Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-01-20
The Captured Rebel CORES.
5aa pOfIdence, A !.
Interesting State COrrespondene,aI e,a ia
tween tho Richmond TraiIorS IISsI |
their their Emissaries In England ana
Ar. BsVamlnitO AR. IStideN.
mo. 6, daPllcate.l
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mo. 8, duplicated
g5lg DEPARTNENT OF STATE,
Richmond, September, %, 1862.
Hon. john SLIDLLI, &el &C. &C., Paris.
SIR: Since my number S, of the 1o,p
July, | am without any communicative
from You, with the exception of your No. 2
of 2Gth February last, which was brought
to the Department on the 26th OF hi,
month by MIR. Chambeslyn, to whom you
had entrusted it. his|sehtleman has tbDl
consumed seven nonths'in discharpinp the
trust confded to him.
Your numbers l 3, q. 8, and 6, are still
missing, and for the regularity of the ar.
chives of the Department beg you to for.
ward duplicates Of them.
Events Of startling importanc have been
crowded SO rapidly into the short period
which has escaped since my last despatch
that any attempt to give them in detail
would swell this communication into vol.
nme. shall endeavor to send YOU here.
with.our files of ofnewspapers, which will fur.
nlsh details, and conEine myself to a state.
ment of the present condition of affairs.
On the 10Th Of July the remnant of Mr.
NcCiellan's defeated army was still en- :
camped at Harrison's Landing, on James
river, fortified in very strong position,
and protected by formidable feet of gun
boats. His defeat has been followed by an
order of President Lincoln Investing
Major General Halleck with the command.
in- chiof of all the armies of the United
States, headquarters ut Washington, Mai,
Gen. Pope was assigned to the command
OF the army of the Potomac, which was
composed of the shattered remnants of The
armies of Fremont, Milroy and Banks, after
their rout by Gen. jackson in the battles
OF the valley, to which were added the sew.
ernl armies of Mcdowell, who occupied
fredericksburg of Burnside, who was re-
called from North Carolina aud Hunter
and Stevens, who were recalled from South
Carolina. The army was also increased by
troops withdrawn from Norfolk and For
tress Monroe and replaced at those points
by raw levies. This accumulated force
amounted probably to about ninety tbous-
and effective men, and the old cry on "On
toRichmond" was renewed with the usual
accompaniment of cxtravagaut boastinr by
Northern journals.
General Lee first dispatched Gen. Jack
aon with corps d'armee of about twenty
five thousand men to check Pope's advance.
and having satisfied himself that small
force would be sufficient to watch McClel-
Ian, (whose army was demoraIized and dis
pirtted by the result of the battles of the
ChicknhOminy5 and was being fast worn
down by sickness, proceeded with the
main body of the army as rapidly as pos
sible to join General jackson; but the
movement was NOT accomplished. as spee-,
dily as was desirable, In conseouence of
our deficiency in means of transportation.
General Lee had hoped with his united
forces, which were nearly equal in number
to olPopeis, To crush the army of that Gen.
eral before Mcclellan could come to its re-
lief, If such movement were attempted:
The plan was on the eve of successful &C.
Complishment when a sudden rain, storm
so swelled the Rapidan river that it was
necessary to wait some days before cross
ing it, and Pope, in the meantime, taking
the alarm, retired rapidly behind the Rap
pahAuuoCk, thus bringing himself within
supporting distance of Mcclellan, who had
been ordered round to join bin in accord
anCe with the anticipations of Gen, Lee.
The combined forces of Mcclellan and
Pope were, however, met by Gen. Lee in a
series of successful battles on the plains of
AianassasG0u the 2Sth, 29th, and 3Oth Au-
gust, and the total route of the enemy was
followed by the withdrawal of their entire
forces into the Notifications around Wash
ington; by the disgrace of Pope, who has
been banished to an insignificant command
in Minnesota; and by the appointment of
Mcclellan to the command of the army
'scOllected for the defence of WushiuptonIp ~
Gen. Lee, amusing the enemy by feigned
demonstrations of attack on his lines at
Arlington Heights, succeeded in withdraw.
ing his entire army from their front, and
entered Maryland by the fords at Edwards
Ferry, in the neigborhood of Leesburg,
without opposition, and established his
headquarters at Frederick. alf
Again making deceptive demonstrations
of an Intention toimarch. at one time into
PenusylvHnia and ut another against Bal
timore, Gen. Lee disposed his army in such
manner that by rapid movement he en- .
lveloped the whole Federal force of over
eleven thousand men stationed at Harper's
Ferry, aud forcedit it into an unconditional
surrender. The fruits of this movement
were over eleven thousand prisoners, in
cluding more than four hundred officers,
twelve thousand stand of arms, ninety
pieces of artillery, and an enormous quan.
tity of stores, principally munitions of
war, together with two hundred wagons.
&c. Gen. Mcclellan becoming aware too
late of the danger, moved from Washing
ton in great haste with the view to relieve
the troops invested at Harper's Ferry, and
ION GDe uay OeIore their SuTreudeC attacked
with his whole force of eighty thousand
men Gen. D. H. Hill, who, with rear
guard of fifteen thousand men, had been
left to resist his advance, and who held his
lpOsitionIwith uncouquerable ofrmness, but
was finally compelled to. give way for a
distance, under the stress Of these over
whelming odds, until GensSLee and Long
street, arriving with reintorcemente, rees.
tablished his lines and repulsed the enc
my. TIE rapid arrival of reiuforcements
ffor Gen. Mcclellan induced General Lee to
Withdraw his troops to Sharpsburg, for the
purpose of effecting aisjunction with the
corps of Generals Jackson aud A.-P. Hill
who had not yet returned from the capture
of Harper's Ferry. On Tuesday and Wed.
nesday, the 18th and 18th instant, General
Mcclellan, with his enlire army, amounting
Iprobablyt to one hundred and fifty thousand
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