The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-07-10

hominy to James River.
The n ew York Tribune's Gen. McClellan's
Army correspondent, in describing the re-
treat of the federal army from the Chlcka-
hominy, says:
Were Heintzelman beaten it was u tier
ruin; if there were even ore rsoei DIVISION 10
front. the march to the james River would
be disputed and delayed. 1t was an aoSo-
Int necessity tn at the way be unimpeded.
| There were % miles of trains cooped up be-
tween the advance and rear guards.
! Huddled among the wagons were 1O.oOo
stra gglers-for the credit OF the nation De u
said that four fiths of them were wounded,
s;ck or utterly exhausted. and could not
have stirred but for dread OF the tobacco
warehouses of the South. The confusion Of
! This herd of men and mules, wagons and
wounded, men on horse, men on foot. men
by the roadside, men perched on wagons,
men searching for water, m en- fam ishiug for
| food, men lame and bleeding, mon with
shostly eyes, looking out between bloody
band ages, that hide the face-turn to some
vivid account of the most pitiful part of Ma
poleon's retreat from Russia, and fl out the
p:cture-the grim, gaunt, bloody picture OF
war in its most terrible features.
1t was determined to move on during the
night. The distance to Turkey Island
Bridge. the point on JAM s River which
was to be reache by the direct road. was d
miles. But those vast numbers could not
move over one narrow road in days; hence
every by road no matter how circultou had
been searched out by questioning prisoners
and by cavalry excursions. Every one was
/ filled by one of the advancing columns
/ The whole front was N motion by L. NJ.
/ Gen. Keves in command OF the advance. L
rode with Gen. Howe's brigade, of Couch's
division, taking a wagon track through dense
woods and pre- cipitous ravines, winding sinu-
ouslv far around to the left. and striking the
river some distance below Turkey Island
Commencing at dusk, the march continued
until daylight. The night was dark and
fearful. Heavy thunder rolled in turn along
each point of the horizon, and dark clouds
srread the entire canopy. We were forbid
den to speak aloud, and lest the light OF a
cigar should present target for an ambush =
ed rifle we were cautioned not to smoke
Ten miles of weary marching, with frequent
hats as some one of the hundred vehicle 5
of the artillery train in our center, by slight
deviation, crashed against tree, wore away
the hours to dawn, when we debouch ed into
a magnificent wheat field, and the smok o
stack of the GaienG was in sight Keno
phon's remnant of the ten thousand shout
ing The seal the seal" were not more glad
than we.
Weakened from my couch of newly cut
wheat by sharp spears of eight O'Clock sun
light stabbing my eyes, l rode to this place
aud have since been indusiriouslv trying to
ascertain the situation. | learn that twenty
five miles of wagon trains were moving last
night, and that not single disaster occurred
to them. The entire siege train, one only
~ tl,o ta1 hrnu -yrt ofa,
" off. The rear guard hold White Oak
Swamp, with prospect of heavy work to- day
A word as to the destru ction Of stores dur.
ing the last two days Porter's entire train
was brought over the Chickahomlny before
the battle of Friday, hence nothing was lost
there. AT Sivage's, when that place was
abandoned, 100 cubic feet of ammunition
and enormous heaps of Quarterm asters and
Suffers stores. officers baggage and sol iiers'
knapsacks, were destroyed. and at every
hating place since the fasot has been busy
With whatever could be transported no fur
ti,cI. cau rDIui a coti or .i4o O.5ti. =
value but it is immense. One thing is GER
tain-but little has fallen into the enemy:
hands.
1 close to ride back to the rear-now ou
front. G. A. ?.
My note book says that at six O'Clock the
enemy commenced determ ned attack on
our extreme left, evidently with design of
thanking US. II was an awful, firing that re-
sounded from that smo ke-c louded valley
not heavier than some in the earlier part o
the engagement, but more steady and deter
mined. | am told that some men on the
other side and further up the river m ore
than a dozen rebel regiments march in al
that point, and. remaining only few min
utes, fill out little distinc, up the ravine
1t was only by Overlooking exhausted III en-
with fresh ones that the enemy succeeded il
turning that flank, as at length he did sue
coed ouly too well; and he accomplished it
in three quarters of an hour. At the eXpi-
ration OF that time our officers judiciously
ordered their men to fall back; the order
was no, obeyed so judciously, for they ran
back broken, disordered. routed. Simulta-
neousy the wounded and skukers about tn e
buildings used as hospitals caught panic,
whether from few riderless horses plung-
ing madly across the field, or from nstanta-
neously seeming the route. does not appear.
A motley mob started pell-nell for the
bridges. They were overt,ken by many
| just from the woods, and it seemed as if B ull
Run were to be repeated.
As the Infantry betook themselves from
the point OF attack, some twenty guns, for
tuuately posted in the morning for such an
emergency, aud which had not yet made
sign, opened terrific fire of canister at
short range. The enemy recoiled. The
bridge of Lodi was not half so terrible. Uu-
| til night set in, until the valley of the Chick
ahominy was canopied with sulphur. until
tn cir ammunition was exhausted aud many
of them went upon the field with over 200
roundS-dii those guns mold the raging en-
emv at bay.
Meanwhile the panic extended. Scores
of gallant officers endeavored to rally and
reform the stragglers, but in vain, while
many officers forgot the pride of their
shoulder straps, and the honor Of their man