Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH Sr SPECIAL ECIAL TO THE UNION VEDETTE TE 3 A vivid account of the battle of the NEW YORK oct A special to the world on the jath from Sheri dans arm army y gives tile the follo following wing I 1 every morning of the present week but this troops have been in readiness at da daybreak y break for an expected attack for sonic some reason the precaution was omitted this morning apprehensions of an attack having probably died away the army is posted along 0 the north bank of cedar run the army of western virginia is on the left on the winchester and strasburg 0 pike the lath corps had the center and the fth corps tile the right in the absence of sheridan lit commanded ilic army A dense mist enic enveloped loped tile country thus favoring favoring 13 tile the designs 0 on the previous night 0 early who still commanded the rebel army masked three divisions of infantry Pe grams granis gordons and Eams eurs at a concealed point threatening 0 our extreme left the two remaining remaining t divisions whartons Wh artons and ke shaws shawls were moved from Fi fishers hill along the pike threatening 0 our center shortly before daylight C while the at army my was waa dreamless of danger and soundly y sleeping a an n assault was made on oil our right A rapid and conti continuous con tinous notis dischar discharge ID cre of our om sentinels muskets extended thence along the front towards tile left when suddenly the rebel ib infantry advanced against crooks position in solid columns pouring 0 a norco fierce fire on our flank and front only a portion of our troops manned the breastworks when the assault commenced it was so energetic and deadly as to break our lines at once the moil men of both divisions were from the breastworks into which the enemy came flock ing like the sea they entered the encampment in rear of our works where our soldiers were scarcely awakened and were actually rising from their blankets c ts to save our artillery at the breastworks became a desperate despot ate 0 object act when the assault was first discovered but the nature of the ground rendered this next to impossible battery B D or of the ath Pennsylvania of six guns was captured by superhuman man efforts all but one gun of the ath regular battery were meanwhile the enemy still advanced completely turning c our left flank and were nearing 0 the pike on oil life heights above the ilic whole army by this time was aroused arons aron sed cd and wagons wag one ambulances and artillery were making for the roar rear the corps which had stood firm during the assault on crooks Oro now found itself confronted by a second division of the enemy which had bad m oved moved up the pike and attacked it fiercely in front and wank g with musketry and artillery gol col McCa ulys brigade of tle ad divi division gion on the left swung pat out ot position ix ift front to receive afrank a flank fire of tb aa foe the ilio awault in creased in fierceness and the whole division reformed re forine d itself to the shock of the rebels now low advancing to the motin ted breastworks in its front and va di withering wit volley forced fl it bick back hi III 4 retreat the phe entire ath corps abandoned all its works I 1 and now fought while retreating ind and acio alio partially broken the rhe jerto f a iw army r k completely tumid tui eidl qa abild nd half liala of the urmy of western virginia wore were nying in disma dismay y through tile fog to its camps the greater part of its damp camp material was in possession of tile the enemy the remnant together with ith a part of the provisional division and col Ool kitchings which had been camped in the rear were still fighting for the possession of the pike the lath corps fighting more or less stubbornly and hilling falling back constantly was losing ji n stragglers 1 j t 1 44 tho the entire country about middletown midi I 1 V in the rear is I 1 populated with demoralized soldiers tile moment that the army of W Y q tern va and tile corps were ivere found to be falling back general sent orders to the ath corps to change their fron and swing around and stem alie torrent scarcely a moment elapsed it I 1 Ps 6 d A whim when its columns were soon seen tn moving 0 1 v F in im by the left firick straight into alie ineat of the conflict opell opening a moment for the passage 0 of stragglers it closed up immediately for a moment the career c ai r of the rebels in the centre was brought to a pta pause use sonic some of the i v 1 cavalry had penetrated into mild mid on tile the left cattarin capturing 5 a 3 portion of gen crooks amoia 7 lance train their infanta infantry y had swung around and were just pass passing the pike above when erritts Al powers and Cu custara Cua tars stars division s w were e re withdrawn from the rig alit 11 L and sent to prevent farther id vance after the check of emy in the centre the lines of the ath and corps wore were reform re form 1 ed cd the oth on the left aud and the on oil the right it was thien found necessary to withdraw the whole line distance in order to concentrate with tho the cavalry caVa hy who were advancing to drive tim the enemy from the pike on oil tile the left and held the field at that point tin this s retrograde movement accomplished without loss logs to tota atje enemy was followed up p cloey and revengefully their rained on our artillery killing t horgas and men and embarrassing the attempt of the artillerymen artilleryman artillery men to 0 move rd guns rear guns were foright for foi asplend splendidly idly they fought fough n fc avei everywhere until they found they could not be removed six guns were lost jn in the attempt to remove thero the lines had reached the crek creek jast tor tho the right and rear of mid disown where a second stand was vas made and where two charges of the enemy wore were repulsed nearly every field officer in the first di vision of the ath corps was wound ed ricketts commanding the corps was so badly wounded roundel that he was forced to leave the geld field Bd kwoll Bw oll commanding the sd b bry ade adem sa dirtion dir wion was mor mortally aki Y continued lo io fourth page wounded by a shell which tor tore e his left shoulder to pieces here fit at 10 1 for tile the first time during the day the army presented a consistent front towards tile the fot fix holding its own against any farther attack the results of tile the contest were otherwise gloomy I 1 we had been surprised and driven from a splendid position I 1 lost loat in ill prisoners lost 28 23 gunsard guns and 84 34 ambulances bu lances including 0 all tile the medical wagons and medical supplies lies of the corps and several quartermasters wagons we had yielded more than two miles of if the battlefield to tile the enemy ny many of our finest afi officers acers were killed or disabled the enemy relinquishing liis bis attack attach contented himself with tile the use of artil arti 1 lery ery at this loud cheer rung along the line in the rear sheridan who had bad ridden post haste baste from winchester was approaching pro aching his appearance created wild enthusiasm beginning at the left of tile the line lie he rode along the whole front of the army bavin waving his hat amid the wildest cheers tile the retreat was stopped in an instant from that time till 3 p m every arm arin was strained to get tile the army into an offensive position and ata at 3 tile the whole army with the 6 ath r tj 1 corps in the centre and the corps on oil the right with crooks command on the left merrills Merril Ps cavalry on the extreme I eft and custard division on the e extreme right made a magnificent and resistless char charge c which swept the enem enemy y off tile the face of the earth before it everywhere the enemy had actually viall y begun to throw up breastworks and was preparing to go into carna when the charge was made ile he was driven back at double quick through middletown and arross across cedar river where lie ile came from y thence was wag pur pursued silea by our cavalry through and beyond strasburg forty three pieces of artillery and some of the guns taken from us durin during the day were captured at t strasburg also over one hundred wagons ambula ambulances ices and caissons chaissons cais sons innumerable the rebel general ramseur was captured in au an ambulance seriously if not mortally wounded proba probably bly 1 1000 prisoners were picked 11 up p along the road two hours bours more of bayli daylight ht would have given us abo tb rebo ti army entire ariy any afi witte tte of our loss lose or those of the enemy is at present impossible to guvo lye tin tile army is is ordered to mo move more re against the enemy enemy at five 1 ui clock p in tomorrow to lo morrow |