The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-11-01
SHERIDAN'S ARMY.
SAFE SUPPLY OF HIS ARMY.
Rebel Account OF Early's Defeat
HIS LOSS FIFTY-sEvEN PIECES
OF ARTILLERY.
He is to be Retained in Command.

Arrangements have been made by which all
the army wagon trains to supply Sheridans army
will rendezvous at Martiusburg, Va. At stated
times n train with supplies will proceed to the
front under the escort of strong guard. Major
w. T.. Morford, Assistant Qudrtermaster is ap.
pointed depot quartermaster Of the post.
The Richmond Enquirer of the 2ssh inst, In
speaking (through correspondcnt) OF Barly's
last stampede, says
Little l thought ten days ago when was
writing about our cavalry from this identical
place. 10 which am now just returned, that one
Of the greatest, If not the greatest stampede Of
this war and stampede of infantry, too, had yet
to take place. IL is the most singular affair that
one can possibly imagine q whole day of glory
and few minutes of shame--a splendid begin
ming and a mOnstr0us end--BsWiier fOrN5OSd
SupCrHe deSirdt IN piSceN
don't know whether il is better to laugh or to
cry for the thing is so odd and ludcrous in some
respects, that, il we were only lighting for the
outraged dignity of plenipoJentiary the rights
of TeveTSiOn TO some Iuche,s, some petty island
In the ast Indies, or even for the possession of
some Siberia OF ours, VIC might as well take our
time and ease, and look only upon the funny part
OF this great mischief. But am afraid we cannot
afford such luxury as laughter at our own expense
just at present. and that it is our duty under the
circumstances to take ii with proper mixture
of sanger" and "sOrOw."
Then after speaking of the capture Of eighteen
pieces of artillery, the correspondent proceeds
to state -
The Yankees bring up a new line at about
one hour and q quarter before sundOWn they
push it TO the 'front.' and our left division (Gor-
don's) gives way. They give way, yes, but that
is nothing, God bless them; the best of men give
way some times but why don't they rally l
say, why don't they rally, for this is our only
trouble and misfortune on that Inflated 18TH Of
October.
But rally they won't. See them 90 back un-
concerned, just as gayly as If nothing was the
matter. They do not reply anything TO officers,
they just slip back with their musknts poised in
their hands as If they were depoying backwards
| as skirmshers In the meanwhile the Yankees
| lose no time; it is now their turn to go onward.
| KeTshaw's Division now was struck; it gives
way, too, in its turn, after having tried hard TO
stand its ground Nothing better, nothing more
noble as long as it did hight; but now it has given
way like Gordon's, and, like Gordon's, 1t won't
| rally.
| Our artillery, in general, did well. They tried
TO re-establiSh the fight and twice made stand
at such points, too, where we might have had the
| ge-ground over the Yankees; but there WAS
! no Ially-no rally of brigade, no rally of reg
| ment, no rally Of q company; the whole army,
confused into nameless, shapeless mass of men,
going back, back, all the time. The flood increases
| In depth as we reach the turnpike.
| The artillery, the amDulances wagons, all
| rattle down, at first at decent rate, at cool
walk, n kind of gentlemanly stampede; but a few
/
| give us an additional speed. We are running !;
| turn of the road, protection from the shells,
| and Wc walk again. / never saw or dreamed of
| more self-poSsessed crowd of stockholders they
were no more scared, sir, and no more ashamed
than II there had not been particle of danger or
| disgrace in their prediCament
Finally, an old rotten bridge gives way, there 10
| dead lock, and artillery wagons, and ambu-
| lanCes are there for tine Yankees. They need not
strike lick 10 have them; all they have TO do ia
| TO come down the road whore they are stuck, aud
| theirs they are. In that way we lost thirty nine
| OF our own pieces, besides eighteen that we cap
| tuTed, and God knows how many wagons and
| ambulances. All those trains might have been
| saved by force of two hundred sArmishers, but
| IL could not be got. They were tired, they were
, played out; they had enough Of tour men
In another place he says ~ will add how
ever that but for the loss of material the adyap-
tage Of the day would still be our side. we
have severely crippled that Yankee army, you
may depend upon Il. Our army Of the valley is
made OF splendid material, but the wear and tear
Of this long campaign has told with terrible effect
upon its organization"
He concludes as follows -
| IL is impossible, at present. TO give you q fair
estimate of our losses in men. Speaking in gene.
ral the loss is as small as it can be for fight
from sunrise to sunset, although | know one
regiment of our division TO have lost twenty
officers. We took large number of prisoners
and secured them, whilst we must have lost very
lew, as we did stampede 20 timely and finally
80 we did dear sir, and to say we were whipped
and whipped by our own folly alone, is neither
new OF consong, but it is true.
! If recOleCt, the fruits of the battle OF Shiloh
were lost from the same unmitary straggHnl
and plnndeTing in camps