Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-26

lost TO us, our army would have been annihilated
and General Lee would have RENAMED IN Mary
land. ! DO not make this stlfemepf ~ rancom.
know what ! say j. true: and the history OF the
hattie when IL comes 20 be written, viii show u
o. be So How many troops DO yoa suppo
General Lee had in Maryland altogethery iJ0,-
00OT I00.OOO7 lie had. % fight the battle of
Autetam, ust City * thousand eombatafts; not
\ uisr n,vre kha~ tbst fact positively. AID
this INCLUDED the troops that had fought at Hir
per- Ferry anu captured thit place. The 10th.
The divisions Of Jackson, Walker. and A. p.
Hull. left Harper's Ferry on Monday afternoon,
crossed the Potomac pontoon bridge,
got into position and rested on Tuesday, aud we're
ready % fght and did fight at Antietam on We'd
nesday. Moreover. the artillery ammunition OF
the Confederates gave out during the afternoon
Of the 18th. and they fired out OF their raed can
non pieces of railroad iron about eighteen inches
long Scores OF these missiles we're found on The
field on the 18th.
IL j. now ascertainei that the reiniorcements
which have been moving up IRON Richmond to-
ward Maryland during the last two weeks did not
move by railroad any further north than Warren
ton Junction Near Manassas Junction there is
n spaee where the track has been torn up for i've
miles. There is no equipment or rolling stock on
the Manassas Gap Railroad, aud none on the
railroad between Harper's Ferry aud Winchester
These two railroads, therefore, are useless 10 the
Coniederates. 80 far as The moving of troops are
concerned. The reintorcements IL is now ascer-
tanned, marched from Warrenton TO Winchester,
and are marching from Winchester to Mar
tin-burg. Ii is said they amount to % 900 men,
What complexion the campaign will now as
sumo does not vet appear. Ii any large portion
of General Lees renforcements have reached
him. he may cross into Maryland again. and re
sumo the offensive. But il lie has entirely aban.
doned the idea OF campaigning IN the State, he
will no doubt move down from Htrpers Ferry 70
Leesbnrg, and. leaving strong guard there,
proceed with his main body 10 Fairfax and Cen
reville That position he can, and no doubt will.
hold ell winter, Il ..e does nothing Ii need
not be expected that he viii detach any portion of
his arm, Tor the immediate protection OF Rich
mond. That task l. in other hands.
Some OF the Eastern journals will begin to
clamor now for another advance on Richmond.
Richmond may be taken now in the manner de-
yised by General Mcclellan months ago, namely:
by fleet Of iron clad vessels and mortar boats
sailing up the james river, and by column OF
1000 troops transported to the White House
aud to Yorktown, aud thence TO march through
the Peninsula Richmond can be taken in that
way and in no other way IL cannot be taken by
colnmn OF troops marching overland by way OF
Manassas and Culpepper. IL is talked here to-
day freely of sending all the troops now here Oh
that very old wild goose chase, leaving the forts
here 10 be garrsoned by the new recruits Such
expedition ii il starts this week. might get IA
far As the north bank of the Rappahannock But
by that time General Lees whole army would he
on Arlington Heights Ii will not do any longer
10 despise and undelrate the enemy We have TO
fight Men who live tor four DAYS nj a stretch
on green corn and green apples who fght such a
battle as that OF Antietam with raging diarrhea,
who have had no whole shoes for months whose
hats are without either crowns or brims. whose
officers ride with bare feet and with their spurs
tied on with twine strngs-and who do all this not
merely cheerfully, but with enthusiasm-are not
exactly the men 10 he desDised How sad to
think that such heroic devotion and self-abnega-
ton are not enlisted in a better cause, X