New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-07
The BATTLE NEAR WrNoHEsrER.- following
interesting account this battle we take from the
Richmond correspondent Of the Memphis Appeal

The BATTLE NEAR WINoHEsTER.-The following
interesting account Of this battle we take from the
Richmondcorr Of the Memphis Appeals:
We have received very full accounts Of the en-
gagement on Sunday at Barton's Mills, and it turns
out to be something so very near a brilliant VIC
tory, that ii we were men of like passions with
the Yankees, onr streets would now be streaming
with banners and blazing with bonfires. The
entire strength Of JacksoH's force engaged in the
fight was twenty seven hundred. The troops
under Gen. Shields could not have been1ess than
twelve thousand--the real number was probably
nearer eighteen. Fifteen full regiments were
counted in tle action, and there was a. heavy
reserve in a neighboring wood which occasionally
took part it The casualties on our side amount
to four hundred and sixly-three ID killed wounded
and missing. III Washington they admit q loss Of
fifteen hundred Federals placed l.ors du combat
left dead on the field orcarred off in an1bnlances
| to the hospitals at Winchester But thsir loss
| was undoubtedly much heavier than this. The i'm
petuosi,y Of our brave fellows has been surpassed
| Id no engagement of the war. =
| General Jackson and Turner Ashby sgnalized
\ themselves by their dashing courage, and both
| came out OF the action nnhurt. Jackson led five
| successive charges against the enemys lines in
| person, and Ashby kept large body Of men that
had been sent to make a flank movement upon our
| main force, at bay for two hours, with his own
| hand iDhicting the wound which cost Gen. Shields
| his arm. Campany and the Hampden Artillery,
of this city, bore a conspicuous part in the danger
and glory Of the day. In the former corps eight
persons were wounded. None of the combatants
| seem to have fought with q more persistent and
cheerful intrepidity than such as belonged to the
beautiful region In which the conflict took place.
| Fighting in a literal and peculiar sense for their
/ homes, with the smiling valley of the Shenandoah
before them, and the long, waving line Of the soft
4 Blue Ridge stretching far in the distance, they
seem to have caught an inspiration from the spot
ON that golden Sabbath afternoon, as they hurled
themselves against the foe.
4 Itis affecting to read among the dead the honor
4 ed names OF George and Bnshrod Washington
knsmen of the house Of Mount Vernon, and among
the wounded the full sonorous Richard Henry
\ Lee ia young man of the same family with tht
4 iustrious signer of the Declaration Of lndepen
dence The troops Of Jackson after the battle
4 so far from having suffered anything like demora
foe, were in the best spirits and eager to renew
the fight. Perhaps the opportunity will be offered
them very soon. Reinforcements have been sen
to them, which, if they arrive in time will enable
the stonewall General to drive Shields and Bank
across the Potomac. As an illustration of ths
spirit which animated the troops and the people o
; the Valley, may mention that when three prs
!, oners, taken by the Yankees, were carried int
, Winchester, they went along the principal street
shouting, I" Hurrah for JEFF. Davis y while tht
; cheering was caught up by the fair citizens, WHIT
waved their handkerchiefs from the windows /
, is now said that Jackson was drawn into the en-
| gagement with a force SO greatly outnumberil
| his own, by the scouts of Ashby, who were them
selves betrayed by miscreant of Rockingham
county, in the pay of the enemy. It is very muc
!. in his style, however, to "piteh into the tarna
critters wherever he sees 'em,' as the Vermonte
said when he killed the fine boaconstrctor j
Barnum's museum with his jack-knife. 54E