Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-10-03
THE RATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA.
Former Reports Exaggcrated-Intere.s e.sine
Facts uud Incideutx

| [from the Indianapolis Journal, Sent. as,b
/ On Saturday, Col. John T. Wilder, Of ,h,s
| State, commander of the celebrated lnour ted
infantry brigade of the Army OF the Cu:nber-
| land, passed through This city, on his return
| home 10 recruit his health and strength He
! :eit Chattanooga last Wednesday morning, and
| brings later, as well as more complete news of
| IT, battle on the Chickamauga ga than the public
:.us sern.
ID, says that the report of the New York
Heraid's correspondent, tefegraphed from Gin
thilall. i IL correct ana exaggerats d: first be-
,suSn the coTresl ondent did not know what
disposition hRd bt EN- made of portions of tn,
lho corps which he reports defeated ;.,rd scat
icTtu' ana second, because he left the field or
sunday evening. and could not pos silfy i,a wa
learned ibe full result OF the fight Col VIII
Gel position was such rs 20 enable him TO
FGaW not oniy TIE movements of the troons
PRECEDING The battle of Sunday, but to briI.s
ir1n me held the very last news that could b.
gathered there.
In Saturdays fight he was on the left or left
MeCcok's and Critten'ien Corps inn51d moVed past
nm 10 strengthen Thomas on che extreme left
leaving him on the exticme right Eetweas
this brigade and Thomas. in the centre Instead
OF Two corps, as represented by the Herads
writer. There We're but two divisions, Sheri-
dams and JeIf. y. Davis, of these corps Here
tie iine Was necessarily very weak, and the
Rebels failing IN the desperate attack upon
Thomas, snd ia fierce but not pc r. tent dash
upon the right. took the opportunity of some
movement III The centre 10 make q dash there
They masscd column six or eight dteo
against our thin line and broke through i.
scattering the divisions more by main strength
and pressure than by their fire, into tha hills
and hoilows and woods OF Mission Ridge be
ilhu ThCm. where the nature OF The ground
made ii difficult to keep them together or rtlly
tAt NJ. This " as only the real reverse OF the
day.
On Sunday night Wilder distributed his bri-
GAGE 50 as u protect the roads from the Iicat ~
Chattanooga, ana on Ii uuday Joined tilt. ln ain
hoCy III GCCd orGer aId good spirits, entirely
unconscious OF any defeat Thomas came IN OF
MONDAY X his own pleasure. with mora taAn
two thirCs of the whole army. and au vthinw
but 9 defeat 10 report, the most ispiritiu-
accounts show. Oar line was held, except At
the right OF the ceattr, till we chose 10 leave it,
as RosrCTans would have done before the t:cht.
II the rebels had let him. They fought TO break
him up before he could ger back TO the i'm preg-
liable position 1T Chattanooga, and only sue
ceeced i'll breaking up two divisions.
Onr loss in prisoners in both dags VIII NOT
exceed twenty five hundred, including tAe
wounded.
III artillery it will be less than Col Pa-nett
supposed, as guns were recovered and brought
IN oi v hIIn he could know nothing Waen ne
gaze us estimate 10 The correspondent We
oaIau red about '.GhU prisoners. II whom Vii
der brought I.=50 with him 10 Stevenson The
distance OF .'e battle field from CuatJanoog.
h"S rot be- 4 properly understood, ana tae
Il position that J. hosecT&ns was driYca hack
twenty or u iTiy miles. las added :; gloomy
shade even % the most cheering aspect of the
feh; but the distance was small, our : xtr:.Ine
night, which was furthest away on Sunday,
after falling hack to Mission Ridge, being hard
~ more than hail Of IL.
Un MonGay, Imlnt Giately after the return
IRON The nsId. Wilder IS sent OF up the Ten
ness g 10 guard fords and passes for Buruside:s
benefit, and took with him despatches from
RCsecrans with full news OF the ..sItua:ion,,
These dispatches were safely delivered, as the
courier t1klng them got back Just as Wilder
started nome. This assures the country that
burnside VIII moi be caught unprepared
" hen the courier reached him he was moving
toward Chattanooga; at what point aud with
sueLgth It would probably be Improper to
state, hut we may state that by this time he is
rttst all danger of b. ing intercepted by the
Rebels. and has force enough 70 make good all
RosecTans has lost and something over.
AT Stevenson, Wilder heard a rumor that
GIHT>ons cavalry, from the Mississippi, were
within len miles, and that Sherman's whole
corps was wlthl two days march, coming IN
from Gecafar Alabama: but the rumors vera
undoubtedly false, as Grierson was in Sprinp-
i:eld. Illinois, on Friday, and Sherman could
nof have got 10 the poiEt stated rom the Big
flhrk IN the time that has elapsed since the
battle. and we know that he had not started
before.
In skiImish of Wilder's brigade with For
rest, few miles from Dalton, Ga, three days
before The battle, Forrest was badly wound-
ed that he WAS unable to take his command
during the battle. Gen. Joe Johnson accom-
PANIED FORESTS Brigade, and narrowly es-
capped being captured. That same day Lee.
Johnson, Bragg, and other Rebel Generals
were IN Dalton in consultation.