The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1864-10-25
FROM sHsRIDAN.
Our Captures at Cedar Greek and thu
Pursuit Of the Enemy.
Naz Xo.i. o. o.


/ The Herald's Martinsburg correspon
| dent Of the 22d has information from tn
front which indicates that our losses Il
the battle of the 10th inst. will reacl
5000 in killed, wounded and missing
We also lost early in the morning "a guns
We have captured, including the wound
ed who are in our hands, about 7,OOl
men and SO guns.
The total loss of the enemy cannot
therefore, be much short of 10000 men
Gen. Custar. alone. has receipts for At
guns and five battle-fags, besides large
number of ambulances, horses, wagons
mules, &c.
This makes 81 pieces of artillery tha,
his division has captured during the las,
two weeks.
1t any reliance is to be placed upon the
statements of prisoners aud intercepted
letters. it is now pretty certainly deter
mined that Gen. Longstreet was not 10
the valley, but that Gen. Early had de.
termined to strike desperate blow for
the recovery o! this distric, and his lost
reputation. in the absence, as he sup
posed, of the Commanding General aud
the 9th corps.
In this effort he was seconded by Ker-
shaw, whose Infantry having been several
times defeated by our cavalry, felt that
his reputation needed some Frightening
Many Of the other officers, however, big
IN command, deemed the effort rash, and
hesltated not 10 express the opinion ,ha,
should it fail it would end the rule OF ,he
Confederate army in that section of Vir.
ginia.
kershaw executed the first portion oil
the programme we'll, and The whole rebel
army fought with greater obstinacy than
ever before, as their losses attest. Moth
ing could Withstand the impetuosily ol
our men.
The Herald's correspondent. has the
following concerning our captures at Ce-
dar Creek and the pursuit OF the enemy
Deviu. With bis little brigade, is KEEP,
swoopng down upon their rear, gobblina
up their officers and men by scores. He
pressed them SO hard it was impossible tc
get theik artillery out oil his way or ,heil
wagons, And ambulance drivers and can
noniers dismounted and ran off into lhe
woods on either side of the road, and The
rear guard OF the demoralized rebel army
if it had one. followed suit, leaving ,he
whole train in our hands. Limbers, cais
SOUS, wagons and ambulances were al
huddled together in the greatest dis
order.
The following is the principal part o
Gen. Devin's captures:
Twenty-Five pieces Of artillery, inclu
ding section of 32 Founders; 80 arm,
wagons, 80 ambulances, l43 mules ant
III horses; two stands of colors and
gudon.
Three hundred and fifty-two prisoner
were captured and large quantity o
small arms.
We followed the enemy mp the base o
Fishers Hill, when Col. Nichols, will
bis gallant 9th New York, charged then
again and drove them back, leaving con
siderable portion of their wagon Train il
Ills hdUuss HutcH Ue secured.
We did not follow up the chase beyou,
Fishers Hill.
The infantry commands moved up t
Cedar Creek and wentint their old ca N ps
while the cavalry bivouaced for the nigh
little beyond Suasburg at Brickland.
The slaughter of the enemy was i'm
mense, the whole country between Mid
dletowu aud Strasburg was literally strew
with rebel corpses.
At An early hour the next morning th
pursuit was continued by Gen. Powell
cavalry.
He captured II pieces of cannon whic
the enemy had driven into the noun
| tains.
At Woodstock the column was halte
aad rested short time, when it returne
towards Sirasburg. picking up many prise
ners by the way.