Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-08-28


q, wSrc.,y,s command and twelve hundred
y,bsla toOk place on Saturday last, and notion
Sunday, q. Hrs. reported. An account Oh .ne
asht ir,m Col. MErcALS himself states that MS
men did no. stand fre, and that, with the ex-
csutiou of one hundred, they could not %
broueh. within sight Of the enemy, but the one
h,nd,.a Nth a band of brave Tenaesseeans
foups, the enemy CALAMITY. Col. MErcAlS re-
turned to Richmond, where he obtained rem
foroements, and therebels retrestsd' mEroALEs
I,ss is reported Atty killed, wounded and miss
Ing. dlHt'a s...
General SloEL has performed one OF the mos.
brillian. fea,s Of the present war. 10 one OF
the numerous irregular 6gh's which have oc'
currsd along the lines Of the army Of Virginia.
,hree teRimen.s of the rebels, on the 2lst ina1 .
ventured across bridge which was almoss IN
mediately destroyed BY SiaEL's batteries' lne
euemy ' ere thus cut of from oil support o. auo'
cor. and after some four hundred had been Kill
ed and wounded, full two thousand men we're
made prisoners at once.
Fort Doneisou has not been evaoust.d as re-
ported from Cairo. 1t is still held sy 'orr
mpanies of the 7lst Ohio. a arsof the resi.
ment of Col. RoDEEY Mason, who surrende'eo
clarksville to Col. WooDWAND's rebel cavalry
On Monday afternoon WooDEARD, with con
adorable force OF cavalry and infantry and t"o
pieces Of artillery, appeared before the fort sno
dem ahded its surrender. The email booy ol
men defending the fort refused to comply and
an attack was q snced, which resulted IL
the repulse of the rebels, with considerable loss
and without the Ioss Of man OF the Seventy
frat.
A special New York dispatch OF tho zo.r
inst, from correspondent In General PoPE'i
army, gives an account OF raid or sudder
dash of two hundred and atty guerrillas upOr
Catlett,s Station. Under cover OF the night
they dashed upon email collection OF men anc
wagons. and stampediBg lot OF sntlets' and
servants and teAmsters, burned seven wagons
ran off a number of horses, and took about
hundred prisoners. The most serious part o
the business Is, they took Gen, PoRr's persona
baggage and moneys, and all his official pa
pers, correspondence, ETC., which happened ''
be in one of the wagons which had been cen
10 ,ha rear in the attack on CAtlett's Station
Twenty supply trains were destroyed or Vne'
contents injured by the rebels.
The passenger train on the Winchester Va
railroad for HarpeF's Ferry, when about hal
way between those two points, was on sa'ur
day evening fred into BY gang OF nifty guer
rillas. The express messenger was severely
wounded and four Michigan soldiers tAker
prisoners. The guerrillaa, after destroying the
train, rode of with their prisoners. The con
duc.or, IL is said, fOOlishly stopped the train IL
compliance with the order Of the rebel 6 gsng'
A report comes by way of Washington thai
on the 25lh inst, there was an engagement al
Warrenton, Va, 10 which our forces were sue
cessiul, and drove the enemy out of town, which
was still held by our forces at the latest ad'
vices.
B9 dispatch fiOm Greenville, Missouri, we
learn that on the 24;h inst, G fierce engagement
took ulsce between Bloomfield and Cape Girar-
deAu, in which Major LiPPErT, Of the 18Th ILL
pois cavalry, routed body Of rebels, three hun
dred strong, thirty of whom we're killed, mtg
wounded, sixteen taken prisoners, and horses
ammunition and their entire camp equlpage
captured
A Washington dispatch Of August 26, ssJs
that .he report about sIeELs taking two thous'
and prisoners is partially, but not entirely true
General CoRc3RAN, on Tuesday, August 70
b,ough. the 69th into Washington City and
lefs Immediately for New York.
on Sunday night, August "a, the Danville
Ky., Home Guards, sixty.two men, surprised
three hundred armed rebels about five miles
south of Danville, and completely routed them
The rebels lost three killed, eight nOrtaliy
wounded and thirty horses.
Msjor. General LEW. WALLACE, late In COM
mand of the forces collected at Lexington, KY,
was, on Monday, August rs, superseded by
M ir. General NELSON. General WALLACE has
returned to his home in Indiana, there to await
orders.
Alter their repulse OF Fort DOnelsOn BY the
list Ohio, the rebels were overtaken eight
miles above the fort BY Col. LOWE, With three
hundred of the 5.h Iowa, and completely rout'
ed. Oar loss In killed and wounded was hi-
teen; rebsl loss from thirty to forty.
Lieut.. Col. Fo6TER, with the 65sh and per.
tion of the 4.h Indiana, and SHAcKLE7lRD's
XIV. cavalry, had fight on Tuesday, August
&c, ct MadisonvilIe, Ky, with JoESsoN's suer-
rillas. The rebels soon fed, losing FIVE killed
and seventeen prisoners. Our men report one
killed and Ave wounded.
General GREEN CLAY SIXTH arrived ct Lex
ington, KY, August 26 He reports having
fought with seoTTs cavalry on August 20, 81
and %, in different engagements at Crab Or
chard and Mount Vernon, Ky. sooTT's forcss
consisted Of fifteen hundred cavalry and three
pieces of artillery. sHITH, With six hundred Of
the 9.h Pennsylvania cavalry, armed only with
pistols, was victorious every time, aud lost only
ole man wounded. The rebel loss is NOT
known.
The rebels on the Kentucky side Of Cumber
land Gap, we're. according to Lexington, Ky.
dispatch Of August rs, being reinforced, to th'
number, supposed, Of twenty thousand
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