Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-08-29

VI @ are in receipt 1i "a letter IRON mtlh-
bst Of he l,t Vt. Cavalry. in camp near
Culpepper. Aug. 10Th, from which We make
some .ytrrct-
rh- Is, 1t. ha- had ilri tlioe Of It oi late
day and night On tho rroge, ~ picket or ssirmi,b-
inc. Three days frequently pas uithout unsad-
ding the horses, and the back of the poor eus-
ciated brute az hr,t core. th7n almost rotten;
still they are Kept a. rcrs-;or the men must
ride. sua tb, rebel. have cleared the land Of
horses.
Since BInl, retreat little hss been done il the
way Of actual collisions nth the enemy, save At
Orange Gour; Hous-, f,~ random shots here sad
there in the Wy af skirmi.hins-tha, a; Orange
Court House, r.4s a brilliant ,iirmish, in which
200 or 80 On eide were engaged. many killed
m the .iae OF ,h- rebel many gounded. and
many norse- -hot. never -aa tha, which
throztened &c be - complete rOut by tie hrun-
ne.. aud 5rz-eFy Il ons sqaadran. teeome g. com
pl,,s.ard thorough 7ictory. The n4ia street Of
On run. .sy y. and >, sile streets Z and W e.
Otsse ,ntranoe not = soul - to be cen, N ou-
inous si-n. The 9TH !. had passed, wh,n
vhi:-. whaek q ball aa;tsned itself or q brick
house n,ar hv. Col. Iompkins sen, c.. - the
Eat " only numbered 20 and &C JPsned
brisl fr. With our carbines, which was returned,
killing tour horses, but doing no ether daGags.-
c. Il. q the s,h y y. wen; clear round The
town. and -i,b Capt. Hammond. vorthy vfieer,
made dash on the r,sr Of tic rshel,, 'Sho doubt
les. thinking their tinc had come, charged down
the main street upon the column 7i the 5'h,
which broke and led in terrible coufusion break
ing W one Of the companies Of the ls: " which
~sre borpe down BY Weigh, Of numbers. The
Rebsls, yelling ivaTfully, thundsrsd down the
road after the scared Ne- Workers. the efforts Of
their Cocnel snd others wholly inefficient to rally
them, when in eload of dus: the last squadron
reserved the order to charge sai into them they
went. The he.d Of the rebel column ~a7ered,
halted. fed, but not till some Of them were terri
bly slasaed with that terrible instrument Of
slaughter, the sa5re. We took s. prisoner. We
understand tho y. / regiment claim the merit Of
the ised-thsy my perhaps. but had it not bssn
for our regiment j, would have been complete
rout 70 them.
We have been making . ssries Of marches lately,
the las. OF which va to Cupepper, Were, expect
Jog general battle, the advance was given TO
Col. Tonpkins, and We took 1t willingly. We
passed over the late battle feld and mile BEL
yond, before We saw the rebels, when emerging
from the woods We saw their vidsttss, and beyond,
on the hill, three squsdrons and more Of cavalry
drawn up In line Of battle. A single shot from
our Parrot guns sent them out Of sight few
random skirmish shos were Cred, with no injury,
and We csmped near the Rspidsn, which they were
crossing.
TIE scene over the battlefield vas revolving
the bodies Of uuburied men lay in heaps, the car
cases of horses, here and there leg, and there
huge tree, through which Yelling round shot bad
gone. The many unburied bodies, terrible re-
minders of the stern reality of war, gave to the
sensitive mind an unpleasant shock. They had
not buried their dssd, nor carried away their
wounded, but such was their haste that we found
their fires still burning, and stacks Of arms stand
ing in the woods. Faster than sver Yankees fed
Is 600 or 50. 900 rebels had re-erossed the Rspidsn