Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1862-10-09
Yankee Lying.

Yankee Surgeon is reported to have eaid at Wash.
ingon that be assisted bury 5000 rebels at Sharps
burg aud that when be left 500 were still left nnbured
letter writer the Tribune says that they took more
prisoners 10 tie battle and pursuit than they lost at
Harper Ferry, and the SANE writeH in Ibe letter
says they lest l4,500 at the latter place Dug Val
lnek estimates our killed wounded and missing at So
900 Why he did not sly 100 600, We left 10 con
lecture Other writers represent the wounded of Gen
Lees army as having all fallen into the hands of DC
Clellan
These INDUSTRIOUS lies cannot impose even upon the
Yankees no love be deceived almost we'll as they
love to lie They viii excite in Europe the market for
which they intended nothing but the most unquaIi
lied derls o. Ii We have been thus badly baen, why
is made OF tie victory? Why has not Mcclellan
crossed the river and destroyed the army of Gen Lee
Why has the Latter been allowed 10 refresh and recruit
at bis leisure :?
TIE truth is this. The victory. though not so deci-
slVe as that OF Manassas, certainly Conf derae
victory. 1t only many five thousand OF the stray
gers who left their c0ors and fingered behind had been
present, McClelans rou would have BEEN irremeable.
But they were not Ia place, and the quence was
that Gen. Lee could not follow up his victory. He
however, remained the f-d of battle all day THURS
day, and refused flag OF truce from Mcclellan, which
came with request be allowed to bury his dead
Gen. Lee had ample time to remove his wounded, and
he did them ALL with the exception Of few who
were too badly hurt to be moved The Yar KEGS took
none except these Of the last description The Van
hees cialul 10 nave hheU LUUu prisoners Ii So Wnere
are they?
General LEES whole loss, hear, did not reach six
thousand, killed. wounded and missing What the Yam
KEGS lost Of course cannot ascertain with accuracy
But estimate may be formed from the following
statement of the Yankees themselves. First Summers
corps, reported 5,2O8. Second, Rockers corps. The
correspondent says at one spot around end 10 barn
there were $50 wounded Along the same road, anC
within the distance Of two miles, three other hos
pitfalls all full and each calculated receive 600 or 700
say 1000 in round numbers for the three. Here then
8,458 for these two corps. The same writer say
the wounded are coming in by thousands These thou
sands exclusive Of 8,458 already cared for. For 81
many wounded, $500 killed is fair allowance. Total
for Sumner and Hooker l 900 killed and woundfd.-
But there were six engaged, and even allow
ing the loss in the Others to be only equal to that
these two, we have aggregate OF twenty-five thou
sand
From officer OF rank, we learn that it is all Ii
about the new troops behaving so well. On the cor
trary, they behaved very badly The fighting was don
principally by the corps of Sumner Hooker, Fz- job
Porter &c. who were concentrated upon jackson wit
the design to overwhelm him. which they might poss
bly, have done but for the arrival Of A. P. Hills corp
which decided the contest in our favor.
? Redmond DisD1fCh