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About Weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 185?-1877 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 22, 1862)
OUB SPECIAL COEBEBPOSDENCE FROM HOL LT SPBIHGS. _ IL ASB BIGHLT IIT.R.STISG PAETtCCLABB Cf THE LATE BATTLES AT COBIKTH. rrom ,h, Atlanta too.) souther* Con/ederacy_Oct 14 LI fniTOßi ' The armies of Gens. \an D.ir n Messrs, t-dito . o. jrD as the raok\ U g and Price °o e r^ e( . . & j unc ,i oD at Ripley, ° ffi<: ' : h7d b tbeofe for the purpose of tbe “"“ fn ba.Ue though it was well kno» a that the'bit "e bast be waged under the serious dts. advaLtages of great disparity iu oum rt rs, and ' 23, oar forces marched ..borsday *■ t i-hewjiila, point jon tbe *M. A C°R R ,C& lhus moeing fro* the W est on Corinth, the s’ronaho'd ul tue enemy. ".bat n ghi the tbe s-rongno , ln and confi.. soldiers rested o , ;h & \ (yt jn battle ur. dent expectation of ray on ihe ensuing “ e ’ r d *: oS ba , ;;e was f o ,med, Friday Oct. 3d in Van Dorn s troops the right being bald b r Gen. Lo.ell; occupied by Gen. Price’s • -while tbo le' , f dirisions, the extreme troops c 0“ and the right under Gen. - thus placed, lormed Efe*o’clock in the A “ r “„ Lovell’s div sion arriueu within grange of'the enemv, woo had marched out in ine miles in trout of ihe earreme outer oe. o his tortifcations. Immediate.v tbe UMiery oi Gan Vilhpigue, whose brigade was in the ad* «nce opened tire upon the enemy who, in a short , mt . V*gau h> give way and tall back, and cons tlnced to do so tor .wo hours, under a heavy and Lffec : ve fire from tilt advancing batteries ol Geu LovelVs division. Meanwhile, there was constant skirmishing along the line ot the centre and right Wirg. ID which the brigades of v«nerai» Moore and Pbiter, and particularly Col. bridge* Texas . regiment ol ebaipshooltrs, were most active ana hko o’c'ock. the ecetnv having made a stand one bai? mile in front ol his tonifications,.Gen. Luveii advanced his infantry and poured a de structive musketry tire into the ranks of the Yankees, who replied with spirit; and now, Gen. Fr ee having ordered up his divtstohs under Gens Maury acd Uebert, tbe battle raged all along tbe line-theenemy suffering terrible. At length u charge wad ordered, Gen. Lovell s division lead ing and in double quick tune our brave soldiers drfve the enemy behind his entrenchments.— S, uiuitaneously almost, the divisions ot Generals KUurv and Hebert, the one after the other, cbaiged the enemy in front ot them with equal success, so that before 2 o’clock, the Yankees had withdiawn entirely behind their lorn heat ions. >*ow there was a lull in the battle-a cessation of the tierce strife—lasting for a whole Lour. Then tue enemy havmg brought several tie-d bat,; in front, opened from these, and. at tbe same ume from his heavy artillery, a most Ue« meodous cannonading—the sound of which was as tbe noise ot many waters. This tire was di rected chit fly, it not wholly, against the right wing, under Gen. Lovell; and, though so tre meudous in sound, produced but little effect was almost harmless, iu fact. To it there was no re ply—our soldiers remaining silent and standing fine, as if waning for orders, ily and by the second charge was ordered, and right gallantly was it made' by Gen. Lovell’s division, and just as gallantly was it supported by charges all along the centre and right wing by the divisions of GeDS. .Maury and Hebert. On, on, our glorious columns swept through tbe leaaen rain and iron hail, un»il they had reached and passed the torti ficatioos, from which tbe Yankees fied, and stopped not until they had arrived at the next line of entrenchmeuts. Here the fight ot Friday ended in a glorious triumph for our troops, vl spite of tbe superior numbers of the enemy, behind works of great strength in the closing struggle. Geu Van Dorn, in hl» first dispatch concerning this engagement, ahcr.bes the highest credit to Gens. Price and Lovell, <»dd the officers and men under them, for the splendid tighuog done by them. The casual ties ot the day, on our side, were not numerous. No official estimJte 18 yet at hand; but .roin re liable data it is believed our killed and wouuded will not much exceed SPO meo. The loss of the enemy, it was thought, was twice as heavy as 4rci s. Tlltt BATTLE OF SATURDAY. The general relation of our troops to each other j and »o the enemy remained as it was ou the pre* 71 ms day—Gen. Van D »ro 10 supreme command, ! occuj ymg the centre, Gen. Price the left and Geu Lovell the ri**ht wing Geu. Lovell'p. | division held ground West ot Corinth and just' Ho.i'h of the M. AC. H R. Gen. Maury’s divi-i »i. a was posted N »rtb ot the M. A C R. R , and We’ween it and the Nl. 40. K R Gen. 11-belt’s division was on the left, Hast ol the M. k l). R. R. —thus advancing from the Noith upon Corinth. The battle was commenced by Gen. Price early in the morning—halt an hour before daylight. Tue artillery, having been moved forward, opened upon the enemy in ms entreucbmenis at the dis-, tance of 400 yards. The enemy replied, and a heavy c nnonudmg bv both sides ensued f.»r one boct. Our troops