Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-09-12
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Notwithstanding Pope's lying dispatches tc
his ina>;a: Claiming an immense victory. the
New iatI, "lrihunc's" special army CORES
pondciI'. Ncitlns from !. lcXanhria, Scptcm.
ber |, ,nakrs tie following candid admission
Of ".iI.astrous htfcut:"
'Ih" driails Of the battles Of Thursday, Fri.
day and Saturday are too heartrcnding TO re.
late, and yet nothing is 10 be gained by con
! c2H';I.S the truth. Alexandria is vast hos.
p;."l. The streets are crowded with ambu
ianGcs and barouchcs filled with the dead, the
dying and the wounded. Boat load after boat
load is moving off from the whurves for Wash.
iGgton--traln after train is leaving the Orange
anil Alexandria Railroad with their bloody
freight. All day and all night the sad pro,
cesslon moves. Soldiers who cannot be car.
ricd i'll ambulanceS walk and limp By the side
of the rnaIs or lie down until ,..lnc friendly
hand comes to their relief. The iirst telegraulS
from Tie first battle Of Bull l:un were iavora.
bic, and all Washington aud nearly the Who'll
North were rcjoced.
Gen. Poph;s dispatches received in Wash
| in.ton on Saturday, che day. of our iiSas.
t'ons eeat, filled every heart with oy. Til,
telegraph had hardly clicked the joyful new.
before hundred, began 10 have prcSpntment.
that all was no, well with the combined ar
mics nf Virginia and the Potomac. The roar
Of artillery toward evening yurld be dis
tinctiy heard from the tops OF the public
bindings in Washington, and br,.an To indi-
cate that the conflict was approaching the Po-
tomac-that our troops were being driven,
mud TN" battle lost. Hundreds hn had Icau
closely listening To the cnnTonatlng all ,ia7
rntireI at night fully convinced that the hat
tie was lost. and yet but Il few hours had
passed since the posting OF the bulletin All
nonnring great Victory by ten. Pope.
| Our loss has not only hccn great in officers
and prirates killed, wounded and taken pris-
oncrs, but the destruction pf property by our
own hands has been immense. The Orange
and Alexandria Railroad has lost III ore than
one-half its Ioiling stock. Two hundred and
| fifty ucw CARS, heavily laden with stores, aud
lU iirst.claSs locomotive, wc,c burned or
blown up on Thursday and Friday. liy Gen.
| Pope's order, l4U cars and t engines were
destroyed last Saturday in rrc.rnt them from
falling into the encIny'S hand-. whn had
crossed the liappahnnn"s +, ani were advanc-
ing upon Bristow Station, under The imlnedi-
dlaLc command of ten. Lee.
si.n banks. whu VAS at Bristow with bis
dccimntcd corps. "as compelled To fall hack
I upon Manassas, under cover of the smoking
| runs.
Your correspondents have not exaggerated
us can yet discover, in a single instance, lhc
\ l. o., h
rumors have been confirmed, except those n
victories acfIl,';ed over the Rebels.
\ scout came IN this morning saying thai
| LnngstrIrt WAS reinforced yesterday with
2u,UUU fresh troops, by the way uf Spcrryvlle
and Wuterloo. The strength OF the Rebe
army hr estimates at 10000, with 80 pieces
OF artillery about "nc thru the amount we
haze briw,-u Washington aud ueDtrevjIc.
As Yet there has been 10 lighting to-day
The enemy is feeling Gen. Popcs right. eyi,
dcntly rnG-avUrirg Ia lind weak point by
which he can reach Lecaburg and Edwards
Ferry. Before the close Of the week you
| may possibly hear oi a great battle near the
Balls Biull battle-ground. Notwithstanding
the fact that the rnclny hold the battle-ground
OF SATURDAY. u large plumber Of officers who
were severely wounded have passed through
this city and gone OF 10 Washington.
saw Gen. Tower Of Gen. Ricketts, Divi.
sion, McDowell's Corps, this morning lying
upon common strctchcr among the privHtes
Of his own brigade, severely wounded. Tins
officer i, said by his own mea TO have be-
hared very glilantly and To have been
constantly in the front exposed to the hottest
fire. This tligade Suffered terribly, and more
than omc-nail OF the men are killed and
wounded. Col. Pratt If the Sew York 10Th
Militia, son OF X~lnrk Pratt, occupied n lounge
short distance tTrln t.s.r. TG"rr. he was
struck by shell. which, although it did not
draw an 0"Tce Gf blood, parai yled both OF
his lower limbs SO that he can not walk al
all. The shell struck him just below the
heart. Col. Pratt was in ucn. Patrlck's bri-
gBde, and estimates the entire loss OF the bri.
gade ut more thon one half oi IL nIlmbcrs.-
Indeed, neatly all the field officers Ill Kings
division were either killed or wounded.
have tilis Homent learned that the rail
road b.idgc this morning completed by our
bridgc-buildins corps, across Bull Run. has
been burned by the Rebel cavalry. They
made dash upon it at , o'clock, and swept
everything before them. The same sqad Of
cavalry are tiylHE W leiCh ruiiiaA SlaliolI'
This movement Of the Rebel cavalry will
stop the transportation OF any more wounded
On the Orange ard Alexandria from the bat
tie field
In Ricketts, Division, The Br;gades Of Gen
erals Tower, ilartsuii and Duryee. lost more
than half their commissioned Gihcers, anu
fully onc-half their privatcs.
have been spending most of the day with
wounded officers, and therefore have but few
details Of the ballle to give y"u. | send by
telegraph to-r;skt list Of loo killed and
wounded officers and about .-GO piivateS.