The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-07-02
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Scenes at NVaShingtOn---A
of Wounded Soldiers from YOrt Repub-
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The Washington Republican gives the follow
iDg account of scene of suffering in that city
on Saturday night 14th inst, occasioned by
official neglect, and relieved by the voluntary
kindness OF the citizens;
On Saturday evening, about 10 O'Clock num-
ber of freight cars attached to a locomotive
arrived from Virginia, filed to OVERLOOKING with
sick and wounded soldiers, who were wounded
at Port Republic, to the number of two or three
hundred, closely crowded together in the cars
and outside of them. From Surgeon +. B..
Stidger and the men generally we CLEANED the
following PARTICULARS
Most Ofthese men belong to Ohio regiments.
Some are from Indiana and some from Virginia.
They belonged TO the advance or Gen. Shields
division, which was composed of two or three
brgades, made up of fragments of regiments,
numbering in all only about 2, 900 men. They
were orderd by General Shields to destroy the
bridge over the Shenandoah at Port Republic,
which Jacksons army, in its retreat, would have
to cross
Instead of destroying the bridge, as command
ed, the Coronel in command orderd his men to
hold the bridge, and refused to let them burn it.
This proved to be fatal mistake. jackson,
hotly persued and harrassed by Fremont, came
! 5000 men, and engaged our weak force, which
fought with courage and desperation unpreee-
dented in the present war. The troops Of
Jackson, maddened TO desperation by the know
! ledge that they were hemmed in Unless they
/ broke the barrier before theni dashed at our
men three different times, aad as many times
/ were repulsed by our force in their center, while
Jackson'5 numbers enabled him TO flank our
force, which, after being terribly cut up aud
1 nearly surrounded were obliged to leave the field,
/ retreatng in good order, one reg menL being
obliged 10 cut its way through, having been
completely surrounded by the ehomy. This
occurred last Monday. The enemy we're
/ closely persued by Fremont, aud il was under
atood that on the same day the latter buried 500
1 of the enemy's dead, killed in the mornings
hght, and which the flying force OF Jackson had
no time to bury, IL is believed that had the
/ bridge been destroyed as directed, Fremont
would have captured the entire srmy of his
enemy. Prisoners captured by Shields force,
and brought to this city yesterday, say that
/ Jackson had told his men If that bridge were
destroyed, they would have to lay down their
arms. .
0verpowered, and driven by force five times
their number, the force of Shields had to retreat
Their sick and wounded were put in wagons and
sent to Front Royal, distance of about fifty
miles, without opportunity to dress their wounds
or to attend TO the sick. This oscuped until
Friday. Here they stayed all night, aud the
next morning were put on the cars and sen. here
by way OF Manassas aud Alexandra. They
arrived here about nine O'Clock on Saturday
night AZ Front Royal they had teegraphed to
the authorities here that they were coming
and again, at Manassas, they notified the officials
at what time they would arrive hgre; but on their
arrival no one appeared, They stopped on
Maryland avenue, between Seventh aud Tenth
streets, When Surgeon Hays. who was in charge,