Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1862-08-20

into the shelter of the dense forest. to have
their places Instantly occupied by fresh
regiments. to be decimated in the same
way. Among others, this fire killed the
rebel Generals Winder and Trimble. The
arm OF the former was torn off BY she'll,
and he died very shortly afterwards from
the How OF blood, and Trimble was knock
ed dead from his horse by the explosion of
shell. Having put the forces Of Mellow,
ell and Sigel in rapid motion fer the field
OF action, Gen. Pope, with his staff, accom-
panied by Gen. Mcdowell and staff, ilnme,
dlatel y proceeded together from their head
quarters to the front, As they passed
Ricketts, division, and the head Of SigePs
army corps, that iEed the road for the
whole SIX miles, each regiment halted for
the instant, wheeled into line, and gave
Gen Pope three cheers and tiger, and
then wheeling again into marching column,
pushed forward with signal eagerness for
the fray.
At 7 o'clock p. m, Gems Pope and Nc
Dowell reached the thickest of the fght,
and the advance guard of Ricketts,, coming
up at the same time, took position immedi.
ateiy IN the rear OF that occupied by Gen.
Banks corps. There being no room on
the field for deploying more troops of ours
than were under Banks, those of Ricketts,
could not get into actual action before night
came on, which for some hours prevented
further fighting. In the course Of the en-
gagement, our forces engaged had retired
perhaps mile from IT, e position in which
they commenced the battle at 4 o'clock D.
m, the rebels advancing slowly as we re-
ceded before them. This movement on the
part of Gen. Banks, Notwithstanding his
heavy loss, and the overwhelming force op-
posed to him, was as regularly conducted
as though he was executing an evolution of
dress parade. Not man of his corps,
or indeed of any other, showed the white
feather; nor did a man even straggle to the
rear to the distance of more than half a
mile, where stood provost guard of Rick
etts' corps, bayonet in hand, to check any,
if there should be, disposed to skulk off the
field
We left the field at eight o'clock for the
night, IN course Of which, at midnight, a
discharge from one of our batteries brought
on renewal of the engagement for two
hours, in The course Of which each side is
believed to have lost two or three hundred
more in killed and wounded By cavalry
charge, after midnight, Of the enemy, Gems.
Pope and Mcdowell and their respective
stats, were within an inch of being killed
or ridden down. They had dismounted in
the front to rest few minutes from the
saddle, when the enemy's cavalry made so
sudden 9 dash upon them that they had
barely time to mount and get quick y out
of the way. In so doing they were mista-
ken by a company of their own men for
charging rebels, and received their fire,
killing few of their horses, only we be-
lieve.
Our loss Of regimental and company Off
GERS was very heavy. Among those killed
were Col. Crane, of the Sd Wisconsin; Maj.
Savage, and Captains Abbott, Russell, and
Goodling, and Lieut.. Browning of the I'd
Massachusetts. Col Donnelly, Of the 28th
New York, was, we fear, mortally wound
ed. Col. Creighton, and Adjutant Molly
neau, Of the 7th Ohio, are also very badly
wounded, Capt. Robert w. Clarke, Of the
first District regiment, received a wound in
the foot. Gen. Augur received Minnie
ball in his back, as he was in front of his
division turning in his saddle to cheer it
on. Gen Geary is wounded in the arm, so
that he will likely use it, and Gen. Prince
is slightly wounded On Saturday evening
as Gen. Augur was being carried past us
back to the hospital, it was thought his
wound was mortal but on surgical exami-
nation it was found to be q severe but not
dangerous wound
At 6 p. m. yesterday seven hundred and
fifty Of our wounded had reached Culpeper
Court House by ambulance. Every church
and other suitable building in the village,
including private houses, was filed with
them. The citizens, male and female
those of secession proclivities even throw
ing them aside for the time being-were
very generally vieing with each other in
rendering them every accommodation and
assistance in their power.
Both sides made some hundreds of pris-
oners in the course of the engagement, and
it was from prisoners that it is made GER
tain that the rebel loss is equal to ours, if
not greater. We estimate our killed and
wounded at one thousand FIVE hundred, af-
ter striving to inform ourselves as correctly
as possible on the subject. At 6 o'clock
in the evening, as before remarked, seven
hundred and fifty had been brought to Cul-
peper Court House, and there were at least
two hundred remaining in the two or three
houses, in the rear of the field, occupied as
hospitals. Yesterday morning, on the ref,
ormation of the lines of Gen. Banks corps
in the rear of the reinforcements that had
come up, as explained above, it was found
that his loss had been by no means as great
as was thought at dark on the previous day
At daybreak. Yesterday morning, the