Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-25
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ShcrIdnn's Victory Of the 10Th
Further Particulars.

| New YORK, Oct. 2i.-The Herald's Mar
| tinsburg correspondence of the 22d says:
Information from the front indicates that
our losses in the battle of the 18th will reach
5000 in killed, wounded and missing. We
also lost early in the day twenty -four guns.
We have captured, including the wounded
who are In our hands, about 1000 men and
5O guns. The total loss of the enemy can
not therefore be much short of 10000 men.
Gen. Custer alone has receipts for 10 guns
and five battle flags, besides large number
OF ambulances, horses, harness, males, etc.
This makes fifty pieces of artillery that
his division has captured during the last
two weeks.
If any reliance is to be placed upon the
statements of prisoners and intercepted
letters, 1t is now pretty certainly determin-
ed that Gen. LonSstreet was not in the Val
ley, but that Gen. Early had determined to
strike desperate blow for the recovery of
this district and his lost reputation, in the
absence, as he supposed, of the command
ing General and the 9Th corps. In this eff
fort he was seconded by Kershaw, whose
infantry having been several times defeated
by our cavalry, felt that his reputation
needed some Frightening Many of the
other officers, however, high in command,
deemed the effort rash. and hcsitated not to
would end the rule Of the Confederacy in
that section of Virginia. Kershaw execut-
ed the first portion of the programme WELL
and the whole rebel army fought with
greater obstinacy than ever before, as their
losses well attest; but nothing could with
stand the impetuosity of our men.
The Herald's correspondent has the fol-
lowing concerning our captures at Cedar
creek and the pursuit of the enemy:
Devin with his little brigade kept sweep
ing down upon their rear, gobbling up their
officers and men by scores. He pressed
them so hard it was impossible to get their
artillery out of his way, or their wagons
AID ambulances. Drivers and cannoniers
dismounted and ran off into the woods on
either side of the road, and the rear guard
of the demoralized rebel army, if it has
one, followed suit, leaving the whole train
in our hands. Limbers, caissons, wagons
and ambulances were all huddled together
in the greatest disorder. The following is
the principal part of Gen. Devin's captures:
Twenty-Five pieces of artillery, includinga
section of 32-pounders 80 army wagons, 30
ambulances, 143 mules and III horses, two
stands of colors and guideon; 1862 prison.
ers were captured, and large quantity
of small arms. We followed the enemy up
the base of Fishers Hill, when Col. Nichols,
with his gallant 9th New York, charged
them again and drove them back, leaving a
considerable portion of their wagon train
in his hands. which he secured. We did
not follow up the chase beyond Fishers
Hill. The infantry commands moved up to
Cedar creek, and went into their old camps,
while the cavalry bivouacked for the night
little beyond Strasburg, at Buckland.-
The slaughter of the enemy was immense.
The whole country between Middletown
and Strasburg was literally strewn with
rebel corpses.
At an early hour next morning the pur-
suit was continued by Powell's cavalry
He captured fourteen pieces of cannon,
which the enemy had driven into the noun
tains at Woodstock. The column was halt
ed and rested short time, when it was re-
turned towards Strasburg, picking up many
prisoners by the way.