Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1862-09-13

by their brilliant execution.
The enemys line of battle conformed itself to ours
and took, therefore, crescent form, OF which the
centre or more advance portion was at Groveton,
whence the wings declined obliquely to the right
and left Their batteries were in the rear OF their
infantry, and occupied the hills which they had
held in the fight of July, 1861 but pointed differ
entity.
Battle was Joined between the artillery about IL
o'clock and the terrible execution of ours was evil
denced by the mangled corpses of the enemy which
| our subsequent advance disclosed. number OF
them Law in the road at Groveton, and on the hills
around. Not long after, Jacksons wing became
engaged, and about o'clock, p. m, the battle was
raging along the whole line
| The bearing of our troops, as they pressed lor-
ward to the battle is described as magnificent
Jacksons left advancing more rapidly than his right
swept around by the Pittsylvania House, and pres
sed the enemy back towards the turnpike; while
Longstreet, making an analogous move on his wing
crowded back those in front of him towards the
| Henry hills.
Hoods Brigade formed Longstreet's left, and of
course, charged next the turnpike. In its track it
| met Sickles' Excelsior Brigade, and almost annlhi
lated it. The ground was piled with the sain.-
Picketts Brigade was on the right Of Hoods, next
came Jenkins Brigade, and next was Kemper's,
| which charged near the Conrad House. Evans
and Anderson's were the reserve, and subsequently
| came into action.
! Thus moving our army drove the enemy on both
| wings pressing them across the Henry and Robin
son ridge and through the pines and copses beyond,
and across Bull Run. Long after niGhtfall our ar
tllery was still laundering at the retreating enemy
| 1t is remarkable coincidence that one of the nu-
merous batteries captured by our army, was taken
on the precise spot where Ricketts, battery became
| ours on July Dist 1861. The guns as before re-
marked, pointed however, in different directions on
! the two occasions
The ride over the battle field on Sunday, revealed
! Il. al 4 cl,aH
| before no equal example. The heaps of the enemy
were thickest where they had assailed Jacksons
line at the railroad excavations. They here almost
paved the ground. Another scene of great carnage
was in the road which across the turnpike near
the Henry house. The enemy had made stand
there in the guyworn track, and in space of less
than two hundred yards nearly thousand had met
their deaths. In the piece of woods near and west
of this road our own loss was heavier than any
where else the enemy making good fight from their
natural intrenchmentS.
But while these were the spots where death held
its fiercest carnival the whole field Of combat was
strewn with victims. Our informant states that
several times his company paused to count the num-
Der of corpSes of the enemy in sight, and after
counting in every instance three hundred they
ceased from inability to distinguish among those
lying furtheSt off. He declares that he speaks N
great moderation when he expresses the opinion
that he saw not less than five thousand slain Yam
KEGS, and judges an additional thousand as small
estimate for those he did not see. One of the ene
my lay stretched across the grave of Mrs. Henry,
the victim of the last years fight. The wounded
appeared on every hand imporing assistance He
thinks twenty thousand a moderate estimate of the
killed and wounded Of the enemy
1t will be exceedingly gratifying to learn that af-
ter careful observation the same gentleman IS
perfectly convinced that slain cannot exceed six
hundred, and he believes will be hundred less.
Our wounded, too had all been cared for; and the
burial of our dead commenced on Monday.
When we contemplate not merely the great vic
tory we have won, but our very small comparative
loss, we have double reason for gratitude to God
for his manifest favor. 1t is proper to add that the
great disparity in the casualties to the opposing
mics does not exist in the opinion of our present
informant only, but it was the judgment of his
companions Also and has been asserted by numer-
Gus other independent observers
Let the whole Conlederacy, then, bow in grateful
alteration that not only is our country saved, but
our friends are spared"
The correspondent of the Charleston Mercury,
speaking of the results of the battles on Manassas
Plains and the future Of the enemy, says:
THAT W aShingtOn will be abandoned without
fight is extremely doubtful and yet | do not see
how it is to be held in the face of victorious army
like ours-Said by some to be $50 900 strong. That
is an exaggeration, Of course; but, making full al
lowanceS for losses recently sustained, ought to
be able to throw into Maryland $4,000 effective
men; against whom the Yankees can bring nothing
but beaten hirengs raw recruits and COX's CON-
mand from Western VTgnia--some IL, 600 men,
If for want of provisions compelled to halt
in front of Washington, Buell. will DC called in hot
haste to the defence OF the Capital and so will Cur
It's Thus Tennessee, Kentucky, and Missouri will
have 20 be abandoned. Andi we take Washington
Buell. and Curtis will still be needed to defend Bal
timore and Philadelphia. Take either horn of the
dilemma, the Yankees are in bad way. But spec
ulation is idle. Let US be content with what has
already been done, and thank God that great blow
has been struck, with such success that we NAV
well regard our freedom as virtually won. Perhaps
Seward will address another letter to Russell on
the "wanng proportions Of the rebellion" All it
does the heart good to think how that hoary sinner
and his tools trembling in their boots. The
Northern papers for the next ten days will be rich
However, We will not count chickens before they
are Matched We are yet to be assured that the
fruits of single Confederate victory have been
reapGd."
The two following dispatches received here after
our last issue, contain some items of interest
RICHMOND, September g. 1862
Dispatches from the west in late Northern papers
state that the Confederates are pressing towards
Covngton. Business entirely suspended in Cincn-
natl, and martial law proclaimed. The town of
Buchanan, Upsher Co., Va, captured by the
Confederates the Both. They were advancing
on Clarksburg. There was great alarm at the lat
ter place, and all movable public property had
been removed. G.
SECOND DISPATCH.
PETERSBURG, Va, Sept 10, 1862.
Baltimore and New York dates Of the 9th inst,
received here last night too late to telegraph you.
The american of Saturday afternoon and dis
patch from Cincinnati dated Saturday morning
state that great preparations are making there to
receive the Confederate forces should they advance
Gen. Smiths army was twelve miles north of
Cynthiana, KY, on Friday at noon. Great excite