Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-07-15
Z ne Very Latest From Gen. mcCIellnn's
HeaduuarEnrs.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer, July .
Mr.. Clement i. Barclay, sanitary commission
er, arrived here yesterday direct from the army
OF the Potomac, which he left the previous
Thursday morning, At ten o'clock. Knowing
the public anxiety to have reliable intelligence
as to its position snd condition, Mr.. Barclay
allows Us to use his name, to YOuch for the &C
curacy Of such general reports a. he is compe-
tent to make. He was with the army in its re-
tIeat from tina White House, and confirms all
previous advices Of the admirable and success
iuI manner IN which the movement was con-
Quoted.
The army is perfectly secure in the new posi-
nor, and with the protection Of the gunboass,
dehes any renewal of the recent attacks. Gen.
Mcclellan, whom Mr. Barclay saw on several
occasions, was in excellent spirits, and the whole
ermy-to a man-enthusissti in their confidence
IN hun aud his future operations. There is moth
ing approaching Generalization, or any index
OF Encouragement. ReinfCrcements are arriving
by way OF Fortress Monroe, and the assurance
OF renewed strength, adequate to the objects of
the campaign, auimates the whole BODY.
Gen. Mcclellan has given up the house at his
headquarters, for a hospital, and occupies, him
self, a small tent.
Dir. Braclay came down the river on the Van.
derbilt, with seven hundred wounded and sick
soldiers.
The report Of Gen. MeCaU's death Is not cor.
frmed byMr. Barclay, but he is rather sunposed
to have been wOunde and taken prisoner. Mr..
Barclay made attempts to recover the bodies OF
Philadelphia officers, killed in McCalPs division,
but was enable to do so on account Of the en-
emy's possession Of the ground. Our losses in
the late actions are estimated at sbOu! fifteen
thousand, and are certainly much less than has
been c0njectured from the duration and severity
Ct the battles. The lasLday's fight resulted, as
already reported, in the defeat Of the rebels.
FULL CONFIRMATION OF M'CLELLAN's VICTORY
on MONDAY.
Confirmation of the welcome tilinrs of Gen
McCIellan's defeat Of the rebels, on Monday
last, in the seyerest battle Of the war. came to
Us yesterday from the rebels themselves. This
raised many a dropping spiri. and relieved many
an anxious heart. Ii appears by the Richmond
EraHslaer, OF Wednesday, that the divisions
which attacked Gen. Mcclellan on Monday
morning last, were those Of Hill and Longstreet
and that they We're more than half destroyed.
According to the rebel journal they drove our
troops a mile and a halt. when our men made a
stand, and repelling the enemy with terrible
slaughter. Hill and LOngstreetretreatsd "amid
the vOciterous cheers Of the Yankees"
There are several points about this acInowI-
edgment Of tho enemy that confirm, beyond al
dispute, the important facts that Gen. McClel-
lan's great movement was accomplished with.
ont any dlsOrganiz2tiOn that his new position
IS one Of great advantage over that be left and
that his men aTen not IN the slightest degree
damaged IN their spirits or in their fighting dual,
tiles. Here we have it admitted that the rebel
army, after winning what they regarded as two
! decisive and bloody battles after they had, as
they thought, cut of our army from its base
and after, as they tondly thought, they had
driven the army CT the Potomac from the PENN
sala that army turns upon the victors, and in
a battle which the rebels say exceeds any vet
fought whips them back, and they rstregt
" amid the V0cifeTOUs cheers - of the national
troops.
That's victory won under such circumstances
should wiring acknowledgment from the beaten
foe Is not to be wondered at. It is an achieve
ment fl TO be placed beside the most brilliant in
military annals. How worthy Of the nations
confidence is the young general who has led his
soldiers through such an ordeal Of continuous
battle and retreat in the face OF such fearful
odds, not only without decentralization, but to
crown their standards with victory in the very
hour of their deepest gloom.
The battle was renewed the Hsxt day with re-
neWed success to the Union arms. Since then,
as the telegraph informs as, there was 10 more
lighting, down to half past five on Thursday
night From this we Judge that the divisions
OF Longstreet and hill, so teuibly cut to pieces
IN Mondays battle, and those Of Jackson, HUI
ger, and MagrudeT, We're their only remaining
effective corps. These being, according to their
own admission, more than half destroyed, it can
easily be imagined why they did not renew the
fight after Tuesday.
Now, therefore, is the tins TO reinforce the
glorious army Of the Potomac, even at the risk
OF losing ground at less important points than
Richmond, where alone We can strike the death
blow at the black and desperate heaIt Of the re-
belliOn.