Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-08-14
Tne Late War Nsygs.
monr ouraarLLl TloHTs

Colonel McNEIL on the 9th Inst, again over
took Ponrrn's gus,iil illps at Stockton, IN thsvesl
etn part Of Macon county, MiasOuri aud route
them after shOrt bghI, killing and wounclns
large number and capturing many horace: To
rebels we're scattered In all directions.
Independence, Missouri, was attacked on ~
18th inst by fifteen hundred rebels under Col
onels HUoHEs aud QULNTREL, and after on
hours severe 6sbtiDg, the. .Federals surrendered
Twenty Of our men are reported killed
4 A dispatch to the Secretary Of War dAte'
Coumbis, Tennessee, August IL, states tina
Major Kennedy, with two email companies o
| the Let Kentucky cavalry, encountered the gueF
rillas in greatly superior numbers on the lin
at various points below Willismsport, defeat
log the enemy each time. who sustained oou
siderable loss,
A dispatch from General GEORGE W. NOR
GAN, Cumb rlsnd Gap, states that DEccURcEr
brigade and the l4,h Kentucky bad, on the on
and 9Th inst, several engagements With SrGvEN
SONS division in iorce--the rebels outnumber'
log us four to one. They loss two hundred and
twenty -fvs killed and wounded, while our lOsi
wss three killed, fifteen wounded and hfts taken
prisoners. Two companies of the 18th ohie
being surrounded by two rebel regiments, gal
lAntly cut their way out a7.s. v
The notorious rebel chief. JoHE MoRoAS, with
eghteen hundred cavalry aud four pieces OF ar
tiery, entered GaIlatiD, Tennessee, on the
morning Of the llth inst., and, without fight
captured Colonel BOoEE, with about three hun
dted men of the cath Kentucky, and Federal
freight train containing sixty horses and a lol
Of oats and corn.
Il Is reported on rebel authority that BRICK
rsAlDeE attacked Baton Rouge on the llth inst,
aud was as frat iepulsed with heavy loss; but
that In the afternoon Of the same day the rebel
ram Arkansas arrived and drove tff our feet
destroying two of our guDboats and damaging
others, aud that he (BRECKINRrDcE) had cap
tured the Federal force q; that place. ~
MORE WAR NEWS FReM vlRolEIA.
A dispatch from General PoPE TO General
HALLEcK, dated Cedar Mountain, Va /, Aug
l2, 1880 A. M, says that the enemy had re
treated under cover Of the night, aud that his
rear guard was then crossing the Rapidan to-
ward Orange Court House.
A Washington dispatch states that in the
battle near Cnlpeprer, Va, on the s.h inst, the
5th Ohio had about one hundred aud twenty.
Eve non commissioned officers and privstes
killed and vouuded, The following wounded
officers Of that regiment are reported at the
Washington Houae In Washington City: Majar
q. G. Armstrong, Captain G. A. Renley,
Lieut.. snd Adiutsnt Hugh Marshsll, Lieut..
RObs. Kirkup, Lieut.. W. v. Nesly, Lieut. Jas.
Kincaid, Lieut. J. NJ. Jscksvsy, Lieut.. w. II
Thomas, Lieut. @. Mckenzie, Lieut.. J. W.
Miller, and Lieut.. A. J Shires
Another dispatch dated the 18th inst, stAtes
that the following wounded Ohio officers had
arrived in Washington, Col. w R. Creighton,
7th Ohio; Major C E. Fulton, 66.h Ohio; Lieu
tenants Eaton, Reed and Hopkins, 7sh Ohio;
Captain J. j. Wright, 29h ohIOi Lieut. Stew
art, Co. c, ash Ohio Lieut. E. ]. Hubert,
29!b Ohio; Lieut. Dyoe, Co. K, 29th Ohio; E.
D. Purcell, Co D, 9Th ohiO-ths latter died in
the hospital there; N. N. Clark, Co. x, 66;h
Ohio thI a.t-t