East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-07-15

] General Sibley in Charleston To bring up
Instantly every soldier in that State who
could be spared. At five o'clock in the
afternoon that officer left in train for
Richmond with two regiments. Tclc
graphic calls for troops went at the same
time, from President Davis to every
Southern State. \ prisoner taken 10y
rs yesterday told me that "since a week
ago "Wednesday new regiments came
into Richmond rapidly, many from
Georgia, some from Mississippi, and
more from North Carolina, notwithstand'
linz her much youchedfor Unionism.--
We here knew that the rebel army be.
fore Richmond was being reinforced
with the most desperate energy. We
knew that jackson was 10 come. We
knew that the whole power Of the Con
fedcrate rebellion was being pat forth to
accumulate n force here which, by its
weight, should crush the Union army
Why were not corresponding efforts put
forth by the administration ut Washing
tou to strengthen our army at least to an
equality with that Of the enemy? We
being supcrorto the rebels III population,
wealth, and all resources, the neglect TO
send into any aud every field prcpon-
dering advantage on our side is OF IL
self u crime, which, had we Roman vr-
tue would be ineXorably punished with
tho axe. The piekcts OF both lines firing
into each others bosoms day and night
for a wonth of deadly animosity, and
ours feeling every successive night and
each successive morning that tho enc
my grew stronger while we grew weak.
er-.-ol1icers, men and civilians kneenly
conscious that when the rival brigades
or divisions locked together in combat,
the enemy outnumbcrcd us in a constant
IL increasing ratio, and developed their
settled policy to be to attack III columns
in mass, because they had the troops to
do it with-all of matchmaking reinforce
ment, aud demon, trating its necessity,
we CRASHED our teeth at receiving from
President makers and convention engin-
GERS, instead of corps d'armee, question
for debate: Can civil engineer be a
good General? We had no time to de-
bate whether Mcclellan was good
General or a bad one. He ,cas our Gen
eral; and the strong grip of the threat
ening foe was apon our threats, aud we
wanted help. We did not care whether
it came t. Us under Halleck OF Burnside
or was committed to Mcclellan. Not a
single man of Va who is not q fool or q
slave, is fighting here for the gloritca.
ton of any commander. We fight for
success, we fight to save the Republic,
aud to squelch forever OH this continent
organized rebellion against the demo
! cratic principle.
The refusal to give this army ample
reinforcement on Friday last, came with
in hairs breadth of running the nation
There was never IN States history such
delicate balance of fortune between life
aud death as vibrated on the Chicka-
hominy last week. Our line was north
of the river aud south Of it. From our
advanced railroad station, Fair Oaks, to
orr shipping port, White House Point,
was twenty miles. We had erected ten
bridges at convenient places across TIA"
Chickahominy. Thursday afternoon the
enemy developed his purpose of clearing
us ont II prth aud west Of the ChickOhom-
my to cut ON railroad connection an |
seize White House Point, and to destroy
rs with destruction compounded of
starvation and thrashing. AT three
O'Clock, an hour too late for reinforce
meat from distance, an assault in great
strength upon our troops near Meohsn-
icsgillc was commenced. The details of
the battle must find history elsewhere.
The rebels knew precisely our strength
III the y Sition, aud pitched on us two to
one. We had to abandon the ground at
evening after a bloody struggle The
best military minds in the army knew
that daylight the next day would bring
10 Us the crisis of the Union campaign in
Virginia 1t was whispered among them
that Mcclellan had evacuated White
, House Point and had sent all the Quar-
= tcrmaster's aud COmmissionary stores
there, savinga certain number of days
rations, together with the transports,
around to the James River to City Point
At early light, the cannousde from Por-
ter's batteries announced that the shock
of the rebel columns had fallen on on
extreme right-ther plan of present at.
tack being upon an arc curvlng from the
northwest to the southwest. The details
of the terrible aud honorable battle this
corps made against numbers which were
nnqucstionahle three to one, must also
be left to another place aud time. We
lost immensely. We destroyed the re
bells indeed horribly-killing and wound
, Ing more than we did at the Seven Pines
, The Romans at Canine, aud the Rus
siaus at Borudino, did not show more
: martyr-likc courage than the most of ON
volunteers ull ~ the face Of these mssscd
. columns Of the enemy They were sc
close to them that the constant and cx
celcut rebel practice Of relieving the
regiments under fire with fresh troops
was plainly seen by oar weary men, not
without sore trial to their resignation
) aud steadlastness. The rebel warfare
! was similarly vigorous and wise before
! all the other corps, divisions and brig
: AIDES, on which it fell on Friday. Supe
, rior number assaulted inferior;the assaults
: were ia the highest re rec marked by
the confidence which numbers give, an6