The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-16
From the Cincinnati Times, Oct. Ia
The News.


generalship. Gen. Buell. laid out plan to
capture Bragg. but Bragg would not obey it.
Thoroughly posted as to the position, force
and moveme uts of the Union army, he
managed to throw his entire force upon Nc
Cooks corps de arnsie. and fight them whole.
day before they received assistance.
McCook's force numbered 16 900, Brags's
between 10000 and 10000 Against this
odds our troops battled all day long. from
early dawn until late in the night, now
driven back by overwhelming forces and
again hurIins the Rebels by the impetuosity
of their charges 1t seems that Bragg, who,
when Buell. march ed from Louisville, was
full week ahead of him, determined to
IN axe stand at Perrysville, and used all his
spare time in making preparations. His
army was massed on range of hills, COM
mandiug entirely the approach over low
grounds, and his purpose was to get MCCook
10 the low grounds and then annihilate his
army, as he could have done.
McCook, however, was too cautious, and
discovered the enemy before he entered tho
trap. He formed his line of battle on the
adjoining hills. Bragg was thus compelled
! to leave his position and attack McCook.-
There has been no such lighting during the
war, as occurred upon the fields OF Perry
vile. Sinole Union regiments repnlsed
whole brigad es, and brigades divisions. The
bris ade Of ackson was attacked by Buck
ner's entire division, and fought until COM
pletelv overwnelm ed. Batteries were taken
and retaken over and over again.
Our new regiments seemed to have been
almost equal to old in valor. When night
closed the battle, the contest was undecided.
but Bragg, knowing that McCook wonld be
reinforced during the night, and unwilling
to encounter anything like an equal num-
Der. retreated before day. On the whole,
our losses are heavier than the enemy's.-
Five hundred killed and two thousand
wounded, are the figures now. The Rebel
dead are said to largely outnumber ours
Buell. did not pursue Bragg on the following
day. The men required rest. and he was
compelled to wait for his trains.
! On Friday be marched, and well-authenti
Gated reports at Louisville yesterday stated
thai battle was raging near Harrodsburg
on Saturday. There were rumors that Bragg
and Kirby Smith had both been driven back
to Camp Dick Robinson That camp is
south east of Harrodsburg. If there was a
battle on Saturday, we shall learn some
thing of It through our noon dispatches. It
is still contended that the Rebels are so sur
rounded that they cannot escape from the
State.
While these moveme nts are going on the
Dumont division is doing good service about
Frank fort.
From the East the intelligence is not
! hopeful. Gen. Mcclellan has returned to
his headquarters, taking Mrs. Mcclellan
along with him.
This is regarded as undoubted evid snce
that he intends remaining for sometime on
the north side of the Potomac. Stuart's raid
into Pennsylvania produced quite a sensa-
ton in Washington, being deemed the FORE
runner of more important movement. In
fact, it is already asserted that while he is
distracting Mcclellan. Lee is moving on ST.
gel, at Centrevile. Mcclellan has promised
to capture the Rebel cavalry, but as yet he
has not done it.
If three thousand Rebel cavalry can,
without molestation, get into his rear, can
not thirty or forty thousand infantry, with
out baggage, do the same? Would it be at
all astonishing to learn that Jackson has
I followed Stuart, and is marching upon Har
risburg. while "all is quiet on the Potomac?'
! Seriously, the Army of the Potion &C
seems to have played out with the battle Of
Antietam. Since then it has sat quietly on
the banks of the Potomac RECALLING Itself by
rehearsing the stories of deserters and con-
trabands, as to the starving condition Of the
Rebel army. Almost daily, assurances
have come from Washington that the quiet
would soon be broken; but, while the favor
able season for operations is passing away
we see no indications of forward move
ment.
One day we hear that Lee is retreating,
and another that he is advancing on Centre
vile. One day it is reported that the Rebel
army is starving, and the next we hear Of
cavalry crossing the Potomac and punder-
ing the citizens of Free State with impu-
nifty. One of two things seems 20 be Ger
tain-McClellan has not the force to attack
Lee, or it is the intention to winter the Army
of the Potomac in Maryland.
! 1t the first is the case, the Eastern States
have been more backward in sending for
ward the troops of the new levy than is gen.
orally supposed. There should be at least
100000 new troops from the E Eastern States,
and with that number added to the old
army, Mcclellan, or any other man, ought
to sweep the whole of Virginia. If it is the
intention to install the inactivity of last win
ter, the country will must assuredly express
its dissatisfaction, and not only the country
Dat the army.
A reliable correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from Gen. McClellan's head
quarters week or two ago, stated that the
greatest fears Of the soldiers were that they
would be thrust into winterquarters. They
are tired of the war, aud desire to be led
against the enemy, that the contest may be
the sooner decided. The people all feel the
same way.
We expect to lear of important move
ments in Western Virginia this week. If
we are not mistaken, the Rebels will be
compelled to leave the Kanawha Valley be-
fore many days.
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