Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-07-01
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I Another corresnondent saws of Friday'e bat
ita. f IN
Twi,e all along the front did the rebels at
tack our lines. onr rIfe pits and redonbts. Por
ter. with civ Damon, and Summers, Hooker
and Ayree's guns moved them with a dealt
Iharveet. Their LOGS In killed and wounded wa!
horrIhle
| IIodar date NJ fridav mtdn;oht tho same
r,ssnondent @ says: -
Ton onua were taken from ma nv a sudden
aAnk attack covered nv the thick smoke which
hung ar.uud.
Count De Paris oantured a rebel Major, who
belonged tn Jaokson;a armv He said he had
been Ia the Valley of the Shenandoah all win
ter. and came here vesterdav with part of Jack
soma army The rsst of Il arrived this morn
| ing, The whole Of Il was here. He said that
in the attack on our riebt the rebels had from
sixty to eighty thousand troops. This will ex-
plain the enormous fire under which our men
were borne down andswept away, precisely as
some of the regiments were swept away at the
Seven Pines.
Yesterday the Pennsylvania reserve drove
the attacking regiments OF Jackson's command.
To day they were overpowered by the same
troops reinforced. Sykes's regulars were called
up, but proved unequal the task OF stopping
to them.
The Count De Paris testiHes to the femarka-
ably good conduct Of all the regiments that sus-
tained this unequal attack on Porter Ihey gave
way indeed, but not one OF them ran Their
losses are enormous. The regular llth inian-
try is about annihilased; nearly every othcer In
it is killed or wounded. The l4th suffered also
severly.
Msjor Raselle, of the Regulars, hnsman
of Gen. Mcclellan, Is killed. Colonel Pratt,
of New York regiment is killed, and Lieut.
Coonels Black and Sgetzer,
Our loss In officers is very marked. Indeed
the disproporIlon in numbers was 30 extraordi-
nary, and the obstlnacy OF our troops 30 un-
yielding, that or losses we're inevitably large.
The artillery In both POrter's and Smiths
divisions piled the rebels In heaps The hfe
was terribly etfectiVe.-
PHILADELPHIA, June 3O-The following is the
conclusion of the Baltimore Americans account
of recent sffairs before Richmond.
WAsBlEorDu. June % since closing nv
letter from the White House find myself in
Washington City and in possession of most re
liable information from White Houee and other
points on the peninsula, nearly day later than
is contained in nv letter. It appears that tele-
Graph commuuicstion between White House
and Gen. Mcclellan was not broken until near
one O'Clock on Saturday, and then the wires
were cut at a station eleven miIes out.
Tunstall's station, four miles out, was in our
possession u1til four O'Clock in the afternoon,
at which hour the operator st White House
card a strange signal coming over the wire.
On going to the instrument, he was heralded
with what Union soldiers cali the rebel national
say, you Yankee" This was the
signal given for final evacuation, when Dor
tion of the infantry forces Immediately en-
barked on steamboats, In nwaiting for them. The
last of the transports was moved off by steam
tugs, ami few articles acattered about on shore,
even some damaged hay, was fred. The whole
was Of very small value, and thus of the many
millions of property here few days age, perhaps
not FIVE thousand doHars worth was destroyed. |
In the midst of this the White Houee was
fred and consumed.
The enemy made his appearance in consider |
able force at the White Heuse at about seven |
o'clock on Saturday evening, and although ne
neither found bread for man nor hay for beaat,
was welcomed wish heavy showers Of grapeshot
from the three gunboats which were ranged
along in front of the landing,
Tue rebels were supposed TO be thirty thou
al afr