The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-07-22

chased whole con edorate army through the city Of
Eiciinoad ito the James rvor 50 nti,r was their
and confusion. And what did we d. theg Wa
iouad another big swamp aud sat down n III fent
q i ard wet TO digging. We besAn 70 thfes
up Int enehnents Ia front, no enemy thlt was
hot uttofly brpSeA. 10 tOS advanta c 81 the
battle of Fan . Ks. Ak in Miehian soldiers were CT
GO peces ~ hundreds. Go int The judiciary
Square Hospital ip this e " ynr vii IL more than
laii the occu9 ATS I'll hsan n. VINO were sltt
al Fair OaSs All vii !amsbl g-nea wh1 stood Until
regiment OF taoisanJ men were reduced 10 enc
hnid Ell aud i've, ani then did run. Sir, these
men have hean sacrhcu '-useless'y sacriacel. They
hive boen nut T. h I'd digging, aud had fare, and ha
sec ing; and II there any aasd lghiag 10 4 ey
have bson put 10 that AMI besides all this, night they
have had 10 guard tie prop of They
have bee itcei thattwo three OF the Michigan
imen,s today cannot bring into tho Geld hundred
and ATTY mon ,ach OFT e thousand i ith which they
tel Fair Oaks lost; thar ay We won bril-
Isn't victory, but II dill rs no good take add
vantage OF it, OF SO II wogid have ben very unfair
TO take advantage " 4 routed army aueh cr)-t
wo I'D not have been according to or 'ssrat gy.n We
magnanm isy stopped. aud commenced digging. There
army 'front.', there II traI chmeA t.
in oar 'front.' but we did not know whit else to do aid
we began to dig and ditch; and kept digging and
dtching until the rebels had IMPRESSED and drilled,
and med and maio soldiers OF their entire population
{ this not enough They sent Jackson up ON
his raid to Winch ,stsr, md wal cd for hin to
back with his 20 600 or 80 coo men. We hoard
that Cornth beng evacuated and o. woud
have been very unfair TO commence attack until they
brought their troops from Cornth ana SO we waited Tor
the army At Corinth to get TO Richmond After the
bel h.d got all the troops they hoped to from
any source wo did not attack them, but they attacked
tackled right wing and, as sn Informed upon what
| deem reliable authority, they hurod the majority
OF their entire force nn our right wing OF ~ ooo me
during whole OF that Thursday right wing Of
30 600 mon held their ground aud repu sed That vast
horde VI the enemy and over again. and held their
ground ut night or course you say reinforcement OF
20 900 coo these bravo troops that
they might not My holhcir ground tho next day, BIT
send mus dasaraiy army into Richmond sseoad lime
At night, instead OF seniing them re- endorsements
they were ordered to retret. That was .'stratcgy
The moment they nlncIced their retreat, Is said
in tho dispatches theeenemy fought like demons. Of
course thoy would. Who heard ~ reJreatng army
that was not prs ed by hs victors like domons, excst
In the Of rebel 81 No other but
was ever nifty stopping Immediately after vcto
Othor armies fight like demons after . vic DRY,
and annihliae the enemy, but We do not Our let
wing anu centre remained intact A icat made m
tho left and and have here, the sworn
timony but the statement OF tho bravezt in
the whole Army of the Potonac-I will not give his
name, but mo highly homo alb man lives not--that
when his regiment was ordered under arms he hal
doubt hat he WAS going to march into Richmond. He
believed the whole Of tho enemy hal kei
right wing; he believed thor nothing 4 screen
pickets in 'front.' and he ght tlat great
triumph was t. come off, His men sprang into line with
avidity, prepared to rush into Richmond and take
1t az the point Of the bayonet. lilo er dis
covered his error until he saw million and
half dollars worth VI property burned IN front
Of his regimout, and then he began 10 think that an
advance upon Richmond was not intended And it was
not. We had been ut wo there and had lost thou
sand men In digging intrenchments; we had spent
months in bringing up siege guns, ana wo abandoned
ordered to advance the gunbolts in tead Of
Richmond. This colonel toll that his regiment fought
treated each night. The LETT wing AMI centre
touched until they were ordered TO retreat No portion
Of force had been fought except the right wing
under Porter, and they whpood the enemy the first day
This Is called strategyi Again, sir ark why this
great Army or tho pptomac OF Two hundred and thirty
thousand men diyidY Human ingenuity could not have
devised any other way de-eat army: divine wis
dom could scarcely have devised any other 10 do
feat it than that which was adopted There Is no army
tn to- A., tha uaFt bate
when hundred and thirty III strong
the best lighting matcra! ever put into an army on the
face OF the earth. Why was that aud army divided
SIMPLY charge that grave and been
committed, aud, as ] have said, no other WY could
have been devisea to doeat that army II the one hun
dred and Gfsy.eght thousand men that were sent TO
General Mcclellan mad been marched upon the enemy
they could havo whipped al the tho Conederatos
have, and all thoy likely to have for six months
One hundred and ay eight thousand about many
rs can be fought on any one baltic led. ono hun
drcd and Aftv-eight thousand men arc vast
army, great deal larger army than that with which
Napoleon destroyed Fix hundred thousand OF tho Aus
triaiS . single year. Oae hundred and fifty eight
Confed6rates raise and that Is the forcs that
down to the peninsula But, sir, Il lay In bitches, dig
ging drinking rotten water, and eating bad food and
sleeping the mud until 1t became greatly reduced
numbers and Of those that lett very many in
jured In health. Still they fight still they conquered
in every Hght and still they retreatcd because they
wore ordered retreat Sir have deemed 1t my duty
to present this statement OF facts 20 tho Senas and the
country. know that am TO be demo nced for doing
classes OF who u denounce mo, and
else and they traitors and foos The traitors have
sssrategy when il led 70 defeat every time The trail
tors North than the traitors Sou and some
times think have many Of them Ia the aggregate
They mon; they VINO will como be-
hind you and cut your throat the dark have great
respect for southern traitors who shoulder their
ami come out and the chances tho bullet and the
halter but have the most supera,ive contempt for tho
Northern traitors who under the pretended guse Of pa
trotisrn, are stabbing theit country In tho dark.