Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-09-23
THE WAR AT The EAST.

t'dt tEouYs coutinue 10 arrive from the
South, and are sent thence as fast as posi-
Bile. This is corroborated from other
sources, leaving no doubt OF the fact.
The rebels are concentrating a large
force in the Shenandoah Valley, with
central military department at Winchester,
which is strongly fortified.
B igadier-GeusIal d. TAYLOR has been
ordered 10 renort to Major-General Wright.
at Cincinnati. General Nelson Taylur is !
ordered to report TO General Mcclellan.
Washington, Sept I0-l0P. NJ.
The rebel prisoners captured by our
scouts near Leesturg were brought into I
that city this evening. They say that the
the rebel force under Hood, lately station, (
&c at Leesburg. left that Ilace Monday
morning, for Williamsport, to reinforce
Longssreef. The prisoners were unable TO
accompany their regiments on the march
t, WIiliamsport on acco INT Of exhaustion.
Hoods iUrco was about three thousand
men.
The following are among the casualties
of the Army Of the Potomac:
Gen. Sedgwlck, wounded severely in the
shoulder, wrist and leg; Gen Rjdnan
mortal'y wounded; Gen. Richardson,
wounded in the shoulder, severly; Gen.
Dana. slightly. Gen. Meagher was killed.
Maj. WI. Sedgwick, of Gen. Sedgwick's
staff, was wounded in the body. severely.
Lieutenant Colonel Kuher, Fourteenth
In1iana Capt Bigger, Seventeenth Indana:
Lieut.. Dick, Third Wisconsin Lieut.. Col.
Bachman, Nineteenth Indiana; Lieut..
eager, Fifth Olio; Lieut.. Shaw, do; Lieut..
OIL mel Baxter, Seventh Michigan: Cant.
Wh!teman, Third Wisconsin; Capt. Ste
rhenson do; Lieut. j. II. Moretcn, Sixth
Wisconsin; Major Bloomeuberg, Fifth
lnIiana; Lieut. Col. A. Bulman, Eleventh
Ohio, were killed.
Harrisburg. Pa. Sept. IS.
The great battle was resumed this morn
ing at Sbarpshurg.
Watertown, N. Y. Sept. Is.
The following private dispatch from
Gen. Hooker we are allowed to make pub
lie f.:
Baltimore, Sept 10.
A gentleman who left the battle fed ST
nine o'clock Wednesday nigh; confirms the
statement of the reporter of the Associated
Press at headquarters. in everv particular.
lie says that our forces occupied the posi-
ton chosen hy the enemy at the commence
mcnt Of the battle, and that the rebels were
driven back mile and half at all points,
except or our extreme right, which thew
still held Mt the close of the dav
! Our Informant was all day within one
( hundred yards of Mcclellan, and saws that
the results Of the day were regarded by
him and his staff as u glorious victory,
though not final ono.
+ There was no faltering at my point of
1 the line Of our whole army. Our soldiers
were exultant at the result of the previous
days fight. and Mcclellan was in the
| highest spirits.
The opinion of Mcclellan and those
around him was, that the final result
would depend on who get reinforcements
/ first.
Philadelphia, Sept. 10.
! The Inquirer has spe~ial dispatch from
BIltimere which more than confirms ester
days good news.
| Mcclellan, 90 Wednesday, gave the reh
| els four hours to surrender. They refused.
and Mcclellan went at them again, and The
/ ground was literally piled with rebels, kill
/ ed ard wounded.
/ They were completely invested and sur
rounded on all sides, and there was not the
/ least POSSIBILITY or chance Of escaping utter
! an1ihil!iun.
| Mcclellan IS only delaying bis DISPATCHES
In order 10 announce the complete success
of his army.
HEADQUARTERS ARMY POT0MAc, !
Friday morning, Sept. 49,
/ Yesterday was occupied in burving the
dead and caring for the wounded.
| Yesterday morning the rebels sent in n
/ iiag OF truce king permission to bury their
own dead vhioh was granted.
/ To Major General HALIEcK:
/ P'easanion Is driving the enemy across
! the river.
Our victory WIS complete
The enemy is driven back into Virgin
! ia.
Maryland and Pennsylvania are now
/ safe.
(S'gned) GEo. B. Mcclellan.
Saturday morning, Sept. 20.
The rebel army have succeeded In max
+ Ing their escape from Maryland. They
/ commenced to leave about dusk on Thurs.
day evening, and hy daylight yesterday
/ morning were all over except small rear
/ guard. They saved all tbeir TRANSPORTATION.
and carried of al their wounded but about
800
Between 900 end 400 rebel straclers
were taken during the day by Plcasautons
cavalry, who took the advance.
Nearly every house in Sharpaburg was
struck by cur shells. Two were burned
The citizens who remained escaped injury
by staying in their cellars.
The name given to this battle is the An
/ tieiam.
After cur forces occu pied the whole fsId
the rebel loss was found to be far greater,
particularly IN killed, than at first surpos
ed. Full 1900 were lying on the fed
while a large number had been buried the
day before by their friends Their loss in
KILLED and wounded will not come fas from
$4,000 to 20 coo.
The rebel Generals Ripley. Walker,
and Hays were wounded, and Clark kill
ed.
The rebels on Thursday night burned
the 'uiIrod bridge and severed houses at
liarper's Ferry,
Washington, Sept 20.
One Of your correspondents with Goner.
al Mcclellan sends the following from KEGS
Vile Sept. 10Th:
"The enclosed list OF names are only rsr.
Of the number Of the killed and wounded
in Gibbons Brigade. This last terrible
battle has reduced'the BRIGADE 70 mora
skeleton, there being scarcely enough men
leit to form half regiment The Wiseon-
sin Second Regiment, which but a few
weeks since numbered over nine hundred
men, can now muster Lut ffty-nipe. This
brigade bgs doue some of the hardest and
best lighting in the service 1t has been
very justly termed the IRON Brigade Of the
West. '"0
Oar loss in the recent fight is estima,-
ed at fifteen thousand in killed and wound
ed.
I'VE have captured abeut ten thousand
prisoners All Of the butternuts with
whom have conversed express tbonqeive, /
perfectly satisfied at the change which has |
come over tie spirit Of their dream. ThSv |
appear a~are Of the fact that their army |
is NOW in n rnru u rht r,InnO - -I |