The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-09-09
TIE Knemy's Ls..es In the Late Operation

The Enemy's Losses In the Late Operations.
rhe enemy admit a los<, dawn to Friday night o.
1900 men, Pope officially stating his loss on 'hs' oay
70 hays BEEN 5000 In one Of the. Baltimore papers
Il d saA that the entire Yankee loss Including 'nat
az Saturday, 10 - 600 men-killed, wounded an'l
ps,soners This abatement ellows 1900 for TN
lore an Sat urdsy That the loss Of that particular
dsva.ss vsssly greater than the enemy admit w
take - be certain. They are not the persons !"
oxersssimass their own losses, and. In the mean
TINA Cen Lee tells us that over coo OF them were
&.hen and parolea on the field II they fought the
hattie with anything like the desperation they pre-
,end cen .itering TINT 1t lasted Ave hours. they
Certainly bad more than { 900 Killed and wounded
The letter Of Dr. Coolidge IL conclusive upon this
point He says that four days after the battle there
were still three thousand wounded Yankees, un
cared for within the lines of Gen. Lee 1t Is very
certain Il they were not cared for, /, WA because
tho number Of wounded was SO great that their
tmn had not come Our own wounded, not exceed
Ing II 10 said 5000 could very we'll be attended to
In day, and then the turn of the Yankees would
ccme Ye, so numerous were they. that at the end
of four days three thousand Of them had not re
ceived surgical assistance. This indicates an enor
nous list Of wounded AID confirms the report oil
one officer, who puts down their killed at quo, ana
their wounded at three times that figure, making
a)O GOO killed and wounded, and of Others who say
that their killed snd wounded were TO rs Ia the pro
portion Of five SIX and even seven toone. As many
prisoners were taken, who were not included IN The
200 parcled men mentioned by General Lee, We
do not think We make overestimate when we
set down the whole ankee loss at sJtOo 10 round
numberA Their loss on Friday, estimated by Pop
hirns elf At 500 added TO their loss On Saturday.
makes Sc, COO Previous operations, including the
battle of Cedar Run. the several expeditions OF Sew
ard and the various skrmshes In whichwe were
almost uniformly victorious, We should think,
would fairly bring the total loss of tie enemy
leaving out of the account the victory OF A. f. Hill
on Sunday, of which we have not the particulars
to 5000 men. since our forces first crossed the
Rapidsn This is 3 result almost uneQual,ed 10 tie
history of modern campaigns
Napoleon describes his msnGuvres in the cor.-
rnencement of the German campaign of 1909 as the
ablest he ever executed. In one day be broke
through the centre of the Austrian army, which
was scattered over vast extent of country, sud
placed himself between the two wings. On the sec
ond, he fell upon the left which he almost annhi-
lated at Lands,reet seizing its communications and
cut ing 1t off from Vienna On the third, lie 81
tackled the right. under the Arehduke Charts. a:
Eckmiehl, and totally routed It, forcing i; of upon
the Danube in lateral direction, exactly ike Nc
Clellan's change Of base TO Westover ard Rerkely.
On tie fourth, he attacked the rear as i; was en-
deavoring TO pass the Danube at Ra;shor, sna al
initiated the guard. The result, according 10
his statement, was q loss 10 the enemy Of 50uo0
men, We know not enough OF Gen. Lees strategy
TO compare it with the strategy Of the French En-
peror on that occasion but the results have been
equally brilliant and equally indicative Of the re
sources Of great military genius. Day after dag
the enemy were beaten, until his disasters eu'lni
mated on the Plain of Ma NASSAU. Day after day
ouz officers and men manifested their superiority 10
the enemy. The sum total is glorious for all par
ties concerned, and most suspicious for the eoun'