Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1862-07-16

and Mcdowell have been consolidated nto one army
hinder Maj Gen. Pope, with a view oi bringing 81
the Federal forces in Virginia to cooperate WIN
Mcclellan on the Richmond lines. A portion 0.
this army must have reached Mcclellan probably a.
ain early stage of the engagements in the vicinity OF
Richmond, as Gen. Mccall, who was taken prisoner
by US is known to have commanded DIVISION o..
McDowells troops There is little doubt Out lha'
we have engaged an army, whose supeI!o''iH 80.
numbers to US largely increased oy u"e of
Inducements, and with regard to TIE ope" tt.d M
which the Northern government mas '"'''.N
conditions Of success
THE BATTLES OF MONDAY AND roEsDA''
A gentleman who spent Tuesday, iuesoay a,'gn.
and the morning of WEDNESDAY 1a of tbe enenvs
retreat has supplied us with some interesting facts
that came under his notice concerning the stores
,Iostroved nv the enemy and captured from him.
At the White House, though the destruction was
intended to be complete, boxes OF assorted cart
ridges, amounting to one hundred and ninety, .e
thousand rounds, were captured, with between nIty
and seventy. five boxes of SHE'LL &c. Bayonets were
strewn along the track of the encmys flight as thick
ly as though they had been sown. Inc muskets
Law thickly strewn through the fields and woods,
bent and doubled by being struck the trees
Their manner of burning the stores abandoned
was in this WISE Hundreds Of barrels of picked
beef and pork piled up together, with barrels
of turpentine and other combustioes beneath them;
and then fred Abandoned wagons were huddled
in heap and fired by the ignition of boxes OF cart
ridges beneath them, the molten lead running down
the embankment as the heat increased.
The moasses was emptied into creek by scores
of hogsheads until the waters OF the creek ran as
thick as blood
Numerous cannon, wagons and ambulances that
were not burned had the spokes of the wheels anu
the tongues broken and knocked out with axes.
The different postures Of the dead always str'Hea
spectator as he passes over the battle held. one
law on his back. with his arms stretched upward at
length. another with his head plunged into pool
of mud and water, having evidently died shaking MS
thirst A third lay partly on the bank, and partly
in the water of creek, having been shot IN cross
ing, and died clutching the twigs and bushes OF the
! opposite bank One shot through the head hau
made himself a bed of leaves and laid down. draw
ing his blanket and overcoat about him. His uni
| iorm and face be:okened officer os some rank
| All of the above were of the Yankee slain
| During Tuesday night those engaged in carrying
the Confederate wounded off the field could not use
| their lanterns as every flicker from them was sure
to draw the fire of the Yankees.
The battle of Tuesday was perhaps the fiercest
and most sanguinary of the series OF bloody con-
tiicts that have sgnalized each OF the last seven
days. We have already adverted 10 the part played
in the action by Gen. Jackson and others, but, as
| vet have made little mention of the operations upon
the occasion OF Gen. Magruder and the troops under
his command We now propose TO give such par
ticulars US we have obtained on the field after the
battle
Early on Tuesday morning the enemy, from the
position to which he had been driven the night be-
lore continued his retreat in south eaSteriy direc-
ton towards his gunboats on James river. AT :
o'clock, A.. NJ, Magruder recommended the pursuit,
advancing cautiously, but steadily, and Smelling the
forests and swampS in front as he progressed This
method of advance was kept up throughout the
| morning and until i O'clock p. NJ, without coming
up with the enemy. But between four and five
O'Clock our troops reached large open field, mile
long and three quarters in width, on the iarm OF
Dr. Carter The enemy were discovered strong y
entrenched in dense forest the other side OF
tits field. Their artillery, numbering fifty pieces,
could be plainly bIStiing over their freshly
constructed earth-wOrks. At 10 minutes before
o'clock, p. NJ, Gen. Magruder ordered his men to
charge across the field and drive the enemy from
their position. Calamity they sprans to the en-
counter, rushing into the field at full run In
stantly from the line Of the enemy breast-works
murderous storm of grape and canister was hurled
into their ranks, with the most terrible effect Of
! fcers and men went down by. hundreds; but yet
undaunted and unwavering, our line dashed on, un'
til twothirds of the distance across the field was
accomplished. Here the carnage from the wither-
ing fire of the enemy's combined artillery and mus
and fell back to the cover Of the woods. Twice
again the effort to carry the position renewed,
but each time with the same result Night, at
length, rendered further attempt inudiciOus, and
the fight until ten O'Clock kept up by the artil-
lery OF both Sides To add to the horrors if not to
the dangers Of this battle, the enemy's gun boats
from their position at Curtis Neck, two and hall
miles distant, poured on the field continuous broad
sides from their immense rifle guns. Though it is
ohI have sta9 yvha tk,prap
serious loss was inflicted on US by the gunboats
the horrors of the fight were aggravated by the
monster shells, which tore shriek,ng through the
forests and exploded with conclusion which ap
peared to shake the solid earth ITSELF The mora
effect the Yankees of these terrorinspirinS allies
must have been very great; and in this, we believe
consisted their greatest damage to the army of the
South.
1t must no: be inferred from the above account
that the slaughter was all upon side. We have
the best reasons to know that the we'll directed fire
OF our cannon and musketry, both before and subse
queEt to our efforts to storm the enemy's position
fell with fatal effect upon his heavily massed forces
AT ten o'clock, P. NJ the last gun was fired from
our side Each side held the position occupied
when the fight begun, and during the remainder o
the night each was busy engaged removing thei
wounded The rumble of the enemys ambulance
and wagons, in rapid and hurried notion did no
cease even with the dawn. At ten o'clock WedneS
day morning they were still busy, and discontinued
their labors not because their wounded had all bee,
removed, but for fear of our advance. Our wounded
were carried from the field directly the farm houses
IN the neighborhood, whence after their njurie
had been examined and dressed, they were brouyh
to this city.
During the morning the enemy evacuated his pc
sltlon and retreated, still bearing in southeastern
direction and apparently not attempting to Jesse
the distance between him and his gunboats.
THE TERRIBLE sUFFERINGs FROM TIE YANKEE BAT
TERlES. .'r..
The battle of Tuesday evening has been mad
memorable by its melancholy monument OF carnag,
which occurred in portion of General Magruuer
corps, which had been ordered in very '"aiequai
force to charge one Of the strongest OF the enemy
batteries. There are various explanations OF til!
affair. The fire upon the few regiments who wer
ordered to take the enemys battery, which was saI
ported by two heavy brigades and which swept tn
thln lines of our devoted men, who had to approac
1t across stretch of open ground, is said to hav
been an appalling sight.