The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-11
A BATTLE AT PERRYVILLE.
THE ENEMY REPULSEDi
GENERAL ENGAGEMENT EXPECTED.

Dispatches were received in this city
yesterday by way of Bardstown, bring
ing intelligence of an engagement be-
tween the army corps command of Gen.
McCook and the rebel army under COM
mand of Gen. Bragg. The attack was
made by the rebels in the vicinity of Per-
ryville, Boyle county, on Wednesday
morning, and is said to have been led by
Gen. Bragg in person. The Federal
force numbered about eighteen thousand
men, embracing fifteen thousand infan-
try and eight batteries of artillery, the
remainder being cavalry.
We have very few details of the battle,
but it is known that the rebel force was
superior in point of numbers to that of
the Federals, Gen Bragg's army being
estimated at forty thousand. 1t is known
at headquarters in this city that General
Buell. meditated an attack upon Gen.
Bragg yesterday, but Bragg, it appears,
anticipated Gen. BuelPs movements and
FASTENED collision with Gen. McCook's
corps, with the view of defeating frac-
ton of our army with an overwhelming
force The engagement is said to have
been terrific at the commencement,
the rebels fighting with desperation for
the advantage until Gen. McCook was
REINFORCED, when they were repulsed
with great slaughter.
Gen. L. II. Rosseau's division received
the enemy,s first attack, and bore the
brunt of the battle General Rosseau, it
will be remembered, is in command of
the Fourth Division. formerly comman-
l. IL
part of the NintA Indiana, Seventy
eighth and Seventy-ninth Pennsylvania,
the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Nineteenth
Regulars, and Nineteenth Indiana bate
ry, and to them more than to any other
troops engaged is accorded the honor of
repulsing the enemy.
We regret to be called upon to an
nounce as one of the results of this en-
gagement, the death of Brigadier Gen
| eral JAS s. jackson, the late Member of
Congress from the Fifth District of Ken
lucky. He fell at the head of his divis.
ion, at the point of greatest danger,
while in the act of rallying his men who
had been for the moment repulsed by the
enemy.
The Federal loss in this engagement
/ Is tSbluldlCQ at t0O tnOuottuO AZ hAAACa
and wounded, and the rebel loss is be-
lieved to be much greater. Gen. w. G.
Terrell, who was in command of a brig
ade, was very seriously wounded He
commanded Terreirs well-known battery
at Shiloh, and was promoted for gallan-
try diplayed at Shiloh, and in the en-
gagement near Richmond, Ky. He was
a native of Virginia.
Col George Webster, of the Ninety
eighth Ohio regiment, who was in COM
mand of the Thirty-fourth Brigade, re-
ceived serious wound, but it is thought
that it will not prove mortal Gen.
Sheridan, of Illinois, was reported killed,
but subsequent reports lead to the be-
lief that he is only slightly wounded.
After the repslse of the rebels on
Wednesday evening, the firing ceased,
and at seven o clock Gen. McCook'S forces
were in possession of the field. 1t was
rumored last night that the battle had
beer resumed yesterday morning. but no
official information was received in this
city to that effect. ssd ea1sI
/ Perryville is thirty-fve southeast of
Bardstown, and Gen. Bnell's entire army
on Wednesday evening we're in q days
march of Perryville.-LOUtSvftte Jour
nal