New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-15
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Io.. and Gain a. Hun Bun.


True wisdom and genuine courage always HOOK
lsssers straight in tue face ascertain their extent
sesrch out their csuses, and prepare toe i"eanS
for avertiHg their recurrence.
The rebels have vastly exaggerated our Losses
and their gains at the battle before Siaoassa''
THIS is owing in about equal degrees 10 'Heir
Ignorance, their tendency to b"astng, tnrir WISH
10 encourage their dupes, aod their innate love
Of lying. -.frr.
Tue enemy claim that We lost about lo,ooo 10
k;,sd and w.and-d. From Richmond to New
Orlrans, the mas.es Of the Pe"Pe' ai""''
striced in their means "f inf"rinn'"p' o"' ''P
ciaIly so since they have been deprived "' N'i'"'
ern newspapers, reieiou'iy oti'e'e '"a' quo
slaughtered Netional troops, at the close oi 'oa'
fatal Sunday. were piled III hecatombs along The
hanks of Rull. Ram The Official sceouDt o' Zen.
Mcdowell fixes our acTunl loss ~ 4ol k'''eo ano
l.Oll wounded. As bat lS.0Oo men crossed the
.,e~k tina shows an amount OF killed aud
sounded equal to one-twsftb O' the oumher ell
ssced This indicates prett, sbarp fighting, but
f.bs far below the standard of desperate"
which some journals apply To II; aud when con-
tssted aith such engagements as that OF Buena
Vista and Iukermaau, is Trivial. As to the l.UOO
nissins. 1t ia probable that about oC0 were
ssamped in the paic, aid icll INTO tue hands of
the foe. The remainder have struggled Of
svstssy toward home.
The boastipg Of the enemy over the amount o'
sanrou captsred, is subhulrly iinpudeht' '"e!
elaiu, to have takeu ~ gaos--a number greater
than all We carried upon the field The SUN
total " bicb fell into their hands is 20. Not one
Of the.e was +" taken" by them, ID the stlct
.rns, of that term. Special reas0Ds Can be
e,y.u for the loss of every Que of them. For
instance. the Parrot 32.pounder was too heavy
10 be drawn back 10 the Retreat. The Rn"de
Island Battery was carried eullr'ly cfl the heia
b, Its own men, but, owing ~ casualties "picH
occurred " sOIGe Wagons oD 0ilcge over "hicn
IL u,ust be drawn, 1t got stack III ihr deoris "hu
had to be- abandpbed; parts oi two or three other
batteries we've left behind because the! GOULD n"t
be- dragged through tue mire which sk'rtrd Dun
kuu . mud. in resp CT " ali the other cann'lI,
special circumstances, with which The proves
And skill of tue enemy had nothing to do, COLI
pelled their abaudoUI.rhs. Tue ira tors bave
,eut up coorus vi cteers, wbch bave ruuy un
through Slasedou,, al the capture of ''sheiman's
Battery" No language has been too extrava-
gant, no )eis too herce, to express ner JOY ut
the taking OF THIS famous and t~rIiblr ensDe oi
war. All this time ito splendid guns, with their
surudaut caissoDr, have beeD quietly waiting
within our lines for ahother opportunity to pay
their compiements to the Couiederates.
lu ono oi his jublant teles rams IL the South,
Davis said Beaur~gard aud Johnston had taken
from our uoops 2z,U0O stsld of arms. When
No reflect that We had less than lo,OO0 10 ne
iyht beyond tho creek, it seems aimoss ncrrd'
HE that the traitor chef could screw even BIZ
arsperatitD up to the point Of telling 80 improb
abls n he, Our actual loss turus out to bs
ESQ Duskets. OF these, probably Loo fel
froln the hands of the killed and wounded, 700
we're taken with the prisoners, ana SOO were
Srppd IN The fight from The battlefield to
CentrvyiIle. And 1t so happens that the greater
part Of those tnat bave br-n gathered up by tce
enruy we're OF poor patterns, aud far inferior
r. those which the traitors stole from Harper's
Ferry aud other arsebsls.
Our loss of ammunition was not large--consist-
ing of $50 boxes VI cartridges Tor Snall-arnis
aud eighty seven boxed tor rAed cannon. Par,
OF these we're on The battle field with the troops
aud tbe rest were in the Wagons oi the eowardl,
teswsters, who aided In r.aang the panic, and
then cut their traces and Goated of with th.
6rst wave Of fugIuves.
lhe number of kuspsacks, baversacks and
Blankets left bebnd aud picked up after~srd BY
thr Rebels WIS proportioDstey larger than any
ether item. The Confederate newspapers place
tnrm ~ 10000. One journal calls them 80 u
pie as big as a mouufaiu." The real number
Was about 800. The cause Of this large loss 10
obvious. Before going into the 6gtt, and usually
~hile standing on the very edges Of the gory
6sld, our troops dvsst~d themselves Of these sr.
ticles They were taken of deliberately aud
piled ID h-sps, ready to BE- RESUMED when the
conflict was and the bloody work done. 10
tie hasty retreat bus few Of tho reg,ments left
tbc held by the route over when they had
advanced. and of course they bad opportunity to
gather up these kDspsacks, haversacks and blsu.
kets.
In q letter to friend, JEFF. Davis has declared
that tho amount Of provisIoDs obtained by the
Rrbels was sufficient 70 fred 5O,O00 men Tor
year. As but thirteen wagon loads were lost,
either Dsvis's army Is kept "p very short ratons,
or this lie is al unusually large one. These pro.
visi,ns, together with the 1900 bushels of oats
No lrft To iced tho starving horses ut Manassas,
were lost mainly because those havilg them IN
charge had unhitched their teams ~ rest aud
fe-d; aud when the pauic broke out the, leaprd
upon their horses aud gsiOped from the field,
l. s,i,. their xavops behind