The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-10-28

me meOlcal supplies CstpIuIcu liOiii Ihc I3lH
corps were restored also several of our am
balances and wagons, and q hundred or more
belonging to the enemy. The prisoners taken
will number nearly 2.0ao. 1t has been about
impossible to provide guards for them as rap
idly as they are captured. A large number
sent to the rear would probably escape during
the night, but all are so completely tired out
with the days fighting and marching that we
shall pick up hundreds by the wayside when
the morning dawns.
The following is the principal part of Gen.
Devin's captures q pieces of artillery, inclu-
ding section of S2-pOunders. SO army wagons,
30 ambulances. III horses, 2 stands OF cOlOrs
and guidOn, 352 prisoners and large num-
Der of small arms
We followed the rebels up the base of FISH
er's Hill, where the rebels made another stand.
Col. - of the gallant 9th New York, charged
them again and drove them back leaving con-
siderable portion Of their wagon train in his
hands, which he secured.
We did not follow up the chase beyond Fish
er's Hill. The infantry commands moved up
to Cedar Creek and went into their old camps,
while the cavalry bivOuacked for the night a
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.
was continued by Powells cavalry. He cap
tured IA pieces of cavalry which the enemy
had driven into the mountain.
At Woodstock the column was halted, where
1t rested short time, and then returned to-
wards Strasburg, picking up many prisoners
by the way.
New York, Oct. A.-The Herald's Martins
burg correspondent of the. 22d, says information
from the front indicate that our losses in the
haftlo If tho 9th inst will 000 in Ei1lad
wounded and missing. We also lost early in
the morning twenty-fOur gums. We have cap
tured including the wounded, who are in our
hands, about 1000 men and fifty guns. The
total loss of the enemy cannot therefore be
much short of 10, 600 men.
Gen. Gustav alone hos receipts for forty -fve
guns and five battle fl %, besides large num-
Der ofambulances, horses, harnesses, mules, &C.
This makes fifty one pieces of artillery that
his division has captured during the last two
weeks.
If any reliance is to be placed upon the state
ments of prisoners and intercepted letters it is
now pretty certainly determined that Long.
street was not in the Valley, but that General
Ear had determined to strike desperate
blow for the recovery of this district and his
lost reputation, in the absence, as he suppos-
ed, 90 ommanding General and the Sixth
corps a his effort he was seconded by ker.
shaw, whose infantry having been several
times defeated by our cavalry, felt that his re-
putation needed some Frightening.
Many of the other officers, however, high in
command, deemed the effort rash and he itated
not to express the opinion, that should It fail
it wou ID end the rule of the Confederacy in
that section.
Kershaw executed the first portion of the
programme well and the whole rebel army
fought with greater obstinacy than ever before,
as their losses exhibit. But nothing could
Withstand the impetuosity of our men.
The Herald correspondent has the following
concerning our captures at Cedar Creek and
th'. pursuit of the enemy: Dcvine with his
Ii .'a brigade, kept sweeping down upon their
r. rgobbling up the officers and men by scores.
lie pressed them so hard it was impossible to
get their artillery out of his way, and their
wagon and ambulance drivers and cannoniers
dismounted arG ran off into the woods on
either side of the road, and the guard of the
demoraiized rebel army, if it had one, followed
suit, leaving the whole train in our hands.
i.imbers, caisons, wagons and ambulances
were all hudded tog her in the greatest con.
fusion.