suffered but little damage from this tire, and the artillery was withdrawn with the view of advancing the infantry. Now heavy skirmishing followed a.l along the line,which was kept up until about 10 o’clock Then beginning with Gen Lovell's division, who were mimed- ateiy seconded by Geo. Pi ice’s army—Gen. Heberi’s division first, aud then Gen. Maury’s—our whole line advanced upon the entrench men is of the eneiny. Here occurred ou« of the most terrible strug gles of the war. Tne air was filled with the mis siles of dea h, and tbe earth trembled under the contused noise of bailie. Every division,'brigade, regiment, and company, and I might say almost every man, fought with courage and coolness, as though the lesult depended upon one as much as upon all. Forward our mtn advanced ; and, though many of them felt before the terrible fire ot the enemy, from heavy guns, field pieces, and smull arms, forward stiii they advanced. And now there was a grand charge all along our lin**!-. The enemy held his position until our wen had readied the very mouths of bis' heavy < gi.ru, ami firtd upon his gunners as they stood at their pi it.- Then, however, his advance wa tbrown into c nfusion and RcattereJ awav in haste, i leaving his heavy artillery and, some say, a num- 1 bet ot tie d pieces in our bauds. Our logs here war very heavy; but having gained the last line ot eutrei chments, our brave troops seemed to have woo the day In tact, if our men, though much reduced by the casualties of the day, could have been -upnortevl by reserves even equal to the dead Jed in uum'ier, they, in all proba bility would have been crowned victors of the well fought field. liut, alas ! fresh troops were not at hand ; and the enemy bringing up his heavy reserves about 12 o’clock, and burling them against our lines— particularly the centre, our brave troops we** e obliged to yield the ground so gloriously won bv them. Suffering intensely from thirr-.t, hunger, and fatigue, they were but pooriy prepared to meet this onslaught from fresh men ; and besides, many of them had exhausted the last round of ammuLiticn, and no further supp ies were just ai band So, under the necessities of the case, they fell back ; tnd though id dong so, they were ex-* po-ed to a terrible and destructive fire, there wa< no panic, bo rout, the wounded ol Gen. Price’s .army, except those whe fell right at the entrench ments, baring been nearly all brought away. Our army retired to tte woods at a distance of OD.y 6f>o yards; and there, while our artillery re sumed fiie and kept it up .for a short time, formed ag<«t.u in order es battle But the enemy appear ing isdi-posed to renewAe conflict. General Van G *rn, at 3 o clock, drew vff bis whole force, being ably supported in doiog so by Gen. Piice * nd the other general officers. The enemy at tempted no pursuit during the afternoon, and that night our army camped securely in the neighborhood of Chewalla. Sunday nr, .roing. at 3% o’clock, our advance, conmstmg #,f Geo. Phifer’s brigade, and Col. "mb Id s Legion, with one battery—not exceed ing one thousand five hundred in all—crossed the , m bf,cJ gv at Hatchie river, to engage the enemy, a large body of whom, from Bolivar, had the day before reached that point, and bad there been be din check by Cols Slemmon’s and Adams cavaJrv, with o De battery. Our advance havmg rossed the bridge and gone a little distance, re a heavy fire at short range fvom a con celled battery, which was fallowed directly bv a charge from a largely superior force. ’ Our ’joops retreated in a good deal of confusion across the bridge—having suffered a loss, perhaps, of 300 killed, wounded and missing.— Tbe reinforcements arriving, our troops formed in line, and a fight with musketry ensued and was k**pt up for some time across the river, but with very little loss on our side. Meanwhile, our field pieces opened upon the enemy, and, they ing, cannonading was continued during tbegreater part of the day. During this time, our advance was gradually withdrawn, and following the other troops, with the long wagon trains ot supplies, wounded, Ac —tbe artillery having also been brought off—made a successful crossiug of Hatchie river some miles higher up tbe stream. And now our army is in camp a little North of Ripley ; and it is rumored that the enemy is advancing, and has reasbed a point only eight miles distant from our lines. Ocr loss was heaviest on Saturday—perhaps much heavier—as a matter of course, than the enemy’s. I think our loss altogether—Friday, Saturday and Sunday—will perhaps reach 3,000- killed, wounded and missirg—not many prisons « rs, chiefly wounded and stragglers. I can give but few names. Col. Martin, of Memphis, com* ir.anding a brigade—a gallant tfficer and excel lent gentleman—was killed on Friday. Colonel Hodges and Capt. Catteson, of Texas, are here, seriously but not danger ous!y woanded—also others. The enemy’s loss was heavy. We captured several hundred prisoners: and besides these I doubt if the enemy's loss will fall below 2,000 men. Rumors have gone forth, and some ®f them have been published, making matters much worse than l have detailed