Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-08-21

Gen. Pope with his staff, accompanied by
Gen. Mcdowell and his staff, Immediately o.
proceeded together from their headquarters a
to the front. As they passed Ricketts, di- @
vision, and the head of Sigels army corps, v
that lined the road for the whole six miles,
each regiment halted for the instant, wheeled u
into line, and gave Gen. Pope three cheers Q
and tiger, and then wheeling again into Z
marching column, pushed forward with sig
nal eagcrness for the fray. ,lo
At seven o clock z. NJ. Generals Pope and
Mcdowell reached the thickest OF the light, i
and the advance guard OF Ricketts,, coming
up ut the same time, took position iinme- Il
diately in the rear Of that occupied by uen' Q
eral Banks corps.
There being no room on the field for de- Z,
ployipg more troops of ours than were un- {
der Banks, those Of Ricketts, could not get 4
into actual action before night came on,
which for some hours prevented further
fighting. In the course Of the engagement
our forces engaged had retired perhaps a
mile from the position in which they com
ncnced the battle at four o'clock 2. NJ, the
rebels advancing slowly as we receded before
them. This movement on the part OF ten
eral Banks, notwithstanding his heavy loss
and the overwhelming force opposed to him,
"ae 40 iosu'a'y i...: J...s -
was executing an esIiu'.on ol q. a'tss ;nappsd pd
age. NHt man o, III Il, oorP; c,,.har 'o n",
did man even straggle to the rear to the
distance OF more than half a mile, where /
4 stood provost guard Of Ricketts, corps
bayonet in hand, to check any, ,ifthere should
be, disposed to skulk off the field. Hun
dreds Of our wounded came up, limping, or
being carried to hospitals established in the
rear, ana 10 ,:, n1' Que q. snem h. re.a'"bs oyn
sclousnesS u,u We u,soovo' ausns = ~. .ho .h
most uhuaun.eu eagerheSe W prosecute '"e
engagemesnt; e,, .,.,,-,,
:. we ieit the nelG at eieht CLOCK lSr 'he
n!ght, ID course OF Which, az i!lonight,
discnarge ron one OF our patterles pIougn'
on . renewal OF tue ehgagehent lot two
0 honrs, IN the course OF whlch each slde y
8 oeheVeo 20 nave iost wv. or thsee hunaTea
Il more IN Killed ana wounded; by cayWalry
= charge, aiter miun,ght, OF tne enemy, Ugh
ia era's Igpe anu Mcpo~en nnI .ne,r iesP,cHMi ri
!, i've statfs, were WITHIN m an inch OF oeng kill,
It cd Or ridden down. They had .dlsmounted te I
il IN tne front 10 resi- rev minutes iron, the
|. saddIe, wnen tne ehemys cavairy maze 80
>, sudden dasn upon tnem tnst they nag
l. barely time to mount and get quickly out OF
"a the way. Az 20 dong they were mistaken
Is by q body or their own inen tor charging
Dr. rebels, and received their hre, killing q few
Or Of their horses, only, we believe.
,d We heard, after leaving the heid; that
III TWO Of deperai Ropes stan were Killed by
ht rebel nre during the latter part OF the en-
I'd gagement, but were then without any means
ye Of verifying the fact.
Our loss OF regimn.entai aud company oth
a was very neavy. Among those Killed were
Il Colonel Crane, Of the Third Wisconsin i,
Us Major Savage. and CaDtalnS Abbott. KuSSeI
W W and Gooding, and Lieutenant Browning, OF
ss the Second Massachusetts. Colonel Don
! nelly OF the Forty sixth Pennsylvania' was
~ we fear, mortaliy wounded. Col, Creighto;;
~ ~u and Molyacan1, OF the Seventh Ohio, are al
- ~ 80 very Dadly wounded. captain hooer
H. w. Clarke, OF the First DISTRICT regiment
i'o received wound IN the foot. General An
-: ~ CUR received Mimic ball in his back, as b
~, ~, was IN front OF his division turning IN hi
III saddle to cheer It on. General Gearry !
=" wounded ~ ono arm so that ne will likel
,or lose 1t, and General frince is slightly wounc
oU o~ cd: , rS,
'ha On Saturday evening, as General Augu
no WAS oeihg carI,eu pasC US psCk 20 the ho
Mo pitai' was tho!ght MS wouna was mo
dn, tai ,put, on surgical examination, WI
tbe Iound 10 DC sewers Dut not danSero'
son wouna' We reJoice 20 pe aole 10 say.
ne. AZ M. Yesterday seven hundred an
NV. % nifty OF our wounded mad reached C4ipe
" per court House ny ambulance. Eve
cnnrcn ana otner suitable building In q
sral viiiage, lnci1@,ng piivato houses, was nll'
rps WITH tnem, Ine cltlxens, male ana iema
lge' those OF secession procllvitles even thro'
'ep. ing tnem ss'de ioI tne time peing-wa
tne very genershy vlelng wlth eacn other
'on' Iendering snsm .a every accommodation Al
ass1slance IN tnei5 power
fcn botn sldes made some hundreds OF pr
ling oners 10 tne course OF the engagenient Al
,ich It was IRON PRISONERS that 1t is made ct
was tam that the Tepel % loss Is equal 70 ours
L. not greater we estimate our Killed Al
ame wounded AZ one Thousand tve hundred,
~ ter STRIVING 10 INFORM ourselves ~ correct
Ince as possible on the subject. /, !.
AT SIX o clock IN the evening as beft
day remarked, seven hundred and nifty had be
with brought 70 GuIpepper Court House, a
at there were then Ut least two hundred
long naming ia the TWO or tllree houses IN !
M rear ol the neld occupied as hospitals \
OIL terday NOR morning, on tne reformation OF :