Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-11-27
The March Of buYnSi,ie's Army
Artillery Duel Gen, Burnsidc's Energy
State of Railroads.

FALMOUTH, Va, Nov. Is, Is,

enemy on the heights Ou the other side OF
tnc B1ppahaunock. Bat now il has stop |
ped. aud we may now consider ourselves Saic
| IN the town of Falmouth. will try to give
Won an account of the events OF the last
| thee days.
We are now but sixty miles from Rich
mond. The national army is rapidly con
rsnfga,inr, and before night we shall have
our line Of battle arranged, aud our faces
set towa,d, nehuIonl.
Il is said that the rebols are evacuating !
| Richmond. ani have moved. not only their
| treasures, hut their stores, tn Danvillc, y.
! &. But tins j. to be doubted. The mass OF
the rebel lrmyapponls to be collected around
| Richmond directly in the path OF our ad.
vance. jackson at last adv ccs was AZ
Front Royal, aud holding Chester Gap, and
Stuart cavalry is hangingAbOut our TANKS
and rear, but with these exceptions We pro-
baby have the whole available rebel army
in our front. How large this is il is impos-
sible to say. There are reports, apparently
well authenticated, OF the most terrible de
moralizaiion, rs well as sickness among
them. Richmond is said TO be literally filed
with sick aud wounded men--the whole
town being one vast hospital. There is II
growing faith in The army that we arc really
to march on Richmond, and this is some
thing which has not possessed this army for
many months Winter quarter" are
. about played out The army intends to
spend Christmas in Richmond.
The march Of the right grand division of
= the army, under Gen. Sumner from War.
i renton to this place. was not signailZed by
@ an event of importance. We nDw rest ol,
the Rappahanunck. Ono incident ! cannot
help relating. 1t indicates the energy and
want Of red tape Of our new commander. -
1t When we were ready to leave WarrenlOl
SOME of the regiments were not supplied
-, with oyercoats aud othcrurccs.lry clU,hiAg
+, Instead OF waiting until they could rccei q
h them thcy were sent on, and before they y
II down al night they were supplied by thl
trains with socks, drawers, shirts, aud ovrry
=. thing they could desire to make them com
" Portable. Thus a day was saved. The samo
Z t'ng was done IN several other eases on the
next day. "S.uws show which way III,
wind blows, aud such little things as these
! which are continually occurring, haze won
- derIully inSpirited the army AMI given hen
&c great confidence in their new leader.
10 On Sunday the march was resumed, anC
q we reached the Spotted Tavern. u wei
known place, at dark. The whole march
was through country torn to pieces anI
g desolacd in the terrible battles of last year
o Hardly green blade or any sign of civil
n, zatiOn was seen The houses, or rather huts
were few and far between. AT one of these
we found that the whole family had ilel t,
u the outhouses aud woods in terror, having
le heard and believed that when the Yankee,
70 came they would all be murdered or burieC
-. alive, We were now within twelve miles o
u Fredericksburg. An early start was made
" in order to reach that place by noon.
le Gen. Sumner, who, as you know, lives ol
(, fighting, was thoroughly dlssu'ted at no
,v having met even the smallest sign OF an en-
y envy. But when we arrived within mil
and n half of Fredericksburg the batterie
III on the other side of the river opened on u,
a, and the "old war horse" pricked up hi
ears. just or lhc road, between Ia piece o
:" woods, was high hill, not more than hal
Or "a mile from the rebel position which CON
e, manded it, Pcttit's FIRST New York bat
. terry, Tompkins' battery, company A, an
,o Stevens battery, company !, First lthod
+, Island regiment, were sent there, Xjok'
III brigade supporting. The first shell iror
G, Pettit's battery struck in the midst Of tn
he rebels, and grand advance on Rchmon
was the result. Alter awhile, however, the
came back and fired few shots, but 500
'"' became discouraged, ny they natural
)r- would, none OF thelr shots taking effect, an
re- every one of ours phingng into their mids
~, So they scampered otf-in ALL one batter
-, and regiment of infantry, besides le
hu cavalry.
as 1t seems that this was their whole for,
he in Fredericksburg. Tho firing was over bot
towns, and il was evidently the object of III
rebels in resisting Us with this insignifcal
lhl force to provoke us to shell the towns. Tn
h, is, ut any rato, the construction placed G
r IS their conduct by the inhabitants, who n
IN. highly indignant, and were, as may be in
!, agined very much exercised y in the
ho minds while the hot shells were flying oy,
their heads
ID. This point must for some little time !
:, the centre of public interest. 1t is cvidon
: ly to be u base of operations. The fir
co business ON hand is to put in order the raj
road to Acquia Creek. The track is in GOO
,e. order, hut the bridges across the Rapp
hammock must be rebuilt, they having bee
destroyed by us last August. But this wi
'at be short job. Rolling stock aud engin
"o but thiS "lSo can ne quickly done' anu
et, Nun uin 'no'' po "''"'' '"'oo ho"'' '''0