Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-09-22
FROM GEN. LEES ARalY.
Correspondence Of the Enquirer
ARMY or NORTHERN VIRGINIA Z
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4 ARMY or NORTHERN VIRGINIA.
September ls, 1863
As I have telegraphsd you, nothing Of spe-
eial Importance uauspired yesterday Skir-
mishing went on all day in the vicinity Of Rap
idsn bridge between tha dismounted cavalry,
acting as sharpshOotsrs on our line, and & SINH
! lar body of the eusmy.
Il is impossible to say what this movement
realty means. BY many it is believed 10 be 3
mere reconnaissance IN force But IS they have
batteries planted in front at RaccsOn Ford; il is
not improbable that it msy be general adj
vance. There are certainly two corps of IN
fantry at Culpepsr Court H9use, Wsvren's and
another one. snd from the fact that a cavalry
man in tho 9Th Virginia was killed fully mile
from the enemy yesterday, when no artjlle. y
was engaged, / infer that there must be infantry
shRrpshooiers in front.
Stuart lost thTes pisces Of artillery in the fght
Sunday. They were captured ss thCy were re-
tresting through the town. Hampton's brigade
was, for q time, cut off on Sunday, on the
-Stevensburg road, but mEnSged 20 cut ia wsy
through Il was also feared for a while that the
l0.h Virgins and ? North Carolina csvsiry,
who were picketiug nesr WoodVillo, we're for q
willie cut off bat am happy 10 ssy that they
came through safely.
Among the melancholy casualties tI-us far is
the wound received in the army by = very in
ieresting youth, sixteen years old, clerk in
General Early's sdiatsnt generals Office, which
rendered smputation 10 tho shoulder necessary.
I photographed you that Carter's battalion lost
some tRenty-thrce men in the shelnz az Rae
eoen ford. This loss occurred principally in
going in 70 get position. The enemy have, as
yet, shown no artillery at Rsyidan bridge.
The report this morning is thst tta enemy are
foTifying At Slaughter mountsin.
II is reported that the enemy are rUnuiug
their trains to Miteheil's station, but | am in
elinod to think this doubtful
rather think there will be no general engsge-
nsnt for several days, but that a big battle viii
occur soon somewhere on this line, l have no
doubt Y.
Correspondence Of the Examiner.l
FREDERICKsRURa. Sept I8.-Richmond does
not monopOiize the sensations of ihs season. L
might reasonably be supposed that thssfsw re-
naming Inhabitants OF this battered borough
mainly those who have stayed hero during all
the storm of war had bsen bombarded into
Gallons disregard Of danger, and profound con-
tempt Of Yankee power. But not CO. for the
cry Of yankees coming" whieh was raised this
sfternoon, completely knocked the old town out
Of all seil-pOsssssiOn. It reached your oorre
spondent ~ tho mo3t unseaSOnable of all hours
for a Tun--just after dinner. Nevertheless, ssl-
lying into he street, which presented confussd
picture of people, slsmnlog shop Windows
penning pigs, and eooping chickens with the
usual infusion OF frightened females and crying
children, inquired Of the first man who would
stop to answer, whenee came the alarm, and
what was The cause Hastily stating that nine
thousand Yankees were marching on the town,
and were then but miis or two distant, he
passed on. My next informant placed the nam
Der at Eve thousso advancing from diferea3t
diruction, and it required but a few
moro qHestions to demonstrate that iguo-
rsrce, respecting the mAster, was entire sni
universal. The appearance of a coiumu OF blue
coated cavalry approaching from the direction
of HamlltOn's crossing, seeming, in the dis
tBnce, 70 number but q small company, solved
the question, bat increased the mystery of the
movement for how could they nave gotten pos.
session of Shat road wss utterly iHexpliczble
Their arrival in town, however, soOR exhibited
the cause OF alsrm to be the return Of scout
ing party OF Gen. Fizhugh Less cavalry, con
sis5ing Of eight msa with 6ftssu prisoners and
twelve horses, captured from Klips.Iieks divis-
ion, on what is known as the Marsh road, about
twenty miles fTOm FaimOuth, Just below Nor
rssTille. Ihe eight men who accomplished this
daring and successful fest of capturing, twenty
miles WIthiu the epemy's lines, tygics their mum
Der, and safely bringing them into camp aod
across nERigsble river, too, beloDg 20 the An
regiment OF Virginia cavalry, and the expedition
WIS commanded by private j 0hn E Barber, of
company II, same regiment, late isutensnt Of
infantry The names OF tao pnsoners arc as
f6llOWst
james Barnett, G W Strong, NJ d Doheriy,
- Russell, 7th miehigsn cavalry; Richard
Scott, John Smith, 5sh New York esgairy; JESSE
Y. 0etrsuder, I'd New York cavalry; John
Brown, 7ih Michigan cSvslryl John Miller, %
New York cavalry + A. Lewis. ] AZ V7--,7ra,ont
cavalry; Charles Wait, LIST Michigan cavalry.
Geesge W. Bugg, 9TH Now York oaSsIrV; asfl'
smith. Lewis Myers, 81 Uoited States sFtil.
lery.
This list does not Include deserier. whose
name is withheld, VINO gave himself up, and
begged our men to permit him 70 accompany
them and jeiu our service. la bis in.
stancs It was allowed, bui in no other, as
the numbers encountered in the ten days
absence Of the party would have c0ns,i
tuted brigade A single party Of seventeen
deserving cjnseripts, irum one company, was
met aud directed safely to the Potomac nveT.
In another instance, l have credible information
that two hundred and twenty, out of two hun
dred aud eighty conseripts assigned to one regi-
ment, deserted in ten days. It may therefore bs
inferred that Meade's army, consisting in its re-
intoIeemsnts sltOgsthes OF troops of this char
aeier, is in no condition 10 ight The idea eu-
IeFtained by tho Yankees that their conscripts ia