The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-14
FROM GRANTS ARMY.
Further Particulars of the Battle of
Last Friday.

New YORK, Oct. 1.-THE Heralds 9Th corps
correspondent, on the 8th, says this morning
the division of Gen. Wilcox, holding. the CEN
ire of our line, made an advance with the in
tention of advancing our position and recon,
noitering that of the enemy.
The force making the reconnaissance con-
sisted of the brigades of Hartshuff and that
lately commanded by Col. Speer. An advance
was made of over mile and half under slight
skirmishng, when the 57th Massachusetts,,
commanded by Col. Mclaughlin, was set upon
by the enemy and some fifteen men were lost.
The accommodating party was accompanied
by Capt. Twitchell with his battery of the 4th
Massachusetts, but no opportunity was afforded
for using the pieces. The deduction from the
recent Reconnaissance is that the enemy are
not in force this side of Petersburg or the APP
pOmatOx, and that any effort upon our part
will force them to new line on the latter men,
toned river. This is the amount of the infor-
nation which get this morning.
New York, Oct. 1.-THE IIibunes Wash
ington special, dated yesterday, says we learn
from the front that movement commenced
on Saturday, though its object was not stated.
tits said an order will at once be issued by
General Grant, directing the shooting of every
guerrilla, the burning of every house, and the
driving out of women and children from the
bushwhacking cavalry and the guerrilla infest-
ed region between Washington and the POto-
mac.
NEW YORK, Oct. 11.-In all the rebel &C
counts of the affair on Friday they make out
that the severest fighting was done in the at
tack on KaEtz, while our accounts represent
the heaviest part Of the engagement to have
taken place after the rOut of KautZ.
The fact may be that the rebels may have
been made to pay very dearly for their victory
over kautz, as our men were armed with re-
peating rifles, and it was in this attack the reb-
els lost Gen. Gregg and several other officers
The Times correspondent sums up the affair
as follows:
We lost eight guns and a set of howitzers,
and we captured seventeen, last Thursday. We
slaughtered and wounded at least 900 of the
enemy in front of the infantry, exclusive of
the injury Kautz inflicted on them, besides
taking 100 prisoners.
Most of the enemy's killed and wounded
were left on the field. Considering their losses
in men we give them the credit of killing, dis
abling and capturing, at an outside estimate,
400 men in addition to the guns.
Looking at the matter from all points of
view we claim victOry-a decided victory.
We can afford to lose guns, but the rebels can
not afford to lose the large numbers they lost
to-day in capturing them.
They signaly failed in their object of flank
ing US, and will scarcely be likely to resume
the experiment. at least for some time. They
also suffered as severely as we in the loss of
tillery horses, one of their batteries losing all
but one.
Gen. Kautz had narrow escape while on the
return in the rear of his column with few of
his staff and orderlies. He came upon an en-.
tire rebel regiment at least one mile from the
road where the attack commenced. This reg
ment had some of his men prisoners. At the
sight of their general the men called out to
him to dash back. which he did, and escaped
by by-path. His adjutant general, Captain
Nash, was with him at the time but is now
missing.
New YORK. Oct. 1.-THE Heralds cores
pondent at Buffers headquarters, of the 9th,
says he has been throughout the lines of the
Army of the James, and believes that several
large armies united with the object of dislodg-
ing this army would not only suffer immensely
but would seriously risk defeat. These works
and their maintenance are necessity to the
taking of Richmond, and the country may con-
graduate itself that the Army of the James has
now the position.
On the 18th, $50 Union exchanged prisoners
were brought down from Richmond in addition
to 62O the day before.
Rebel prisoners and deserters continue to
come in daily.
WASHINGTON, Oct. n.-News from the Ar
nv of the Potomac states that on Sunday night
between IL and O'Clock, the enemy opened
fire on the I'd corps, but continued it only
about thirty minutes 1t is not known wheth-
er anv damage was done. When the mail
boat left City Point yesterday, all was compar-
atively quiet.
NEW York, Oct. 1.-THE Heralds 9Th Ar
nv Corps correspondent of the 9th, says the
skirmish line of the 9th corps has been advanc.
ed three fourths of a mile, and now holds the