New-York daily tribune., 1863-09-12
No.III

Tie demonstration sgaind Berlin proved
fatal move 20 NorraA. Whether L. 49,
tempted into il by the fac; tia, there were -
Government animals at tho place. ard eiPeoiot
20 overcome the Protecting ioroa With ease l1'
YVES higiioned N By ihc imPs!ng dhplay-oofer
inc Great roaluoss-Og .tforgiA by Col. lntAle
or intended il merely ss lini 20 create n.a!iaf'c,
sion. "a 10 The movements By which De- holed 20 ,iil!
cate himself from hi pfccsr.ogs situation ,io waste o.
tine nc.rod ln tbs venture brv.fas i.m into Tho no
in which tie greater pori!oa oi lis coiBmaaG voF'
caught IIs Only rad TO s,ciy was soTcss TIC Ohio
and for that be should hsro aadc without TIE least &c
lay instead q loaag lAf day Ia al oI9ose direction
Amer destroying a bridge and oul,eri on TIC se!o''
and Iool ng Railroad TIE Kcbcs frat moTed IN ssouiA
erly direction With Ay.cr 10 or>slng between Ports
mouth and Galpos b.; receiving M FaAi!oa q sA'
advance Il large body ofIroos oH tie farmef place
and finding tho roads barTcsae4 TUNED about 10 sh'
north and took tie road loS Pomeroy. e. Which Aey
csapcd in tie oyeniI.
IN the mean time loy al hrues cIo'.nr 10 GP1f
them from al directions From the n,riA Col Eanir
militia we're follow lns hin. To iio west Gcn h,D.oH
Was. a. previously stated n Jaclfon. ,ith.a icv
hours ride of them 10 tie easi And south ea'i oa'
militia and two volunteer regiments. IRON Con. saf
from Parkcrrburs. ~cro ,a,ohing for them. Al To-
fors between roftslnout and roilcso, wefc guarded
by gunboats and fr,In tlo south Gen Judah sh'
moving up with his whole division.
One brigade os tie ltcr consisting Of ,se oh indi
ana Ih Illinois and parts Of tho I'M Kentucky. and
en- md oh Michigan cayniry and Henshaws battery
with Gen Judah himself had landed at Portsmouth
npou info. nation Of Mofrns passage OF sco,A on th'
I,,f "a I'm lat IN
toward OalhIl Station. on the Sciola and iIo1lnr
Railroad. Tie General. guide losing LIS way and
lending the troop, several miles out IL tho way tie,
did no, reach 1t until neIt morning LcaiDinghefc that
Morgan Was At jackson. and abou; going eastward
Gen judah hurried forward to Centrc'lc after Send
ing order. 10 Gen Manson who had thnt morning land
cd 1t Portsmouth 10 iolos hm with his brigade II In
hntry. Eooching Ceatgevile l4te in the evening he
biyOurckcd there for the night.
Earl, on the lstli the Rebels marched toward pone
roy. taking two roods-one column going VIA wilkes
Vile aAd the other through y.nion. Ai.or crossing
Raccoon Greek, and burning all tbs hidges over it
they were detained two hours near tho little town o
Inesyille by bsrricadcs Which the Home Guards had
built on the road They appeared before Pomcroy about
nooo but finding the roads 20 the town all blocked W
and defended by Home Guards. with whom they sAIf
,rnnce but continued ea, to Chester which point they
reached in the evening oer constant decntons on the
road By sAricades. Stopping only long enough to bum
bridge over Shady Greek and make rcluistloni
for food. they pushed TO the south for Burlington
Ford some eight rnlcs above Pomcry. and opposite
considerable island bearing the same name. Their nd
vance arrived at the iori at a. m. aud Immediately
began preparations for cIoes.ng The main body went
into biyonaok in some corn fields in the river bottom Ia
the enst Of the road they had come and short distance
from the bank expecting 10 cross at dnyOi''h ana "'
lie dreaming what disasters the morning hai IN store
for them.
Gen Hobson had marched from Jacl'o nt . a. ~. on
The preceding day aud bi,ounckcd ni night around
Chester GEN Judah arrived ot Pomeroy Via Potter 10
D. m. and after giving his troops s:ow hours 10 en-
Joy the lavish ho'pitnlles Of The citizens moved Oh p
way Of Racine toward Buiiingion. Gen. Manson'H ana
Gen. Scnmmons forces and the gunboois likewise pro-
cceded up the river for The same point.
The Rebels planted their srtcTy at the ford DO es 10