Litchfield enquirer., 1862-06-05
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NEWS from Gen. Mcclellan is up to Sunday noon, and is highly important. During tre7s mendous thunder storm on Saturday, about one o'clock in the afternoon, the enemy made bold effort with greatly superior numbers to turn the right flank of the Union army, which was on the Richmond side of the Chickahominy, not far from the river. Gen. Caseys division, forming the first line of our advance, received the attack, and in the words of the dispatch, "gave way un-5 accountably and disunitedly." This created con fusion, of course, and the guns and baggage were lost. At this juncture General Kearney and Gen. Heintzleman brought up their divisions, when furious battle ragged, with no further ad- vantage to us than holding the enemy in check. As soon as possible, the divisions of Gen. Sedg- wick and Gen. Richardson were passed over the river, and drove the enemy back with the bayo- net, literally covering the ground with his dead. Thus ended the work of Saturday. On Sun day morning the enemy undertook the matter again, but were everywhere repulsed. One of their Generals (Pettigrew) and g Colonel named Long were taken prisoners. Gen. Mcclellan says our loss is heavy, while that of the enemy must have been enormous. Most of our men fought nobly, and several splendid bayonet char |ges were made, the 2d Excelsior Regiment mak- ing two. It appears that the Rebels tried the same game at Pittsburg Landing, and with some thing like the same result. Ealing upon our night with farce of probably ten to one, they hoped ss tara tho pesitisn, and throw OUT army into panic, which would give them m easy vic tory. It was doubtless most desperate attempt, but fortunately failure.
 ANoTHsR stronghold of the Rebels has fallen t-Corinth is rs-annexed to the Union, and Beau regards army is flying down the Mobile Rail- road in anxious search for that Sc last ditch.''- In our last weeks edition we had the news that our army, in three strong columns, under Buell., Thomas, and Pope, had tested the enemy's strength and spirit by direct move upon their works. The rebels fought smartly at first, and Gen. Pope's column, lost 25 in killed and wound ed-the enemy 30 dead and some prisoners Our army steadily drove the rebels back within gun shot of their intrenchments, when night came on and Gen. Buell. halted. This was on Wednes- day last. It was expected that the enemy would early on Thursday morning, open in full fire up on our men and fight the great battle for which they have been so long preparing. They did not, and so Gen. Pope sent his compliments in the shape of shot and shell at one of their heavy batteries. An hour of this shelling satisfied the rebels; they struck their fag drew off their guns, and our men took possession of the work. No further important movements were made on Thursday, Gen. Halleck content ing himself with strengthening his position ; Gen. Sherman put heavy battery within a thousand yards of their works. On Friday morning all was ready for the decisive struggle, when it was discovered that under the favoring cover of night the entire Rebel army had run away, and it was very soon ascertained that They were flying southward along the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. Of course, our folks had nothing to do but walk in and repossess Corinth
 They did 80, and the morning sun greeted the Stars and Stripes waving proudly from the Court House. Gen Halleck conveys all this gratifying intelligence in official dispatches to the War Department. The enemy's present To- cation IS not known; one rumor has it at Oka Iona, 61 miles south of Corinth on the road to-
 wards Mobilc-but 67 miles is too far for so brief time; another report places them only a few miles away, in the same direction. At our very latest adyices, Corinth was held by our outposts, and the cavalry were searching for the rebels There were rumors of skirmishes with the rebel rear guard, and that both the rebels and our men had destroyed several bridges along the Mobile railroad.
 We have highly interesting in telligence from Gen. Banks Department. On Saturday our troops at Front Royal made an excursion five miles oution the road toward Winchester, dri. ving Ashby's Cavalry before them, There was a continual skirmsh with some loss to the ene my, who were seen carrying of their wounded On our side one Lieutenant was killed. Seven of the Maryland soldiers captured at Front Roy. al were retaksn. In the engagement the ore. vious day our cavalry took 15O prisoners and re- took Is of our own men. One cannon, and ten wagons laden with stores, were also secured. Col. Kenley's wounds are not serious, and he is doing we'll. From Harper's Ferry we learn of a reconnaissance Monday along the road toward Winchester by the 5th New York Cavalry. They did not fad the enemy, as they had left Winchester on Saturday, pushing southward. Oontrsbaads asserted that Fremont had fight with Jackssn on Sunday morning. but they did not know tho result. Another and later dispatch from Front Royal reports . reconnaissance on Sunday as far as Strasburg, through which the enemy were rapidly retreating. A force was at once sent to cut off the Rebel baggage train, but their rear-guard was found to be too strong Our men had reports from the negroes that Ross- crans had attacked and beaten Jackson. These vague rumors about Fremont were soon settled by the receipt of dispatches from the General himself dated Headquarters, Strasburg." With an energy characteristic of the Pathfinder he had marched his strong column, with very little means of transportation nearly 100 miles over mountain ridges of the most difficult character and arrived near Strasburg in time to fall upon the rear of Jaeksons retreating army which was in full force on the Winchester road. Fremont's adv ance brigade, under Col. Cluserut, first came upon the enemy, who were strongly posted, and pnod;o{o1n o,,aroI x,;+b non