them. My information :s from sources eminently trustworthy, and though necessarily imperfect in a certain degree, vou may, I tbiuk, rely upon the mam points. The future is dark in this part of the country. I I fear other reverses are in store for ns, mclud |mg loss of much ground now held by us. Tbe I enemy can readily, in a few days, concentrate , three'to one against our forces. C. J. W. Holly Springs, Miss., Oct. 8, 1862. Front the Savannah Kcpubhcart vet. 13. FROM ST. AUGUSTINE—BANISHMENT OF FAMILIES INHUMAN TREATMENT OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN j We yesterday had au interview with the lady of !an esteemed citizen of Savannah, who, with her family of five little children, has just arrived from , St. Augustine. Sue gives an account of Yan kee barbarism, and the hardships she had to j encounter in her efforts to reach this city. In the early part of September a meeting of the : cit zens of S*. Augustine, ma'e and female, from the age of fourteen years and upwards, was or ; dered, by Gen. Saxon, to assemble at the Presby terian Courch. The meeting being assembled at : the appointed time, Co!. Beard, of the Provost Guard, opened his address us follows: “I do not know whether to address you (alluding to the ladies present.) as ladies or women, as all Broad-- way crinolined women are called ladies!” It was noon ascertained, from the speaker’s remarks, that the object of the meeting was to have the oath of allegiance to the United States adminis tered. A guird was stationed at the door to pre vent any from leaving. Those who refused to take the oath were required to go in the galleries —some iwo or three hundred men, women and children. The others were furnished with certifi cates and allowed to depart. Those from the gal leries were then called down to receive, as Col. Beard termed it, their “benediction.” They were forced to regi>ter their names together with the number of their respective residences. This having been gone through with, he told them that when he was ready he would give all the women and children among them who had relatives in the Confederacy “a free ride across the lines.” He then gate orders to the guard to permit the ladies to pass to their homes. The residences were duly labled, and about a week after the meeting, wagons were sent for their baggage, and these banished people were taken on board a trans port. The steamer left for the St. John’s river with some fifty families—about 150 women and children huddled together, without a bed to rest on, or any accomodations whatever, and kept two and a half days outside without food or wa’ersave what they took with them, and in their sea sick !n« ss were refused even water to drink Fearing 1 to enter the St. .John’s, as our informant supposes, j they were taken back to St. Augustine, and when near t> it place it was ascertained ihut the vessel j w;n leaking badiv, having some four feet of water | .u the hold. It was supposed on board that the ! negroes had attempted to scuttle the vessel in i order to drown tne “S-cesh.” i Our informant, who was among the sufferers, j having been furnished a pass which had been J some rime previously promised her, was placed ' with her young charge and her baggage m a cart j and taken across the country to the St. John’s river. The cart having broken down several times on the way, they were forced to walk and seek shelter in a negro cabin, with nothing but the j naked floor to sleep upon—their feet and limbs i sore, and bruised, and their dresses torn by briars, j Arriving at tue St. John’s, they were taken across | in a small boat, where they procured another cart I and reached the railroad at Trail Ridge. They j were, after severe suffering, some ten days in their i trouble to get to our lines. Taking the railroad they came by way of Lake City, and reached this I city to the great joy of themselves and friends I Saturday evening last I Gen. Mitcheil sent notice from Hilton Head to S'. Augustine, previ u;> to her leaving, that he ’ would send a boat to that place and take all the | ladies who had refused to lake the oath, to Jack sonville. She states that the poor of St. Augustine are regularly furnished by tne Federal* with rations ; but it was reported they intended soon to stop the supply. The troops are respectful to the ladies in passing them m the streets, and are very ordeny. The soldiers are kept in their quarters a! St. Francis Barracks, which is iu the south end of the city, and >*i Fort Marion, in the north end. There is but one regiment stationed in St. ! Augustine, the 7th Ne -v Hampshire, Ol Putnam. ; comprising S*jO men, and a cavalry corps. | Col. Beard is in command of the Provost Guard, j and Capt. Durgtn is the Provost Marshal. ! During ihe day, one company is stationed at | the Barracks, one at the Planters’ Hotel, one ou the hill North of Fori Marion, and the remainder of the regiment, excepting the pickets, in tne Fort. A gallant Captain of one of the companies, in riding out u short time ago, beyond the picke's, lost his way, and was tired upon by gueril&s.