Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-05-13
From the Army of The Poto-
WILLIAMSBURG Nav

The details of the engagement of Mon
day are so voiuminous aud incorrect that it
viii be necessary to await the report of
General Mcclellan, which is now being
prepared.
Deserters from the enemy arc hourly
coming in.
The official report of the killed and |
wounded being too lengthy to send over the |
military telegraph, it has been forwarded |
BY mail.
The expedition up York River has been
most successful, and we now occupy West
Point. Heavy firing has been heard in
that direction. but the particulars are not
known
Yesterday the advance guard of our cav
airy had skirmish with the rear guard of
the enemy, about seven miles from here.
The main body of the enemy has retreat
ed across the james River
! The general IMPRESSION Of military mon
is, that the rebels have made their last
stand in Virginia.
| For distance Of some ten miles beyond
! Williamsburg the oad is lined with army
wagons let ~ the retreat If the enemy.
Fortress Monroe. May 9.
learn by steamer from Yorktown that
/ Gen. McCl ,llan has advanced tw I've miles
beyond Williamsburg, and has had several
| skirmishes with the enemy, routing them
with heavy loss.
The embarkation of troops for West
Point was progressing with great rapidly,
and heavy battle had taken place. 90
Wednesday afternoon, between the troops
upper Gems. Franklin and Sedgwick, and
the rebels under Lee, who were endeavOr
ing to make their way to Richmond. 1t is
said to have been the severest battle On the
] Peninsula, and the rebels we're totally de-
feat7d AID flanked being driven back to-
4 ward the forces under Gen. Johnston on
the Chickahominy
The whole number of the Federals killed
end wounded was SEQ
The enemy were driven back by our
gunboats with great slaughter. They had
not less than 10000 men, whilst our eorce
was not over 10000. Indeed, had it not
been for the gunboats we would have been
defeated
Deser,ers from the enemy report that
there was great excitement at Norfolk this
morning; that Ger. Burnside with large
force was within few miles of Weldon,
aud that the rebel troops are evacuating the
crty at all possible speed
SOwtli's and Pigs Points, they say, are
already abandoned, apd preparations are
making to destroy the Navy Y ard and 9TH
er public property.
Baltimore. May O.
A battle has taken place at West Point
: and the rebels have been defeated with
great slaughter.
New York, May 9.
The Washington special to the New York
Times, says:
1.-The following dispatch is from the
{ commander of q corps in our army on the
Yorktown Peninsula to his wife in this
city:
Williamsburg, May 8.
We had hard fight yesterday, in from
of the rebels works covering this town
: Gen. Hooker kept Gen. Longstreet in check
, till about p. NJ, when Gen Kearney'.
division came into action, and the engage.
ment continued till after dark A moment
before our reinforcements came, the mer
gave way, being out of ammunition, anC
we lost some guns. We afterwards recov-
cred our ground and h,li it during the
: night The rebels retreated, and at I a
NJ, we occupied their works. Gen. A. P
Hill commanded a rebel brigade and Long
: stree the whole. We LIST between five
hundred and one thousand in killed and
wounded. We found six hundred wounded
in this town, besides other prisoners"
New York, May 0.
t Gen. Marcy telegraphs the fol!nwing:
r Williamsburg, May Seen. Mcclellan
on the 9th, ,had a most decisive victory
Only abou. 80 600 of our troops were en-
gagged against $4,000 of the best rebe
: troops. Our men fought them valanty
and used the bayOnot freely. which III,
rebels could not stand They fought we'll
untii they fels the cold steel, when they
, took to their heels and ran like hounds
+ leaving their dead, wounded, and sick upur
our hands. joe Johns IN led them in per
SIN. They have lost some of their bes
Uffic0rs."