The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-05-11

roaA q thas tane. Imads toward Ne hsavfess
ARE. al eano up b the rear OF the enemy ana
n ialfan hour e1Aef my men became engaged.
Tha enouy VA routed, throwing away their
erms. eloekine and havera ,ks, aud broke for
q weeds IN the direction Of Rice%ond.
x-Yes, dr.; aad that wa the ending Of the
Aght q thai baasle. A part Of my troops occu.
pkel Ne camp that had been occupied the day
befbsu By Gen Keyae's corps and the ground
TIT he had lost that day. On Monday, the
day AiAsf the battle, I received ordsrs--the d.
receions were vefv vagne-to make . recon.
noialsnce IN fofce through the camp and beyond
T. l did - without any resistance. except
little picket firing, and proceeded TO perhaps
within thrse and half or four miles OF Rich'
monA, on the Williamsburg road. j was then
recalled, and directed to establish my command
on the ground that Casey's division had oceu-
pied on the first day Of the fight ct FAR OAks;
!, 2 e., Sn,P portion of our army WAS ''s's''
A--Ksyses corps, q little more than ore.
half Of Hsintzslman's corps, and portion OF
Summers e,rrs II any other troops were On
ssesd, do not know Of It.
O.-At what number would you estimate
Al should think that, all told, there
might have bssn twenty i've thousand men
The Telegram directing ne to return from my
Reconnaissance was in substance this: Gen.
Booker viii return from his brilliant recon
noiseance; we cannot afford to lose his divi
sson-" All ! have to say IL, that had no ex-
pseaation Of being lost
Q.-Supposs that the next day after this re.
pase Of the enemy at Fair Oaks, Gen. McCel.
iaa had brought his whole army across the
Cajc&ahominy, and made o vigorous move
Meas upon Richmond, in your Judgment, az a
military man. what would have been the effect
Of the movement
Ain answer to that would cay that a.
30 f,;ne during The wAo'e of that campaign dad
feel that ace could no. go To Richmond. Aud
/ will say further, that after Gen Mcclellan
received his orders to abandon Harrison's
Landing. 4 aeeni 10 him rolaHtaytiy, AMI suS-
gessed tsnt, acish the force ace had there
sce road take Richmond, and pressed
rem TO do 81. So conhd' M was tina. we
wonid be successful that / was willing to
take the advance, and so assured him. This
intervisY took place at IL o clock on Sunday.
From that interview returned to my camp,
stopping on the way two hours On reaching
my camp, found on my table an order from
Gen. Mcclellan to prepare myself with thres
days ra.ions and the usual amount of ammuni-
ton, and to be ready to march at two o clock
on Monday. This order was comma nicated
to the whole army, and firmly believe that
order meant Richmond had said to Gen.
Mcclellan that If we were unsuccessful it
wonld probably cost him his head, but that he
might as well die for an old sheep as for a
lamb l told him that knew Of no better
place to put an army than between Johnston
who was at that time in Pope's front-and the
offences Of Richmond that the troops hold
ing those defences would have to march to
the succor Of jackson, and would be COM
PEELED to come out and give battle outside of
their defencee, where l knew we were al
ways stronger than the enemy. But before
the time arrived for executing that order it
was countermanded, and hence the results of
Popes campaign