New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-07-26

The Richmond Examiner of the 22d inst. has the
following additional facts concerning this great
victory:
The armies under Patterson and Johnston both
arrived the field in time to take part in this
general action. Patterson's column had marched
from Martinsburg to the neighborhood OF Wlnches-
ter. and pretended to offer battle; but decamped
in the night, recrossed the Potomac, and made its
way to the scene. Johnston learned his retreat
next morning, and marched twenty regiments dl-
recty to Manassas. The enemy were also rein
forced by ten thousand new troops the evening
before the battle, and brought out fifty additional
pieces of artillery from Washington, among which
were two Dahlgren guns of large size.
During the day it is generally understood that
we had forty thousand troops actually engaged.
without including large reserves. The enemy are
believed to have had not less than sixty thousand
men in the action, without including theirreserves.
But these numbers are given only by rumor, it
being impossible in the recent changes in the loca-
ton OF the various corps to obtain an ohclal accd-
rncy on these points. Gen. Mcdowell Is sad to
have been the c0mmander-in chief of the Northern
forces. On our side, Gen. Johnston commanded
the left and Gen. Baauregard the center: Gen.
| Jackson the right Of our lines. President Davis
| left Richmond by a special train on yesterday
morning, arriving at Manassas junction before four
| O'clock
The telegraph states that the President went to
the field aud took the chief command of the army.
! We have, however, reason to believe that this
statement is erroneous, and that President Davis
| did not participate in the action, though his
| presence at Manassas must have greatly encour-
| aged the troops.
| The Northern army was nominal!y the attacking
patty, and had completed at its leisure all arrange
| ments for a decisive action. But there was no
| surprise Of our party, and our arrangements were
| equally complete.
| Concerning the maneuyers of the affair, we can
only learn that the main attack OF the enemy was
made on the left, in General Johnston's command,
and that cur chief loss there. We lost in that
division no less than three general officers in com
| maud of brig0des, to-wit Barlow, Bee and Kirby
| Smith-the last of whom considered one of the
| best commanders Of the Confederate army. Gen
eral Johnstous staff is said to have had some
wounded. He himself is SAFE and so is Beauregard
with all his staff. Hampton's Legion is much cut
up: it is said to have three hundred and fifty iI
| killed and wounded. Among the latter Genera
Hampton himself is reported. This damage wa:
done by Sherman's famous b ttery of Light Ar
tery. A Virginia regiment, it is uncertain
whether the Fourth or Eeventh--we incline to be
lieye tn latter, under Col. Garland of fLynchburg
was ordered to charge this battery, and did 81
| with perfect success. This Regiment, whichever
it was. took the whole battery at the point of tht
bayonet and turned the pieces on the enemy; bu
| in doing so, suffered terrible loss.
We are happy to announce that our troops were
| at the last advices, in hot pursuit of the HyiDg
enemy. AS we had fifteen hundred cavalry and Q
moonlight night, the havoc among their dIsordereC
columns ought to have been great.