New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-04

mach n extenuation. Add to it tho statement 0
several Generals that men never fought better Still
cannot refrain from expressing the one though
that possessed me at the tms-ths fact that 10, ON
uen were in full retreat.
Some time after tho main body had passed on
when that stream had become decen,ly small, II
company with Gov. Wood, rode to find the Illinoii
Cavalry, and came upon thom stretched across the
plain hating every unwounded man. They hat
cooped up several thousands but the task Of reform
ing them was found impossible by even such officers
a. their Colonel and Major Clendenin, and they were
at length permitted to continue rearward.
I crossed The Chickahominy a. II p. m, at which
time comparative order bad been restored. The
enemy were in possession Of oar hospitals and the
battlefield, but we still showcds determined front.
It WAS rot known by the Brgadier- neither
we should try to mold the petition the next day, OF
cross the liver during the night.
AT O'Clock this morning rode to the bridge, with
the intention Of recrossng, but was some distance OF
when heard the explosion that destroyed it. the
force having passed over mainly after midnight
1t il impossible at this day to estimate our loss.
But few vi the dead were brought from the field, and
not one-hAli the wounded. Hundreds Of the latter
were brought as far as the river but oould not be
brought over before the destruction Of the bridges.
Basng my opinion Oh the number who were brought
over about 800. and the proportion that number
must bear to the remainder, estimate the entire
wounded at $500, and the killed at 500. How many
prisoners and what amount OF stores los: il is
still more difficult to estimate. judge but few stores
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is particularly severe Coils. Cove Of the 22d Msssa
cbusetts; Black, ed Pennsylvania; Mclean, s3i
Pennsylvania; Major Nagble, SD Pennsylvania;
Col. Tucker, ID New-Jersey; Leut..Col He,h, 9Th
Maine, are among the killed. Col. Rowland
10Th New York, slightly wounded; Iieut.-Col.
Marsh, 18th New York. severely wounded Col.
Simpson, 4th New Jersey, wounded and prisoner;
Col. Pratt, SIS New York, wounded.
H. the early part Of the day one OF our men cap
fured Rebel knspsaek, hung TO which was half q
skull, used evidently as a drinking vessel. An
inscription upon i, stated that ii came from Bull Run
During the stampede, for moment the attention Of
hundreds wa, attracted to horse Saopipg around
carrying mans leg in the slinip-ihe left leg
booted and spurrcd L, was splendid horse gasl,
eapaTisoned.
instances Of extraordinary 2allautry are not want
ing. Gen. BuIieFfeld led HE men ike another Ney
snd with that Marsbals good fortune, escaped with
ont q scrstch. A shattered scabberd, clothes ton
with bullets, aud hat wrencbed from his head an,
demolished by the fragment Of a sholl-the Genera
micht predicate fstalir,ic belief in his star" Ill
wa. al,o one Of several instances whose officers LEI
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the field without them.
The Freuch Pr;nces--lle Prince De JoiHyille an
the two young men-rode upon the field in hot hast
during the engagement, and seemed ubiquitous, a
they GER AMY were daring and efficient, especially il
rsiysy fns reforming the zen as they cane out q
the woods.
The circumstances under which Lieut.. j. How
Of the I'd New-Jersey met his death, show him
hero. After the panic he had gone down upon tn
plain, found a portion of Company II, of his regi
rlen, and with them, as nucleus, was rsllying &
hs eolors a provisional regiment from the mass o
stragglers. lie had gathered several hundred, wa
addressing them in stirring words, and pointing Il
the flag when conical rided shot struck him in TIT
breast passing through bis body and into the goun'
Al the fcot OF tho men. !; Was the only cannon
shot that fell i'll that vicinity.
Summing up, we had abou, $1,000 men engaged
the Rebels at leas. double that number with Stone
wall Jackson in command. A. great battle thu
one OF GsIues's Hill iii will perpotuate tue name o
q rank traitor ranks, judge, only second TO Shiloh
and Fair Oaks; how disastrous or whether disss
tious remains TO be seen. If have guessed out the
correct Theory Of the campaign, ii viii neither
change nor hinder future operations, slrtscy de-
terDined upon.
The cad feature IL that our wounded are to-nishi
sublec Ell TO, not only the neglect OF those o. Ian
Oaks, bur, perhaps, 10 The additional bssbsiisy o
those Of Bull Run. g. ?.
Thr Battle Of Gnincs's Miiis-A DesPern"
Killed ind wounded, $500
10000 against 35,OOO-The Heroisn'
Of the Caisn Trsops-The FighpiHg BY
the ReyaIars--The Ca-usisies NJ sIs
Battle Or White Oak swamp
Yrou, Our Special Correspondent.
WBITy.OAK swaps WITH rsH AMY BryoRS(
RiJnHosD, sunday June -, 1907.
The battle Of day before yesterday call il the
ba1Ie of Gaines Mls-nOw that fS hours have
passed, is found to be of greater magnitude
than we thought when We saw the sngTy-red sun 90
down on our bealen--if not beaten, say shattered,
columns. The numbers engaged were, as ] then
estimated, &c, 900 upon our side. Iron the enemy's
fully $1,000. We have brought across the Chicks'
hominy 1000 wounded. The killed and wounded
left upon the field cannot be ess than 800, and sil
there are 5000 to be olassed as missing. Some OF