The daily Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1862-1863, 1862-10-17

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nearly three hundred men, al their small
arms, their guns, and all he -four, ba-
con, and other necessaries we could car
/ ry, after filling our own and all the ene-
my s wagons and every species of trac
that we could press" The Colonel told
the truth, for the road for miles was fill
! ed with soldiers, prisoners of war, AND
wagons loaded with stores of all kinds.
The rebels had but one gun, which was
captured. We also took from the enemy
{ four hundred small arms, a regimental
stand of colors, fifty-six loads of -four,
several hundred weight of bacon, forty
: beeves, and number of horses.
Our loss, as far as can be ascertained,
was four killed and seven wounded
The rebel loss in killed is thirty, and
about eighty wounded Notwithstanding
! our artillery made sad havoc with the
/, enemy, the above figures are probably
reliable, as they seem to be confirmed by
the rebel prisoners.
As near as we can judge, the number
of prisoners taken was over three hum
dred. Their number embraced two Col
onels, several Captains and Lieutenants,
ordnance officers, and quite squad of
sergeants and corporals. Many of the
prisoners state that they were -sck of the
war. According to the staten nts made
by many of them, they are q tie willing
to quit fighting and return home
The rebel force was under command
of Gen. Sam. Anderson; but that indi-
vidual informing his men that reinforce
ments we're necessary, started towards
Murfreesboro for them, and has not been
heard of since. The cavalry were res
pectively under John 7. Morgan, Bifel,
and McKinstry.
The uniform good conduct of the troops
on the march and under FIRE was loudly
applauded by the officers, and pereeptible
to all. Nothing was disturbed of pri-
yate nature, except pressing teams to
carry captured stores. Another fact
worthy of mention is, that the iaded
and worn-out prisoners were treated with
the consideration which characterizes
our troops.
The dash of the rebels under Forrest
upon Murfreesboro, a few months ago,
was a decided success, and we must cen
fess that Gen. Negley's well-planned and
well-carried-out attack upon Larergne
was no less brilliant
Col Stokes cavalry displayed signal
daring and intrepidity, going into their
work with the GOODNESS and alacrity of
veterans, and the ardor of men whose
souls burned with patriotism. They am
ply fulfilled the high hopes entertained
of them, The gallantry and GOODNESS of
Col Miller are highly applauded The
opening of his fire upon the splendid reb-
Ell cavalry is described as truly brilliant;
from one end of the line to the other
blazed forth one sheet of fire; the rebels
reeled in their saddles, the dead and dy-
ing strewed the ground, and the surviv-
ers betook themselves to headlong fight
Gen. Palmer, who won noble laurels at
Island No. 10, acquitted himself as be-
the fight aad ffsbssn bsnat # Saf!disrt He eneped
skill and GOODNESS were eminent every
where. - ,r dE
Among the rebel officers captured are
Lieut. Col A r. Langford, 3Sth Ala
bama; Capt w. Thompson and Sergeants
S, c. Caller, S. S. Parker, ]. Diggers, j.
N. Daniels, and A. Dufin, 32d Alabama;
]. Ecetrisk, lst Lieut.. Bifie's Cavalry;
Corporals J. H. Livingston, F. Blount,
and Sergeant Thos. Fincher, 32d Ala
| bama.
Col Harry Murry, of the 32d Alabama
from Mobile, was sick with fever in his
camp during the fight and unable to take
part in it. He was brought to Nashville
| by Gen. Palmer in an ambulance, and is
too i'll to be out of his room. Harry
Murry is we'll known in the South as
the commander of the schooner Susan,
which sailed from Mobile in 1S48 with a
party of Gen. William Walker followers
on board, the Susan being wrecked on
Glover's Reef, in the caribbean Sea,
when within days sail of Omoa, her
destination. He has been in the rebel
service since the secession of Alabama.
The 32d Alabama regiment suffered
severely, losing large proportion OF
prisoners Gen. Anderson fled inglo-
riously in the beginning.of the action tell
ing his soldiers that he was going after
reinforcements He is bitterly denounc'
ed for cowardice and treachery. A large
number of letters were found in camp,
from husbands to their wives, friends to
4 friends, from fathers to their sons, and
from girls to their sweethearts. Their
tone is generally gloomy and despair
] ing. One man frankly tells his wife in
Alabama that Nashville cannot be taken
Christopher Isley, Union man con-
script, was found in the Thirty-SeconC
4 Alabama. ..- sf $4,000 4