New-York daily tribune., 1862-11-12

The fact OF the presence Of the enemy al out Per
ryyile ia great force hal become fully apparent TO
Gen. Buell. during Tuesday. Information rad also
been brought 10 our lines by citizens that the Rebel
generals had notified the resdsnts OF PerryViie OF
their intention to give battle In closo proximity 10
their town and advised them 10 leave Tor thor per-
sonal safety and further that surveys OF battle
field had been made batteries placed IN positlon,
roads made etc., etc. Whether this intelligence
wss received BY Gen. Buell. ! cannot say; az all
events hi. actions marked his conviction that the
Rebels would fight at Perryyillo, ana his deter
mination to meet them in general engagement
with the whole force ut bis command. On Iue,iiy
evening he issued an order to Gen. McCooki when
reached him at 80 a. m. Of the following morning,
apprisng him Of his intention 20 make general
attack upon the enemy on tho following day, and
directing rapid, though cautious march Win aay-
light TO "A described pOdtion, " about three or three
and half miles from Perryve, or until can come
up abreast of Giberts Corps" Ii eau well be pre-
.iimed that corresponding instructions We're likewise
sent 70 Gems. Crlttenden aud gilbert.
Tins matters stood on the Union side on the eve OF
tho eyentfu 6h Wednesday,. As to the movements
Of the Rebels from their evacuation OF Frankfort ana
Bardstown up 10 the same time, the facts developed
sInce the battle of Chaplin Hills, by tho official re-
port of Bragg snd otherwise, demonstrate conclu-
siyely tho humiliatng truth, that tie Rebel Gene
ral. with an entirely erroneous understanding OF
the relative disposition and strength oil the ohloh
bodies operating against them, acted win arechiess
temeIlty that, WITH anything hhe PiVPvt nai,'AO
ment on the part OF Gen. Buell., could not nave
possibly failed to place them at the mercy oil otI
army but eventually resulted IN advantages rather
than disadvantages 10 them.
Bragg begins bis report Of the battle as follows:
FINDING enemy pressing heavily In his rear neef
ryylc Ma Gen HsIdee of Poks comm nd was opsea
to hold and check Him at that point Having ai,ca tr
rodsburg Frankfort. determined 70 gye lin oals
there aud accordingly eoneenTs,ed shee divisions o. ~ ol
(en Folk viz Cheathams BuckreTs, aud hudeTons ana
directed Polk to take command on the N anu huScA
nc.t morning one Division had gone the day before to
support smith Heering the nlht OF tie lth int tue
foce in front Oi Sh had rapidly fcIeucd me'ei cary
nert morning 20 bptese, at he operation oil folAs ioee
From this statement, II appears unmisakably that
lat "the pressure of uardeos rear meant tho
skirmish OK part of MltchelIs dvislon oil Oiioerl
CORPS detailed further above; I'd, that Us Ciltten-
deus corps had turned oil the main roai and did
not reach Perryville until the evening OF Wednes-
day. Hardee could not know of its approach, nor oil
| that of McCook's two divisions, winch We're SIN
further from him--twelve miles TO the northwest -
ana thnt hence he believed himself 10 be pressei
only by Glberts corpsa supposiiion fully substan-
tiated by the fact TINT Bragg detailed only three
dys.ous for the attack on tie next day; 81, that
Bragg considered Sills Division ( the force IN lront
OF smith," he speaks of much stronger IMAM IL
actually was mot exceeding 9,OOO menl ana aito-
pether mistook it's mission OF near observation nnd
eonceament of other movements for one oi attack,
os shown by his sending not only smith wh1ie
cons Of two divisions but also third division uhdeI
Wthers, pgelnst II.
The situation" then, on the opposite rides, on
t1e night before tho battle of Chapiih may NC SUN
med ae follows:
Gen. Buell proposed TO make IA genera a1.acK on
the enemy whose whole force he believed to be con-
centrated ut Perryyille the course OF the next day
with his entire available command, VIZ: two diVi
-iops Of the rst eorps, and tho whole o. te 'e'opt