The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-07-04
Yours.
J. S. NJ.
The Battle OF Port sscpabiic aud
the Part BOrnc in IL by Col.
Carroii,


III
tF'om the National in'ellisencOrl
The fret report ora battle is often in.
correct. The confusion incid mt to an en-.
gagcmcnt of itself produces the possibili-
ty OF a fair estimate OF affairs at the first.
and it is only after tho smoke of battle
ms passed away That clcarvicw can be
nuu; H.
ihe oq't'' 3i Port Republic I"rms no
c%VcV,l,on 10 tniS genera experience Ap-
Piuo,uuug' Us eVGryoouy could altcr thc
I,sus'cL I'i 'ncIe nag occurred mat u might
no'v uooh "Fo'uc1 ny tue obstruction ol
'uc or'uSe ocroSs inc Shenandoah at that
P'ooG' " WaS taken lor granted that 1t
sho''u nuVu uccn nutht, ana that upon
ena' ass1u Pu'n, Noi' CIrso'' "ho had
.o''i,,a"I VI ','e ao'e'irP' nus noen loudly
49,; I1u''t'p, unu tnS 'ui'',rc OF ,ne 'Npcdl-
''oI'' uuu tnc 'crrip'e obstruction OF lile
oonSuqueni upon H. haF' oe'h FlS'ied up
WI ,,t9,t AZ neua'
.,,'n",. ''"uHe ,hrounG ~ eny. way upon
o,tvt' o.,;do 70 IN S"u PURPOSE o' 'n.S oomnphi-
stsio,h, po" t"a. ,oi' N"r'oii "ctcu
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on,',; ~ '"HI ~. no .a'i'ou n'n'scli III 'heir
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G,rword ot nnoo % n';,h uv.ntpu o,Iera " "
s,,,o ,ho hill, a., N" -, %, ~uu su"S' "
A. th,t ,;n3n IL n,s ,puy',s' p,'i,Ie H.,
:. .aana ~, "'' ''"i'o'"'''c ,or mn! MN
prcEnIled fog some days had SO swollen
the streams that Col, Carol was entirely
separated from his Iinmand, having with
nm only his stan, hitcen cavalry, ana
two pieces Of artillery. His infantry was
five miles III his rear and compelled to re-
NAN there, ny the impassab!c cFecks De-
tween Two ana three days.
oh SATURDAY, thc Ith, Col. carroll re-
ceFcd orders To move forward to Wayncs-
boro', distant some thirty-tivc or thirty
seven miles, by The way OF Port Republic
for the purpose of destroying the railroad
depot, track, bridge, &c, at that place,
and to seize Jacksun's train aud throw his
force upon Jackson's flank.
Col. Carroll marched, in oh ,dicnce to
these orders, on Saturday altcrnoon.-
His infantry, cavalry and artillery had in
the meantime come up, and he started
from Conrad's Store with less than u
thousand Of the former, with ohe hundred
cavalry, and with n single battery of six
guns.
Hating in the night, six miles cioro
reaching Port Republic, Col Carroll sent
forward a party of scouts, who returned
with the information that Jackson's train
"A D..,II,, ,.fttt n
droyc of beef cattle hcrdcd near by, and
the whole guarded by about two or three
hundred cayalry. =
On learning this Col. Carroll pushed
forward with the design of capturing q the
train and cattle, as his orders directed
He halted some two miles from the town
m dc n reconnaissance, and received fur
ther information confirming the report of
bis scouts, and then dashed into town
with his cavalry and two pieces, drying
the e.nemy's cavalry out, and taking pos
session oil the Dridge',
He halted there for Lis infantry to come
up, and dispose his pieces and little force
to prevent repulse rom the tram guard
when before he had occupied the town
twenty minutes he was ottackedby three
regiments oi the enemy's infantry, by
eighteen OF their guns and by cavalry
force superior to his own.
In the face OF this he was forced TO re-
ure' and the project OF proceeding twenty
odd miles further Up to Waynesboro' had
to be abandoned.
As stated above Col. Carol! did not
hold the place twenty minutes; and there
was no instant OF time, after his arrival,
in which he could have destroyed the
bridge in the presence of such an
enemy, even had he been ordered to do
so.
Retiring from Port Republic, Col. Car
roll brought his frobe to stand at the
first defensble position, some two and
half miles distant from the town.
Hero he was re-cnforced by Gen. Ty-
ler's brigade, numbering about two thou
sand.
Col. Carroll, appreciat ing the superior
positiop of the enemy, as wei! as his vast
tv sune.ior force. advised n retreat upon