Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-08-28

hear In this darkenine twilight the voice
that asks IL all have died in vain. No.
never in vain. Heroic deaths are the in.
spiration of the living. No battle is wholly
lost that is bravely fought. Every life that
was poured out under the shadow Of Cedar
Mountain was given in noble purpose, given
to save those other lives which had not been
hung away on the fatal Peninsula. II il
time to hear from Mcclellan elsewhere,
from INN or his army without him. We
may hear tomorrow the tread of Friendly
feet beyond the Rappahannock we NAV
heal. the march Of hostile armies before we
reach it.
CULPEpPER CoURT-HoUsE.
.... August 1876 A. NJ
Gen. Pope retained hs.healouarters NJ
Cedar Mountain ill midnight; then mount.
ed with his staff, and rode to Culpcpner
reaching it at two. Not an inch of Rad
that was not filled with wagons--most of
them hating Before the start, the last
had passed headquarters, but only 10 crowd
together in confusion in the darkness, and
blindly grope thoir way over new made
roads in the field. Bivouac fires were burn
ing everywhere; the night was clear, the
starlight brilliant, and not long after l2 the
moon came up /; but there is a blending of
light and shade on countless strange scenes
which makes everything indistinct and mys-
FERROUS; makes it easy to lose ones way, and
almost impossible to find it. So the endless
trains made little progress in the rear and
only gave promise OF "A worse condition in
front. The General took charge in person.
and his energetic efforts soon started loiter.
ing wagons, and, as he overlook successive
trains, put every one quickly in notion
There are no troops on the road at first
They have hardly begun to move, could
hardly move ifthey tried. 1t is Just posi-.
ole for the Generals cavalcade, winding its
way in and out of the labyrinth of trains.
and riding almost wholly out of the road to
make its way slowly forward. A regiment
cannot march as regiment till the roads
are clear; nor need the troops move far on
the road till the trains are well on their way.
The trains are to be brought off if il costs n
fight before we reach the river.
The retreat of our army and the advance,
Of the rebels in overwhelming force are no
longer secrets. Besides the reports of
scouts and reconnoisances, we have the ey.
idence of an officer who was in Richmond
only last Friday, and his evidence is that in
Richmond there are only three thousand
troops; that the whole rebel force. from
one hundred and fifty to one hundred and
seventy five thousand strong, is marching
on Washington, is within twenty miles or
less Of Gen. Pope, and hopes to flank and
destroy bis army. .. - ..-l-s4 u D.
Long before this can be read at the North
It will be known in every village that Wash
ington Is again threatened by the advance
OF rebel army, and that its fate is ques-
tion Of days II Mcclellan has sent for.
ward his troops for once rapidly; If the
North has sent them, if they meet rs on
the Rappahanuock, if we can gather..three
fourths OF the rebel strength, then safety
and victory. But if not?
Arriving at Culpepper Gen. Pope found
its streets crowded worse than the roads.
and almost the whole transportation of the
army in danger of beiig chokcd and delay
ed until it could only be saved by fire. The
first trouble was in front. Riding out he
started the leading trains, started every one
as he returned, ordered all hesitating or in
jured wagons into the fields, cleared the
whole road, and returned TO town Taking
his station on the Court House corner,
where the trains were to divide, he spent
the rest of the night with his staff, bringing
order out OF confusion, urging forward every
tram, addressing drivers, wagon masters,
aud every one else with certain Discretion
or force of speech which nobody could mis-.
take or dsobey. BY six o'clock nearly all
the Immense trains of the army were
through the town.
have only a moment for these hurried
lines which hope to send by an early train
this morning. Ii was expected that the
army would cross the Rappahannock by 10
| U clock, but the DuSSuge oi the trnins wn. ~