Daily union appeal. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1862-186?, 1862-08-26
Advance # ALI the Confede-
rate Armies.
The National Forces Rapidly
Seeking the RappahaDn0ek.
sIGEI. COVERS THE RETREAT.
PURSUIT BY THE REBELS.
junction Of Forces.
THE BIG BATTLE COMING.

NEW YoRK, Aug. PA letter to the New
York Tribune, dated Headquarters of the
Army of Virginia, Cedar Mountain, Aug. Is,
says:
Again, on the march, and that march
retreat. The camp which only yesterday was
pitched at the foot of the mountain, now men,
orable forever, dissolved this P. NJ. in thin air,
and the headquarters are here without a name
but here only for an hour or two hours, 1t
matters not which. The hurried order came
to be ready TO start at once, and before two
hours mad passed, tents and baggage, all Of
the headquarters but its personnel were given
to the rear.
"We understand it is whispered that the
whole army Of Virginia is in retreat and
presently il begins to De added that the whole
army of Richmond Is on the advance; that
the rebels threaten to turn our left flank AID,
III word, are marching straight for Freder-
icksburg, for Washington, for the North, per-
hsps; but before the North, before Washing
ton, before fredericksburg Is reached, the
hardest, fercest, most determined and desper-
ate battles of the war are to be fought.
"This army is not running away, nor is
Gen. Pope outgeneraled yet by Stonewall
jackson. Threatened on the left flank;
threatened by an army that counts its hun
dreds of thousands of miserable and desperate
| but 1t retreats TO fight by daylight. 1t must
cross the Rappahannoek, but when once on
The north bank of that river it no longer re-
| treats-It begins to maneuver.
| The battles of this war are about to begin.
| Another letter, dated Culpepper, August l9,
| a. NJ, says Ii was reported that the army
| would cross the RAppahannock by 10 o'clock,
! but the passage of the trains was go much de
| layed that 1t will not be ATTEMPTED. The corps
of Banks and Mcdowell are coming up, but
will wait the arrival of Sge who covers the
retreat and will not be hurried. AS / write,
| these masses of troops are pouring, in swift
| but orderly marches, along the narrow roads
| and over the fields toward the town. They
| are already listening for the SOUND of follow
ing cannon. All day long the march will
continue. Sigel is not expected till noon, and,
whatever happens, not regiment leaves until
the rear comes up. Il is a wonderful retreat,
for, il spite of delays, there is no panic among
the trains, and, though the troops are removing
10 the rear, they march as if to battle.
"There Will be lao battle to-day, if any
means can avoid it-perhaps none to morrow
but OH the Rappahsnnock, before the close OF
the week, comes the deadiiest struggle of the
war"
NEW York, Aug. 22.--The Commercial SAYS
it has information that "a junction of Nc.
Clelian's, Pope's, and Burnslde's forces has
been effected, we believe at Acquia creek
The same paper says Reliable advices from
| James river states that the rebels have occu.
pied HarTison's Landing, and their pickets ex-
tend as tar as the Chicahominy. A large por.
tion Of our gunbcat fUtilla, with flagship wal
above Harrlson's Landing, and would proba.
bly, give the rebels a taste of their quality"
FORTRESS MONROE, Aug. Williams
Dnrg is stili in possession of the Union troops
No Dire has occurred there, the rumors to tht
contrary notwithstanding. Ali is quiet here