Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-09-15
FRO4l I'hE UNITED 5!lI;a::E:sj 81 Z : E:o
DATES FROM YANKEEDoM TO THE 9TH.

.
rs late as the 9th inst. from which We make
up the annexed Interesting summary Of the
news:
"sTRESCTH OF THE REBEL ARMY.
The "llerald" publishes an article taking
up one column and Il half Of is >Iac., which
purportS t" "sivc the only complete statement
Of the forces comprising General Lees army
that has ever been published" The cores
pondent who furnishes this valuable 81 infor-
nation dates his letter from !a!imnfc. and
saws:
! am not Mt liberty at present to state how
I came into possession of this remarkable doc
umcnt. the original Of which is at present in
the Office of the Aliutant 6cncral Of the rebel
army Mt Richmond but the other facts in
this letter on the same sulir are derived
from the sources indicated in nv letter Of
August 9th, and from others equally direct
and of more recent date.
Neither General Lee nor the officers and
men comprising his army have spent the last
four weeks in inglorious ease. a few days
| after arriving ut their present position, on the
south of the Rappahannock, were devoted t"
that rest and rccuperation which they all 50
much needed after their long and arlrous
campaign in Pennsylvania but this did not
extend over any longer space than the time
between the 2jth Of July and the lst Of Au-
gust. During the whole the present month
all the energies OF General Lee have been bent
ta the task Of scc0ntling those III the rebel
government in preparing his army !nr M en-
ergetic and vigorous fall campasn.'
Wo bn sSITnr,lI',b
REHABILITATION.
Total artillery above, 29l guns and
men $3.50
Total cavalry above fifteen squadronS Is. .dm
Total artillery above nine divisions SS,i72
Total number sSr men. including
officers 1882
This is, probably, the utmost strength uc
Gen. Lees army proper for the fall campaign,
although II is possible that the arrival nf more
c0uscri pts for they continue to come in daily)
may swell the total number 20 l2j,0O0 men.
Another correspondent gives thc following
81; the distribution and strength Of our army:
Under General Lee, on the line Of the Kappa.
hammock, for tho defence of Richmond and
fer operations against the Union Army of the
Potomac troops, l:,0.0rO
Under Gen Beauregarl, at Charleston, 5O.CnU
Under Gen. Bragg, at Chattanooga and
East Tenn, $1,000
Under General Johnston and at Mobile. $4,000
All the Gctachmcnts uf troops recently scat
tered at various points have been concentrated at
one or the other Of the above four grand thea
tres Of operations.
THE NIGHT ATTACK OS SUMTER.
The Herald" gives the following account
Of an attack made on Fort Sum:c.' on the
night of the Sd. OF course they had not
heard Of the attack made on the 9Th instant
During the afternoon Of Tuesday the COM
manders of the Monitors were assembled in
Admiral Dahlgrcn's cabin. on the flagship
Philadelphia, ami Il night attack OH Fort Sum-
ter determined on. The Monitors were pre-
pared for action, and about eleven o'clock at
night they steamed up the harbor and hcgan
the fight The night WAS quite favorable for
the movement, the moon being partially OBJ
scured bv light, flcccy clouds and the sea
smooth. The rebel works on Sullvan's Island
and Fort Sumter were as plainly defined as
could be desired, while at the same time the
Monitors were quite ;ls easily made ont by the
rebel gunners. From halCpast eleven until
four o'clock in the morning the Monitors and
Ironeides, which did not 20 in the fight until
after midnight, were firing upon the north end
face of Sumter. sending their huge fifteen
inch shells and two hundred -poundcr Parrott
proiectiles crashing through the wall Of the
fort with terrible effect. at - distance oC nhon!
eigh; hundred yards Meanwhile they endured
an intense and heavy fire from Fort Moultric,
Battery Bee. the battery on Noun: Plea.
saar, on Sulivan's Island, and Fort Wagner
and Battery Gregg, on Morris Island. /
watched the firing several hours during the
night, and must say that | have never seen the
rebel guns worked with 50 much rigor and
rapdity ~ they were on Sullivar's l,land on
that night. One continuous line of flashes
IRON the Beach Inlet Battery to the work on
the extreme left, and an uninterrupted roar Of
heavy guns and the howl of rife bolts, made
tho scene one not easily to be forgotten. Tho
smoke from the rebel batteries and The Nnni
tors hung heavily on the water and ohecrlrr'l
the largest objects from view. and only by the
quick flashes that CLEANED through tIe smoke
of battlc could we locate the exact position OF
the contendiug forces Tho Monitors %ern rc-
peatedly hit; lut no one was hurt "n any oi
them except aboard the Montauk. During the
action the turret was struck hy Il rifle pr!cc-
tile, which started the plates and drove out Il
bolt, which unfortunately hit Lieutenant Com
mander Oscar G. Badger on his right ankle
and broke the bone of his leg. The same bolt
or fragment ur it, struck one of the men on
the thigh and inflicted painful but not s'ri-
Gus wound. Lieutenant Commander Badger
was doing very well. and is still upon The Mon
tauk, from whence he will be removed tn the
Wabash as soon as it is safe to do 81. Nnothcr
casualties occurred.
OUTNUMBERED-TiiE OLD CRY.
A despatch published in the same journal
says:
Gen. Imbnden, with inrcn If twelve hun
lrad men, attacked Major Shepherd at Moor
field. Ia on Sunday. Tie latter had but u
| small force, and fell back towards Cumher-
land.
NOT To IF SPEEDILY SrBDEED.
The Baltimore correspondent Of tie "lIer-
aid" says "tllc military power Of the rebels is
still formidable, and that, although the rebel
forces now in the field only amount to three
hundred thousand troops, still that their pre-
parations and the means at their disposal for
carving on the war arc such as 10 forbid us
to hope that they will be speedily subducd.-
1t is well known here thar that which gives
the, rebel government the greatest encourage
mcnt and keeps up tieir hopes of final sue
cess is the fact that the war on cur part is
conducted not 10y soldiers, hut by two lawyers
ut Washington, and that the administration
does not pretend 10 conduct on it military
|spriuciplcs, hut solely with political ends in
view"
WASHINGTON TO lie AGAIN nELEAGuEREn.
Under the above startling caption the
Herald" says:0
The rebels intend during this month and
October to regain possession of the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad to re-cstablish the blockade
of the Potomac river, to drive Gen. Mcadc's
army to the shelter of the Washington forts,
and, if they do not attack the capital itself,
at least give to Washington the aspect of a
beleaguered city, with y hostile army $50 0OC
strnnn at its cates Lrhe means NJ thnir dis.