Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-09-09
n1EH rERY LAllE3,N EEOif a-Y7 ! nLi
RUIZ BATTLE FIELD.
nE1u&a OF SOME 'oE TIE NURSES
CAPTURE Or ABOUT StyTF Of TRsa.
THE CONDITION OF OUR WOUNDED.


CAPTURE or ABOUT SIyTY Of TRs4
THE CONDITION OF OUR WOUNDED.
:1"oscs. Winter. Stoddsrd and Boyd, Of tho
Treasury Department, and Nfesars. Thompson
and Hutchinson, Of the Interior Department:
arrived III this city ste last night direct from
! the Bull Run 70 tile field. They are tie EN-
/ nsnt OF tbs large rarity CT volunteer nurses
= 81 ~en: down troll tie city on Saturday
! lust They pushed on froIu ,ho railroad track
IL the hRttI- held, and about thirty Of the
party Euccesdsd iii going on to tho aaitle field
with hmonlsnces. Under Il flag Of truce, on
! Monday morning, who're they Iound enough
TO do in saving the liveR Of our wounded SOL
/ diers. frum the time tt.y arrived 70 tho
time they left ,hr battle tick, lhsy worked
aoa toled irdustrinusly, day aad right. in
their noble work of humanity.
The field over 80 extent OF about fiy. miles
IN lenth By three in width, was found com-
pIstely strswn with OUR dead and wounded in
all forms and conditions. One space Of many
acres in extent was found very shickly strewn
--sa:he lying IL 1nas6ea snd Others scattered
about Ths dead wsTs usually stripped OF all
their military lrappnga, and, in U.ogu instan-
ces, OF coats, pats and shoes, many being
found without any clothing, except shirts
and stockings. Qce wounded uun said he
saw MS companion stripped while he was
kicking in his dying struggles.
About twenty surgeous We're with the
party. and they commenced tho work CT gath
erlng tie sufferers together in al orchard,
! where The operation OF Amputetiun Was FER
forIned y n.n necessary.
ne great wait was food Tor the sufferers
iii tier agoniea, ind the attendants in their
i ardro1s libors.. Some Of the wounded had
| NOT f7raEoH load for iOuT days, and they we're
completely exhaus ted. and 5orle died of nun
ger, in addition to wounds and loss of blood.
| II 10 represented IN being horrible to witness
the Rgonias Of these 1uen snd be unable to
gi5e tham food. About four hundred men
were aavsd by theSo ncbls lsborsrs, and cont
10 tina railroad station, Themes TO Alexan-
edrs.
Our Informant says that some eight or ten
| of our citizens are stili on the field which the
others were compelled to Leave on sccount OF
burger, without Iassaa OF food.
He saya that about si1ty ofthe Washington
party OF Government clerks, DC, we're un-
douoted!y captured by the enemy on Monday
morning. They started little Ghssd of his
party sad swung of towards General Banks
corps, where 1t is supposed they we're taken
by division Of the enemy who ere engaged
10 haTassing Banka On bis retreat from War
renton.
ThsIa ars nos uiany dying and dead on the
Acid atill uncarsd for. Many of the latter
might be saved by proper care, If relief is
promptly seut. The dead Ought to be buried.
When our party arrived tho Corfederates
were Just Completing tie burial OF their own
dead.
Besides the number gcut Ii AlexsndI il,
! quito large number II brs carried to shady
places and made re comfortable nj possible,
sT aitins the arrival Of more ambulsn ces and
wagons to transport them to the depot.
SeTeral of the party who CANE up with OUT
informant. stopped at Alexandria and will sr-
rive here to-day.
Our r-iacnsrs SEN t,y this party represent
that they 81. WILL treated by too enemy, ex-
cept in the matter of food, which they do not
have in their possesaion to bestow. The enc
nv is esriinn Led ri t@o hundred thousand NED,
and th'lr purpose is said &c h, ~ uske their
wsy over into Maryland.
| Tx sITCAIIGa.
Tho movement Of retreat upoa WASHINGTON
mAy how be sald 10 be contaminated; with
icksburg snd Winchester. It wa obyious
that it was determined upon when OUR army
at CentIs7ius, reinforced OF Sunday, did not
rsnow the combat suspended b. mutual OK
harstiou on Saturday. Centreville could
o1IT be hald by sttschinE the enemy. As 8
defensive position 1t Was untenable, "a the
lvreo.,-. oese,ttj ra.n 4 % movement in the
! direction Of the Chain bridge.
We eTesatisfed that General Pope Wished
| 10 hght, but VAS oyerruled from hesdquar-
| terra here,
| It 10 10 tins now 10 discuss the policy OF
this retreat. There were certainly some con-
sideratious in fsvor o! it, and ne mus. al
hope that it will turn out for tie hest. But
! iDssmucn as it heara upon tho future, re feel
bound to express our most unhesitStinS con-
viction that 1t was retreat before al enemy
of inferior uumbere. We are lot now in
tending to repeat the general views which
tend 10 show the inpossihil;tJ Of sIy
such numbers, two hundred thousand meu,
as are conceded TO tho enemy in some quar-
ters, Il Is sufficient &c say that nothing in
dicates that number, or even half CT it.
fthe eueny had bad one hundred thou
sand men on Saturday, be would have ami
hiiated Gen. Pops on that day. lie would
have cut OF Gen. Banhs OH the next daT, or
would have renewed tho Gtt.ck on Gen. Pope,
or would haya done both things. And on
the subsequent days he would have followed
UP our retrestipg foroea with vastly more
energy THAI ne Aa5 DONE 1t Is safe to con.
clude that ths vigorous and able msn who
co..7ol tho sT'sir0 OF the rebels make the
best use Of The means they have. They
know ths, OR nov le7ies are rapidly coming,
and if they have failed to do anything during
the s7selr, It has bean from the want Of power
not from tho want Of enterprise,
The supposition Of q rabel iorcs Of two
| hundred thousand meu Is still Iuoie viosarl :
| absi;Td-
What vii the eusnT now do! will he
attempt &c crob5 into Marsllud, il the hope
| OF sroisins ths secession clements there, or
viii be content himself with having driven us
| cleol out Of virginia, and return 10 his old
policy OF wearing W. OUT and breaking down
our finances By protracting the WAT?
|
safer 10 prophecy sttsr the event than before
il. But unin6uenced BY Lhs clsmors and
| noiss ah,out uR. VS. abide resolutaly in the
conviction that TIC enemy docs not DOW, spJ
mora than hs aver has dons, regard his Con-
dition as s desperate ons: or as calling for
desperate measures
| We have had an infinite deal Of nonaense
about steSvtas the sonth, srihduins ths rebel
lion by pressure, snd the efficacy OF the aua-
conds system generally, hut the real truth is
that it is precisely in long wsr thst the slave
States, assulning that slavery is to be treated
as sacred thing, have the advantage over
tree States. The rebel leudera have, so far,
acted upon that theory. aud will, we believe,
continue to DO 40 TO the end.
How you'd tho rsbsl army. If it could get
| into MARYLAND, DO received By the population