Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-05-21

We find in the Cincinnati Gazette the
following extracts from the Richmond
Examiner of Saturday, May 8:
FROM MrREDrmcKsBrRd.
The last of the four ambulance trains
due on Thursday, reached the city at L
O'Clock F. NJ, bringing 400 wounded
which makes the whole number received
since the battles up to that time, foot up
2000
We have heard a great deal of com
plant against the citizens that they did
not volunteer in sufficient numbers to as
sist in putting the wounded into ambulan- |
ces. No complaint was ever lore unjust.
The people of Richmond are as ready
and anxious as ever to aid our gallant sol
diers, well or sick; but they cannot be ex-
pected to charge over armed men for the
purpose.
While on the subject we will say that
we think there is getting to be much too
free admixture of the bavonet in all the
concerns of life. There seems to be
growing opinions among officials that the
commonest affairs cannot be performed
without it.
A man, who year ago didn't know how
to shoulder arms, is appointed to some
petty Office, and in q trice he must have a
file Of soldiers before his door. Our own
soldiers, torn and broken in the battles
of their country, are brought back to us,
and the inevitable bayonet pointed at the
breast keeps brothers, fathers and friends
from coming near them.
At Hamilton's Crossing there are more
muskets piled on either side of the road
than have ever been seen together since
the war. They were left on the battle field
by the Yankees, and many thousand
more there are which have net vet been
collected.
The number Of cannon captured by our
army is not yet known but it is said to
be over fifty. 1t is doubtful whether the
pieces taken from the Washington Ar
tillery were recaptured. 1t is most prob
able the enemy hurried them to the rear,
that they might hereafter be paraded as
trophies and boasted over.
We have omitted to mention that the
Yankee officers sent down on Thursday
night, were put into the ladies' cars, while
the tops Of the same cars were covered
with our wounded. The scoundrels should
be made to walk to Richmond, if we'll
enough, and if not, to remain where they
are until the last one Of our wounded has
been brought down.
The first ambulance train Of Friday
reached the city shortly after six o'clock
p. NJ. 1t brought down five hundred and
sixty wounded and seventy three Yankee
officers.
THE RESPECTIVE LOSSES.
From a surgeon who left Fredericks
burg on Thursday, we learn that the sur
geons in Gen. Lees army make the fol-
lowing approximate estimate of our loss
IN the recent battles:
Wounded ~, 900 Missing :. L, 900
Killed. d....... 9UO -
Total. ............... o 200
This estimate is liberal, and it is be-
licved that our actual loss will fall below
rather than exceed that sum.
The enemys loss is more a subject Of
conjecture, but from the number of dead
, that cucumber the ground for miles about
Charlottesville and behind Erederclls-
burg, and the prisoners now on their way
r to Richmond, it is believed that it must
be between twenty and twenty-five thou
sand.
THE LAST PASSAGE OF THE ERAPpAHANNoCK.
The Rappahannock has been passed,
probable for the last time, by the grand
Army of the Potomac. 1t is scarcely
possible that the successor o. Gen. Judas
Hooker will again attempt to carry it on
to Richmond by the mail rout. Where
the Army of the Potomac will next turn
its dismal steps, and where it will next
be beaten, is yet unknown. 1t is GER
tain, however, that it must move some
where.
The grand Army Of the Potomac has
never achieved success. 1t has been pc
riodically defeated for two years, and can
not, without such lying as would hurt the
conscience of a prostitute, claim a single
victory. The annals OF history may be
searched in vain for another military or
ganization which has been paid more,
supplied more, recruited more, deserted
more, moved on more, been more whip.
ped; which has run away such mon
strous number of times. On all of these
points. it may proudly claim pre- emf.
nence over the most famous failures OF
record memory. What will become of
it now? Must it be thrashed any more:
Are its legs equal to yet another race?--
Can 2:4O be gotten out of it again?
What. too will become of Judas Hook
er? He betrayed his master, like the 9th.
er Judas, and like him. the only thing
the "reward of iniquity" has gained for
him, has been this new Alcedama-this
modern Field of Blood. Will hego out
like this prototype, and hang himself
there? The prisoners say they saw him
falling from his horse. Did he, too, there
"burst assunder in the midst, all his bow
els gushing out?" Fortunate is he if it
were SO. Amy form of sudden death would
be preferable to the infamous depths OF
of disgrace into which he will now tum-
BILE. After betrsying and disgraceing Nc
Clellan. Burasids, Summer, Franklin
and everything that wears even .hc ont
side of honor in the Yankee Army; after
; declaring to his nation that all these fail
ures were simply want of Generalship
after thrusting himself forward as the
: true man of the hour; after having receiv