Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-10-03

pied by the rebel troops. Every white male
between 10 and As years of age being i'm
pressed into the rebel service. The rebels al
so impressed all the negroes into their ser
vice as Transfers and laborers in the quarter
masters Department.
A statement is going the rounds of the
press to the effect that previous to his leav-
ing Washington for for Frederick Mcclellan
advised he abandonment of Harper's Ferry
as an untcnable position is unfounded.
Gen. Harvey had an interview to-day with
the Secretary of War, but the objects and re-
suits have not TRANSFERRED. -....
WAsnINGroN, Sept 80.
The following report of the victory of
Antictam has been forwarded to Headquarters
of the army Of Gen. Mcclellan:
NEAR SuARPSBURG, Sept. 20.
To Maj Gen IInlleck, Comm nder in Chief
| have the honor to report the following,
as some of the results of the battle of Antie-
tam and South Mountain. At South Noun
tain orr loss was 443 killed, 1860 wounded
and rs missing-total, 2,315.
At Antietam our loss was 900 killed,
9,4lG wounded and 1914 missing Total, 49,
400 Total loss in the two battles, 4.794
The loss of the rebels in the two battles, as
near as can be asccrtained from ether data,
will not fall short of the following estimate:
Maj. Davis, Assistant Inspector General, who
superintends the burial of the dead reports
about 5000 rebels buried upon the field of
Antietam by our troops
Previous to this the rebels buried many of
their own dead upon the distant portion of
the field which they occupied after the battle
Probably at least five hundred of the loss at
the battle of South Mountain cannot be ascer-
taiued, but as our troops drove them from the
commencement of the BATTLE and as much
greater number Of their dead was seen on the
field than orr own it is not unreasonable to
suppose that their loss was greater than ours,
estimating their killed at five hundred, the
total of rebels killed in the two fights would
be four thousand.
According to the rates of our own killed
and wounded, this would make their loss in
wounded 1912, as nearly as can be deter
mined at this time a
The number ofprsoners taken by our troops
is about five thousand
The full returns will no doubt show large
number Of these.
About II 900 are wounded. This gives
me a rebel loss in wounded, killed, and lis
| Oners, of %, SIP.
IL VIII Dc ODSci 'cu llil tilS tOUS HOt III
clude their stragglcrs, the remainder of whom
is said to be, by citizcns, very large
1t may be safely concluded that the rebel
army lost at least thirty thousand of their best
| troops from the time our troops first met the
enemy in Maryland until he was driven back
into Virginia. We captured thirteen guns,
seven caissons, nine limbers, two field FORCES,
two caisson bodies, thirty nine colors and one
signal flag. We have not lost single gun or
a color.
On the battle field of Antietam fourteen
thousand small arms were collected, besides
the large number carried off by citizens and
those distributed on the ground to recruits
and other unarmed men arriving Immediately
after the battle.
| At South Mountain no collection of small
arms was made, owing to the haste of the pur-
suit from that point. Four hundred were
taken from the opposite side Of the Potomac
| (Signcd) GEo. B. MCCLELLAN,
Major General Commanding.