Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1862-10-16

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Tie London Times On the Battle
Of the Chishahamipys
The following is copy of tn
leading, editorial of the Londol
Times" Of July 2lst: ,az u.
I For, some days past the tidlng'
of the battles. before Richmond
have vibfated with every hour
Telegransand mails have succeed
ed eact. other with discordant ra
pidlty. Tl,e pendulum has swung
irom the point Of Federal victory
to tEIat OF Federal destruction
No one could tell what had really
happened because no one could
believe the Government assurances,
and it was not safe to give ere
dence to tie panic fears which In
lie general Ignorance arose in the
popular imagination. Everything
which lay between a successful
strategetic movement and the ut
ter destruction of the army OF the
Potomac was possible, and every
possible contingency had It's adeo.
cate. .,+ -,
At length, however, The truth be-
gins TO becQme apparent, and there
really is very li,tle d d.fference. be-
tween the i&cts as they now are
now told III sober. phrase and the
worst version which was b!urtod
TO the world in. scattering tele-,
grams. Ii ii be not true that Nc
Cie!Ian Is a fugitive, and the whole
OF Lis army pressed to the Hecessi-
ty OF a capituiation, it appears
ti;at there was a moment when
this appeared 50 natural a result
of the position that tLey who as
serted these facts might fairly
have believed that, they were jus
tiiied by what was happening
arAiInI ih1-------.. sSt io' VI
days o.! battle and six days of de-
feat is nov described in the letters
+, ceiyed at New York. Routs
wherein officers often led the way
of fight, and in which they never
succeeded in staying the head.ong
scamp!r Of their men, a general
stampede" to the cry of the "Reb-
els are coming" run from post TO
post, the enemies ever pursuing,
and the dead and wounded left in
the hands Of the pursuers. These
are the events which are cow de-
tailed in horrible minuteness by
those who have survived them
SIX days and seven miles of fight
and slaughter are tie real facts
which have been scienced over by
pale ghastly boasts of strategetlc
success. The deaa had no more
to fear. but the wounded We're
left in the swamps " here they fell,
nect sssrily deserted by their fly
inr friends. passed over by their
enemies. and without hope of see-
!ny other faces.in this world than
those of men and women who had
\ ri.ht to detest them as merce-
nary piunderers and invaders
such a scene arouses every sense
Of bonor and pity; but these feel
ings are TUNED bali into contempt
when We find the leader ef this
panic. chen host, having ieit hls
seige batteries aud his stores be-
hind, having fed to liis ships, and
being momentarily safe under the
protection Of their guns, compii-
ments in 4 general order the rag
ged remnants of his army upon
their achievements and tneir va.or,
and volunteers, the conspicuous
falls hood that they have saved all
their material and all their guns,
EE.exc.p .pt a few lost in battle" 4
Such n dreadfui carnage as that
which has just taken place In
is unkGown in moaeri
times. AS the, horrors Of the
French revolution creptGut- OF ,the
peaceful loking votes OF general
lgternify and the abolition of cap
tai punishment, so the bloodless
seiges aud battles which gave the
comnencehient of this civil war
an air of q pasti'ns have deepene1
into . furious as,,rue sie iHIYhieh
popu atoms seem 20 JON. WITH go
D:her idea than thatYf patoRtex-
tcrmiaasion. With a great aimy
coInplf tely beaten. and t!e'noral-
:zea, it is painfii to find tiiedeleat-
ed General fthfieating portentous