The New York herald., 1862-10-13
Another Battle In Neutrality-suspicious.
Buell. Doing His Work In Handsome

Buell. Doing His Work In Handsome
style.
We have brief report from Louisville Of
another battle between the pursuing forces of
General Buell. and the defeated and retreating
army of General Bragg. This last engagement
was between Harrodsburg and Danville, and
appears to have involved in the losses of Bragg
large number of prisoners and a considerable
portion Of his wagon, train. We anticipate,
therefore, before the lapse of many days, the
gratifying Intelligence of the capture or com
plete dispersion OF Bragg's army, and the hasty
retreat southwark Of all the other rebel forces
in the State.
General Buell. is doing his work of clearing
out the enemy very handsomely. We hope
that before the close of this day the most skep-
| tical of our Wall street stockholders will be
convinced upon this point. On Saturday they
would have it that he had caught Tartar and
that his simple and unpretending official report
of Wednesdays battle was but the prelude to a
confession Of an ugly defeat But, believing
General Buell. to be not only an able military
leader, but a truthful man, and knowing that
he had an army around him competent to dis
pose of the rebels before him in any position,
we found no difficulty whatever in understand
ing his clear and explicit statements, to wit =
= The action continued until dark. Some fight
ing also occurred on the centre. The enemy
were everywhere repulsed but not without
some momentary advantage ito the enemy on
our left The several corps were put in position
during the night and moved to the attack at six
o'clock this morning chat is, on the next morning
after the battle described in the report). Some
slirmishing occurred with the enemy's rear
guard. The main body had fallen back in the
direction of Harrodsburg."
The case is plain enough. The army of Gen.
Buell., divided into several columns, covering
an extensive semicircle, was advancing upon
Bragg On Wednesday afternoon one or two
of these columns came into collision with the
whole army Of Bragg, fought it for several
hours, and everywhere repulsed it. Darkness
then came on, just as one or two of the other
columns of Buell. arrived on the ground. The
work of finishing up the victory, however,
which had been substantially gained, was neces-
sarily suspended until the return of daylight.
Soon after daylight our army was pushed
forward. when it was discovered that the enemy
had slipped of, but only to be overhauled
again on Saturday and thoroughly beaten.
General Buell., like General Mcclellan and
General Grant, has been particularly obnoxious
to our abolition dsorganizers: but, like McClel-
Ian and Grant, Buell. gives satisfactory answer
to his accusers upon the field of battle. We
have no doubt that Grant, Rosecrans and their
associates. in all the region around Cornth,
Mississippi. and Buell. in Kentucky, and McClel-
Ian in VIRGINIA, will very speedily now put an
end to the hungry and demoralized armies of
the rebellion. and to the base accusations and
intrigues Of our abolition malignants. Time is
precious. The season is favorable. Our SOL
dicrs are ready. The country expects the ad-
minstration to do its duty. Let the good work
done be followed up without any needless
delays.