Show f THE BATTLE OF KI after the conflicts of sunday ly the of september from all tho the statements wha rhth 1 li have been published publish edit ft appears the confederates fell back towards boonesboro Boone drift ani sharpsburg Sharps burg the federal forces under gens hooker hooken franklin banks porter sumner couch and other commanders followed th m r 1 by bj various routes through the deggie defiles 8 of the 1 bIlls and mountains and considerable sk skirmishing Irmi shing and fight g is reported to have occurred C dured during the and and from the tile announcements that were made by the lightning 0 during those two days da s the pubic public were wre made kade to understand that general lee with hla hia mighty army equal if not superior to that under general mccellan Mc ceilan dellan was hurried ly re crossing the potomac y and proceeding up tide tlde the tue val ey of virginia towards winchester while the people of the north and west were rejoicing over oyer the success which bad attended the federal arms in the battles of the I 1 lih lib in hia ala maryland ryland and the expulsion of the enemy from that state sad tidings were flashed over the wires that evenin evening I 1 which caus caused ed a lull in the bi hilarity larity indulged in by the high and ana low throughout a the length and breadth of the landa land in every state where was waa not in the ascendancy and the glad news had come t that fiat the enemy had retired across the fhe potomac and was again encamped on sacred soil the announcement no made which caused considerable surprise and no little sensation was that two divisions of the confederate army had haa met on the i dorth north side aide of the river the united force of which amounts I 1 to seventy five thousand tho d me men anft hat at a battle had been going on all the benoon fe oon noon without any favorable result pa yon be the morning of the was announced that the battle had been commenced recommenced re and was raging with great fury that gen jack s son eon on had bad reinforced gen lee at antietam creek with forty thousand men and general mcclellan bad rece ved an addition to his bis force of thirty thousand and that the greatest fight that had been witnessed was in pro progress reas the result of which would no doubt be fior able to the federal army the subsequent reports of the sanguinary k conflict said to be the greatest ever foug fought ht on the continent set forth that the battle commenced on the afternoon of the and aas vas wab was renewed on the mornin morning of the mb on the center and right wing by generals hooker and sumner and at the end of two bors the enemy had been force I 1 back about one mile ach ground they soon after atter by a desperate aarde regained about that time general hooker was wounded and carried off the field atter ater w which the command devolved on gen sumner who rallied the federal columns and drove back the confederate retook the lost ground and arid gained a little more and at five fi in the evening all the enemas positions had been teen carried carriell carni carri etl eil but the right and ger gea burnside avas was ordered to drive them from thal that lie he advanced with his infantry after opening 0 upon them with artillery and carried the position at ne the point polut of the bayonet but was forced to abandon it immediately and retire before a superior and overwhelming force who faced death with a determination not to yield the battle is 13 said to have raged from five in the morning L till seven fourteen hours 1 without v I 1 any cessation whatever at that time darkness put an end to the shedding of blood for when it came both armies being exhausted 51 ceased fi fighting biting as if by mutual age agreement ement the first report of the casualties rS presented represented that they were about e quai equal tle maeral led let teral terai loss being estimated at ten tho the thousand usand ZI ahat cf ef the not greater general wan dan mansfield briele was A as reported klied ailed and generals bodian Ro atan dian richardson hartsuff duryea and dina wounded gen mcclellan was on an the field a and nd after ge eral hooker was wounded be he at once proceeded to the ri right bt of the line his ills presence there cheri is said inspired the fei fes eral sc idiens greatly 9 under his bis eye rallied arid and forced back th a a r al cing foe what transpired on the on around and la in the vicinity of the battlefield batte battle field cannot well be determined so conflicting and contradictory were the reports which found their way into the public journals but that the main body of the confederate army soon after the battle and before the of september re crossed the potomac there seems to be no dout doum the result of the conflict was unquestionably a federal victory according cording a c to the various statements that have been made from what ws w s 9 announced after the fighting ceased on the evening of the it would seem that althou although h gen mcclellan and his bis officers cla med the victory they did not consider it a very decided one and that the final result would probably depend on which of the contending armies should obtain reinforcements first the presumption is that both armies were so badly crippled and exhausted that neither of them were in condi condl ion to renew the battle and report says there was but little or no fighting done eone one on the and am at night 0 the enemy retired towards the river ivsich which they subsequently crossed but where is not certainly known so contradictory are the reports as to their retreat which is said io to have been conducted solely by stonewall jackson the other generals having been wounded or were so fatigued that they were unfit for duty the loss of the federal army is stated to have lave been unaccountably large in officers and ind that of the enemy equally as great in proportion their entire los loa while in maryland is at thirty thousand the th e exa exact c t federal federa I 1 los loss j wili will w ill lii proba probably bly n never e ver be known and great complaints are made by some ot 0 the eastern journals about the lecresy maintained by the war department departments in relation to the incidents and casualties which ch occurred during the late fights as injustice injustice is thereby done to many a brave man who fought 11 bled and died for his bis country there were many reports in circulation concertin concerning the movements of the two armies after the confederates retired into virgin a some that mcc ellana troops were following foll foil w them acres the river others that the forces of gen lee occasionally made their appearance along the south bank and on one or two occasions had re crossed into maryland b but bud ut were soon driven back bacr from all the statements thus made it would puzzle a jesuit to determine what transpired between the 19 th and of september but the latest accounts rec received elved elveA represent ubal lual the khe federal army occupied cright the left and the confederates the bank of the potomac and that an a arrangement aran e bad been made by which the picket pickets of both armies were to desist from shooting at each rach other across the river |