The prisoners, of whom great num-
Der taken, said without hesitation that our
gallant troops 'Jou1h like deoils."
The loss upon our side had not been ascertaincd
with acc uracy, though our Geographic advic,s re-
port it at three hundred in killed and wounded
This however is not comparable to the loss of the
enemy.
Our troops fought under great disadvantages.
They underwent heavy march on the previous
day, with but two meals; slept their arms in
the open air all night and went into battle on
Monday morning with but an apology for q
breakfast. They fought all day. without refresh
men:s of any sort, and without reintorcements,
against vastly superior force, to which constant
additions were made from the Maryland shore.
Truly, Providence has once more prospered our
cause. Our victory is glorious and complete Not
one man our side exhibited any signs of fear,
but all fought desperately and bravely; to adopt
the language of our informant "as only gentlemen
can fight"
The object of this movement of the Fedcrals,s
seems to have been to outflank our army on the
left, as a part of McClellan's plan for an advance
upon our lines The result was SO disastrous that
the aspiring Federal General may have to draw
largely upon his strategetical science in the adop-
ton of some other method; or possibly he may be
.uperceded in consequence of this great reverse at
the outset of his career.
Other verbal accounts of the battle on Monday
represent that the scene at the river, when the
enemy attempted to recross, was fearful. The
rattle of musketry and the sharp crack Of the Mis-
sissippi rife, mingled with shrieks of drowning
men, and the panic vas scarcely less widespread
than that of the 2lst of July, just three months
before. The Federal prisoners, numbering 523,
were under guard on the battlefield of Manassas
yesterday morning.
RICHMOND, Oct. "a. Six hundred aud eighty