East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-07-15
Correspondence o. thu y. y. Tricune.
on Tnr MARCH TuRoCGu THI !
WRITE OAK SWAMI, June 2s.

Our dead beyond the ChickalIoniiny
IL. mburicd Though it broke our hearts
20 leave oar wounded on the star.lit bat
tle.gronnd, We abandoned them, crossed
.h. river, burned tho bridges, and int"
poocd natural barrier to renewal of
the attack of yesterday, in which the
lisproportionmeat of three TO one made
cattle frolic for the rebels, and u for
lorn hope for the troops of tho Union.~
The unburricd dealt aud the abandoned
WOUNDED do not lie there unavcngcd.-
Wherever the fire Of our artillery tell
Yesterday, the rebels lie in ridges. The
word "carnagc" alone retains enough Of
unhaokucyed cxprcs-ivcncss 10 convey to
those distant from the scene any impIcS'
sion of the literal paving of fields and
woods with the red carcasses of the sol
dcrs of slavery, maugled and torn with
shell, canister, grape, and Minnie mos
ket balls. Our fighting at Seven Pines
was awfully mortal, at various points
There wcrs places Yesterday on the
Chickahominy where i. was ficrcor aud
dcadlicr.
We have left our dead unburied, and
to Stoncwall Jackson, if he survives, have
we abandoned our wounded, and we
march now through the White Oak
Swamp. Outnumbcred, surrounded, LA
bic at any moment to be cut off from our
base Of supplies, and to have our pos
session of the York River Railroad
wrcnchel from our grasp, McCleIlcn
came out at star.rising from the fight in
which he had shared the perils of the
common soldier, with Nopoleanic con-
ception of the only salvation for his army
from humiliation by fire, or loss by cap
ture. He ordered new roads 10 be IN
stantly cut through the swamp that sep
arates Us from the Charles City highway
and communicated to his Generals his
purp ose to change his base by rapid
movement to the James River, and while
saving his present proximity to Rich
mond to take a position where his con-
nection with Baltimore, Washington,
and New York could never be cut-where
he couldnevcr be surrounded--aud where
peradventure, he could cover the re-
moval of the distractions in the James
River 10 the ascent of our irouclad lleet
10 the duty and the policy of reducing
Richmond TO ashes. Orders had been
previously issued to ship every POUND OF
public property Away from White House
Point, and to send every vessel under
government charter out of the Pamunky
and York Rivers, and to the vicinity Of
Fort Darling
We march now through the White
Oak Swamp, to change in twelve hours
time, the base of the great army doom
ed where it was, and, having now but
little grace of delay accorded to it by an
active aud brave enemy, numerous
enough to encircle us at any point and
70 ontnumber Us at all. The movement
is bold, so!der-llle AMI brilliant; but en-.
inently hazardous. 1t is made by the
light Of the burning Of every one Of the
bridges which we have so painfully
thrown over the ChcbGhomiuy aud with
in hearing of the destruction, by our
own hands, Of the railroads which gave
us supplies and was 20 secure MS retreat
The movement will probably be success
full, though its trail will be bloody. The
vorM w,H regard u as a mastery stroke Of
genius. The army will so regard it, and
feel for its commander the admiration
and gratitude that saviors OF men everen'
kindle in loyal hearts Bnt the brllian.
CIV Of this movement will not for q min
ute dazzle the eyes of the wronged aud
wrathful men of the army Of the Poto-
mac, nor will it dazzle the sight of the
angry people so as for a moment to OBJ
scure their perception Of the crime dgainst
the nation rhich has madS this chajlgo Of
base and front mperioEsly necessary. The
crime is the refusal to reinforce McClel
Ian. I don't care about the question
which Legislators, soldiers, and politicians
have debatcl-of this Generals fitness
70 command. The York and James
River Peninsula, was not the place for
that discussion. The hour of tho june
ton of Bueregard'S and Jackson's forces
TO those of johnson is not the time for
such lebate. / care not for any crit
iscism of Gen. McClcllan's campaign on
this Peninsula or OH the Potomac. ]
have blows, but not a word, for the un.
timely casuist, in or out of admnlstra-
tive office, who, unaer the roar OF rebel
cannon sweeping oui Iauh' WIN o"'' "''"
shell, meets the demand for aid to this
army with q chronological measure OF
delays at Fortress Monroe, at Yorktown
at Williamsburg, at Seven Pines. don
care whether there were delays or nc
delays-whcthcr there were McClellan's
delays, the Quartermaster Genera Is de
laws or the delays of the elements !! No
man, no party, no interest, shall, with
nv assent or my silence, be permitted
10 mix up with the sacred rights OF AT
outnumbered American army to demand
help from their countrymen aud tC
promptly receive it, collateral questions
Of fitness, Of vigor, of fidelity, in com
manders. When loyal New York rcgl
ments, lifted from their feet by the fire
OF rebel brigades,cry out of ;heir wounds
and death for help; when the choicest o
New England and Michigan, aud Penn
sylvania troops, outnumbered IN front
and on both TANKS by whole divisions 81
the enemy, beg for reinforcemcnts, say
that the blacklist crime that power car
,,,op tho iiplI of pprl