The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-07-23
Cen. McClelIan's Army-Details of
Events TO the Afternoon of the Fourth
We lake n Battery.


Events TO the Afternoon of the Fourth
We take u Battery.
In the sf ernoon OF yesterdiy, the Rebels got
n couple Of r'Aed field pieces in position on
hi commsnd re our camps, and commenced
-helng " hich lid some damage among our
crow ded wagon camps. The gunboats respond
ed with few shot, 10 ~ did lot get the range.
The liue pests must tr stopped, and the Filth
Maine Undertook the wvis. Advancing stealth
ily through the woods they game suddenly upon
the batter, Htnking it and taking both the guns,
and all the cannoueers and their officers. IL
was a handsomely executed manovre, aud the
Maine men deserve great credit for IL. At the
Dat le OF n lson's Farm. the Sixty first New York
captured spleudid stand OF colols from the en-
eny on which was Inscribed " Williamsburgh
and Seven Pines" AZ the battle OF Malvern
Hills, Couch's Division also captured Rebel
h,g
Our loss in killed, wounded and Prisoners in
all the engagements, hechanicsville and Gaines
Mill included, can hardly FIJI lar short, or much
exceed twenty five thousand men. Our loss in
prisoners Is heavy, the eneniy's cavalry making
easy csptives OF thousands of stragglers who
lined 4 e roads in our rear, aud besides these
we have left thousauds OF wounded in their
hands Their loss must be at least as heavy,
and probably heavier in kled aid wounded
than our own, hnt i'll prisoners 1t Tell lar short,
though We have taken abuug two thousand from
them. Included in our loss was many oi our
finest officers, the number OF liue, company and
stsif officers killed aud disabled being unusually
large. inclOse a list as complete as II Is impos
sible to get together, and shall see hat the
Times is soon provided with the whole OF the
official report of the casualties. Our loss OF
guus is stated al forty: and we have taken from
tire enemy perhaps two-thirds that number. To
compute the value of the property - stores,
cars, ammunition, etc. - destroyed by us in our
change Of position, is impossible. with the scap-
~ data have at hand, tut it must amount 10
two or ihl ee millions of dul!ars,
The chrug OF base Was neceSstated by lhe
impossbility Of holding our extended lines with
the army which Mr.. Stanton would grant TO
Gen. Mcclellan. Our front extended irom Me-
chancsvlle Oh the right to White Oak S~emp
ON the lef, a distance OF fifteen miles. Besides
defending this against greatly superior ic'ee
OF the rebels, 10 say nothing of satisfying the
the ambition OF the s, S,cretbTy of War and Con-
gtess for an Immediate advance, We were obliged
20 guard some twenty miles Of railway, from
White House to Fair oaks Gen. Mcclellan
had not enough men TO hold this position
after the reinforcement of the rebels by Stone
wall Jackson and others, Hnd he became convine-
ed of this efter the dash OF Gen.Stasrts Cavalry.
Our right was constantly subject to he danger
of being turned, aud our army surrounded. lie
rebels knew that this was our wesL pOsit;on, and
, when tuey could hr,ng ap Overwhelming force
! 20 bear against il and were suFs ei success, they
rssde the attempt. Our right wing, held by
, Gen Porter, was turned last Friday, and the
| army has only e-caped terrible tate by the
/ mastery accomplishment of one Of the most dill
/ hcuI aud delicate moVemepts which an army
can undertake, the change ot i's base 10 face O
the enemy, by flank movew-nt, The rl""'~-
success oi the mo'-"', is he d, feat of III,
/ rebels aud the order with which our soldier
| have gone through Il, proves thcm IN he ct TN
very Gert kiu4, rtIahle ma worhN OF ih'
worlds applause. Galeral Mcclellan owes eve
rlth,ng 10 his soldiers and to some Of his lea Ia;
Generals, for the success which has ATTENDED
n movement upon which he hszarded the saiet,
OF his whole army.
The position which we now occupy is on
which o0r engineers say we can deieud sgalns
anything JEFF. DAVIS or any other monarch Cal
bring TO bear upon US. Our line, instead OF be
ing fifteen miles front, with twenty miles OF rail
road to d fend, is scarcely five miles long. On
OF our hanss j. the James river, not railroa
20 be torn up, nor highway that may be oh
struoted, but sure means of conveying supple
aud easily defended by guuboats. Our olhe
line is readily held by the force We can bring
We occupy the center of a circle, which great
taClltatts celSilll VI movement, dnO hIo 80 poe
toned that no artillery can be brought to bea
upon US by the enemy within effective range.
, II we could only have occupied this same pc
stion six weeks ago, instead of the difficult on
we took, your correspondent would now be datin
his letters at Richmond, instead OF twenty cd
miles below there. Though further trom Rict
mond than we were lasI Thur-day, in miles an
farlongs, in efiact we are nearer that stubbor
T, capital, and suter of its capture. | shall ne
venture to name the exact date when we wi
exchange the hsrdships OF camp tor such luxuTit
as Richmond will sfiord, but the day cannot
lar distant, If o'her cooperative movements NJ
properly conducied. The army Is in excelleT
spirits TO-DAY, and disposed 10 let of deal I
; Fourth OF July parrio ism and powder tn
iialens, the jacob Bell, the Aroos,o ook, the MOT
# ilor and other quot oats sre with us, and the
are welcome visitors The river is already tu
OF craft, aud is rapidly getting 20 look the sAu
: great mar. OF CoEimerce which distinguished u
: Pamnukey at the White House.
The most wonderful stories are relstei OF y
1 brave Kesrney the Cast-Iron man, who htere
d hears the character OF salamAnder. lie was
d be seen, with his Que arm. and holding his brid
10 bis teeth, every where during the hottest
o the fight. At one time he came very near
! being taken at White TAX Swamp. De wassu
rounded by no fewer than thirty Of the rebel
e bat fairly cut his way through thsm,---aI
asking if they thought "he looked the kind
a man 20 iaI into their hsndsfn The,upen all 10
: him for his undauDted bravery, but complain
D. little Of his forgetting that everybody is a
made of east-iron like himself