Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-05-19

not yet known and cannot be until the regmenta
in The second and fourth divisions Of this corps
should have stated above, during portion Of the fighting
relieved the Second and Sixth Corps and met with heavy
loss. The Second and Sixth Corps told each lost
heavier Than the Fifth Corps 1t ia painful to look back
and figure up the aggregate losses The Ninth Masachu
setts for instance, started from Cupeper Court House
with six hundred muskets and there but
men left The Sixty second Vermont which had FIVE hun
dred and thirty musket has only hundred and thirty
one men left, and the Fourth Michigan, out Of two hun
dred and seventseven entering the first Fight can now
muster only seventeen And 30 I might 10 on emu
meratug losses TO the end of the cher. If the fights
continue will the losses But have large aud
erfn army left Jet and disposed to stop lighting
until the decisive victory is gained. ...' 3
Half mile from headquarters is our battle line
All last evening and night there was constant
firing in our immediate front. Thinking 1t unusually ia
cessan inquired the cause and II that between our
two skrmish lines fifteen OF captured cannon which
we had been unable 10 take from the field. The enemy
was determined that should get them and our men
determined they should 20 back again into the
possession OF the enemy. Hence the constant mutual
firing The possession of those promises to become
hoty contested point before IL il decied.
One Of staff officers informs me that he To-
day with rebel lieutenant prisoner who gave him some
interesting facts regarding the late Gen Wsdsworth The
General he says lived three days after be fell into their
hands, and very kindly treated He was conscious up
to the hour Of bis DEATH and his only regret was not that
ne had fallen mortaly wounded but that he should die
among the enemies Of the country for which he had given
his life cheerful sacrifice. He was buried Of
mile this side OF Psrkers store IN ravine near tho
plank road and the place where he was buried was
mnutey described to Captain Smith 1.-THE staff officer
whom the facts were gven that be would have difficulty
to find the spot
This same rebel officer said by the way that the enemy
were subsstnR on half raons but that they would ght
as long there fragment of ration left Can Ii be
that there are two armies here Of like determination and
spirit
At The hospitals Of this corps there has been band or
two OF music, which has at intervals, day and evening
played for the sosce and benefit of the wounded For the
past three days our wounded have been taken to Freder
cksburg, all that could be safely removed aud they will
continue to be taken there for the present X =
Our losses in the past eight days battles are estimated
at nineteen thousand killed. wounded, and missing Tn this
time we have expended nearly two million rounds of in
isnt,y ammunition and about fifteen thousand rounds Of
artillery ammunition
Knowledge OF the enemys retreat and the conRrstus
tory address pubshed in the Integencer Of yesterday
just issued by Geu Meade have inspired our troops with
uubounded enthusiasm and anxiety TO follow his retreat.
ing columns Subsistence trains have been sent back for
rations, q - M