Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-09-11
From the Scat Of War.

We had INDUCED the hope that we would B,
able to lay before our readers this morning som.
paTiiculs Ts Of the great fight Of Saturday last
In this, however, We have been disappointed
and must content ourselves with giving such in.
/ formation as We have been able TO collect We
have been permitted to make some extracts
from private letter written at Gainesville on
Saturday last at 10 o'clock. The writer says
We are again victorious on the classic
pains OF Manassas This morning we were
anxious but not uHezsy. We fought aud won
/ yesterday, but heard Of immense reinforce
ments TO the enemy during the night, while ours
could not come in time to participate in to-day s
! light. Bat il began, and tonight, while write
the enemy are fleeing aud our troops are after
them.
So the combined armies of Mcclellan, Pope
and Burnside are driven ingloriousiy from the
I teld. Several OF their regiments were cut to
/ pieces, aad ia ten minutes all but three Of the
lst Pennsylvania were killed and wounded
Kemper's division OF our corps, captured
three batteries Hoods division passed over
thirty pieces Of artillery General Jenkins, Of
South Carolina, was wounded C0loael Skinner
mOrtslly wounded and many others, whose
names we have not learned.
They outnumbered us, by their own account,
nearly three to one AndeTsOn's divisioh was
slightly engaged this afternoon
The fight did not commence until four
O'Clock, and even now occasionally l can hear
the booming of big guns coming back on the sir,
IS they harTass the Tetreatng enemy"
The passengers by the Central train. yester-
day, were familiar with facts beyond what
has already been laid before the public As
usual shey came freighted with reports collected
at GoIdonsvlie during the short stay Of the train
at that point The zeal position Of the two 81
niles was not known, thogg IA l. was stated that
the enemy, when last heard from, were rapidly
reTesiing in The direction Of Ocoqusn, and our
forces hotly pursuing a large body Of cur
srmy was 81 Falls ChuIch, while Stuarts cav
airy was represented to have reached Alexsn-
dria.
Passer gers by the traia reported the death Of !
General Eweil, bu. this was afterwards contra /
dicted
Up to a late hour last night the War Depart
ment had received no additional information.
One account stated the loss in General J Jack- /
sons cerps is estimsted al from six huBdfed TO /
eight hundred killed and wounded The 9th /
Virginia regiment Is reported 10 have lost one /
half the men they had engaged.
On Thursday afternoon the posi- ions of Gen /
erals Jackson and Ewsll were near Sujley I
church, their right resting on Groveton aud I
their left to the old battle field of Manassas.
Abeut o'clock the enemy, under Mcclellan,
advanced By the Warrenton rOa1, when our /
artillery opened upon them. An engagement |
Of two hours ensued, when the enemy were
driven from the field and beyond toe Warren
fon turnpike.
FROM THE sOUTH-sIDE.
Information from Suffolk to Monday evening
states that the Federal force there had been
largely reinforced, and now numbers some
10000. It ia reported thal they anticipate an
attack. Their advance guard resches to Frank
lin on BlsckvGier. This consists Of two bat
teries, some 500 cavalry aud from 500 90 1000
Infantry. -RieAulOHd Dispatch, September itt