, 1862-09-05
The Great Battle of Saturday,
Correspondence OF the N. i. Tribance.1 ]

CENrHEv1LLE, August, 81, 1862.
Povter's corps had arrived on the ground at
. o'clock from Manassas, making i've corps
ready for action. The number Of men com
p1istd in these should estimate at Go,000.
Rockers division had but al men in the
ranks, 60 terribly has it shrunk By battle and
disease.
In the order Of battle for the day Helntzsl-
man commanded the right, Porter the centre,
Mcdowell the left, and 5igel, whose corps had
borne the brnnt the day before, the reserve.
At 10 o'clock Hei1tztlman advanced. skir-
n,ishcrs into the wood on the right Of the
battle field Of the day before, sud found it ouly
bt1d by few Troublesome bushwhack4rs.
Driving them back, large numbers Of wounded
were got off and passed to the rear.
rode in wlth these skirmishers as fer as I
deemed prudent At any rate | got upon
ground where the corpses attested the fighting
OF the day before First ], came upon bodies
in blue. These were our fallen. Then there
we're those in blue mingled with Others in
gray and nondescript, That ground had been
fought over. A little further they were all
blue and uondescript. And here the bodies
be not over half an acre, l counted seventy
nine bodies, dead and wounded Advancing
iurther sill, saw Union soldier seized, not
ten rods from me, and carried OFF by bush
~hackers. retired lin good order) satisfied
that The enemy's loss exceeded our OWL at
right to left, I inferred that the positions Of
the enemy had been found in that direction.
By This time our line WAS different from that
Of tie day before Our right was further ad-
vanced, our left withdrawn, SO that we fronted
almost to the south. At Bull Run, 3 year ego,
We faced exactly south.
At 5 o'clock Gen. Stevens attacked at the
right, and soon after Gen. Butte1feld at the
LETT The enenly's shells seemed equally dis
tributed along the whole line, and at each
81 I.-+ +nt ~p$+ ,k+At
Iwas at Gen. Sigel's headquarters That
genersl was certain the enemy intended to
turn one or the other of our fi&uks, aud said
We must ascertain which, or the result wss at
the best doubtful; for his scouts had just re-
| ported that Lee, with the entire remainder OF
the rebel army, had come up and assumed
command. Tbs scouts were correct On
| Saturday We fought the whole rebel army.
Postibg myself in the center, within view OF
both portions of the field where infantry were
| engaged, / could not determine which had the
t best Of 1t. Evidently but few troops w-ro en-
eaged, ard surmised that We were f9ntin9
| merely to learn where lay the enemJ's main
| force At length our force at the right Wis
driven back, aud thought Gen Pope had
betn ont generated when he moved meu at an
| earlier part Of the day from right to left.
| k.A quarter Of an hour later, wished he had
| have heard the musketTY Of the best con
ttste battles fought In Virginia, and say
unhe esItatipgly that the fire which broke on,
st the left ard up the ceuter, WAS by FIR the
beaviest Of any. Talk ot yollies, aud rolls
and craEhest twas all these contfnu sliy &C.
Gun ulatirg. piliDg upoo each other in mighty
swelling vo1rme-the Tresue OF r0t hing tor
padoes such as chaos may hare known. Frou
NY rosi1ion Il seemed that artillery playet
f,om each Of the cardlnal points upon the d.
yott center where I knew men were ssrug
c1i1g. could not see ihem struggling Td
| tmr Ee OF nuDp0wder Drtyanted that hut
knew they we're there, and tremhled fnr til
result A few mil utes Ia:tr s :hurz who VA
IL the reserve. "a ordered to The left B-for
he. con)d get farelY into position, Med I'VE
Al d Porter werr srretri. Y .blv broken. Th-
soldiers fought Like braye men; If moments