Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1862-07-10

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Ilitital, Sotial3 Agritaltatal an
JRSDAY MORNING, JULY
of the railroad is the Williamsburg road
Eoonnectiug with the Nine Mile road "a
Seven Pines The, former road connect
with the New Bridge road, which turns Of
and crosses the Cbickahominy. Frou
Seven Pines, where the Nine Mile roat
Joins theupper one, the road is known al
the old Williamsburg road, and crosses tht
HCbickahominy ct Bottoms Bridge; . -. :.
B With the bearing Of these localities ii
ibis mind The readerwiil readily understand
Hhow it was that, the enemy was driven from
Ibis original ,stroughelds on the. north sid
aof the Chick shomiDy, and how, at the time
Iof Fridays battle, he had been compelled
to surrender the possession Of the Freder
aicksbufg and Central railroads, and hat
H6een, pressed to a position where he was on
|of from the 9 principal avenues Of. supply
and escape, The disposition Of our force.
aas such as to cut off all. communicated
3between McClellans army at the, White
8aHouse, on the Pamunkey river; he had
been driven completely from bis northern
lime Of defences, andtit was supposed tha
be would be unable to extrioate himself
from his position withouta a victory Or ca
apitulatiou. In front Of him; with the
6Chickahominy, which3he had crossed, :ip hi'
rear, we're the-divisions of General Long
3street, Magruder and Huger, and, lin tht
situation as it existed Saturday night, al
ahopeso Of his escape were thought to be i'm;
possible. .+I; .e - =. %: :, =,
On Sunday morning it appears that onl
3pickets on the Nine Mile road, having en-
gagged some small ,detachments Of the enc
i my and driven them beyond their forii6ca
3tiops, found them deserted. In a shorl
! while il. became3known to our generals thai
J Nc Clellan, having massed his entire. force
on this side Of the ChickahotaiDy, was re
Treating towards James River, having stoler
"a march Of twelve hours, on General Huger
aRho had been placed in position onhis flank
ITO watch: his movements. -
h MOVEMENTS OF YEsrERDAY-M'oLEL-
80 .;LAN's RETREAT INTERCEPTED.
Yesterday every one seemed lost and be-
wildered in Neutrality-suspicious. Of what had
become Of McCleDlan's army. There was
loo certain announcement that he had yet
Reached the river. As theday progressed
Hit became known that Jackson's divisDu
: bad crossed the Chickahominy, and tina,
there were strong hopes that Longstreet's
division would intercept the. retreating enc
I amy. Gen. Holmes, commanding division;
{ was said to be between the enemy andthe
river with force of Il, 900, Every ofor
seemed to be made by new disposition ol
7onr forces to repair the unfortunate circum
stances by which an enemy with three di
visions in his front had effected at least 8
Temporary escape from position in which
5it was a paramount object Of the contest to
hold him. q, ,.. rs..,,; t...-..F -,
The last accounts We have=of the :situa
3tion of the enemy, and which VIC can re
commend to our readers as reliable, leave
8no doubt that his retreat has been n'inter.
aeepted. We are able TO state positively
that We have forces between him aud the
I river, including Gen. 'sHolmes' command
/ Of $4,000 men. Its also certain that
SGen. jackson crossed the Chickahomiuy
yesterday morning, and that the main, body
5of McClelan's forces is on this side .ofthe
3Chickahoniny, in Charles City county:
3whcre his retreat has been Intercepted and
ahe has again been, challenged to battle
3Tbe condition of the enemy excites hopes
3of most favorable result to OR arms, a.
THE LATEST FROM OUR LINEs-YEsrER
BAYS BATTLE-posITIoN OF THE ENEMY
The latest accounts which we can gel
afrom the critical portion of our lines, and
recommend to our reader, as reliable, rep.
resent that late. yesterday afternoon tbe
enemy was in position near White Oak
aSwaAp; that all the roads to the Chicka.
5hominy were in our possession, Jackson
division having position at Bottom,
bridge that a portion Of our forces had
jgot in the rear of the enemy and were dri
! wing him back, and that late in the even.
ling our forces in his front had drawn up in
two lines Of battle for a general action,
which the enemy was endeavoring to de-
3cliue. The attack was made by General
Huger on the front Of the enemy, who was
lat that time in the angle formed by the in
3terssction of the New Market aad Quaker
roads, with Gen. Holmes and Magruder in
This rear After short and desultory con.
test the divisions of Gen. Longstrcet and
a. P. Hill we're moved up, and attacked
the enemy with great ferceness, and the
action became general, with terrible loss on
our side, but terminated with the result Of
driving the enemy back for about mile
and a half, aud putting him in position
where be will be forced to fight in the
morning with every prospect of the rout Of
Ihis forces, as it is supposed that cur attack
will be made this morning on his front and
both aauks. Longstreet's division is repor
ted to. have been badly cut up, particularly
the brigade of Gen. Anderson, of South
3Carolina, and Gen. Kemper, of Virginia.
III is supposed that an inconsiderable por.