— He made good his escape, af.er losing his sword and his h »rse being shot. Arriving in the city with his revolver ui hand, he staled his misfor tune. but boast.’ d that he thought be killed three of the guerillas wi'h his revolver. The Federal offi -♦ in St. Augustine boasted •hat their government intended to lake Charles ton, Savannah and Mobile this winter. They ex pressed the hope that when the demand was rntde for the surrender of Savannah it would be given up. As there were many Northern people and much Northern property in this city, they did not wish to shell it; but if the surrender was refused, they would be compelled to destroy the c:tv. No articles of silver or gold will be allowed to leave St. Augustine in the baggage of those who are sent away, which is regularly searched, in order to prevent them getting into the bands of Confederates to be coined into money. Grocet ies of all kinds are selling at very low figures, for gold or silver only. She saw no paper currency in circulation. Moical Catechism. —“ What is a slur?” “ A Imost any remark any sieger may make about another.” •‘What is a rest ?” G'»icg out of the choir to eat refreshments during sermon time.” “ What is called siDging with an understand ing*” ’ Marking time on the floor with your foot.” “What is a staccato movement?” “Leaving the choir in a huff because one is dis- 1 satisfied with the 1 leader.” “What is a swe’l ?” “A professor of music who pretends to know everything about the .science while he cannot cou cea! bis ignorance.” THE POLITICAL CONTEST IN NEW YORK. The New York Times thinks the election of a Democratic Governor of New York may work the ruin of the U» B. Government. Even though Seymour and his supporters may not be actual traitors, their success will give aid ana comfort to the rebellion. It says : It will be a heavy blow and g'-eat diacourage ment to the Government in its contest for self preservation. It will do more to encourage the rebels to persevere in their war upon the Consti- , tution and the Uuion than could possibly be done within tb s State m any other way. And there is not a man living who would have more reason to rejoice fiver such a result, or to whom it would ( Carry more solid comtort and encouragement, , than the President of the rebel Confederacy. Every man knows thin to be so. Mr. Seymour ; himseir snows is. Trie Atlas and Argos knows it. i The party have put forward so clearly ihe real spirit and animus of ihe movement in the speech of Mr. Seymour, which they adopted as their plat form, that in sp’te of their feint protestations of loyalty and patriotism it is impossible for any man. 10 doubt the real drift and tenor of the action they propose to tßke. Whatever ulterior object may lie behind the movement—whether they design to surrender the Government to Jeff Davis, and ihus preserve the Union, or to “let the South go,” and thus destroy it—one thing is very clear, they mean to encourage the rebels to persevere in the war, and to cripple the Government in its efforts to push it to a victorious end. If ’hey don’t mean this, what do they mean V They have organized their movement on the specific and exclusive ground of opposition to the Government. They denounce its action agains* the rebellion; they brand as illegal and tyrannical its efforts to pro*, tect ltseii against spies a id traitors at home; they magmty its faults and villify us motives, and do everything in their power to make it odious and offensive in the eyes of the worldand then they I put forward Mr. Seymour as the representative of i this hostility to the Government, and. as such, | ask the people of the .State to elect him Governor. I is not this giving aid and comfort to the rebel lion v If not, what would be? Now, we don’t imitate the example our oppo nents have set us *n calling them traitors,and in voking the penalties if treason ugaiLSt them. We Lave not asked that Mr. Seymour should be sent to Fort Lafayette, or that the* editors of the Atlas and Argus should be.hanged,drawn a«’d quartered } for the u»d they aie proposing to give the rebel i Contederacy. We appeal to the people. We ar-k | them to sque cb this attempt to hamstring the I Government while engaged* in a life and death | stiugg’e with ns foes. We ask them to sav wbeth- I er the political weight ot the Empire State shall thus be cast into the scale of rebellion against the Government. The friends of Seymour appeal to them to end j the war. Hut how? By its vigorous prosecution? j By striking the rebels as qnicx, as hard, and as ; often as possible? By making them feel the lull | evils of the war they have invoked, as a penalty : for the ctimes they have committed? By stripping j them of the means of waging war? By setztng ! tbeir agents and preventing them from giving | them aid and comfort? This is General Wadswjrth’s method, not Gov„ | ernor Seymour’s. This is precisely the method j on which Governor Seymour and the party at his | back are making war. It is precisely the method 1 they fcre trying to stop. They are fo’r eodt ,g the | war by compromise—by concessions to the South | —in a single word, by a surrender. We appeal to the people to judge between them, and w« have | not the slightest appiebension as to the verdict | they will give. INTERESTING LETTER FROM VIRGINIA , The following letter is from a member of the I Georgia Relief and Hospital Association, to the Secretary, in this city, and will be read with gen.