, 1862-04-10
THE LATEST NEWS
By TELEGRAP PEI.
THE BATTLE AT PITTSBURGH
OUR FORCES DRIVEN BACK ON
SUNDAY,
Buell. Arrives and Turns the Scale
Of Battle,
GREAT VICTORY OF MONDAY.
The Enemy In Full Retreat.


Especial dispatch to the Chicago Trfbune1
CArEo, April 9-11A. n.
The Federal victory at Pittsburgh Landing,
Tennesse, is complete. The fighting was as
terrific as at Waterloo, and the loss Of life tar
greater. Our loss is reported at from, 15,OoO
to 1900 men killed and wounded. The rebel
loss is estimated st from 25 coo to &c, GOO. The
battle ragged from sun rise til 4 p. NJ, when
the rebels broke and fled and were pursued
By onr cavalry and flying artillery, who cap
tured large numbers Of prisoners and slaugh-
tered them by hundreds.
About noon the battle was thought to be
lost, hut the reserves came up and charged
the enemy with the bayonet, sweeping all be-
fore them, and winning the day. Bcaurcgard,
who commanded the rebels, is reported se-
yerely wounded in the arm. Several rebel
Generals are killed.
General Wallace On our side is reported
Killed General Prentlss YVES taken with
i've hundred Of his brigade, and several
guns. Colonel David Stuart Of Chicago
is wounded. The loss Of officers is fearful
1t was the greatest battle ever fought On this
continent, and one Of the greatest ever fought
in the world There were 10000 men on
Oh each side. Full particulars in the next
dispatch.
CAIRO, April 9, 1862 2 P II.
Nothing official has as Jet been recNived
from the battle at Pittsburgh. Passengers who
arrived late last night, bring sad reports Of
loss and disaster, though the enemy was in
the end repu1sed and driven back with great
loss in killnd, wounded and prisoners.
Our army was taken By surprise on Sunday,
and driven back toward the river Camps were
destroyed and great damage done. OnSunday
night Gen. Buen's forces arrived, crossed the
river, and on Monday morning attacked the
enemy in fink, and after desperate fight by
all our forces, the rebels fed in incxtricable
confusion
shcrman's and Prentisss divisions were first
attacked. Gen. Prentiss, with two regiments,
were taken prisoners. One Of our batteries
wss taken and retakcn six times
The sharpshooters Of the enemy did terrible
execution upon our officers. Gen. ". H. L.
Wallace Of Ottawa, was Killed. Also acting
Col. Heman Garfield Of the 72d Ohio. His
body is here on its way to Medina. Carson
the scout, was killed early in the engagement
The enemy are reported to have bccn120, ,0U(
strong, under command Of Johnston and
Beau1egard.
All the cars at command Of the rebels are
at Corinth
The provisions and stores there are i'm
mcnse, and our army were pursuing the enemy
to take them and their stores, when the mes
sengerl left.
Forty Of the cncmy's field cannon were cap
tured.
General Strong is sending up every boat a
command to bring down the wounded. n.
has telegraphed to the Governors OF neighbor
ing States and to Sanitary Commissions fo1
nurses and hospital supplies.
Buell., it is thought, will have had Coriutl
BY yesterday noon.
The amount Of ammunition aud supplies ta
| ken at Island No. 10 is immense. Naval of
GERS say it is the strongest fortified place the,
have seen during the war. Seventy cannon
weretaken. The prisoners number three hun
| died and sixtJ-eIght, including seventeen off
GERS, one hundred sick, and one hundred steam
| boat hands. The property taken is valued a
three hundred thousand dollars. Nine steam
crs we're captured
| No arrivals from below this morning.