The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-07-25
Our Troops in the Late Battles.

We have been, all our lives, devoted
to that species of literature which con
sisis in the description Of battles anf
sieges. Consequently the quantity w
have read in this department is great,
disproportionate TO the quantity we have
read in all other departments Put togeth
er. We can safely aver that we nerel
read of any single feat, or apy series o
feats, either in ancient or modem times
that can at all compare with the exploits
of our army ON the Chickahominy. du
ring the week ending with Thursday
The storm Of naasio os was an achievement
Of unEiyalled splendor,at that day. Til,
British army has freqdently, in India, ac
complished enterprises IN the way o
storming that appeared impossible. But
when, before, did any army ever storm
twenty miles of redoubts and entrepch
mcnts, ak constructed with the utmost
skill, and defended with the most oDsti
nate pertinacity? Our brave troops went
on from redoubt to redoubt, and from
earthwork to earthwork, without halting
to look to the right or left. They lost
heavily IT is true, but they accomplished
far more than is to be looked ior in the
immediate results of their victory, cnor-
nous as they are. They established them
selves name which will be Of everlasting
service to their country. The prestige o!
invincibility is theirs, and will remain
theirs in all future time. The moral is
to the physical, says Napoleon, in the
proportion to threo TO one. Their enc
mics in future, will be half beaten be-
fore Gring shot. The very terror Of
their name will do as much for them as
their bullets and bayonets. Even if they
had not succeeded in routing the enemy
at all points, they would have gained
much by the Incompatible bravery with
which they fought.
But they dd route the enemy at all
points. This is a fact which all the lying
bulletins, and all the newspaper CORES.
pondcnts in the world cannot succeed in
suppressing. The world can see that the
enemy had line extending from long
distance above the Meadow Bridges in
Hanover to the Long Bridge in IIenrco.
The world can see that all the formidable
positions along that immense line have
beer abandoned. The world can see that
the whole route is strewed with the debris
Of broken and routed army. Tho world
can see that the York River Railroad is
in our possession, and that the fermida,
ble position on this side of the Chicka-
hominy, which was to be the base of Nc
Clellan's advance upon the city, is in our
hands. The world can see the evidences
of unparalleled disaster in the ruin of
wagons, destruction of commssary stores,
the relinqushment Of tents, the abandon
ment of hospitals, the capture of 10000
prisoners, tho desperation and disorgan-
ization of the whole division, the piles of
dead abandoned to our forces, the eretreat
of Mcclellan to Westover and his reli-
ance on his gunboats, after all his brag-
gadocia, to ensure his safety. Yankee
newspapers cannot lie the world out Of
its senses. The world will sec all this in
spite of them all, and it will ask, If this
be the fruit of McClellan's victory, what
sort of victory woulda defeat be expected
to bring forth
1t may be that Mcclellan may be re-
inforced, and make another cfiovt Be
it so. We are in the hands of General
who has just proved himself a master in
the art of war, and who has taught his
countrymen, in the last fortnight, to
place the utmost confidence in his skill.
This city and the country generally feel
safe as long as he is known to be at his
post. He will be found fully able to deal
with any crisis that may arise.