* ; eral interest; Winchester, Oct. 2,1862. j J. M. Newby, Secretary: Dtar .Sir—Yesterday, l)r. Carnap Mr. Se kirk, I und your correspondent, spent most of the day in I canvassing this city, and finding out the where-* | abouts of the Georgians, and in making prelim 1- j nary arrangements for the relief of Mtch of them las are badly situated. Permission was granted us I by the Surgeon ot this post to tii up one of the ! churches foe the exclusive use of Georgians, und j our arrangements were made for Dr. Camak to take charge of it for the present. This is a very | important step, as it will enable us to remove to 1 this church wounded and sick Georgians who 1 have been iu d.-rty garrets io this coy. In the ! afternoon I went out, accompanied by l\ W A., ! to the headquarters of General Loog-treet, with a view ot obtaining a full list o! casualties in the Georgia regiments, to forward home; but his Ad j jutant bad giveu the list to Mr. Crocker, of Rich** ' mood, who. I presume, has published it before 1 now. “ All was quiet on the lines’’—the onlv ! thing of note we saw or heard was the tine spirit ! of the soldiers, and the rapid tilling up of the 1 ranks by tbe coming in of convalescents and ‘ stragglers. Mr. Selkirk and W. O. Jones, of the ;A. A 8. R K., visited the barefooted camp, marched in the Georgians to our room, und put shoes on tbeir feet, preparatory to their going to their regimeuts. The wagons with our sup plies arrived last afternoon, and we opened them this morning in a doctor's shop, which had been tendered us by Dr. Baldwin of this place. Dr. Camak proceeded at once to till ; up tbe bed sacks w’th straw, and tit up the j church for a hospital. His hospital is already in ; full operation. Mr. Jones assisted Mr. Selkirk ! in arranging the Store, and Mr. Crum ley assisted me in the distribution of the supplies. J append a list of those I visited to-day and their condition. I Our supplies were received with many ixpres ! Hions ot gratitude, while the men from other , States ejaculated their wish that their States would send some one to assist them. In many instances, I could not pass by these men from Mississippi, Florida, and Tennessee. S«>me of I them had not an article of clothing. I felt, too, that the amount of our .-upplij?, already here and ; on the wav. would enable us to ex end relief in extreme cases to the brave men of our sister ■ states, without iujustice to Georgians. I called yesteidav and this evening to see J. C. Kennedy of Augusta; he is badlv wounded in ihe head but seems to be g tting wel ; he si’s up a pm of the day. By-th * 'ay, h;s boy, Ei. le*t him this morning and lias net returned. Capt. D’Antig nac is resting quietly this evening since there seetns to be no change in his condition. Dr. Camak has. to-night, dressed the wounds of Col. Crowder, of Monroe county; his is a severe wound in tbe lower part of the abdomen, but not din gerous. He also dressed the wound of Lieut. Flavn s, whose leg is broken halt wav below the knee. These are in a private house, well faxed Dr. C. also dressed the wounds of Mr. Horton, of Union I f o ; D», who is shot in the lungs, just below ihe right nipple, a bad case but probably will re cover; be is in a good private bouse. Lieut. Co'.. Zacherv, of Newton county, was wounded severely, but Dot dangerously ; hfe left here for Staunton day b"fore yesterday. I have just learned that Lieut. Col. Thompson B. Lamar, of the sth Florida regiment, was sl'ghtlv wounded in the lower arm, und is about six miles from here, m a private house, he is a Georgian. [I heard to-day tha* Geo. G. Smith, Chaplain of Phillip’s L g or), was severely wounded in the ueek, but cannot hod out where he ’S; a member of tbe Legion, also wounded, told me this.] Since writing the last sentence, 1 have heard the report of bis being wounded contradicted. I have ju9t conversed with Corporal Jones, A C. S., oi 22d Georgia Regiment, who informs me that Colonel R. H. Jones, of that Regiment, is not killed, as at first reported; he received tour wounds, one di** rectly through the breast, but is recovering, aod on his way home. He was commanding toe brig ade of Gen. Wiight, and had been wounded, when he fell, supposed to be mortally wounded—he had been id five battles, and was wounded in four ot them. His brother, Captain W. F. Jones, was wounded :n eight places—the severest one being m the thigh ; be fell into the hands of the enemy. His brother, the Chaplain of the Regiment, went through tbe lines and found him. and subse quently Idr. Swinney, Brigade Surgeon, went through the lines and found the two brothers together. Dr. Swinney reportg him a3 doing well, and says that our wounded, who are in Maryland, are well cared lor, and have even more comforts than they could have on this side. 1 mention this to relieve the minds of the friends who have wounded relatives beyoDd the Federal lines. I have no doubt that tbe situation of our wounded in Maryland, as to material comforts, is better than that of those on this side This country is nearly exhausted, and it is as much as a man can do to get the necessaries of life. The wounded are beiDg sent off by hun dreds every day, and it w.ll be well for you to let the people at home know that if *hey hear of tbeir friends being wouDdtd aod in hospitals or private jouses here, it is not certain that ih?y would be here the cext day. Oct 3d.