Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1862-07-05


lars of the fight. They report the battle
as having been commenced by Mcclellan
on Friday morning and that the Rebels
Immediately responded and met them at
all points, ready, evidently, for desper-
ate resistaLce.
The RI ht wing were then nearing n
Rebel fortification, of an almost impreg-
nable charter, when Mcclellan rode up
and this Major says he heard him give
the following order, "Fall back on tho
right to - "a distance Of Eve miles, called
White House--REP.), and on the center,
too if Necessary but hold that position, when
reached, at all hazard,' The Pennsyl.
vania " Bucktails' were then in command
of Napoleon Battery, and were moving
the Rebels down, at fearful rate, with
their destructive missile I.
AS fast as the ranks of the enemy were
thinned out they seemed to FIJI up itStaat-
", and every man came up to the action,
he says, nobly.
The Bucktails complained at this order,
and desired TO eight it out jdst theu;"
but the order had to be obeyed, and they
commenced to retreat, the enemy pursuing
and fighting all the time. McClel an was
in command in person, and this movement
was kept up for distance Of fOe miles,
when the Irish Brigade met the enemy and
stopped his advance The ground moved
over was very swampy, aud in many in
stances the men had to wade almost up to
their middles.
At this juncture, General Mcclellan
moved his left wing around to the rear
of the Rebels, where he mounted six NOR
tars, ten S0-pound siege guns and two 100
pound guns-the latter mounted on trucks
drawn by twenty horses each. He says
that untold amount of charcoal were burned
all day Friday for throwing hot she'll
Rebels prisoners captured, and deserters
coming in, report that the Rebel force en-
Gagged was gu, 900 strong, and that in aud
around Richmond there was force of rom
of from $50 900 to 100000.
The prisoners and wounded are obdu-
rate, aud assert and reassert that "befo5e
Richmond is taken the streets will run
rivers Of blood, and be piled up with the
corpse Of over two hundred thousand men,"
General Lee led the Rebels, while Bcaure-
gard was also in command, and it was
likewise believed that jackson was also
engaged in the action. Colonel Platt's Reg.
ment, it is said, did not suffer severely as
was reported by the first dispatches. This
gentleman also reports that while he was
in Baltimore, a despatch passed over the
wires to the War Department, which from
his knowledge of the machinery and work.
ing of the telegraph, believed to be-
"McClellan has commenced bombarding
Richmond, and the city was burning
These officers left White House at Ii
a. IN on Saturday at which time there was
q cessation of hostilites, and reached Ball
timore, enroute to New York, at 5 A. NJ.
on Sunday morning. They estimate that
the Rebels lost six men to McClellans one.
These officers were released from the army
Oh Surgeon certificates for illness. Nc
Clcllan is reported as being in the best
, possible humor. and perfectly confident Of
:, success in his efforts to reduce the Rebel
6 capital.
. BEAUREGARD'S ARMY IN RICH
MOND.
e A correspondent of the New York Post,
g writing from West Point, June 9th gives
e the blowing important information -
d Captain T. S. Phelps of the gun. boat
If Co,1cin, intercepted mail on the Malta
1t pony on the 23d, which stated that Beau
e regard had arrived at Richmond with the
d main portion of his army; that thirty
thousand men had been sent to Jackson 8
that Jackson, with these reinforcement t.
e and the men he already had, would at one,
=. attack our right flank about Meehanicsville
'f and get around into our rear, while Gen
eral Lee, with the main Rebel army ,woulC
'e at the same time make desperate attacl
k in front. These projects are stated sub
= stantially in the letters intercepted.