The Ottawa free trader., 1862-09-20
have done with retrograde move.
meats. No moro lines of retreat will be
Kept cpen, and hsneefcrth the Mackerel
Brigade l. - make nothing but great
captures =.
By order Of 1855
Inn GRusRAL OF fHE LACkEsM BBloArE
Green Seal.


Tan GsssRAL OF IsE HACkE.u. BBloArE
lGreen Seal. F. -
This able document, my boy, pleased
me greatly as an evidence that the war had
indeed commenced in earnest; and thou sh
at that moment, / beheld some half a
doven Confederate5 ransacking the tent
where the General kept his mortgages
MS bank account, and other government
property, felt that our foes were about to
be summarily dealt with at last
An orderly having finally given notice to
the ConfederacieS rummaging within our
lines to get to their proper places, in order
that the battle might begin, the Anatomical
Cavalry, under Captain Samyule Sa-mith,
made headlong charge upon a body of
Toes who were destroying a bridge near
the middle of the field, and succeeded in
obliging them to remain there. The bril-,
liant movement was the signal for general
engagement, and a regiment of Confed-
eracles at once advanced within our lines
and inquired the way to Washington
Having given them the desired informa-
ton, and allowed number of other similar
regiments to take 4 position between the
Mackerels and the capital, the General
gave orders for the Comic Section and the
Orange County Howitzers to fall cautiously
back III order that the remaining Confed-
crates might get between US and Rich
mond.
You viii perceive that by this move
ment, my boy, we cut the enemys force
completely in two thus compelling him to
attack US either in the front or in the rear,
and giving linn no choice Of any other
operation save flank movements Our
plans being thus perfected, Capt. William
Brown, of Company ), Regiment D, was
ordered to charge into wood near at hand,
with view to induce some recently arriv-
ed reserve Confederacies to take position
in our centre, while still others would be
likely to flank us on the right and left
You may remember. my boy, that it has
heretofore been our misfortune TO fight on
the circumference of q circle, while the
confederacy had the inside, and this
splendid strategic scheme was intended 70
produce a result rice versa.
1t was great success, my boy-a great
success; and our troops soon found them
selves inside the most complete circle on
record William Brown not only charged
into the wood, but staid there; and, when
one Of the Orange couaty howitzers was
discharged with great percision at report
er, who was caught sneaking into our lines,
Cannon at w ashin ston, causing the raver-
ed man to telegraph to all the papers, that
no one need feel alarmed, Is he was per-
fectly safe, and that our victory was very
eomPlets.
What particular danger the Venerable
Ganmon had incurred, / can't say, my
boy; nor what he knew about the battle
bat his dispatch caused renewed confidence
al over the county, and was great com
fort to bis friends.
Having got the Con federacies just where
he wanted them, the General Of the Macke-
rel Brigade now dispatched ten veterans
under Sergeant o Fake to attack a few
hundred foes who had intrenched them
selves in an uascomly manner right among
cur wagons. The Nacl;ercls were well
received a. prisoners Of wer and paroied On
the spot; a proceeding which 30 greatly
pleased the idoiized General, that he at
once issued the second