Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-05-17
FROM FREDERIoKsBURe

/ FROM FREDERIOKeBURG
The last of the four ambulance trains due on
Thursday, reached the city at ii O'Clock P, M.
bringing l4OO wounded, which makes the whole
number received since the battles up to that
time, foot up 2O0O.
We have heard great deal Of complaint
against the citizens that they did not volunteer
Ia sufficient numbers to assist in putting the
wounded inio ambuances. No complaint was
ever more unjust. The people of Richmond
are as ready and anxious as ever to aid our gal
liant soldiers, we'll or sick; but they cannot be
expected to charge over armed men for the par
pose.
i While on the subject We will say that we
think there Ia getting to be much too free ad-
mixture OF the bay0net in all the ooncerne OF
life. There seems to be growing opinion
among officials that the commonest affairs can
not be performed without it.
A man who, yeir ago, didn't know how
to shoulder arms, is appointed to some petty
office, and in trice he must have file OF SOL
diers before his door Our own soldiers, torn
and broken in the battles oil their country, are
brought back to us, and the inevitable bayone
pointed at the breast keeps brothers, fathers
sud friends from coming near them
At Hamilton's Crossing there are more mus
kets piled on either side of the road than have
ever been seen together since the war, They
| we're left on the battle field By the Yankees,
and many thousands more there are which have
not yet been collected
| The number of cannon captured by our army
Ia not yet known, but it is said to be over fifty.
II is doubtful whether the pieces taken from
the Washington Artillery were recaptared. 1t
ia most probable the enemy hurried them to the
rear, that they might hereafter be psraded as tro
piles and boasted over.
We have omitted to mention that the Ysn-
kee officers seat down on Thursday night were
put into the ladies' cars, while the tops of the
same care we're covered with our wounded :
The acoundFels should be made to walk to
Richmond, il we'll enough, and if net, to re.
main where they are until the last one Of our
wounded has been brought down.
The fret ambulance train of Friday reached
the city shortly after ak o'clock P, M 1t
brought down five hundred and eixty wounded
and seventy three Yankee officers.
THE RESPECTIVE Los;Es.
From surgeon who left Fredericksburg on
Thu rsday, We learu that the surgeons in Gen.
Lees army make the following approximate es.
innate Of our loss in the recent battles
Wounded ''".''7SSS Missing, 200
1
Total. ,2uO
This estimate is liberal. and it is believed
that our actual lose will fall below rather than
exceed that sum
The enemy's loss is more q subject of con-
Lecture, but from the number of dead that en-
cumber the ground for miles about Chancellor
vile and behind Fredericksburg, and the pris-
oners now on their way to Richmond, it is
believed that it must be between twenty and
twenty-five thousand.
THE LAsT PASSAGE OF THE RAPPAHARNocK.
The Rsppahanuock has been passed, probs-
bly, for the last time, by the grand Army of the
Potomac. IL ia scarcely possible that the sue
cessor OF Gen. Judas Hooker will again ATTEMPT
to carry II on to Richmond by the mail route.
! Where the Army Of the Potomac will next
turn Its dismal steps, and where 1t will next be
beaten, is yet unknown. tits certain, however,
that il must move tomeWhere.
The grand Army of the Potomac has never
achieved success. IL has been periodically
defeated for two yesrs, and cannot, without
such lying as would hurt the conscience of o
prostitute, claim single victory. The annals
OF history may be searched in vain for another
military organization which has been paid more,
supplied more, recruited more deserted more.
moved on more, been more whipped, which has
run away such moRslrous number of times
On all Of these points, it may proudly claim a
pre- .emineDcs over the most famous failures of
recorded memory What will become Of i,
, nowi Must it be thrashed any more2 Are its
1 legs equal to yet another racer Can $40 be-
gotten out OF it again.
n What, too, will become Of Judas Hooker
! He betrayed his master, like the other Judas
and like him, the only thing the reward of in
iquity" has gained for him, has been this new
/, Alcedsma this modern Field of Blood. VIII
!, he 60 out, like his prototype, and hang himseI
! there? The prisoners cay they saw him fallint
{ from his horse. Did be, too, there 'burs
asunder in the midst, all bis bowels gushipl
3 out2n Fortunate 10 he II 1t were so. Any form
: of sudden death would be preferable TO the in
famous depths of disgrace into which he will
n nov tumble, After betfaying and disgraoinl
Al Mcclellan, Burnside, Sumner, franklin, AMI
n everything that wears even the outside CT homo
1 in the Yankee army; after declaring to his na
o tion that all these failures were simply want o
. generaship; after thrusting himself forward a
: the true man, oi the hour; alter having receiv
q ed In superfuIty everything that the wildes
4 fancy could crave; taking his own time; with
4 out scspegoat or an excuse possible--he Is to
a day the worst whipped commander this conf
nj neht has known. la what condition does he re
/, turn TO those who hearkened 10 his brag
Pope's reception was happy compared vii
q what be will get from the national scavenger
.. Of Washington and New York.