Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-29


Our army fell back on New Market. The
enemy did not pursue. '' co
Major General Ramseur was. shot in the
bowels, and is supposed to be MORALLY
wounded.
Brissdier General Battle was wounded
in the knee, and arrived here this morn
Also, Brigadier General Conner of South
Carolina, was wounded in the leg on the
18th inst. '-"''' '''- H
THE REBELs PANIC sFRucK-BARLV's Army
z: N FHE FLUSH OF VICTORY ROUTED BY A
SMALL FoRcH OF CAVALRY. .ITsuz 81
Prom the Richmond EpquIrer, Oct. -.
Our iuformotion respecting the battle near
Cedar Greek, on Wednesday last, assures
US that one of the most brilliant victories
of the war had been gained by our troops,
but that in an evil hour, when portion of
our men were plundering the property they
had captured, q small force of Yankee cav
airy appeared on our left flank, the plum
defers took fright, and the words. 1--WE are
aankedI passed rapidly along the line; the
left gave way a1d the rest followed, panic
stricken and demoralized, in q moment.
The enemy's Infantry before then was In NO
condition., and were without the. DISPOSE
ton, after their defeat of the morning, to
attack, and when the panic siezed upon
our men, entirely innocent of:being so'much
as accomplicss TO the fact. The victory of
the enemy, IT such an affair can be diguif-
ed with = name which suggests the clash Of
arms aud the glory of q gallant conflict,
was achieved solely by small and iusig-
nifcant band of cavalry which had doubt
less accidentally gotten on Dur phank,
and might have been captured. Il was a
In NasTH :
porary disaster to the morale of the army,
the loss of LwentysIhreB pieces Of artillery
and few straggleFs. In the whole days
operations our losses In men-killed,
wounded and missing-did not exceed elev-
en- hundred. The enemy admit q loss of
Eve thousand. The story heralded in the
Northern papers of Sheridan arriving on
the scene aud scratching victory from de.
feat" Is merely humbug. Sheridan arrived
near the scene of the battle but neither he
nor the best part of his army were within
several miles Of the "rebels' when the lat.
ter took notion that they were t'fAnked"
and mizzled. All the captures made by the
enemy were effected by that band of caval.
~ We have Alluded to, and nobody else
The federal Infantry had nothing 10 do
with Il. Sheridan and they were we'll Oh
10 themsejgeS, chagrined With defeat and.
When the news came that the
Arebels were retreating." The attempted
Shefidan @! make hero Of himself, aud 70
put up this affair (disgraceful though it was
to51s) AS the most magnificent victory OF
the war, sufficiently show him up hB com
plete military charlatan. .;t
We regret to learn that among our casu-
alties was the mortal wounding Of General
who has since died in the enemy's
hands. ID
Rumors were current ON yesterday that
fighting had been resumed but no confIr-
nation of this reached the War Depart
ment. +.t ga. gIr ,tfyy nj
RARLY's DEFEAF occAsIoHRD BY THE DESIRE
OF his MEE TO PLuADER yTAl, pAPFuRED /,
), cANFs. sSH ~ -r1
From The Richmond Examiner, oct. "a. .tr
From officers of General Early's army,
who came down with the Yankee prisoners
captured ct Cedar Creek, we gather some
particulars. of the late fight iaT the valley.
On Tuesday, the 18th, Early lay at Fishers
Hill, with two corps of Sheridan's army
in bis 'front.' ON the north sidei Of Cedar
creek. Another corps, the Sixth (Wrights
Newton, Sheridan himself was at Wiuchess
ter, and his cavalry q little Withdrawn from
the front. The two corps on Cedar creek
were heavily fortified on the left docking
towards Middletown) Of the turnpike, but
their Works on the right of the road were
Incomplete. tlrygg 4yluqur1 50
This being the situation, Early deter.
mined to attack, and, If possible, to sur.
prise the force on Cedar Greek. Accord
ingly on ITaesday,1 at nightfall, he march.
ed ont Of his works OF Fishers Hill to the
stone bridge which crosses the little stream
at the foot Of the hill. Here his army was
divided, the larger column moving to the
right of the turnpike, the Lesser to the left,
the object being simultaneous attack on
both tanks of theienemy. In order to flank
the enemy's works on the right their left
of the road. it was necessary to march the
larger column through narrow pass In
the mountains, where two men could mot
walk abreast. Thus, marching In single
Gle, the whole night was consumed before
the large column found itself in proper
position to make the attack. Meantime,
the column which had 'movedto the left,
having good road to march on, arrived
at It's destination much sooner than on
the right, and the commander, impatient
OF delay, ordered the assault some ten or
twenty minutes before the other wing Of
our army was ready to cooperate. But
for this the capture of prisoners would
have been very much larger. As IL was,
thelenemy were taken completely by snr.
prise; two divisions stampeded Without
firing gun, aud not one Of the eighteen
captured cannon was discharged. The
whole camp, exceedingly rich with SPOIL
was captured, and this abundant booty
seems TO have had much the same. effect on
Early.s men that the fat camp eat Shiloh
had on Beauteg ARDS Many Of them lag.
ged behind in order to plumber, and those
who pressed forward ct Eafiys order cast