The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-02-03

which is extremely encouraging. The fol-
lowing among other items of interest we
copy;
Up to Saturday last our troops had buried
two hundred and seventy-eight dead rebels
on this side of the river.-Upon their re-
treat they were followed, as far as heard
from, twenty-five miles over the Tennessee
line, and every day they left numbers Of
those who had died of their wounds on the
route They were found by the wayside
through Wayne county, sometimes three to
six in heap, covered with blankets, and
the entire road was strewn with guns, wag-
ons, and equipments abandoned. Nearly
seven hundred prisoners had been secured,
and the number will be largely increased.
II is supposed that three or four hundred
CoDfederates were drowned in the precipi-
tate rush to the steamboat and coal barges
on Sunday night. @f%t
Another most cheering incident resulting
| from this crushing defeat is the receipt of
several communications from our old sub
scribers dated, joyously and exulinglY,
| CAT Home Again" "Home reached, thank
God ~ "Zollicoffer's Emba' 60 Broken" "At
| the Old Fireside," and most touching Of all,
"With my Wife and Children Zollieof-
fer's defeat has opened the mails through
Russell, Pulaski, Wayne, and Clinton coun-
ties, and the orders are coming from ali
quarters, Send Us the Journal again.
The spirit Of all these letters shows that the
proclamation issued two weeks before the
battle, from Mill Springs, by the rebel Gin
CRATE son of glorious sire" Gen. George
B. Crittenden, has had ne effect on the loyal
masses in the valley of the Cumberland
They are as staunch as the mountains that
surround their beautiful homes, and as free
as the eagles that make their nests among
the crags.
Another correspondent gives the follow
! ing s=.H erss- aa.s e+-H
: r. You can scarcely form a conception of Ih,
} disastrous effects OF Gen. Thomas brillian
victory over the rebels upon them in thei
precipitate fight. 1t transeends Bull Run
They fed by every hy-way and mountain
path-the public road being insufficient L
admit them in their hurried fight. The.
threw away their guns, knapsacks, every
thing. The wagons were left in the roat
loaded with -four, the teamsters and other
cutting their horses loose and mounting
} them, others Selling all the horses in tn
: country Many of the wounded fell by tn
| way, and they are strung along the roa
from Mill Springs to Sparta, in Tennessee
The most complete CONSERVATION existe
3 among them, and after they passed the Ken
. lucky State line, in Fentress and Overtoi
. counties, Tennessee, the people partook Q
the alarm, and all the rebel aiders and sym
pathizers, with their wives and children
! fed in dismay. No army was ever so com
E | pletely routed aud scattered. They neVe
, can and never will be gotten together again
Yon can not draw too big hly colored pic
ture of rhis sese from NH Springs, an
e 4
/ at Bull Rau conld not conceive of this re
treat before the victorious army of th
Union.
1t is said that George Orittenden &c
drunk at Monticello and was barely able t
ride off so as to make his escape. He urge
the affrighted rebels to fly for their live
telling them that Gen. Thomas with WO
ford's cavalry and 90, 600 men were afte
g them. The rebels, it is said, denouuce i
L the bitterest terms the rebel General Cri
tenden.