The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1862-09-11

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commenced to throw up iortifcalion,
on the south side of the river. ,sAt s. a
M, they were attacked, however, anC
"A forced to recross. The rebel batteries
continued all day to shell our camp a,
that place. The command of Sigel
which was then stationed at Barnett's
7 ord on the river, fifteen miles from the
railroad crossing repulsed one attempt
OF the enemy to cross about a mile
above his position, by pontoon bridge,
taking several prisoners and badly cut.
ting up the rebel advance. At3p. m.,
ISigel, assumed the offensive and the
brigade of Col. Krysanousky, com
fmanded by Generals Sigel, Schurz and
Bohlen crossed the river and drove in
the rebel piekets, and advanced about
a mile, where they took strong posi-
tion in the woods. The enemy were
strongly reinforced, and by an adroit
vancouver cut off and drove into the
river the 74th Pennsylvania V Volunteers.
Gen. Bohlen while trying to rally them,
was shot in the heart and instantly
killed. The other regiments, under
command Of Gen. Schenck, stood their
ground until o'clock, when the rebels
ceased the attack and they retired
across the river unmolested. An at
tempt was made in the afternoon to
flank Sigel on the right, by crossing
lrre2ch's Ford, a few miles above, but
the divisions Of Gen. Banks and Reno
were ordered up and frustrated the eff
fort. The rebels passed on farther up
the river on, our right preparatory to
making another attempt to flank us.
As result of this, on 3
SATURDAY, the 23d, our forces com
menced to fall back from the Kappa
hammock. Early in the morning, the
rebels commenced to shell the brigade
of Gen. King in our centre, but after q
destructive artillery fight of two hours,
their guns were silenced and little
rest given our wearied troops at that
point. The rebels moved farther up to
the right and made another attempt to
cross, but were repulsed by the artil-
lery in Sigers command. The next
place of attack was at Rappahannock
Station on the brigade of Col. Hartsuff,
who had just crossed over to the north
side of the river. The rebels were
easily repulsed, when information was
received that the rebels were crossing
the river several miles aboye-a fact,
which made it apparent that all the
other attacks were merely fcin,s to dis.
tract the attention Of the federal com.
manders. General Pope, however. re-
ceived early news of the rebel move
ments, and as we were now in danger
of being fianked, it was resolved to fall
back. Col. Hartsuffs brigade was ac-
cordingly recalled, the bridge blown up,
all stores which could not be carried
away burned and our forces COM
menced to fall back, but not in d.
rect line. Gen. Sigel took position on
our extreme right and moved mp the
Rappaha;.nocS about ten miles to Sui
phur Springs, a pace about six miles
only from Warrenton. The i'eemainder
of our right wing, consisting of the di.
visions of Gen. Mcdowell, Banks and
Reno took possession of Warrenton,
itself. Gen. Sigel's movement was
splendidly and quickly performed and
during the night his artillery was posted
so as to command the country around
the Springs. Early on era arl =
SUNDAY, 24.-the rebels crossed the
river in force, and another desperate
artillery contest commenced. Finally,
the rebels made fierce attact on our
left, in reality to disguise operations on
the right, where they made fierce
charge. The clear mind of Gen. Sigel
at once perceived their plans, and
troops were hurried to both points
alike. The result was the complete
discontinue of the rebels, and in half
an hours time they were driven back
across the river. Our troops pushed
forward, and by the middle of the af-
ternoon a bridge was built across the
river and, our troops prepared to cross
and pursue the foe. At this juncture,
the rebels appeared still farther up the
river at Waterloo and tried to cross
Sigel burnt his just constructed bridge,
moved his men rapidly up the river
and again defeated them. That night
he encamped on the field of battle,
while the rest of our troops fell back
into line stretching from Warrenton
through Warrenton Junction to Fred
ericksburg. . .-..... M
MONDAY 25th.-All correspondents
were expelled from the army, and since
then our dispatches have been very
meagre, confused and unsatisfactory.
Our forces at Warrenton were rein
forced by Sigel and also by the divi-
sion of Gen. Kearney, fresh from the
Peninsula. The enemy attacked our
position, simply as has since been
proved, to shield their other important
movements. A hard battle was how
ever fought near Warrenton, ending in
the defeat of the rebels. Meanwhile, a
large rebel force made detour of forty
miles to the northwest, beyond the
Bull Run mountains, to White Plains,
town about forty FIVE miles. directly
west of Alexandria. This distance the
rebels accomplished in odays, march.
ing without wagons, tents, knapsacks
or even blankets, &c. - ,sa, g;es j
=. TUESDAY, 26th.-They passed thro'
the Bull Run Mountains, at Thorough
fare Gap, about eighteen miles directly
North of our right at Warrenton. Stu
arts cavalry led the rebel advance, and
rushing down by-way of Greenville,
reached Manassas, Junction at $50 p.
NJ, on Tuesday. They attacked rail
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