—We have been repeating to-day the operations of yestcrJay. Tbe list that has been made by u*t, in visiting to-day, is too long to be written for this mail. We have exhausted our stock of shoes, aod nearly all our supplies, except shirts ana med.ernes. We expect ox boxes of additional suj plies toemorrow. Our arrangements are now ail perfected, and Mr Selkirk and myself expect to leave fr.r homo on next Tuesday. I>r. Camak and others will remain longer. Please present our respects to the Executive Committee. We are all well. Very re. pectfully, vocr ob’t serv t, W. H. P. Tne following is a list of Georgians I nave seen to-day, the 2d October; and tbeir condition. They are in the Uuion Hospital: T J Thompson, Company F, 53d Georgia, wouaded in joint of foot, badly. James Duker, Company E, 12th Georgia, sick, nearly well, walking about. E R Lune, Company H, 4th Georgia, wound ed in foot, badly swollen. Ivy Finch, Company F, 2d Georgia, arm brok en, doing well. T J Dempsey, Company F, 19th Georgia, arm off near the shoulder, doing well. Robt Y Carmical, Company D, 33d Georgia, leg broken below the knee, improving. Moses Procter, Company D, 48ih Georgia, sick, an olfein'.i. J D B, 48th Georgia, sick. Thos J Preston, Company A, 50th Georgia, sick. Luther Gauss, Company A, 50ib Georgia, sick. W A James, Company E, 13th Georgia, sick. Thomas James, Company E, 13th Georgia, wounded in foot, badly. Thos J Gibsou, Company B, 12th Georgia, wounded in hip, badly. Win E Knight, Company C, 20th Georgia, through the breast aud in the leg. C L Sutton, Company D, 31st Georgia, Sesh wound iu right hip. J A Adkison, Company J, 16th Georgia, sick. A S W Bap, Company A, Cobb’s Legion. J M Hays, Company E, 3d Georgia. J J Shaw, Company G, 3d Georgia, of Au gusta, been sick three weeks and is dow con valescent. J C McDade, Compauy G, 3d Goorgia, sick. Gideon Wallace, Company &, Ist Georgia Regulars. R L McCall, Company G, Bth Georgia, re turns to duty to-day. G W Summers, Company H, Bth Georgia, re turns to duty to-day. Wm Lee, Company K, 9th Georgia, sick. J Portwocd, Company D, 17ih Georgia, sick. Wm B Clarke, Company C, 15th Georgia, sick and slightly wounded. James Williford, Company A, 48th Georgia, sick. Wm Hall, Company F, 26th Georgia, sick. T A Sherman, Company D, 13th Georgia, : arm broken above elbow, doing tolerably I well. | J P Pitts, Company M, Phillips’ Legion, been j sick a mouth. ' J H Souls, Compauy F, Phillip s’ Legion, leg off below the knee. D H Clay, Company 11, 13th Georgia, wound | od in shoulder and back. W y H Darden, Compauy H, 13th Georgia, ; wounded in shoulder. i E J P Kiug, Company H, 13th Georgia, | wouuded iu neck aud back. | T A Maddox, Company B, 13th Georgia, i wounded in shoulder aud arm. j Sergeant John Matthias, Company D, Phil lips’Legion, wouuded in* foot doing well. Sergeant W H Perry, Compauy 0, 31stGeor ' gia, wounded in both thighs, j W D Maugham, Compauy A, 13th Georgia, j wouuded. W T Baretiold, Compauy A, 53d Georgia, j wounded in side, not dangerous. COVERING FOR THfc LADY'S SUGdES ION from the Savannah Republican. We take greui pleasure in giving publicity to the following proposition from u patriotic, whole souled woman ol Georgia. Let those to whom It >s more especially addressed respond to the call. Either party may uvatl themselves of our stivices whenever they may he uselttl; Wahbsboko’, Ga., Oct. b, 1862. Mr. Editor; You who have appealed so elo** queotly in behalf of our noble defenders, will not refuse u* sufficient space to put . n a petition for them. Our tailors, and contractors for clothing for the army, must have many aiuail scrups—remuants of cfo u which are useless to them—which might be made into comforts tor our soldiers in Virginia. A little labor might »ccou|l|lish much good; if only a few were benefited, 71 will he a pleasing reflection that we have “done what we could.” A sing e quill, comfort or biuuket, from each woman iu the Confederacy would lurnsb oui army aud iiospita s. Who, after reading “P. W. A.V* appeal to us lust week, could hesitate t« leud a helping hand to our dear delendeit? riumetLing must he (lout— and done quickly. Will not our cotton fat-torn s aid us a littl. ? Tbeir most interior iahucs would make excellent comforts. I shall he happy to receipt to the “Republican” lor any material which may be left at itmt office, engaging w.ih ihe assistance ol my lady liiends lo return the com oils us soon us tney can be finished, where busy fingers aud willing hearts work logether. They may he placed at ihe dis posal ol the donors, or the “Republican,” to he sent where it is deemed they are most needed. _ Mrs. C. vV.S. Confederate Court—Before tub Hon. A. G