The national Republican., 1861-10-30
REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE BATTLE.

ExrRAvAGANT OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL RE-
PORTS OF THE FIGHT.
Richmond papers of the 23d and Gath instant
are glowing with accounts of the battle near
Leesburg on Monday last.
The Examiner contains an official dispatch
from Gen. j. L. Johnston, dated &" IIeadquar.
ters, Centreville, October %, 1861 and ad.
dressed ito Gen. Cooper, Richmond" stating
as follows:
"Col. Evans reports that he was engaged
most of the day yesterday with twelve regi- |
ments and hve batteries of the enemy, near the |
Potomac. They had crossed under cover of
artillery fire. He drove them back with a.
heavy loss In killed, two hundred prisoner
and five guns"
The Examiner announces the death of Gen.
Baker, ana the capture of Col. COgswel and
ten other officers, not naming them. 1t further
states that Col Evans's command we're from
Mississippi and Virginia, the three Mississippi
reg gmonts being commanded BY Colonies Feath.
erstone, Burt, and Barksdac.
Another dispatch, reported by the Examiner
To have been received at the War Department
at Richmond, as late as ten o'clock on Tuesday
Light, states the loss OF the Federals to have
been, in killed and wounded, about one thou.
sand, with six hundred prisoners taken, and
twelve hundred stand of arms.
Still another dispatch to the Examiner, dated
Manassas, October %, said to have been written
H.,
Evans, with twenty five hundred Confrderates, |,
engaged Gen. Stone with ten thousan FcdoraIs
at Leesburg, on Monday; that the battle lastS,d
all day, and the COnfederates we're virtori6Gcs.l i
that the Federal loss was four hundred killed
and W 'unded, ilve hundred aud twenty taken
prisoners, and three hundred Fcderais were
drowned while trying 10 rgCrOsS the POtomaC I
1t is stated in the same dispatch that the COn.l
federates had three hundyed killed and wound.c
Cd
The Richmond Dispatch, of the 23d instant,
contains all the alb We, and the following in ad.
dition:
OFFICIAL.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF PoToMAC,
CentreuoNe, Oct. %, 10 80 p. NJ.
In addition, concerning tho victory of Gen.
Evans, have to report tho CAPTURE of ncarlyl
SIX hundred prisoners and twelve hundred
stand of arms. Their killed and wounded AZ
prisoners amount TO between one thousand 3nG
twelve hundred. The rout was total. The fight
was An infantry engagement exclusively. The
forces engaged were the Eighth Virginia and
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Mississippi regi
ments, the Thirteenth Mississippi being held irI
reserve. No artillery was fired by us.
THOs. JORDAN,
Assistant Adju,ant Genera.
A telegraphic dispatch to the Richmond DIS.
patch from Manassas, dated the afternoon of the
22d, says:
The fight noar Leesburg was more scriou.
than FIRST reported. Five hundred and twenty
Federals were brought to Sudcy Church this
evening" Between fur and five hundred of the
enemy we're killed. and three hundred drowned
in tho Potomac. The prisoners will be hc.c
Tomorrow morning. Our loss is also hei.y
say 800 killed and wounded"
The Richmond Wing of the 2ith instant glorl
aes Colonel Evans, " who, on the day of BATH,
was made general" for having "achieved
victory with twenty five hundred men agaiuSi'
zen thousand Federals."
This is the style of lying the rebels adopt t, :
inspire their people. The article CO: cludes as
follows
1--WE are yet without the names of any of tho
brave men who have fallen On cur side"
The gentleman VINO brought the Richmond
papers referred to above states that tbcre were
reports in Richmond on Wednesday, when he
left, that several officers of stincton had falei
| in the battle Of last Monday, and that the tota
loss was much greater than the Richmond pa
pers announce.