New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-19

geons, Rebel Surgeons and nurses being allowed %
20 10 our rear 10 assist in taking care OF their
wounded who lay In our hospitals.
| cav but very few Of our dead on the field. The
most Of them had been buried already. OF those
unburied, the following only had anything about
them to mske known their names: Sergeant jas
Evans, Co. X, 22d n. Y; Capt. Daniel 4. Pende
Co. +, do; privntes Alden Whitney, Go. II, do.
John Neason, Co. G., do; Oliver Lackey, Co. b.
do; - Harris, Co. A, 9th n. Y; Chas Woodray,
Co. c., do.
The body Of the Rebel Col. j. Is. Strapges, lHl
Va, lay there. His name was marked on his boot
legs. He fell at the head Of his regiment, rally ine
his men against part OF Gen. Doubleday's brigade,
after dark.
| / was informed Of the death, also Of Surgeon
Jordan, ODD ~ c.. Col. Gales, 18th Alabama; Col.
James resident Of Columbia, S. c., and Col. Lausby
of another Rebel regiment.
Gen. Garland was killed in the morning.
A Rebel Surgeon assured me that Gen. Longstreet
was not killed, as rumored and the inhabitants OF
this village say they saw him 60 through with bis
troops
The brigades Of Gems. Doubleday and Gibbons, or
the remnants of them, together with liatch's and
Patricks, composing Kings division, came in for "a
large share OF tho battle Of South Mountain, day be-
fore yesterday. They were on the right, and came
into the action in the latter part of Tire day, almost
at shutdown, and fought till O'Clock. Ricketts, r
division relieved them, when they finally drove the
Rebels from the field late in the night, leaving the
summit of the mountain in our possession.
The number Of prisoners that have fallen into our
=, n l.. .I.J,, ~ bay "a
parties Of them ON the road, under guard, on my
march. Independent Of the wounded, have seen
upward Of four hundred.
Our loss in killed cannot be over 200, and in
wounded not over 700, and l think those figures
high.
We cannot ascertain how many Of his wounded
the enemy helped off with him in his retreat. lie
was not pursued until the next morning after the
battle. lie had most Of the night to get of in. II
he took no wounded with him, his loss is probably
less than ours, and this would not be surprising
owing to advantage of position. lie occupied the
top of the steep side Of the high South Mountain
range on both sides Of the gap on the Hagerstown
Turnpike. The mountain abonnds in woods and
rocks for hiding places and deenses. The Rebels had
only to select their positions. Many Of the troops
need only expose their heads at the moment Of firing
Our men were obliged to toll up the steep hill,
wholly cxpofcd. The encouragement Of the almost
impregnaby Of their position and the terrible dis
grace attending failure to hold it, together with
speech by Gen. Longstreet to his division, in which
he fired all their pride and attachment by calling the
men g his pets" as we learn from Rebel prisoners
and dcsertcrs mpelled them to mako hot and stub
born resistance to the determination Of our men TO
make the Rebels take the back track this time.
Rarely happens such contest as the concluding
part Of the battle of the 18th ius 1t was just twi-
light, and dusk added TO the gathering darkness
deepened by the woods. Finally, the opposing
forces could each other only by the light of their
guns. LoDgstrects men retired step by step to a
fence at the inner edge Of the woods and at the top
Of the bill, and thence Refused to bulge. A corn