Magrath. Confederate States ex pahtb J. N. Hart — lo this case the petition was brought be fore the Coun upon a writ ol habeas corpus. It appears that ihe petitioner was a private in tbe Forty sixth Georgia, and ibut is father, who has a Shoe Factory in Georgia, apphtd to the Secre* t irycf War for a discharge, in order to obtain his assistance in Ihe factory. Permission was granted, on condition of furnishing a substitute* This condition was accepted, and a man named Jacob Adams put in the place of ihe petitioner as a substitute. Adams was duly accepted and mus tered into service, and Hart received his dis charge in due form. Adams, upon ihe receipt of the substitute fee, and the departure of Hurl, immediately deserted. He was arrested at Au gusta, Georgia, by the Sergeant of the Company into which he had been mustered, brought back, and is now confined in jail. Colonel Colquitt afterwards ordered Uart, the petitioner, back to his duty in the Company. Tbe petitioner returned from Georgia, and claims his discharge under habeas corpus. The discharge is resisted on the J ground ot ihe fraud practised by Adams, the sub* I stitute, in his representation of himself. The 1 pe'i joner, however, is not charged wnh any par- j ticipation in the alleged fraud. Tbe petitioner was represented by Messrs. Wm. ! Whaley and J. B. Campbell, and the Confederal*? States by C. R Miles, Esq. After hearing the argument, the Judge took the papers and reserved his opinion. Charleston Courier , Oct 16. It is reported that the Ya ikees, in consideraole force, made a demonstration at Bluffron on Tues day, with wbat result we are not informed. Too much vigilance cannot be used at any of the points exposed to their attacks, j Charleston Courier, Oct. 16. I LETTER FROM KENTUCKY-PARTICULARS* OF THE JOURNEY. CAPTURE AMS RE LEASE COL. FORSYTH. from the Mobile [ Ala .] Advertiser <6 Register, Oct. 12. w " received vesterday a private letter from cur assotiute, Mr. Forsyth, giving some interesting par icuiars of big capture, etc., f: ,® which w | make the following exit acts : Ba iidstowic, Kt., Sept. 85, 1««2. After a loeg cbaae, a variety ol fortune* ard fourteen days of riding, 1 overtook the army day before yesterday, twenty miles from this place. I started from Chattanooga with a party of six teen officers, departm. . clerks, 4c., besides ne* groes. Os the officers lam the only one that bas reached the army. Three clerks have come in but none of the negroes. I was sick when 1 started from Chattanooga, and for a week my journey was so painful that i wonder, in looking track, how 1 endured it We j traveled over two chains of mountains- Waldron’s ! R'dge and the Cumberland—and tnrough many pretty valleys, without disturbance from Union ists or bushwhackers. When we arrived within ten miles of Glasgow— 2lo miles fr-m Cbattav nooga we heard that the armv hod moved, and the enemy s Cavalry had possession of that town which was in our route of travel. We bad to make a detour to avoid them, and we traveled long and lar, through by ways a D d plants ions, to the eastward. Our purpose was to gain -en river above Mumfordsville, where Bragg was criss and come down trom above. We were about ten miles from the river with our party scanere 1 along the road, the hour S P M., the wagons ahead. I was in the house with two or three others, gelling some water—Sol holding mv line black mare at the gale—when four Confederate troopers rode up, looking be hind them. A boy rushed id and said, "there will be a fight here in a few minutes." 1 stepped to the door and saw everybody running, and beard the cry, “the enemy’s cavalry 1" 1 seised my mare, led her through the gate and jumped on her. intending to gun the woods in the rear I leaped one fencejust behind the house, rode to aclumpof trees and hailed to rec-unoitre, and soon heard shots and the noise of pursuit,’ and found 1 bad to run lor it. 1 made (or a second fence; it was too high to leap. I alighted to pull down some of the rails, and the mare end I jum; ed it together. Just as we cleared it 1 heard a shot near me, aud the words "halt aud surren der!'’ aud fraud four Yaukee troopers with their guns leveled upon me at a distance of twenty paces. My mare got away and I was a prisoner. An ugly beaided foreigner took possession of me, and at once began to scold me for a ‘‘d—d rebel." 1 was matched back to theiroad and found that six of our parly (officers) and nine negroes were taken. My mare was recovered and we were bur-, r ed to the enemy’s camp, leu miles off, our caps lorsfeanug the appearance of some of our troops and a rescue. T" make a long story short, at sunset we reach ed the first post of Bueli’s army, occupied oy a brigade of cavulrv Tnence we were sent, coos dueled by Major Wynkoop, of tbe 7th Penn, cav alry. to Gen. Kosseau’s headquarters, three miles oistau’; tbeD four miles to the headquarters of Gen. Buell. From Buell’s we were sent hack to Rosseuu, aud from him to the starting place—the cavalry quarters. It was near i o'clock at night, and we had been in the saddle since seven in the morning. Gen. Kosseau gave us seme supper, with the extra allowance