Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-11-21


lives the fatal error which ras on the
POINT of being eommuted.
TIE Battle OF HANOVER COURT HOUSE.
On the nityht Of the &c b b.. sent for.
ward Gen. P,rt.r's division with . few
squadrons OF cavalry. in = furious storm
! Hanover Go ,rt II. us village about
~ ent. miles North # Richmond, where
the railroad to fredericksburg crosses
the Pamunkey. The troops Of Porter
moved rapidly, ard about MIDDAY on
the 9th came rpon the hostile division
of Branch, at Hanover Court House.
This they as.ailtd with vigor, d spersed
it, aud took one OF its guns. Ass.iled
10 their turn by Confederate troops.
who had suffered them to pass by The
woods in which they lay hidden tho
Fedcrals turned on tier new enemies
and dispersed them also. This brilliant
sff.ir coat the Federals 400 men, and
left Gen. Porter in possession OF can
non, Of 500 prisoners, and of two
hridges-one on the fredericksburg
and one on the Virginia Central road.
FURTHER FATAL INTERFERENCE FHON
WASHINGTON.
Not only did not the two armies
unite, but the order came from Wash
,ngton TO burn the bridges which had
been seized. THIS scos tie clearcst ony
Of saring The army Of tie Potomac and
10 its chit Motn NO case could Mey
count on the support Of the armies of
Upper Virginia..
THE EFFECT-JAcKsoN's SUCCESSFUL
Tile result Of this unfortunate meas
IRE auas the ,ccessfut dash Of Juck-
son. lie had driven Banks beyond the
Potomac and created slch confusion
that he WAS supposed TO | g n the 2,iat
of entering Washlngt d. With over 40
900 men 20 defend the city, the line Of
the Potomac SO easy to hold, and the
vast entrenched camp around the CAPT
tai, it was not thought to be safe. =
Juckson had guined his point. Hence
forth the army Of the Potomac must
count upon itself alone.
FAIR OAKS, RTc.
The narrative procee Is with the at
tack of the rebels at Fair O>ks and the
b 90 ~ fight which followed, aud re
marks with appreciation upon McClel-
lan's operati MS or handling to the est
Advantage all that was lett him. The
enemy, seen, ard knowing that he was
octuaUy oJandoned by the Federal
Government, ard having By Jack,or's
rad succeeded in trghtrnirg the Wash
ing on mbeciles 'nt keeping Fremont,
Il INKS and Mcdowell with all their
forces on the Upper Potomac, began TO
concentrate this strength for an ami
III at,ng blow, and the narrative con-
| unue
MCCLELLAN CONFRONTED BY DOUBLs
HIS Nj MREKs.
Deserters, runaway negroes, the
Washington Telegraph itself, generally
SO sober IN ITS in ormalion, agreed in this
news; numerous endorsements reached
| L chmond from the South Beauregaid,
set Tree ty the cessation Of cpe.atons
in the South Vest, had brought the aid
If his capacity and Of his prestige %
the pro-slayery cause. Jackson, itoeing
tie eighty thousand detenders Of WASH
inq'on breothtess from thar lille chase
after h,e', had completed the concen-
tratlon of the who g Southern army.
! LIS advance was already at Hanover
Court House, and his corps estimated
at 10000 men. All the
chances Of success were not with the
enemy. y y The 1rmy of Me
Potomac mas to meet two armies, each
equai rto itseJ IN numbe, $. Battles
have sometimes been won in such cir
cumstances, but it is not right to coun,
npon such favors from fortune.
! THE ONLY HOPE LIES IN RETREAT.
The best thing to be done was to re-
treat. But this was unfortunately no
simple operation. 1t involved choice
OF dangers. To concentrate on the left
bank OF the Ch.ckahominy was to aban-
don the enterprise against Richmond
and to risk disastrous retreat upon
White House and Yorktown. i
To pass to the right back was to risk
the enemy's cutting our communications
with White House, and selling the rail.
way which brought our supplies. We
shonlu then he forced to open new com.
munications with The James river, and
to move III that direction en- mass, and
with no DELAY. THIS would be lelrca,
bat for te y miles only, and # we were
bat moderately reinforced, with the sup
port Of the navy we would recommence
the of1e sivc either against Redmond !,
self, on the li.ht bank Of the river, OF
against PETE r>burg on the left, the fall
OF that place involving the fall Of Rich.
mond. Mcclellan chose the latter
course.
THE RETREAT.
The seven days battles and mastery
retreat of the Amy If the Potomac to
the James Iii craze described just as v 6
have seen them in the graphic CORES.
pondence published nfer those occur
ieuces. OF General Mcclellan through
out this week OF fire and blood It is
SAID:
Throughout this grand ard daring
movement nothing disturbed the screri-
ty of the Commander On the terrible
3oth of July, when his aids sank under
the heat aud excitement Of The task
they were accomplishing, | saw him,
writes the prince, stop TO rest for mo
ment anc sit down in the verandah OF
country house on the road. The mis-