The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1864-05-19
NO. Is.

sun-struck; yet never was seen so cheer
full, so resolute, and even exultant body
of men on any of the worlds great battle
fields. All honor to this sublime hero
ism, which so nobly welcomes death aud
wounds.
Rebel prisoners assert that Lee ordered
all his wounded men able to hold mus
ket to take their places in the ranks again
for yesterdays battle.
! Our wounded are being conveyed with
all possible dispatch to Fredericksburg,
and thence, via Belle Plain, to Washing
| ton.
But for tender regard for these disa-
bled heroes, abandoned to their fate and
burning up in the woods left on fire Gas
the Rebels also leave their dead unbu-
ried, our army would ere this have been
laundering before the Rebel Capital; but
we can afford to wait Men who have
faced musketry and cannon for week,
and fought better each succeeding day,
arc invincible, and they will soon win the
complete triumph their valor so richly
merits
Time after time did they hurl back in
disorder the solid massed columns of the
foe, and if perchance they staggered with
the shock, it was only for more superhu-
man energy to charge back upon him
The old guard at Waterloo pales before
| these men.
Our entire losses thus far, in killed,
wounded, missing, &C., must reach near
10000.
The enemy's loss in killed is much
much greater than ours; his wounded a.
bout the same. He is supposed to hold
some 1000 of our prisoners, and we must
have at least 5000 of his men, while our
scouts report the roads literally alive with
his stragglers. 1t is mathematical ques-
tion requiring only few more days to
determine the limit of his endurance.
As your reporter neared Fredericks-
burg about 10 o'clock this morning can
nonading had been resumed, and our ar
my was unquestionably engaging the en-
emy again.
We crossed the River Po on Tuesday,
but withdrew. We charged across it a.
gain last night, after the enemy had
weakened his right in order to mass all
his force on our right.
| 1t was the Vermont brigade which
charged the enemy at the rife pits, and
the I'd Vermont held them till midnight,
when Gen Meade recalled them.
Thus far we have not lost gun since
the second day at the Wilderness, sim
gle wagon, since the campaign opened.
All prisoners unite in asserting that
Lee is dumbfounded at the present con-
duct of our army Immediately upon his
getting orders from JEFF. Davis to return
to Richmond and withdraw from our front
at the Wilderness, he dispatched brig
ade across the Rapidan, and planted ar
tillcry so as to command Germania ford,
supposing of course that we were to pur-
sue our usual course of fighting and then
falling back.
The brigade remained there one day
and two nights without any chance of at
tacking our retreating columns, and only
had the effect of turning back our wOun-
ed. The pertinacity with which Grant
hangs to him is so unusual and so unex-
pected, that Lee is perfectly bewildered.
Gen. Talbot was captured last night,
and his horses taken from him between
Acquia Greek and Fredericksburg on his
way to the army.
Gen. Crittenden went to the front this
morning.
Up to Monday night the reserve artil-
lery had not been brought into fire. 1t
was supposed to have been hotly at work
yesterday beyond Spottsylvania Court
House.