The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-09-23
WAR NEWS.

On the morning OF the 10Th, q daring attack
was made upon the main cattle herd Of the Army
of the Potomac, opposite lIarriSon's Landing, Oh
the James river. The attacking force is said To
have consisted Of three brgades of cavalry and
eight pieces of artillery. The LIST District of CO.
lumbia cavalry made some resistance, but were
compelled to fall back, with loss of about $50
men. The Coniederatcs are reported TO have
carried off 2, 400 head of cattle several teams,
and about 400 prisoners belonging mostlyt TO the
23d Pennsylvania cavalrys General Gregg's di-
vision of cavalry and a portion of the I'd Corps
went in pursuit, and though it is reported that
fighting was going on and that the cattle
had been recaptured, nothing definite is
known on these points. The agent of the Asso-
ciated Press could not trace them to any reliable
source, and expresses the fear that the Confeder-
ates had 'too much the start, and would have
got off with tie greater part of the plunder.n
The Washington correspondent Of the New
York CjmanerciaI announces that 'Farragut does
not intend to attack Mobile, "'Secretary Wees
not approving ''the policy of capturing Mobile
for the present.
The Griffin Rebel, of the l4th instant, contains
an order of Governor Brown Withdrawing the
Georgia militia from General Hoods army for
thirty days. :. "t ."' =
Thirty five thousand Federal prisoners have
been sent from Andersonvic TO Savan lah and
Augusta. ''.J. 90 .".
The Florida has arrived at Wilmington, N:
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The official Information from the Shenandoah
Valley is ola very important nature. A despcr-
ME battle WAS fought last Monday near WincEcs-
ter, the particulars of which Secretary Stanton
gives in an official bulletin Gen. Sheridan, in
his official report of it, states that carly on Mon
day morning he attacked Gen. Early on the Bcr-
ryrlle pike, atthe crossing Of the opequan creek,
and after most stubborn and .anguinary en-
gagemen, lasting until five O'Clock in the s,cu-
ing, defeated him, driving him through Win
chester, capturing 2 800 prisoners, five pieces of
artillery and nine army flags The enemy lost
Gems Rhodes and Gordon killed, and three other
general officers wounded. All of tLeir dead and
most of their wounded fell into hands Of the Union
troops. The Union losses were sese among
them General Russell, killed, and Gems. Upton,
Mcintosh and Chapman wounded One account
estimates The Union loss at about ., 600, and that
Of the enemy in killed and wounded at 5, 600
Gen. Mcintosh Union officer, lost Il leg. d,
Secretary Stanton, in an official bulletin re-
ceived last night, announces that The latest Of
fetal dispatches from uarpcrs Ferry report the
rout of the enemy to lie complete, their loss of
prisoners to exceed three thousand, and the num-
Der battle flags captured by General Sheridan
TO be fifteen instead of nine. The Union troops
started in pursuit of the enemy at daylight yes
terday morning. Gen. Sheridan, when last
heard from, was at Kearnesyillc, five miles be-
yond Winchester. The President has appointed
Gen Sheridan q brigaaer III the regular army,
and assigned him to tho permanent command of
the Middle Department. -...s
despatch from Buffalo, New York, states
that Monday afternoon thirty Confederates from
Canada captured two small steamers, the Parsons
and Island Queen, at Middle Bass Island on Lake
Erie. They olded them with wood enough to
last two'days, and went up the lake with them.