The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-06-14

ed the stf6fele. We retained all our works
intact, Win evefy inch of the ground gain
ed ions the evening before.
The loss 81 men was disproportionate, 40
Il mat ever be when determined yet un-
successful asssulfs,ss made on an army be>
hind breast work. is not believed that
the Confederates lost six hundred, while the
Fenemy's killed sdwounded probably mum
her more than six thousand. 7feiu1
are blue with their slain, The advantages
to our side arathe positions gained on
Thursday and secured on Friday. Grant
now sits in the seat of Mcclellan. He has
failed to get a single advantage aim bis
Fredericksburg route. He did not destroy
or lniure Lees army, and he has no posi-.
ton on the north ofRichmond." He is now
in one word, at the identical point where
Nice lellan began his work. Grants pres
ent policy appears to be the perpetuatlon
Of the skirmish, ny day and night, With
both artillery aud rifle, interspersed With
sharp attacks like that OF Friday, but avoid
ing any engagement which would compro
mise his whole army, if the chances fell
against him. 4 ssTn.7' u - =
A company of zouaves, from New York,
were included among the prisoners. All OF
them were hard looking, dirty, begrimmed,
eaunt, sunbrowned and hungry. looking, as
though they could steal anything, from q
needle to an omnibus. They seemed to
look with anything but displeasure upon
their prospective confinement, and one OF
them, munching Confederate! loafofbread,
remarked that it would give them rest
anyhow, which they were sorely in need OF.
The battle yesterday and thseveningbe
fore was desperate and bloody one for the
enemy. They were moved like grass
as they charged our Notifications, A gen
.tleman who has been through the war tells
us he never saw field so literally strewn
with dead Yankees. We hear OF several
estimates of their loss, but the most reason
able one, and one made by a gentleman who
was over the field, thinks that it could not
have been less than SIX thousand in killed
and wounded. be
Our loss was comparatively slight, most
of the fighting having been done BY US be
hind breastworks. 1t is thought that It
will not exceed some five hundred in Killed
and wounded. A great portion of our wound
ed were but slightly injured. 1855
Further Particulars of Fri
ct days Battle.
Reports and rumors continued to flow in
from the battle field through the day
One could hear almost anything he liked, so
wild and exaggerated were the stories.-
Some represented that Grant and his whole
army were annhilated and whipped out
but this was received as rather too high an
estimate of our victory. ,.t ... ra-r Vs..
We conversed with a number of our
wounded brought down yesterday, but Ito
tie news was to be derived from them be.
yond the general fact that the Yankees had
been whipped and driven at all points
They seemed to be able 10 give very little
information beyond what occurred with
their Immediate regiments They represent
that the fight, which commenced on Thurs
day evening, continued through the mig int,
and that at daylight it was renewed with
increased fury. In the fight of Thursday
evening the Yankees were driven success
sively from three lines Of their entrench.
ments. I'D, -.
Another account represents that tue en-.
envy made seven assaults upon kershaw 8
line, andwere repused each time, with q
loss on our side OF not more thirty in killed
and wounded. .sE# Etssy4
The accounts we have been able to gath
or are meagre and fragmentary. The bat
tie We have summed up, in a word, wa:
about this:-The enemy assaulted our line;
near Cold Harbor, but were repulsod at ev
ery point, except Breckinridge's front
whose lines they succeeded in breaking and
capturing two guns of battery, killing and
wounding fifteen men at the two guns
Our men were soon rallied, however, and
drove back the enemy with great slaughter.
and recaptured the guns. 4 .
Captain Linthicun, of General Hunton's
staff is reported killed. Lieut. S. c.. Jones,
also of General Hunton's staff, was wound.
ed. Capt Woodson, Lieut.. Robinson, and
Lieut.. Evans, all of the Nineteeth Virgin
ia, were killed. .+
We had an unusul number of our Gener
ais wounded. Amoug the number report
ed to us we hear of General Lane, wounded
severely in the thigh, shot by a sharpshoot
er; General Kirkland. slightly; General Bat.
tie, very slightly; General Finnegan, slight
ly, and General Laws.
The Yankees in Georgia.
From the Charleston Courier
in addition to the Yankees disguised
under various Confederate pretexts, who
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