New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-20

GKSERAL BUTLBR's HEADQUARTERS,
August l6, 1864, l0P. II.
hhes been o rood days work-the battle Of
Deep River. We have four Rebel battle flags
ever four hundred prisoners; the bodies Of two
nbsl Generals, and nearly or quite a nile of
advance ground.
Without the reader has q map before him be
VII hardly obtain any clear notion Of the topog-
rsphy Of the field OF operations from any written
Z description.
At nine in the morning Gen. Terry's Division
STACKED from the right of the line held by The
Tenth Corps the night before. part Of Brig
. Gen. Wm. Brneys troops were also in this al
ssck. the remainder of his division being in close
support and under FIRE. OF the Second Corps
only the brgades commanded by Col. Craig,
feecond aud Third Divisions) Bin,oy's Oh Pen
Ursula Brigade participated in this fight. At
shout The same time Grcgg's Cavalry supported
Ay Niles Brigade. Second Corps, wss engaged
Gar to tho hight or the Charles City road.
The frst rebel line was carried with little
6ficulty. At ten o'clock push vas Tade ior
shs second line by Tho same troops. 70 required
II hours close fighting to carry It, tu. it was
Done. The whole affair was in the woods, and
Tie opposing lines fought at very short range
% short that man seen was man shot The
prinepal less Of the day was here. Colonel
Craig was mortaliy wounded, ard Colonel
Osborne, oath Massachusetts,, an excellent OIL
or, also commanding q brigade, cd oi2d d.
IN 4
bat not dangerously.
The second and main lire being finally car
red, the men were instantly SET to work TO turn
It syainst tie enemy. But little bad been done,
hgwever, when tho rebels ebbed back TO retaEe
e. -Four distinct desperate attempts were re-
pslsed, and the fifth would have been II our
men had not got short Of ammunition. Owing
70 tits alone Oh the fifth trial the eneniy repos-
seseed portion of the Inc. IN one Of these
assaults Gen. Gerardey, lately promoted from
major and stad-oiicer for services the day Bum
siies mine was sprung, fell, and his body re-
naned in our hands
In his fight on the Charles City Rosd, Gregg
had killed the rebel cavalry general, John i.
Chsmbfss, and brought OF bis body, and
forced tho enemy 70 retire with loss.
Just at night. assisted by two brigsdes ffom
&c "a. corps, Bimey renewed the engagement
with the purpose Of getting back the ground he
had rehnquished earlier in the day, FOR want Of
ammunition. Your correspondent LEFT the field
before there was any result.
Meanwhile Gen. Butler and stat had ridden
A. q 1t, 4 .f1..rrf 4.
canal cutting operations, to direct a diversion
b. the force there and by tie force under Col.
Wooster at Deep Bottom. 1t must be Temem-
Sered that Gen. Birney's line faced the river,
and that the eremy were between him erd the
positions Of Dutch Gap and Deep Bottom, which
sre four miles spaTt as the river russ. Bulel
had Major Ludiow's transport, half his com.
xaand, and eight hundred men, in boats two
miles down, 20 land atAiken's Wharf.-The hun.
cred of them were colored. Major Ludlow
then moved three miles square across the
isthmus 10 Cox's Mills or Cox's Ferry, Skin
wishing on the way aud cutting off and captur-
ing portion Of the pickeks the enemy had left
to make show opposite lis position a Dutch
Gap.
lie found penny, pressed by Birney, Rad
abandoned u Yong works at Cox's Ferry,
into which be- h his men, and where he VIII
sbe, by the morning, too strong to be easily dis
lodged. This position is considered very I'M
partant, and has been much coveted. The force
n Deep Bottom also advanced the enemy's rear
seme distance, out met little resistance.
At Deep Run Gen. u. ID. Bimey commanded
o the field all troops OF both corps likely to be-
come engaged reporting to him, while Gen. Han
Geek had general direction Of az the forces
Nhe 10 Corps stood the brint Of the work, while
The Brieadier from thc "a went il where re.
puired. Barlow's DIVISION, I'd Corps, lay on the
aeft, and near Gibbons Division, Same Corps,
now under Col. Smythe. connected Barlow with
Fosters Brigade, the left Of the 10th.
The loss in the 10th il estimated tonight at
1000; the loss in the I'd at 400; in the cavalry,
400 Col. McGilyery, Birneys Chief OF Artille-
~, lost finger, and Capt Briscoe, senior 4. j..
G., suffered . painful confusion from g ball
grazing his abdomen. Col Gregg, commanding
Cavalry Brigade, brother Of tho General, is quite
severely wounded. Maj. Patton, both Mass,
leg broken. The Lieut.. Colonel and Major of
the 36th Wis. are both wounded; Capt. Nolan,
fSth Mass, killed; Cspts. Lewis and Woodruff,
9th Conn, killed. The Lieut.. Colonel 9Th Me-,
arm amputated; 1t. Col. Plmpton, Sd N. H.,
and Maj. Walpth, lis n. Y, killed; Capt.
Hooker, S5th Pa, badly wounded. The Sd N.