Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-18

lfdead,and' wounded are. streWu, the 'sbattIe
/ heldP sisF and t6is was In the ensmy's pos
sessiOn'All iuight5 They: had ourideaFl and
wounded In their hands, aud can iestfmRte
our loss accurately, iif disposed we can
only guess at theirs. I'VE fheldi6ur own so
we'll in the affair that many. of us incline
Ntoi think that, had pushed IL more on
itheiaggressiys, we should have won COM
plete ViCtory: But the policy adopted by
| Cen Fremont was tue iwisesti and the best; !;
ldtsasteroVas guarded against, and only an
tilndtsposition son theopRrt Of the enemy to
IcOntipue the battle brought it to- amend.
E,Without any actual result being obtainad.
ItHadi he rushed I'M and hurled his little
licommauda Ikea bolt into tile middle of the
tarmy opposed, to have IT, buried jup and
t'Sapturedi boldly, the old Missouri howl
llwnuld have been, revived to echo through
the m6untainsuwithi a forty Blair-family
power. Some day ttpublic will; Ieal
now small thelfOrCe actually iisi with which
we ihavetbeeni chasing jackson down this
valley, and then itaRill only wonderathat
ihe.dtd not turn :and.rentf us.fu7 sti-at aajt
ltsnOnrlO loss inbithelefight was heavy very.
heavy, considering the inumbersr engaged
and the time the fight tlastedsiqsI haze sent
gon by telegraph! as complete a list of the
casualties eslAsi1CUuld9 beiobtnined on the
fields, think you will fndliti1to foot up
betASeen five and sixlhundredsasO Our GEM
erals iuclineito estimate the enemy,s loss
2tmuch greater, and stories ared4old iof
threeiOrf four hundred of their dead Ihav--
tug been counted in one pile. Chasing
these stories up; III cam only find the lman,
who has been told by another man that
somsbody else told him that at certain
lispot, in an uncertain field, that number Of
dead was guessed iat.s If their loss was as
great as our, We ihavesno reason to COM
plHtns They were, posted in woods, I'VE
fought innthe open. field. and lheyioutnum-
| bered ifus greatly. Mill not truths ,inl5
common sense satisfy the epopulariCraYiug, >
or Is it,alWays necessary to 4pander to the
appetite that demands Ia victory in, snll
easesi an assurance that the enemy lost at
least one m0Ee, than we RI sIsa 4 yst;g !,
laa Oheithtng is ceEtain,aJac is equally
sentiment as a strategfst and tnctiUiau. He
handles ihistarmy likesatWhip, making ID
l.er9ck inlQ out of the way corners where you
scarcely thought the dash would reach.
This retreat, of his, ifsretreat itucan be,
called, has been conducted with maxwell
Ions skill. He has not much mercy .oni his
imeni but he gets extraordinary marches out
of them on very short commons. Il hope
it viii uotibe t6oughtiunchristia if lex
press u wish that he we're well out of the
way.f Ashby was n brave man, and, Ac-
cordingi to report, IA kindly ylhearted one,
hut lfthinkabis removal To- another sphere
of action haslshortened the war admewhat
and saved auihinite ratio filiVes.a Jersey
mothersiwhO have sons inothe cavalry SER
vice can now slesPeasier. Again, repeat;
lido notiwish to 'be,puchFisttap5 but 60 free'
am from alfsehtimentality on tue subject
that, If it wonld9 but bring the war toia
speedy close, l should have no particular
objection to seeing Ptcsidenu Jefferson. DA-
Wis himself transferred to another and al.
hottet world. -........... ....-.... sl9ilY
=. PoRT REruHL1u, Tuesday, Juae ID.
Yesterday morning We again marched IN
Jackson's wake, reaching the banks -oE,the
South Fork of the Shenandoah at This place
= little before noon, The bridge had been
fred some "a hours previously, and we
found only It's charred and smoking Re,
mains. A long wagon train was visi6Iein
the distance, at which we threw a,npmber
OF shells, but only to the depletion of our
ammunition boxes. Quite large force
lay over in the valley, within easy range,
which was at irst set down as Shields. -
But it seemed singular 70 yne that jackson
should have ,placed his train thus in the
rear, aud uear an enemy, without any
guard, nor could Il exactly see why Shields,
should be SO tardy in,communicating with
us, 1t now turns out that it is a pottion Of
Jacksol's army that confronts us. We are
laying down q pontoon bridge, and the
most intense eagerness is manifested
atioug our boys to be over aud at therh.
IFepress my.enthusiasm, forit isjust dawn
ing on my mipd, /, that however nxious one
may be to chase an enemy, it is sometimes,
u very unfortunate thing to oVertake BIN /
especially WHEN, as Sint the present instance,
he chances to be the biggestji dFe- s7it 4
irlg-nes HARRlso4BURd, June IL, 1862.
Z Orders, came from headquarters this
morning, .at 2 o'clock, to pack up our pons,
toons, and fall back with all possible celer-
lty3f llssuspees that something Is wrong.
Shields, according 10 all st0rfes, WasiWliip-
ped by pyerWhelming numbers yesterday,
morning few miles below Port Republic
a prisoner We have captured who was IN
the Affair aud wounded by la shell, Says
Shields made splendid tight, aud drove
them steadily back until they brought Up,
their whole reserve, and tcEnshedI him by
,sRPsrt9E numbers 81 He SAYS he has been
10 about all the Southern q ghts, but bAst
tot9 before seen anything $50 littie and yet
'sosd--d hot2 'ItFseeus to ibsg we'll ieatab-
4sAsdfthat jackson has been reinforced by
Long street and Smith. ANY. way, if ShieldsIi
l.
have don't the '@tsest thing possible The
lEiyeris foriablsl below and weimtght have
folgd q large ,ipimicat force sinbonE rpar,,
and 9pF supplies cut off at ,any ipconye1i-i
ent moment. There has been bad general
ship somew where mp peFmi itfihg JaG GEsontd es-
FRPe7 bnt ie does not restsWiths this Depatt.i
meut. Threelarge and well appointed diyfsf,
ions were brought from Fredsricksbur az.
pFesRly to p1hppQn his tFask. Qaly4 frag!e2
ment of one has been heard from. Where
are the other two2 Fremont has chased
him with Hntiring energy, and fought him
every tima heseame up.With himss That We
did not apgthilate him is less wonderful
tRaa thas hs did RSt turn and gePpiihiIate
4 PoWsr.a We ve marched ouflmed With,
ont riti0ug9and without tents'; WGahaye
R4ilt bridges WhsFs bridges were bpEpt and
constructed roads where before there we're