The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1863-10-16
THE WAR FOR THE UNION
From New Orleans.
Nrw YoRK, Oct. IL.

NEW YORK, OCT. IL,
The New Orleans correspondent ot
the Herald, gives the following rarticu-
lars OF the engagement near Atchsful.
. aga:
Owing 20 the illness Of Gen. Heron
that officer had received leave uf absence
and Major Gen, Dana had been nppOint.
cd totho command. This change occur
red about a week ego. AZ the enemy
.wss found 10 be in great strength aud il
good osi,ibn on the opposite side Of the
Atchafulaga, the Commanding General
thought Il advisable to throw up en-.
trcnchmcnis, and while the most " the
troops were tortiIying The ltvoc. Lieut..
Col. Leak, Of the goth lowh, was ordered
o. proceed some five or six miles IN ad.
vance. lie was accompanied by portions
Of the 10Th Iowa aud 26th Indiana, to-
yethcr with l50 cavalry and section Of
artillery. Early ON "Wednesday morning
the whole force Of the enemy, succrt ded
IN quietly crossing the Atchaiulnga aud
rassiDg between the main body and Col
Leaks command, completely Iutilauk d
aud cut il Cff before the movement was
discm cred. Col. Leak drew up his men
Ia Inc Of battle aud gallanly prepared to
give the foe warm reception. a sharp
light Of nearly hn an hour occurred, In
which our troops fought brnycly against
ovorpOwcring numbers, but at the end Of
that time they were compelled 10 surrcn.
der, the enemy having almost surrounded
them. With the Exceptions OF the cav
alry, the whol' were taken prisoners aud
the guns captured. Tho former con.
siSting Of d,tuchmcnt tom the 9th,
seth and ist lliiuois, made their escape.
The prisoners, officers and pryHtcs, uu'n.
bcrrd iSo. We took Ii utcnbnt Col
oncl and ~ men. NJ ior Gen. Dana al.
arccd bic whole force ns suOu ~ pos.
siblc, aud cur last ui,iccs say that the
cuomy was in lull retreat, they hiying
fallen back miles as soon as they saw
the division pdvancing towards them
| this IL ,ru', the tables will hc turned
upon them, 10 they are between tho Mh-
tissippi aud Atchuluaga rivers, and 10
escape over the litter, they VIII b. ccui.
pcllt d 10 lcnvo their prisoners and nriil.
l,ry behind thcm
NLw y ,RH, Oct. ~.
A special to the Tribune from Knox
willie, lth, says burnside advanced to-
wards Grernvllc on Thursday, and Fri
day ho overlook rebel under Jac kson
aud Williams, at Blue Springs.
The rel ols occupy strong position
mud number nj least 5000. Our cavalry
held the advance until . =. NJ, whcu tho
first division several times charged the
rebels. The firing was sharp aud dcS-
'truciivc to our men. The rebels ufcd
lut one battery and were driven from the
field at sundoN n. Tut tho darkness rondcr-
od pursuit impossible. The rebels arc
now rctreaIire on the Grccnvillc road.
We lost 90 killed aud wounded. The
latter are On cars 10 be sent to Knoxville.
Burnside is rursuing and ,ycyth.ug
louka encouraging.
Nrw NuRK. OFT ~.
The following from the correspondence
OF the Baltimore American, written from
Chai lcstun hurbor on the 5th inst., il Of
interest. There are indications now that
the present inactivity viii not be OIL
many days continuance. Con. Gilmore
has tore d his works forward with re-
murkahly rspdity considering thcir mag.
ntudc aud the natural and ar, fetal OBJ !
strhctiurs In his way. Tho tro ps have
worked hard, nearly every regiment on
the ls.Und tahiig its turn every other
day in the trenches fer fatigue duly. All
this, however, has bccn chccrlully borne.
The soiditm having an uulimi,d couh |
dencc in Gen. q i'morc aud co-opcration
IN the accomplishment OF his plans,
The navy is also preparing ter the re-
ucwal of thu attach. Within the last !
20 hours there have been important ar
rivals hers uf means tor the removal of
the distractions, which we may soon
hope TO see successfully applied,
The monitors now hcru urc the Lc- |
high, Nahunt, Wechawken, Montauh and
CRtskill.