New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-22
FURTHER CONFIRMATION.
THE MOST BRILLIANT VICTOBY or TIE WAR.
Bull Run Stampede Of the Rebels
200 OF THEIR DEAD AND' WOUNDED FOUND
Gen. ZOllicOfer Found MOftally WOulued'

CINCINNATI, Tuesday, Jan. a. 1862
The Commercial has dispatch from Louisville
which SAYS:
Dispatches have been received at headquarters
announcing that the battle at Somerset did not take
place on Saturday, but Sunday morning, aud that
Gen. Thomas continued the pnrsuit Of the rebels un-
til night
Our forces followed the rebels, who ran before
them in the widest confusion like flock of sheep
close up to their Entertainments on the north bank
Of the river.
In front of their intrenchments The rebels lay all
night expecting that we would storm them in the
morning but with the aid Of their boats and bargeS
they managed to get across the river before daylight
They left behind all their artillery, ammunition,
horses and tents. Eighty wagon loads Of quarter.
masters and medical stores fell into our hands.
Our troops had possession of their ntrenchments
early this morning.
After reaching the opposite side Of the river, the
rebels dispersed in every direction.
Two hundred dead and wounded rebels were
picked up on the field.
Zollicofer wss found in a wagon, MORALLY
wounded.
Our loss il not definitely ascertaned, but it must
be considerable
The surgeon Of the 10th Indiana Regiment tel
egrsphs that bis regiment had seventy killed and
wounded.
Gen. Thomas Division embraces come of the
bes, regiments in this Department.
AZ far IS | can learn, the 9th Ohio, the 10th In
diana, the I'd Minnesota the 18th Regulars, the 9TH
Kentucky, and the 10th Kentucky Regiments, were
among those engaged.
COL Mansons Brigade, including the 10Th Indiana,
the 18th Regulars and some Kentucky regiments, re-
enforced Gen. Thomas during Saturday night. They
made "a forced march Of % miles through heavy
roads and managed arrive three hours before the
commencement Of the fight, in which they took
glorious part in spite Of their fatigue.
The tenor of all the official dispatches received
goes to show that the affair resulted in tie moot bril-
liant victory of the war.
No prominent officers are said to be killed on our
side
Gen. Schoepff was unable TO cut off the retreat OF
the enemy owing TO the bluify character Of the
country and the obstruction Of all the roads by feed
timber.
LOUISVILLE, Tuesday, Jan. 81, 1862. z
There is no news from Gen. Thomas to-day. Nc
details Of the Union loss has yet been received. Gen.
Thomas have taken the steamer and the nine barge'
in which the rebels conveyed their forces across the
Cumberland and which, in their precipitate fight,
they failed 10 destroy. The theory at headquarters
IT, that using that boat to convey his troops across
the river southward, and providing other means Of
transportation Gen. Thomas has been too busy to
send the details of the recent fight. No private tee-
grams of military matters can come over the South
ern line to Louisville, and no private information
has been received.
THE VICTORY IN KENTUCKY.
WAsmISGroS Tuesday, Jan 81. 1852
The official dispatch confirming the Kentucky vic
tory is brief containing more information than is
already known to the public.
IMMEDIATE ADVANCE EXPECTED.
CiscISSATI, Tuesday, Jaa. u, 1852.
This mornings Gazette has advices that warrant
the prediction of an early advance by the army in
Kentucky. Tie weather is now the only binderiug
cause. Everything else is ready and in fine order.