Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-09-19

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ueintZelman, Hooker and Kcarney.
: He attributes the disaster of Saturday joint
t y to the bad conduct Of Porter and the fail
ure of Mcclellan to send him supplies t.
these points. He says '|s @iH2f4i'
81 do not hesitate to Say that if the corp
of Porter had attacked the enemy in flank OF
J the afternoon of Friday, as he had my writer
order to do, we should utterly have routed
jackson before the forces under Lee coult
have reached him. Why he did not do so
| cannot understand. - ~ f.N
Our men, much worn down by hard ser
vice and continuous fighting for many pre-
vious days, and being short of provisions, rest
ed on their gans. Our horses had had nc
forage for two days. had telegraphed anG
written urgently for rations and forage to be
sent; but on Saturday morning, before the
action was resumed, | received letter from
Gen. Franklin, written the day before at AL,
eXandria, stating to me that he had been di
rected by Gen. Mcclellan to inform me that
rations and forage for my command would
be loaded into the cars and wagons as soon as
/ would send cavalry escort to Alexandria
to bring them up. All hope of being able to
maintain my position, whether victorious or
nor, vanished with this letter My cavalry
was literally broken down by long service in
the face of the enemy, and bad as they were
they could not be spared from the 'front.'
Even if there had been time to go back to Al
eyandria and await the loading of trains, at
the time this letter was written Alexandria
was swarniing with troops, and my whole
army interposed between that place and the
enemy ] at once understood that we must
if possible finish what we had to do that day,
as night must see us behind Bull Run if we
wished to save our men and animals"
! .s.t7 PHILADELPHIA, Sept. TO-
The National Lntelligsaecr says the rebels
are falling back from Gen. McClellan's front,
which has advanced to within G miles of
| Poolsville. ...
Reports from York of yesterday say the
rebels have not entered York County, but
were reported to be at Enlmettshurg, 8 miles
from Gettysburg. They had stationed their
pickets 6 miles from Union bridge There
are no signs of an approach Of the rebels tow
ards Westminster
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.
The last of the wounded at Centreville, $50
in number, arrived here to-day About 30
places are occupied in and about Alexandria
for hospitals
The action yesterday of the Eighteenth H.
linois Cavalry was with 500 of Ashby's old
cavalry, and took place between Poolesville
and Jamestown The rebels had Is killed
end wounded, including one Captain. as
This morning Col. Farnsworth again met
a portion of them at Clarksburg and took 80
prisoners. 1hey have already asrived at head
quarters. ..ts,
... FT. MONROE, Sept Q.
The Richmond Dispatch of the 9th has the
following:
'There are now 6S Of Popc's commissioned
officers, and one of his surgeons, in confine-
ment here. They are not considered prison.
ers of war. An Aid of Gen Burnside is,
however, placed in that category.
can unusually large number of Federal
schooners were visible off Charleston harbor
on Tuesday morning. --H-.-- y
''In the battle of Friday, Gen. Ewel was
wounded in the foot E.s
The Columbia Is. c. Guariian says that
Gen. Beauregard, on reporting for duty, was
assigned to that department which includes
Charleston and its defenses.
WASHINGTON, Sept. TO-
1t is said that Halleck states that the de-
fences of Washington are so complete as to
render its capture impossible.
G. NJ Clay is here. The report that he in
tends to resign his commission as Brig. Gen
eral is incorrect He reported himself for
duty to-day at the War Department, and is
now awaiting orders It is understood he
will be appointed temporarily to an important
command in TIE army now in this vicinity,
preparatory to being assigned to command
West of the Mississippi.
HARRISBURG, Sept. 10.
Gen. Wool has been assigned to the COM
mand of all troops north of the Susquehanna.
Within twenty four hours 100000 men
will be in the Cumberland Valley, and before
jackson can reach ChaIabersburg he will be
required to meet and overcome $4,000 Penn
sylvan!a yeomanry. ... Ia
ali. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. II.
The Inquirer Of this city has a special dis
patch from Poolsville, saying that our troops
are occupying Sugar Loaf Mountain.
b., HARRISBURG, Sept 10-midnight.
A State messenger has sent intelligence,
amounting in substance to the following:
He reached a position on the mountains,
above fredericksburg, and by means of glass
saw all that was going on in. town. a7-a
| He says there was evidently movement
of troops in the direction of Middletown and
Boonsboro going on Farmers informed him
| that a forward movement began at three
o'clock this morning, supposed to be about
! 20, 900 strong He saw regiments of infant
| ~, one of cavalry and IS cannon and
large number of wagons at Boonsboro The
soldiers looked ragged, shoeless and hatless.
| A mail carrier captured says great numbers
threw themselves down in the middle Of the
road, attacked with bilious collie, caused by
eating green corn. s t'- > :. e. 's
| A skirmish occurred between the Michigan
Cavalry and Virginia Cavalry, leading the
rebel advance, at Boonsboro. They say jack
son leads the column, and that the rebel pick
cts were within mile and half of Hagers-
towns 8 o'clock this evening s s4 ~.
The main body appears to be going between
Boonsboro' and Sharpsbrrg, eight miles from
Hagerstown. sal sat sent. aesea .2a ~
The rebel pickets told the farmer that jack
son leads the army, and the Cumberland v al
ley is their destination. 0 isa ii
L All manner of rumors are in circulation
here with regard to great battle having been
fought. | can only say with certainty that
!, no intelligence Of this character hrs been re-
I ceived by telegraph OF otherwise. ->----a-----a
4 .-s .s. s4a ROCKVILLE, Nd, Sept. s.
/ To-day matters here are assuming more
war-like appearances. The corps of Generals
Banks and Sumner passed through here last
fweek without creating much excitement
This morning the Commanding General him
SELF accompanied by his staff. galloped up tt
the principal hotel in the village and made
,, inquiries which led to the suppcstion tha
movements Of great Importance were on th'
tapis. Following Gen. Mcclellan came caval
ry, artillery and infantry in great numbers
!. and were still coming The whole Peninsul,
$ army seems TO be On the march in this direc