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THE NEWS OF THE WAR.
THE BATTLE IN FRONT OF RICHMOND FURTHER
PARTICULARS OF THE DEFEAT OF M'CLELLAN'S
ARMY HIS MASTERLY RETREAT REMOVING
THE DEAD AND WOUNDED, ETC.
The difficulty of obtaining precise and reliable
news from the seat of active operations,
besides those whieh nrHinarilv ?riat ia dno
the essential nature of the situation itself, in
which an immenso army of the enemy has
shifted his position and scattered his forces to
snch an extent that even our generals have
been able to get but dissolving views in the
change of scene and uncertainty of movement
which have marked the wonderful retreat of
McClellan.
The skill and spirit with which McClellan
has managed to retreat are remarkable, and afford
no mean proofs of his generalship. At
every stage of his retreat he has confronted our
forces with a strong rear guard, and has encountered
us with well organized lines of battle
and regular dispositions of infantry, cavalry
and artillery. His heavy rifled cannon
have been used against ns constantly on his
retreat.
THE BATTLE OF TUE8DAY.
The battle of Tuesday was perhaps the
fiercest and most sanguinary of the series of
bloody conflicts that have signalized each of
the last seven days.
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Early on Tuesday morning the enemy, from
the position to which he had been driven the
night before, continued his retreat in a southeasterly
direction towards bis gunboats on
James river. At 8 o'clock, a. in., Magruder recommenced
the pursuit, advancing cautiously,
but steadily, aud shelling the swamps and forests
m front as he progressed. This method
of advance was kept up throughout the morning
and till 4 o'clock, p. in., without coming up
with the enemy. But between four and five
o'clock our troops reached a large open field,
a mile long and three-quarters in width, on the
farm of Dr. Carter. The enemy were discovered
strongly entrenched in a dense forest on
the other side of this field. Their artillery,
numbering fifty pieces, could be plainly seen
bristling over their freshly constructed earthworks.
At 19 minutes before 5 o'clock, p. m^,
General Magruder ordered his men to charge
across the field and drive the enemy from their
position. Gallantly they spraug ro the encounter,
rushing into the field at a full run. Instantly
from the lino of the enemy's breastworks
a murderon* storm of orranA and nonio.
ter was hurried into their ranks, with the most
terrible effect. Officers and men went down
by hundreds; but yet, undaunted and unwavering,
our lino dashed on until two-thirds of the
distance across the field was accomplished.?
Here the carnage from the withering fire of
the enemy's combined artillery and musketry
was dreadful. Our line wavered a moment
and fell back to the woods. Twice again the
effort to carry the position was renewed, but
each time with the same result. Night, at
length, rendered a further attempt injudicious,
and the fight until ten o'clock was kept up by
the artillery of both sides. To add to the horrors,
if not to the dangers, of this battle, the
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eueuiy s gunuoaw irom ineir, position at IJuri's
Neck, two and a-half miles distant, poured on
the field continuous broadsides from their im.
mense rifle guns. Though it is questionable,
as we have suggested, whether any serious loss
was inflicted on us by the gunboats, the horrors
of the fight were aggravated by the monster
shells, which tore shrieking through the
forests and exploded with a concussion which
seemed to shake the solid earth itself.
It must not be inferred from the above account
that the slaughter was all upon our side.
We have the best reasons to know that tho
well directed fire of our cannon and musketry
both before and subsequent to our efforts to
itorm the enemy's position, fell with fatal effect
upon his heavily massed forces.
At ten o'clock, p. the last gun was fired
from oar side. Each side held the position occupied
when the fight begun, and, during the
remainder of the night, each was busily engaged
removing the wounded. The rumble of
the enemy's ambulances and wagons, in rapid
and hurried motion, did not cease even with
the dawn. At ten o'clock, Wednesday mornilior.
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their labors not becauso their wounded had all
been removed, but for fear of our advance.?
Our wounded were carried from the field directly
to the farm houses in the neighborhood,
whence, after their injuries had been examined
and dressed, they were brought to this city.
During the morning the onemy evacuated
his position and retreated, still bearing in a
southeasterly direction, and apparently not attempting
to lessen the distance between him
and his gunboats.
The battle-field, surveyed through the cold
rain of Wednesday morning, presented scenes
too shocking to be dwelt on without anguish*
The woods and the field before mentioned,
were, on the western side, covered with our
dead, in all the degrees of violent mutilation;
while in the woods on the west side of the
field lay, in about equal numbers, the blue uniformed
bodies of the enemy. Many of the latter
were still alive, having been left by their
' friends in their indecent baste to escape from
the rebels.
Great numbers of horses were killed on both
sides, and the sight of their disfigured carcases
and the stench proceeding froir^ thorn added
much to the loathesome horrors of the bloody
field. The corn-fields, but recently turned by
the plough-share, were furrowed and torn by
the iron missiles. Thousauds of round shot
and unexploded shell lay upon the surface of
the earth. Among the latter were many of
the enormous shells thrown from the gunboats.
