Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-10
From the Mobile Evening Newsl
HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT, !
 June lTIh 1882

HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,
 June lTlh, 1882. < Gsatlemea: Ny attention hssi iust been called to the following dispatch tpuolsatd in your s,ue ofyesterday) Of Major General Halieck, com manding em my's forces, which, coming from such sor e $ m jst reularkatle in oie respect ,haC IL con,aips as many mlsrepreoentatlons as lines:
 WASHINGTON June 4, l962.-The following dis p Itch was received this afternoon at the War Department:
 "HALLEcKs HgADQrARTERs,
 "JuGe 4, 1862. "Hon. E. N. Stanton, Secratary of war:
 Gen. Pope, wiIL 40, ,0O0mln is ,lirty miles sonth ot Corlnth, fhl,llng the enemy hard. He already reports 10000 prisoners and deserterS from the enemy, and l5,000 ssand of arms cap iured.
 Thousan s o enemy are throwing away taelr arms. vA farm 1T says that when beaure- gard learned....tbat Col. EiIiott had cut he rail road on his line of retreat he became frantic and told his men to save themselves the best way they could.
 We have captured nine locomotivcs and a number of cars One of the former is already ep tired, and is running -lay. Several more w.l be in ruuniug order Ill two or threl days.
 The result is all l could possible desire. + W HALLECK, Major GeneralC mn an i,g" Gen. Pope did not push haru" upon me with 1000 men, thirty nlleo from Corinth on the tn inst; for my IT O,s o,c pied detpmi se Lne in "Twenly Nle Greek, less than twenty i've miles tr m Cor nth utlh the Slh inst, when he want good 8 CT induced me U retire al my leisure to better position: moreover Ii Gen e al Pope had attempted at aay time during the retreat from Coriuth, to p.h hard upon me would nave gwen him sued ! lesson would have checked his ardor; but,he was careful tt advance only after my troops, had retired from each successive position. The retreat was conducted with great order and precision, dlng much crsdit to the officer, 1 aud men under my orders, aad nnst be To Jked upon in every respect by the country as equiv alent to a brilliant victory.
 Gen. Pope msut certainly have dreamed o having taken 10, 900 prisoueEs and l5O0O stand of ns! Tor we positively ueyar lost them: abou Jne or two hundred s5raggless would probably cover all the prisoners he took, aud about five hundred damaged muskets al the arms he got these belonged to 8 c0nvalesc4nt camp (foul miles south of Coriuth) evacuated during the night, aud were overlooked on account of the ] darkness. The actual number of prisoners Ia ken during the retreat was ao6ut equal on both sd g, and they were but few. Ma or Ge eral Bal ok ust bc Q very credu lous man indeed to believe tie absurb story oi ''lhat farmer" He ou 5ht to know that the burn ing of two or more cars on railroad is Suti- cient to make Beaure .ard Frantic" and rdcu luus especially when, expected every moment t, hear of the capt, re Of his niaraudlng party whose departure rom Farmlngton had been l communicated to the day before and had given in consequ ence all necessary orders; bu' d rari of my forces passed Bo0neylle an honl before the arriyal of COl. EIio.ts command and the other part arrived iusti in time to drive It away and hbeTate ihe couyalescents captured unfortunately how ever not iu time to save f1Hi sick, who were barbariousy consumed M the station houe! Lei Col. klott's name des cend tt iniamv as he al hor of snch as r~vnltnr dead-- Get .'aalieck did not capture nindlocomotives.- It va, only by the accidental destrUctlon ot { bridge betore some trains h:sd passed that ht got seren engines in damaged condition, the cars wing been burnt by my orders. IL is indeed lamenta6le to see how little onI enemies respect tiu h and justice when speaking ot their military O oteratious, especially when thr0u h inability or over confidence, they mee with q, served failure.
 1.-the results be "aI he desred,' it can bf said he is easily satisfied; 1t remains 10 he sec whether lis government and people will De c attest that ali we lost al Cor:nth and during the retreat would not amount to one days eX pcnses of his army.
 Respectfully, your ob'tsv't,
 q. T. BEACREGARD