The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1866-08-08
The Grcat Battle of SodOwa-Onc Hun.
drcd Thousand Men Killed und Wound

:. Everything that rcnchcs confirms the be-
i'c' th"t IN the 6ntic OF Sadown the Aus
trinn army has been nearly ruined, Ms a
m,iltnry force, for the presanl campaign.
iho bravery Of the men shows forth clee~'s''
III every narrative. Thcy held lhcirN
iiona with obstinncy; thee advanced nA
the deadly fire ofthc needle gun, ~'it1h "a
devotion Of the soldier. AS long ms
preserved hope OF victory, they foA
with spirit worthy of better leaders ana
better cause.
Our correspondent. writing three dan /.
aitor tho battle, when tho confusion walAi
beginning TO subsidc. when tho mon wore
hhding their wnJ hack to their regiments,
ana regiments, on what was left OF thom,
were again being united into brigades and
divisions, gives the loss of Tho boatc, army
as possibly more than two .nfths Of its
who.o number. 1T nay be true" he snys,
''thnL 10000 men were killed, wounded
taken prisoners, or drowned, and TINT 100
guns were tnkcn, abandoned or thrown into
tho river on the retreat" Adding TO these
losses the number of men who must have
thrown away their arms in the retreat, We
must doubt whether 100000 effective mon
were to be found IN The army Of tho North
three days after The battle.
The retreat was, indeed melancholy and
disastrous. AS at Lcipsio, we hcnr OF pom.
toons laden with hundreds swept down the
river and overturned with their living cnr.'
socs-of artillery and horscmcn crashing
down upon and through tho struggling in
tantry, inmmng them into the narrow roads
and hnsIling them over tho bridges into
the waters. In about all that is most hor-
riblc in warfare was concentrated into This
contest. long struggle, lasting tho cntiro
day, tho moving down Of whole regiments
by the firing of tho enemy the burning of
villages, the horrible incidents Of flight
through, an inundated country, and, finally,
tho long suffering of The disorgNnizc,l
march TINT cccdcd, from combination
at which The imagination is shocked anil
snddcncl.
II is difficult 10 bring ones self 10 believe
thnt such horrors have been ennc,ca In our
own time and in n reg on near and so fa.
miliar. Wo had hcnrl and read Of s,iclt
fields Of slaughter. but they seemed to be-
long to M nge and Il state Of human chn rat-
ter which could never he revived. Nine
miles Of slaughter, ending with the droWnl'
ing Of mass Of icrrorstrickcn fugativcs
are an event which, few years since, tho
wsest would have pronounced impossible
in the Europe Of to-day
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THE PACIFIC RAlLRoAD.--rhe first
idea OF n railroad to tile Pa';ifit origina-
ted more than thirty years ago, and tho
first demonstration in favor OF the pro.
joct was in a public meeting at DN-
buquc, Iowa, about 1898. A. man by
tho name Of ELI Whitley pe,,i,onc1
Congress TO mhioo grant Of ono huh
drcd milliono Of acres Of lhntf to him to-
enable him to construct n rnilroal 10 tho
Pacific, anti offered as security for tho
faithful application Of tho lands to that
object, the pledge Of his honor, l,e bcing
broken down merchant ut tho time,
Ills application was renewed every ses.
sion, until finally il became pnrty
measure, endorsed both by Republicans
and Democrats. Finally passing botl,
Houses OF Congress, the bill became .
law, the requisite Government aid was
bestowed. for its commencement and
tho work is nov steadily progrcs.
sing to completion. Such IS the skele.
ton history Of m enterprise which may,
be well considcred MS tho twin brother
Of tl,c great Atlantic cable. T
-ss % .A.-s~-4------ '7 SO
MdRDER OF MRs. SURRATr.- lit was
positively proved on tho examination OF
! Merritt, that the Secretary Of War, Ed.
NJ. Stanton, paid Merritt, between five
and six thousand dollars for his services
asa witness before The military commits,
SION. Dirty work, ntwell paid. Brnoh,
lyn Eagle,
An Austrian rogimont 3of infantry
contains four battalions of twelve hun-
n n III o s /.