New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-22
FRON TIIE ARMY on VIRGINIA.
GENERAL POPE FALLING BACK'
sTONEWALL JACKSON ADVANCING.
RICHMOND ABANDONED.
THE WH0LE REBEL FORCE 0N THE MARCH.
A GREAT BATTLE EXPECTED.
sTONEWALL JACKSON ADVANCING
RICHMOND ABANDONED.
THE wmLg REBEL FORCE on THE MARCH.
A GREAT BATTLE EXPECTED.
p,,u Our Special Correspondent.

az the mountain, now memorable forever, clt-piVeo
+s afternoon into thin air, and adQuMrers are here
without a camp: but here only for an hour-or three
hours il matters not. hurried order came 10 be
,ssdy 10 start At once, and before two hours bad
ossssd tents and ugeags--al of hsadquartes but it's
r.y,0nrtl-were moriug 10 the rear We under
ssni i, is whispered that the whole Army Of Vir-
ea u in retreat, and presently it begins to lie added
,hat the Whole Army of Richmond ID the ad-
vance; that the Rebels threaten "a tern our left
Aank-in word, are marching straight for Fred
er;cIsbarg for Washington, for the North. Perhaps;
hat before he North, before Washington, before
F,dercAsburg Is reached the ha'dest, fescest most
determined, and desperate battles of the are to
h. fought Tte army is not running away, nor IL
Gen Po,e ouigentraed vet by Stonewal jackson.
Threatened On the lett Aank-,hrealencd by al
amy that counts ts hundreds OF thouraDds Of mad
deued and desperate troope-the army of Virginia
retreats indeed. but it retreats IN fight. by daylight
il must cross the Rappahunnocs, cut when once on
The northern bank Of that river, 1t longer retreats
ii begins 10 maneuver. The battles of this war
are only bout so b~gin.
Was it wholly uneXpected7 BY no means. Ii
wa believed to be possibIe--probab'e. The news-
pspsrs ave heSitted to publish that Mcclellan was
abandoning the Peninsula, but doubted that
tie Rebels watched every step of bis rerreating
force They saw that thrr hour 10 strike We come.
While Pope had flung himself with chivalrou, au-
dseity on heir front to ds,ract attention from Nc
Cellan-shilc that General was striving to put his
forces where they might once moro sssume the Of
felsye, changing bis whole plan of campaign
in order 10 commence anOher-while Rich
mond ceased to be threatened from the james,
spd rs whole army was liberated TO strike-what
bel e. hour could the Rebel cbeis-able generals as
they are-desire They SAW their opportunity, and
they hestaied no more than before to strike
where and when the blow would fall sursst and
heaviest.
Mcclellan, we suppose and hope, is safe. Another
day will show how much it has cost to cave him.
Troo.s are burryng to inert u.s. Our march is for
the Rappah annock, and if, beyond The Rapp.hannock
safely, we meet the men WHO march TO jim our
arms this army turns in its footsteps and awaits
the shock.
Sigel MARCHES q, ~ tonight. The dead who sleep
around us on this desperate field, with their faces 70
the South, turn uneasily TO hi backward tread aDd
Won nav almost hear in this dArkering twilight the
voice that asks if all have died in vain. No, never
in vain Heroic deaths the inspiration Of the
living. No bat,Ie s wholly lost that is br'vely
fought Every life that Was poured out under the
shallow Of Cedar Mountain war gwen in noble pur-
pose given 20 save those other lives which had not
vet been flung away on he fatal Peninsula II Is
time 70 hear from NJ, CleI'an elsew. ere, from him
or his army without him. We may bear to-morrow
the tread Of friendly feet beyond The Rappahanncck
we may hear the march Of hostile armies before
reach H.
CrLpnpPEK CorRT HORSE. Aug. 1875 m.
Zen Pooe retained bIs headquarters AT Cedar
Mountain till midnight; then mounted with his
staff, and rode Culpepper, reaching 1t at q Not
I'm inch OF road that wis not filled with wagon
most of them hating Before the start, the last had
,assed Headquarters but only 10 crowd together III
eOnius!on in IN. darkness, and bhndy grove Their
Wy over roads IN the heds. Bivou..c
fires were burning everywhere; the night was clear,
The Starlight brilliant, and not long after II the MOOD
carae up; bat there 10 blending OF light aud shade
On countless strange scehes which makes eversihifg
ind tinct ana uysterIons; makes IL easy ~ lose
ooe', way and Almost impossible 10 find 1t. 30 the
endless Ia liz made lutte progress IN the rear, and
OILY gave prOnl,e Of WORSE condition III front.
p,-e,C .neral took charge IN pelsou, and his enei-
pet;e -o,, poop starred the lettering wsg0ns aud,
a. he overlook successive trails, put every one
qaick!y il motion.
There are no troops on the road at first They
have hardly begun TO move; could hardly move IL
ehey tried 1t IL Just possible for the Generals cav
aIcsde winding It's way IL hnd out oi the isoyrlhtn
OF rains and riding almost wholly out OF the road
.c make its way slowly forward. regiment can
NO, march o. q regiment till the roads clear; nor
seed the troops move far the road ill the ,raine
go well on their way. The trains are " be brought
r # it coats light before we reach the river.
Inc retreat Of our Amy, and the advance OF the
sos.ls IN overwhelming force are no longer secrets
SO de the reports Of scouts and recOnnosSnces, We
"a 20 the evidence of AL officer who was IN Richmond
last Fri.ay, and his evidence rs that in Rich-
unoid there are only three tboEand troops; thai
~ whole Rebel force from one hundred aud my
ne Hundred and seventy five thousand tlrong s
. ching Oh Washington, is within twenty miles or
ks of Zen. Pope, and hopes TO flank and destroy
b. army Long before this Can be read 1T the
n I'll AZ will be known in every village that WAsh.
u con is again threatened by the advance Of
q Rebel army, and that its fate II q Qaes-
6op ~ days If Mcclellan has rent for
ward hi, troops for once rapidly; if the North
hsa sept them, if they meet us on the Rappshan-
socb. If we can gather three-fourtbs of the Rebel
ssreup,b, then safety und victory. But if not
Arriving at Culpeppsr Gen Pope found its streets
crowded worse than the roads and almost the whole
trsnsporta ion of the amy in danger Of being
-hoted and DELAYED until it could only be saved by
Ere Tie frst trouble was in front. Riding out he
ststsd tue leading traius. started every ono rs he