Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1862-07-03
PARTICULARS OF the BATTLE
NEAR RICHMOND.

Sunday nlehI thdt lheFe hts oeeh great night
inc at Richmond that Jackson had rein.
forced johnson, and that the enemy fell on
and turned our right wing, but that General
Mcclellan by mastery movemant threw A
portion of the left to its support, and defeated
the enemy,
This led TO general engagement in Which
artillery ,oas prominent The rebels ,cere de.
,qted and driuen.
Our troops followed up their advantage
and took Richmond
These are rumors merely however, and ! e
Law them before our readers Tor what they
are worth, They are supposed TO be entitled
10 great confidence, however, from the fact
that Mr., Fulton, editor of the Baltimore
American, was allowed by the Secretary of
War and the military censor TO telegraph to
the Associated Press that "he Greatest NH
iary Victory Of The age has been achieved :"
Another dispatch gives probability to the
fact that there has been some some four days
fghtinq. A detailed account OF the entne
engagement is being prepared in Baltimore
for the Associated Press, which will be trans
mtted the n oment permission to do so is OBJ
tanned fl ON the Secretary Of War. Ifs sup
posed that the delay is occasioned by the fact
that no official report from Gen. Nc Clellan
had been received at the War Department.
We trust we shall receive the full particulars
of this Glorious Union Victory in season for
an extra this afternoon.
In the meantime it is proper that we should
forbear all comment, as the official report
may essentially modify the rumols which have
been received. We do not think there is any
reason to doubt, however, that Gen. McClei-
Ian has gained victory over the enemy -
but how decisive, or what are its fruits, can
only be known when the authentic DISPATCHES
shall come TO hand
The following important dispatch has Just
been revived
New \ ork, June 80, IL A. NJ.
The Tribune has just issued an extra with
dispatch dated Battle Field, Sunday NOR
ming" which states that severe and most
determined battle was fought on the right
wing IhuIsday and Friday, which is claimed
by some of our officers as a successful strate-
gc movement, ints which the enemy have I'M
willingly been thrown, and which will soon
result in the capture OF Richmond and the
entire rebel army.
The attack was made by the enemy in inn
mense force, who crossed the Chick ahominv
near the railroad above Mechanicsville
Thursday 2. Nj. They fought desperately
bat were unable to drive our men a single
rod, though the enemy were ten to one.
The only forces engaged that day was Nc
Calls DIVISION, the battle lasting from till 8
P NJ, when the division was ordered back.
Gen. Mcclellan, who was on the field, ex-
pressed himself satisfied with the result.
The Tribune says: Among the list of
killed is COL 81 OK of the 62l Pennsylvania
Regiment; Col. }. w. McClane of the SD
Pennsylvania Regiment Capt, Carr AMI
others; wounded, Col. Duryea OF the 9Th
New York and Col. Warren.
On Thursday noon the enemy made an
attack upon Gen. Stoneman's forces in the
vicinity OF Hanover Court House. Shortly
after they commenced a vigorous cannonad-
ing from their works on an emluence oppo
site Mechancsville, also from two batteries,
one above and the other below.
They were replied to by CampbeIl's Penn.
batteries, one on the Mechanicsville road,
and the others from behind earthworks at the
right OF a grove.
About p, NJ, the enemy's infantry and
squadrons of cavalry crossed TIE Chcka-
hOmny in immense force a short distance
above the Virginia Central Rahro4 d, making
a rapid advance towards Gen. McCalls d.
vision entrenched on billy woodland across
swampy ravIne about a mile IN the rear
of Mechanicsville.
The first Pennsylvania Rifles and Camp
bells ennsylvanla battery were on picket
duty, all OF whom except two, fell back be-
hlnd their brcastworks and rifle pits, where
the Ine of battle was drawn up. Co. X, OF
the Ist Pennsylvania regiment, on picket
orEoni the Railroad, were surrounded, and
The las. known Of them they were trying to
eur their way through an immensely SUPERB
Or '2Te1' heir tate is not known, but it is
pr sunrd they were taken prisoners.
ine enemy advanced down at the rear of
Aecaanicsville on low marshv ground 70
"o"Fe our forces were drawn up behind rife
HIS aud earthworks on an eminence, on the
norhrrly side of a rayine, when the conflict
became most terrible.
HE rebels with determined courage at
tempted to press forward over the marshy
ground, but bullets and grape-shot fell among
them like hail, until they lay like flies in a
oowl OF sugar, and withdrew. Cannonadlng
vas kept up on both sides until about nine in
The evening, when the battle ceased.
Oar forces were covered by earthworks,
and suffered but slightly.
Lac in the afternoon of Thursday the
enemy made a charge with cavalry. About
lVo OF them came rushing down and attempt
ed to cross the ravine, when their horses be.
game mired. A squadron of our cavalry
Seelng the position in which the enemy
CSefe LACED, made a charge down the hill,
Ehen the cavalry men abandoned their
orses and fed.
The infantry fight was then renewed, and
ccordng to the statement of my informant,
furgeon Humphrey, of the Bucktails, con-
nu9d until about ?, NJ, when a retreat
as ordered, very much against the will of
Pc Pennsylvania boys, who begged to be al
P"ed to defend their position, which they felt
CONFIDENT they could continue to hold The
Pu'er forces began to fall back. Por,er's
.olceS were some distance below DR.. Games
residence.