The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-09-06
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.
Pruss.an Omeial Report OF the CAM
paign.
BERLIN, September ..

BERLIN, SepteLuUcT =.
The following Is the official report Of the
campaign from the commencement to the bat
ties around Metz:
On the 5th of August the irs. Prussian arm;
| found itself between Saarbrucken and Saar.
| louis, facing the Second French Corps occupy
| inn Snicherln Heights, near Saarbrucken. The
Fourteenth Division attacked as the French
were preparing to leave on trains, and was
supported by the Fifteenth Division and some
| portions Of the second army under Genera!
SteInmetz. A bloody victory was achieved
and 3000 nrisorers captured. General Fros.
sard retired from Forbach to Metz, leaving his
luggage. private stores Of champagne, pom
toon train, camp, &C.
waiting for the second army, which had to lay
the railroad track as it moved along on the
18th of August, the first army was placed
thus: First Corps, with second DIVISION, near
Etanr. between Metz and Boullay, with another
dirision near Courcelles between Metz and st.
Avoid: the Seventh corps. with the Thirteenth
D,vision. near Pauge the Fourteenth Division
near Donnanyille; the Eighth Corps In re-
serve. near the village of Vionvllle ; the Third
Division or the left wing, near st. Barbe, its
First Cavalry near Frontign F.; the advance pos,
closr 10 the French line, scarcely German
mile from Metz, while the body was encamped
on o1.it the M hank Of the Med. The enemy had oc-
cnnied with considerable force, O small water
coiIrse between Colomby and Genouilly.
Movpments OF the enemy. about o'clock,
led to n reconnaissance. Energetic resistance
was encountered. The enemy developed great
strength, and General Manteufel, Of the first
corps. and General Zastrow, of the seventh,
engaged promptly, General GaltZs brigade, OF
sion advanced toward Colomby, and was soon
involved IA q violent combat, but maintained
Itself untli General Osten's brigade came up,
the confronting force far outnumbering It.
! Ganerai ZastroW arrived at O'Clock to the east
of Colomby. taking command in chief and ad.
yancinc the whole corps at o'clock all OF
| General Gleiner's division was engaged near
Colomby, maintaining itself against q superior
force. At7 o'clock General Ramekas's divi-
sion was concentrated at Marseily. At a mo-
ment six batteries were engaged, with others
| In reserve TO eYtricate and sustain Generals
Gleiner and Zastrow. At O'Clock General
| Wernac,s hripade was sent to attack the enc
mr's rirht near Colomby. The brigade, with
sniendid bravery, drove the enemy, enabling
Osten.s brigade to occupy the wood ou the
north Of CuluInby. The twenLy,se'ehtn orig
age remained intact US reserve;
al about $3.50 the enemy withdrew at all
noints Meanwhile, the Seventh Corps, with the
advance Of the First, advanced under cover OF
| cavalry near to the roads connecting Avoid
! with Metz and Etang with Metz The corps
onened the attack with the nTst division near
Nonthais. and the second near Moisseville.
The enemy in force attempted TO advance on
] the latter point. was repulsed by prompt ser
vice of the corps ofartillery anu the reserves
OF infantry Darkness closed the night. %
the extreme left the first DIVISION OF morse al-
preached Mercy-le-Hant, Their battery adVanc-
inS with nanscs 10 fire. The 1Gth regiment
OF the Ninth Corps, belonging to the left wing
of the second army, had advanced on tne east.
tbIrd division of cavalry advanced 10 Ogg,
where n battery opened on the enemy, north
of Perigny. u,,;,o, . m
noinis from ihe left bank of the Mosee under
he guns of Metz. Pursuit was stopped by
! The IRE of the guns of the fortress. The field
wos covered with dead. Few prisoners we're
taken and few trophies, owing to the activity
NJ ibe For,rcsa the heavy fire OF which tore
through tue Prussian masses. General Stem
| metz who came up, was 10 time TO give orders
for tha night and the following day TO prepare
tor a rene val OF the conflict. The result was
thar the enemy in one quarter OF an hour was
| driven from tile wall back into the fortress.
In auotner quarter @ large nouy was lett 70
retreat on Par.s ind fall luto me nands OF the
second army, which was J., moving raplds on
the left bauk Of the moseiie, leaving tne nrst
ot Met The ormv he next day moved to The
left without resistance, passing the Moaele at
| Aoev and romy-ou. The seventeenth corps
was b,yond An-Sur. Mosele, the eighth and
ninth at Glrzl, while the second Amy was
march;nv ,lp;Ily towards Metz, on the Verdun
road, after victorious tights at Yionville and
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