Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-10-10

LOUISVILLE, KY, Sept. 18th, 1862.
You have probably received through the daily
papers here an account of the two DAYS battle az
Muniordville. / have just managed to reach
here from Buel's army, and Cannot give YOU the
details soon YOU will get them by mail.
But this much | can say. that in no event of the
war oi rebellion have treason and freachery been
50 apparent as in the surrender of 200 troops at
MuniOrdville Ii is enough to make "A man in
his frenzy clench his fists till the nails ndent hi
flesh, TO think OF the disgr'eefu conduct of the
commanding officer do not mean Col Wilder.
of the 18th Indiana. That gallant officer has
nothing OF the submissive in his character He
deserves, and ought to have. immediate exchange
and the reward of soldier
Do you know the features of his fight on Sun
day at Munfofdyillel With 2 500 men and five
pieces OF artillery he successfully resisted five diff.
terent attacks upon a mud fort with bitches rot
three feet wide and deep, made 10y force OF >,
600 men. He fought these rebels with raw troops
who had not been in the field two months He
killed at least 4O0 of the rebels. His men beat
them down from the rifle pits with the butts OF
their guns He resisted this force for seven hours
and so well did he mIneuver his men that he lost
but men killed and 30 wounded.
But unfortunately he reinforced by Col.
Durham o Sunday, and Durham superseded him
as senior Colonel. Durham proposed even on
Sunday, when victory had but perched Oh our
banners and the enemy was actually retreatiIg,
to surrender.
On Monday Durham demanded reinforce
ments. and tive regiments and battery were
sent him.
On Tuesday the enemy again attacked They
planted a battery and shelled the fort for five
hours, and then cooliy demanded its surrender;
and the butternut Democrat, Col Dunham, of
the 50th Indiana who has had to publish de
lenses of himself against the accusations of
dozens who called him rebel sympathizer as
cooIly SURRENDERED; and this to the same force
which Wilder. with halt the men, had whipped
most numerically
We mud the above letter in the Philadelphia
Press, though we believe it is not original in
that journal, having been copied from some
other paper. We need not tell our readers con
versant with the facts that il il tissue of
Misrepresentation and ialsehood from first to
last
In the first place, Col Durham was not in
command on Sunday, and OF course could make
offer of surrender In the next place, ON
Tuesday morning, when Durham in com
mard. he, 10 answer to a demand for SURRENDER
absolutely refused 10 do so
On Tuesday afternoon Colonel Wilder again
took command. and being convinced the place
could not hold out, made the surrender Another
mOnstrouS falsoood IN this letter is that the force
TO which the post surrendered was the same
which Wilder had whipped. The iactis, the force
which Wilder whipped on Sunday was less than
5000 men. while the force to which he surren-
dered Tuesday night, rather Wednesday
morning, was. according the rebels own story,
AZ 900, ander command of seven NJ ,jor Generals
and numerous Brigadiers.
We have no doubt both Colonel Wilder and
Colonel Durham did their duty on this occasion,
and IT is To be deeply lamented that for partisan
purposes, the truth should be 20 tar departed
from The above letter. IL II that Col.
Durham asked Tor reniorcementS from Louis
vile. and he had right 10 expect them. The
authorizes there perhaps had good reason for re-
fusiug them OF that We know nothng-N A.
Ledger.