The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-09-04
SEPT. 1. 1861
FROM THE SEAT OF WAR.

o.. h,d indalged the hope that we would be able
..,.v before our readers this morning some par.
...l,rs Of the great fight Of Saturday last. io
..,., esnten. ourselves with giving such informa
,,on ssre have been able TO collect. We have been
...,,n,,,ed 10 make some extracts from private
,.,sr written At aaiosville, Saturday night at Ia
o,,esk The writer says:
we are again victorious tho classic plains of
,.ussxas This morning We we're anxious, bat n st
sssv We fought and won yesterday, hut heard
"e Immense reintareenaents To the enemy during
o o. ,ish, while ours could not come up in time 10
r.,eipa,e in to days fight. But II began. AMI, to-
fss, while write the enemy are neeinE and our
sns ns sfter them. So the combined armies Of Pcpe
-nwsTssllsn, and Burnside. driven insloriousIy
.s,r, The field. Several OF their regiments were
~, "a peces and in ten minutes all but three Of the
-. pennsy.vania were Killed or wounded Kemp.
ers sisien OF our corps captured three batteries,
,iooas division passed over thirty pieces Of artle
~ Gea Jenkins, Of South carona. was " wouuJe.i;
~ skinner mortality wounded: and many others
,.base names have not lesrned. They outnum
bsred us by their own account, nearly three 10
ns Anderson division was slightly eng aged this
The dsh. did not commence until 4 clock and
.ran now occasionally can bear the booming of
hs rrns coming back on the air as they harass the
rstrea;ing enemy.
The passengers by the Central train. yesterday.
~sr. familiar with 10 facts beyond what has al
rss,y been laid before the public. As usual, they
csme fre,shted with reports collected at Gor,ions-
vile duriug the short stay Of the train a, that
noin, The real position OF the two armies was
r., known, though it was stated that the ensmy.
when las, heard from. were rapidly re,reating in
the direction of occoquan. aud our forces hotly
4 larcN hNdy S,f mr. vatE oil,
Church, willis; S,uart's airy represented to
have reached Alexandria
We have heard of several names among the
wounded not heretofore published. OF these are
Col. Lawson Bolts. of the I'd Virginia regiment,
wounded in the face, bat not dangerously; Lieut..
Col gowan and Mai. Nadenbouscb, Of the same reg
men, the former slightly, and the latter severely
Colonel 1rigsby. 9th Va, wounded Major TIE Fry
.th Va wounded in the arm Capts. Simms, Sam
uel Moore. ID Va, wounded; Cspts. Gibson, Lee
Harnan. Bennett, Fulton, and Lieutenanis Wade
strckler, and Siosser 4;h Va, wounded Lieut.
Cummings, 4th Va Killed, Capt. Roberts, 9Th Va,
woanded. Capt. Simms's company, Of the 1th Va
os, every officer. Major May, Of the 18th Va
r.gt was killed and two of bis brothers in the
sslle regiment wounded.
Passengers by the train reported the death q
Gen. Eweil, bns this WAS afterward contradicted.
Up to a late hour last night the War Department
hsd received no additional information.
One sceount states thst the loss in Gen. Jack
son csrps Is estimated al from COO to 500 killed and
wounded. The 9th Virginia regiment is reported
10 have lost one half the men they had engaged.
On Thursday afternoon the positions of Generals
Jackson aud Ewsll were near Sudiey Church, theil
right resting Groveton, and their left to the old
bsttle field of Manassas. About 5 O'Clock. ,hs
enemy, under Mcclellan. advanced by the Warren
ION road when our artillery opened upon theM-
An engagement of two hours ensued, when tn,
enemy were driven from the field, and beyond th.
Wsrrenton Turnpike