Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-09-22

THE VICTORY OF MONDAY.
rhs sansuInary srassIe Of wedne..!ay.
Correspondence ofthe n. Y. Tribune.l
MONDAYS BATTLE.


BooNsBoKo, Nd, Sept Is, 1862.
The most complete victory Of the war
was gained yesterday. We stormed and
took the Rebel Gibraltar. Brayer and
more desperate fighting was never before
seen on this continent. MeDOwells corps
now under the command of General Hook
or, fully redeemed themselves from theiI
disaster at Bull Run. Forming the right
Of the army, they had the most difficult
tasks assigned them.
They drove the enemy up and over one
Of the highest peaks of the Blue Ridge,
and fought and whipped him at the base
of the monument erected upon the highest
point to the memory of Washington. On
the right wing General Reynolds held the
right, General Hatch the left, and General
Ricketts, the center. The entire corps
fought under the eye of General McClel-
Ian, whose presence seemed to inspire the
troops with enthusiasm. Not a man fell
back or struggled. The new recruits
rushed in ahead of their older brothers in
arms and could not be held in check by
their officers. They fought bravely, but
occasionailly their rashness embarrassed
those who were under better discipline.
Generals Hartsuff, Gibsons and Patrick,
commanding brigades in the Division OF
General King, under the command yester-
day of General Hatch, all distinguished
themselves. They rode their horses up
cliffs goat could hardly climb, under the
severest fire of musketry. The colonels
of the regiments also displayed no less
bravery. l have not heard Of o single in
stance Of eowardice among officers or men.
This morning, when the extent Of the vic
tory was learned, the soldiers were wild
with JOY. Our loss in killed and wounded
will not exceed, think, 1,500. The Rebel
loss cannot be less than 5000. Their own
officers taken prisoners admit that num-
Der, and some Of the privates place it at
a much larger figure. We have also taken
from 1900 to 1000 prisoners; the number
is increasing every hour, and by this even
ing it may be 10000. The left wing,
under command of General Reno, fought
with bravery only equaled by that Of the
right. Generals Cox and Wilcox, COM
manding the divisions engaged, managed
their troops admirably. They encounter
ed the same difficulties in surmounting
PERCEPTIONS hills, penetrating dense masses
of timber, and scrambling over sharp and
peaked rocks. They drove the enemy un-
til night intervened and he could nowhere
be seen. Both right and left wings and
center slept upon the battle ground. This
morning, as day began to break in the
east, it was discovered that the enemy had
gone, leaving us his dead and wounded
upon the battlefield His hospitals along
the road were filled with the wounded, and
many thousand stand Of arms thrown
away in their fight The moment their
retreat was discovered, the 8th Illinois,
Colonel Farnsworth, was sent out in pur-
suit of the rear guard. At BOonsboro,
the village in which am now writing, he
came in sight of the 4th Virginia Cavalry,
drawn up in the main street, preparing
for a charge. Colonel Farnsworth, at the
head of his men, suddenly burst upon
them, and drove them through the village,
killing and wounding all that remained of
that once splendid regiment. One of the
officers taken prisoner, this moment told
me "that the regiment was about gone,
that we had finished them"