of a bottle of Bourbon. Still there was no sleep for us ; tbe rest of the uight being occupied in geaiching our baggage and persons for dispatches and contraband, and iu making out our paroles. At sunrise We were started on font, with a wagon to carry our clothes with a Hag ol truce, to our lines. Meanwhile the Yankees had stolen many of our effects, and when the time came 10 leave threeoutof the nine negroes were missing, and among the three was our precious servant Solo* mon. We walked three mites to the pickets; there Ihe remains of our plunder were thrown down, and there we heard lhai Hagan and Craw lord (of Georgia! were two miles up the road with their iegraen’9. As I knew them noth, l)r. rtanr,- ders, who, as a surgeon had saved his horse, told I me to take it aud ride on to send help to gel our ihiDgs loward. I rode six miles before 1 found Hagan and then learned that Bragg's army had moved forward, and lhat there was not a wagon this side ol Green river. 1 then made airange meu<s io have the things brought up by our troop ers, but I had not left my friend an ho tr before i Ihe enemy attacked the pickets, aud there was 1 fighting all up the road usriDg the uav, ending in a pretty sharp cuyalrv and artillery battle at the j river. Since theu 1 have heard Homing of m» j friends or my elf-ctn, Col. Hagan mnuuted me on one of his troopers , horses, aud i overtook Ihe army next day at i Hodgenville; so here I am, pretty much a beggar, ; hot ill-inks io mv messmates, Dis. Noli and j Fl » rd - 1 »»> n«>t sufl' ring 1» u ~0 „ q h«altr. ; (,nd Slnce 1 over Ul> sickness, I seem able | endure auy annum of fatigue. Mv exchange Las I already been etf-cted, and lam on duly ji g supposed lhal ray traveling companions have re I ' ,,ru<?d > despairingo ( getting through ihe enemv’s I lints. j A-my letters are liable *o fall tn*o the eneme's I b f"'K cannot write ol the plaDs and prospects of Geo. Bragg. The map wdl show that we are north of the lieurt ol Kentucky, aud if Kentucki ans do tbeir duly, the army will he able to delecd them and liberate tin tr Mate These are ihe pros blerns to beso.ved, Iu the long and toilsome | march, «t huve lost some meu by ,-irkuess and | some stragglers; but the armv is iu splendid j fighting spirits, and can “whip its weight in wild cals. Ihe men think they can go anywhere i and do anything. * * * '.) y CHANGES I * THE ARMY. | A correspondent wriies us under dale of Wic cheater. 4*l October, as follows: As Senior Brigadier, General J)iu\ton to<-s command us the division when General loodidh le I. winch position he held until within >he past hve or six days. Tuumb*’ ami Col. Anderson s brigades have been transferred to General J B Hood’> division, and Drayiou’s u> McLaws\— Ilo".t is uu office man, determining ever\flung by ihe red rape mV; out he is a field man, a ing man, a piacucal loan, a man of s» use, wuo determines evei>thing by its merits Geu hood cmUie into the semce as a LieutenauuGolone!. He is now cou)u*auUiDg one of ibe best divisions I in toe army. ilow this* will effect Gen. Toombs' just c'aims to promoti u, 1 cuiuot fviresee. li is curreniy re ported, und very generally believed, that Genera] Lee bus highly lecommeuded him for ihe pos.tioo of Major General. Certainly noming cuuld oe more deserved. He has shown ihe most consum mate skill iu select mg positions, and exhibited the most conspicuous bravery in ihe hottestof me battle. Il is also said that our model Culim-i Becniug, has likewise been recommended for ne position of Brigadier General. .Voi only ihe b',t> ade, but liie whole division are enthus.ssue is his praise. Out regiment (the 12th Geo.) is commanded bv Cupt. John A. McGrt .-.o', of Mitchell countv. Hi's conduct upon the butile field, and his calm, vet rigid enforcement of discipline, have i -ndefed him very popular wnh ihe regiment. In c .se of Col. Henning’s promotion, Capt. McGregor is toe declared cbo ce of Ihe enure regiment lur the re sponsible post or Colonel. To say ihe least or it they could not, in my judgment, make a better selection, in or. ut ot ihe reg.uiem. Gen. D. R. Jonts has been granted a sixty days’ leave ot absence.’ Ii :s whispered aiuuud mat he will not return Nobody will cry if he don't. V\ hen we haddiiven the enemy- six hundred yards, and seat to him lor a battery, he was as« tomshed to Lear that the eoeuiv uau got taken the town. He had left it! H. rt.—His numerous friends wtIT be rejoiced to know that Lieut. JuJaon Butis, whom I mentions ed in a former letie as killed or captured, is safe and uninjured. He and b's company escaped without st-r ous loss.- Jttpvbncan. Col. Ni-skt not Kill£l>.— The Macon Telegraph says ihe wi e ot Co!. Keuben Nisbet, of the Thu d Regiment, has received a lentrHum herhu-hgnd dated ut Hagerstown, Maryland, the 2'.ib Sei t’ In it, he states lhat he wa» carried a mile from tbe field of Sriarpsburg, ou the back of a F’edeial soluier, and .ell into the bauds ol aruiv Suigeiras who were old med.cel classmates. At'writing ue was doui’Ciled in lbs house ol a las yer a: 11 agei s town-his wounds rapidly healing, and he hoped to be able to travel, oc parole, m feur wteks
