Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-09-17
The Fight at Baton Rouge.

All reports, says the Misslssippian, both public and private, confirm the great victory of Gen. Breckinridge over the Yankees at Baton Rouge. private letter written by an Intelligent gentle man of Clinton, on the 10th inst, snys
 CLINTON, LA, Aug. 10, 1882. The battle of Baton Rouge came of last Tues day morning. Early and as usual all the Tan> kee. cut dirt thick and fast before our little army although outnumbering us considerably IL was nearly a mile and quarter from the river where we met the enemy when the b.tls con1> mencel Our forces advanced Immediately upon their lines and batteries, under heavy fir. Of their infantry and artillery. vheu they broke and commenced general stampede toward the river along the main street running out toward, Gin. ton. our boys following close .1er and dropping them thick all along the street; they were driven to the rivers edge immmedlately under their gun boats Our forces then returned to their posi- ton out of reach of the shell of their gunboats which they continued 10 discharge throughout the day without any damage. Their camp 9 u,en sil, and tents were all burned; their arms coats and capa were scattered along the street. and several Of our militia, who gotin at the close of the fight, supplied themsevs with excellent guns. One important fact in this battle de> serves 10 be known. They armed the negroes, whom they had euticed from their masters in the surrounding country and put them in the front of their lines; the consequence was, they were terribly slaughtered; over one half some three hundred of them killed and badly wound ed; they lay dead along thei street,t Iank.e t1nd nigJer toqether. just and righteous retributon. But for the unfortunate failure of the Arkansas, our victory woul. have been complete and splen did. She was to have attackedtheir gunboats at the same time, which she could have managed easily. She arrived within six miles of Baton Rouge the night before the morning of the battle when the engines utterly failed, and she could not get an inch further. The Arkansas has been since blown up. The ennemy sent some three hundred cavalry mp the river to her position and some of their gunboats to capture her and her l crew. but believe they have all escaped. l conversed with one ofher officers yesterday, who informed me that they remained on board to the | last moment and the only alternative left, to pre- vent the enemy from getting the boat and arma- ment was to blow her up and let all go to the | bottom of the river.
 The killed and wounded at the battle of Bat. on Rouge amounted, on our side, to some 250 or 275. Our killed on the field during the battle did not exceed forty, but several have died of | their wounds since; what number know not; happily large proportion were but slightly wounded. John Morgan of this place was kl- ed, me ODly one we nave nedIu o Noul tulS HeiS borhood. Col Allen of the 4th Louisiana Reg iment was severely wounded by a ball passing through both legs below the knees and fractur> ing some of the bones, but am rejoiced to learn that his prospects fer recovery are favorable.
 The enemy's loss considerable. Capt. | Geo. H. Redwood, of the 4th Louisiana Regi- ment, who arrived home last evening" informs
 ne that he has seen and conversed with citizens coming out of the town, two or three days since thess battle swho generally agree that the loss oi the enemy in killed wounded and missing, can-
 not be under one thousand
 What great tax upon the ingenuity of the
 Yankees to make ,,out brilliant victory from this disastrous affair."