They were eight inches in width by twentythree
in length. The ravages of these monsters
were everywhere discernablo through the
forests. In some places long avenues were cut
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trees, three and four foet in thickness, were
burst open and split to very shreds. In one
remarkable respect this battle-field differed in
appearance from any of the preceding days*
In the track of the enemy's flight there were
no cast-away blue great coats, no blankets,
tents nor clothing; no letters and no wasted
commissary stores. He bad, evidently, before
reaching this point, thrown away everything
that could retard his hasty retreat. Nothing
was to be found on this portion of the field but
killed and wounded Yankees and their guns
and knapsacks. A route, and to Virginians a
most interesting story, was told by these knapsacks.
Upwards of three hundred of them belonged
to the famous New York Seventh Regiment,
which were once so feasted and fondled
in Richmond. If a remnant of them return
to the Empire City they may say with truth
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bunu, uu v iiguna oun tuujr wcru npprupntue.y
welcomed on the occasion of both their visits
as friends and as foes.
We have it on the authority of those who
assisted on tho field that our loss in the action
of Tuesday amounted to between three and four
thousand, killed and wounded. Two trains of
four-horso wagons, and many private vehicles,
reached tho city about noon yesterday, with
their freight of wounded. They were distributed
among the various hospitals.
At the White Oak Swamp, out of which
numbers of the wounded had to be carried in
the arras of tho assistants, many of the wagons
got into the mire; some stuck fast, and others
were overturned in the efforts to extricate
them. Meanwhile, the battle raged in the distance.
Among the vehicles bringing in the wounded
yesterday were several of the fine ambulances,
marked " U. S." captured from the enemy.
They are water-proof,' and mounted midway
on two wheels, with springs, and are indeed
a luxury to the wonnded. The number
of wounded brought in yesterday was estima*
ted at something oyer one thousand. A great
many of the more slightly injured?in the
arms and elsewhere?had their wounds ban
d&ged on the field, and walked back to the
rear, where they met conveyances.
Thursday night we received-reliable information
from the neighborhood of the river that
General Lee yesterday morning had sent couriers
over the whole extent of his lines to aacertain
whether the enemy had made any
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cruras, nuu uau careiuny reconoiterea on pom*
tion, and was satisfied that hia lines still en*
closed a considerable portion of McClellan*a
forces in the densely wooded and swampy
ground in which we described him as having
taken refuge. It is supposed that considerable
numbers of the enemy who have reached the
river have croesed it, retreating towards Norfolk.
The enemy enclosed on this side of the
river had been stripped of a great deal of his
artillery.
It was reported yesterday (Friday) that
Jackson had cut off a portion of the. onemy's
rear guard and takeu several thousand prisoners,
but we can get no particulars, and find the
rumor confined only in the circumstance that
General Lee had sent an order to the city for
prison accommodations for ten thousand men.
The reports from the lines yesterday were meagre;
but we are informed of an important
movement of our. troops, the publication of
which is not advisable. There are other military
topics, which were the subject of a good
deal of personal gossip yesterday, to which we
think any reference at this time improper and
injurious. It is not probable that General Lee
will fight the enemy or make any peremptory
demand for his capitulation until he has completed
the circuit of movements already in progress.
Vesterclay the Yankee gunboats in the
river fired a national salute in honor of the day
(Fourth of July).
OUR LOSS IN KILLED AND WOUNDED.
It would be an injustice as well to our bravo
soldiers, whose efforts have distinguished the
last seven days with such great achievements
as to our readers, who expect from us just and
intelligent statements of facts, to attempt to
underrate the immense loss of our army in
killed aud wounded. Of course, such an estimate
as we must make is founded upon uncertain
calculations, but we are assured that wo.
will not exceed the limits of the facts in making
it, since Thursday, June 26, at least fifteen
thousand. Although these figures are terrible,
we have crood reason for beli?vinor **f
the enemy twice as large; for it must be remembered
that, although the Confederates
have made the attack, the enemy has exposed
himself every time in retreating, and whenever
his rear has been turned to his adversary he
has been pursued with terrible fury, and has
tracked the route of his retreat with evidences
of the most appalling slaughter.
Important from James' Island?TAie
Yankees Evacuate Their Works at
Grlmball's Plantation.
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important movements recently made by the
Yankee troops. They have abandoned the
strong positions which they had for some time
occupied on Grimbairs plantation, and are
thought to have concentrated the bulk of their
forces at Legare's Our pickets first discovered
that their works had been evacuated. What
is meant by the movement is a matter for conjecture.
On some of their deserted earthworks
the Yankees left signboards adorned with inscriptions
quaint, vindictive, and profane.
One of these bore this affecting sentence:
''Farewell^ Seceth! We go, but will toon
come again F
Mom Arms and Ammunition.?We have
positive information (says the Petersburg Etc
press) of the late arrival at a Southern port of
the Thomas L. Wrmgg, late the Nashville, heavily
loaded, with arms and amunition. Much
of her valuable cargo is already landed, and
at a secure point in the interior.