The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-10-19
THE BATTLES AT BOLIVAR HEIGHTS.
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Temperance Of the Rebels and
Renewal Of the Fight.
The Enemy Driven Dack by the
Union Batteries.
PARTICULARS OF THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT.
INCIDENTS OF THE CONFLICT,
&C., &C., Sc.
SECOND DEFEAT OF THE REBELS AT
BOLIVAR,

BALTIMORE, Oct Is, 1861.
Gentlemen direct from Harper's Ferry announce that
the rebels again appeared Linden and Bolivar Heights
TIL; morning ana renewed the attack the Union forces
under Il,r Gould with artillery. Major Gould fired
upon them with canister from columbad which was
captured Monday AID them back, but not untii
the vandas had burned the mill a. II. Herr, Esq, and
took the miller prisoner, whom they charged with giving
nformaskn 70 tho Union troops Of the twelve thousand
bushels Of wheat being brought there to grind
The firing was progressing when our informant left
and and children aceng in great terror to
the Maryland Shore anticipation Of the town being
burned.
Majsr Gould throwing shot and shell from the
yand Heights after the rebels and conAdont that
he could keep them of until reinforccmcnts could reach
him.
Colonel Geary wound is only slight cut in the calf
Of the leg, caused from the explosion Of a shol.
BALrxoRE, Oct. lS-Mldnight.
The following has just boen received here from Sandy
Hook Maryland
The mill Of Mcssrs. Herr Welsh, at Harper's Ferry,
has Just been burned by the rebel forces under Colonel
Ashby after troops had taken 20 600 bushels OF wheat
from there retired their original position opposite
the Ferry.
After the victorious engagement at Bolivar, Virginia,
Major Could command Of this post, ordered his three
companies, G, and X and detachment OF Colonel
Gearys Pennsylvanians, under arms, and Captain
Tompkins of the Rhode Island battery, opened
from the Maryland Heights his battery against
the rebels, when Captain scribor, Of tle Thirteenth
Massachusetts, Volunteers, with his two twelve
pounders and the glorousy captured thrtytwo pound
ers attended to those appearing the Loudon Mountain
both driving them back, prevent the further de-
struction Of arpers Ferry which threatened by COL
Ashby
The families remaining in Harpcr's Ferry fast omi
grating to Maryland.
PARTICULARS OF THE FIRST ENGAGEMENT.
BALTIMORE, Oct. IS, 1861.
A gentleman who spent the whole Of yesterday at
Harpers Ferry says that the accounts published OF the
fight there On Wednesday in the main correct
Tho captured Is fine siege gun, well
mounted and in good order with the exception Of lrac
ture above the axes. During the night IT stationed
near the aba,mcnt Of tho bridge and when it about
being retakcn by the rebels, tenpenny nail driven
into IL, which has already been drawn out.
The Rhode Island battery did not participate in the
fight as at FIRST stated. They stationed on the
Maryland heights. and found it impossible to discriminate
In the distance between friend and foe.
The fight from eight O'Clock in the morning until two
O'Clock in the afternoon, regular skrmsh with
varying results, the rebels, when hard pressed,
rercatng into the woods and at other times driving the
Union troops back into Bolivar the main fgh. being be-
yond that town, on the road 10 Chaslastown
At two O'Clock Colonel Geary arrived with threo pieces
of cannon which silcnccd the guns of tho enemy
putting his entire force to flight.
chaplain Of tho rebels, who taken prisoner, says
that before he captured eighty seven killed and
wounded had been carried from the icd.
There nothing positively known to Col. Asiby
having been killed. 1t not generally credited. An
officer supposed to be him shot dHrng the final
treat Of the enemy.
Tie Union troops remained the field all Wednesday
night and yesterday morning. having brought across the
river the remainder oil thousand bushels OF wheat
captured from the rebel military depot which they
about Transporting to Leesburg an order WAS given for
the whole force to retire to the Maryland side.
Great distress prevailed among the remaining resi-
dents of Bolivar Information having reached them that
Il was the intention Of the enemy to destroy both Boil
var and Harpers Ferry By Are On Thurs lay night and
they all packing up preparatory to a light into
Maryland.
There is news from there this morning as to whether
| the threat Of the rebels carried out or not.
The river is still high TO ford, and the troops
| cony eyed across in scows.
The prisoners captured admit that their force was two
thousaud While the whole Union fo.ce thousand.
The change that is taken place in Hlrpcrs Ferry and
the thriving village Of Bolivar Is represented most sad
and shocking. Ruin is everywhere visible, and the in
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