The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1862-01-03
Gen. POpr's brilliant
Victory!
FULL DETAILS OF THE MOVE
MENTS.
SPIRITED SIkIRNIIStI AND
SPEEDY sIRIsENDEls.
Cor. Of the ST. Louis Democrat.

Povc ON rebel camp near Knob Nostcr.
in which he captured an entire rebel
army. over thirteen hundred strong, with
all their arms, horses, baggage. tcnts,
Wagons, aud army supplies generally
The plan Of the attack on the part OF
General Pope was mastcrlv conccp-
ton, and its execution brilliant sue
cess.
On Sunfey last the army took m i,s
line Of march, following the Cliutcn road.
There were two hrigndcs. The Second
Brigade was commanded ly Col. jeff. C..
Davis, and was composed OF the follow
ing regiments:
The Twcnty-sccond Indiana, Col. Hen
drick; the Twenty-scventh Ohio, Colon.
cl Kenneth; the First Nebraska, Colonel
Thayer; one battery commanded by
Lieutenant Mari, aud part of two com.
ponies of the Fourth cavalry (Regulars.) }
commanded by licuts., Emroy aud Cor
don. The First Brigade, under the COM
mand ol Col. Steel, consisted of the 18th
India a, Col. Pa tsrson; the Eighth In
diana, Col Benton; the Twrnt, fourth
Indiana, one battery, Cart. Klaus and
four companies First Iowa Cavalry, Mai.
florence.
With this force Gen. Pope marched
cltvcn miles the first day, in the direction
Of Clinton, camping on lIon"y Creek
The ncxt day n march Of thirty seven
miles brought him to Shawnee Mounde,
where he received definite information
that the enemy his men so much desired
To meet, were encumpcd twelve miles
northwest. The rebels were reported to
be in considerable force, and seven hun.
drcd cavalry under command of Licuten-
ant-Colonel Brown, was sent against
them. The numbero this rebel force
could not be nscertaincd with certainty,
but II is supposed to have exceeded one
thousand. Here began rapid fight and
a hot pursuit that did not end until Colo.
lionel Brown reached Johnson, in Bates
| County.
To all appearances the campaign was
now ended. A large body of The cucmy
had been routed aud scattered with con.
siderable loss in prisoners taken and
wagons carrying supplies captured. The
whole country west of Warrcnsburg te
Jolnstown, was now supposed to be clen,
oil The rebels, aud the whole force re-
cruitcd at Lexington in this fiuht ant
pursuit, was so completely routed, sent
tered and cut up Is TO render them orbut
little use to General Price should they
indeed hereafter reach his camp.
While cncamped near Warrensburg
Generul Pope received information that d
largs rebel force, numbering twelve OF
fifteen hundred, were cncamped ncnr
Milford on Blackwatcr. Having sent
Mcrril's Horse out on the road lendino
from Milford TO Warrcnsburr, To inter
cept the enemy should they attcmpt n
fight, he marched tho remainder of his
army to Walnut Creek, on the road lead.
ing from Warrcnsburg to Knob Nostcr.
and there cnrampcd. Milford is distant
from Knob NOstcr northwest about ton
miles, and there the enemy were cncnmn.
ed the rorth side of Blackwntcr. to.
tally unconscious of the proximity of the
Federal Army. From tho camp on Wal.
nut Creek, TO Milford, is about six miles.
Gen. Pope then sent 45O cavalry, under
command Of Col. JEFF. c. Davis, TO Knob
Noster, with instructions to proceed
thence directly upon tho rebel camp.-
l'y this disp s'tion OF his forces General
Pope had the rebels completely surroun-
ded at all points thy were likely TO ot-
tempt fight, his main army heinz m NJ H.
south, Merrill's Umse an tbo ~,
Col. Davis, the attacking party, coming
down upon them from The soutIc,st a,
glance it will be ,ccn Tim, NO -
disposition of the troons could have bcon
made 10 secure a triumpbnn, issro A.
a support to Col. Davis. n section If ar @
tillcry followed him undcr Ms;or S. g.
Butler, with one company of the First
Regiment Iowa Cavslry. The a,tnck.
ing force Immediately under Tho co,n-
mand Of Colonel Duyis. WINS n mar, nr
the First Iowa Regiment. led bv Moior
Torrencc, and parts of Two cn,nnnnios
United States RcouIprs con,mand,'J y.
spectivcly by Lieutepnnts GorJ'n .,'l
Emory. $50
With this force. NOT ex,ooJ;, ,so
men, Col. Davis marched unon tho CO. so
my. It is plain the rebels mad no ~,
Of the close proximity of General p,nc.s
army, for when few men wro ,hrpwn
forward by Col. Davis. the rebsis ennoH,, o" =
sought to surround them in cnnsiJas.h2
force, aud retired precipitately wbCn Inv
discovered the reminder of Gis force
Prior TO this, however, the rebel nickrts
were triyen in by the repulors undcr En-
ory and Gordon, whose men succccd1 d
IN killing one picket and caDturipg nm
other. The regulars led the cbnrl,o n,,
the bridge over the creek where tb,v on.
and gallant charge II ,Vas rnr
the bridge was we'll guarded. U,viug
forced the bridge, the enemy n,,rdinn I, (
retired rapidly, some following the r6,J
straight out from the creek and nm a hill |
and others following alop1 tIe rreeI ,n
the main camp. Lieut.. Gordon. win
great gallnntTy, followed the lot,or cbar,,'
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