LOUISVILLE, Oct. 10, P. M. Yesterday [morning]
Buell attacked Bragg’s forces at Chaplin [Creek in] the immediate vicinity of
Perrysville. A shor[t but] terrible fight ensued, when the rebels [broke and rap]idly
fled over three diverging roads
southward. [Our] forces are in
close pursuit; and hope to bag the lot.
At last accounts Gen. Gilbert’s forces [were in] the rear of the rebels,
and some distance [below them.] Military
exigencies require the suppression [of the] name of the place. No further
accounts [of the loss]es on either side.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 10.—Great anxiety [and
excitement] exists here respecting the fate of [of our soldiers] in the pending
battle. Capt. Aldershaw [is on his] way hither from Bardstown, with the re[mains
of] Gens. Jackson and Terrell, and Col. Webster [of the] 18th.
Among the Perrysville casualties are, killed—Gens.
Jackson and Terrill, [acting Brig.] Generals Webster and Lytle of Ohio; [Lieut.
Col.] Jewett and Major Campbell of the 15th [Kentucky] cavalry. Col. Pope of the same [regiment is] wounded.
There is no confirmation of the [death of Gen.]
Sheridan.
Gen. Rosseau is reported slightly [wounded.]
Col. Woolford, of the 1st Kentucky [cavalry,
af]ter five charges, took two batteries, [and the enemy] after hard fighting,
were driven 8 [miles.]
The foregoing relates to Wednesday[’s fight.]
Various rumors are circulating of [a fight]
yesterday, (Thursday) said to be [favorable to the] Federals but are traceable
to no [authentic source.] At
headquarters, 11 o’clock Friday [morning,] have received no advices from the [battlefield
later] than Wednesday evening.
Our force in that fight was about [15,000
infantry,] 8 batteries of artillery, and 2,500 [cavalry, but were] reinforced
toward the close of the [engagement.]
The rebel force has not been [estimated.]
Thursday morning we occupied [an advantageous]
situation on all sides of the enemy. [Our troops are] in high spirits and are
confident [of victory.]
Our loss in killed and wounded [in the] battle
was 1,500. The enemy’s loss [is
considered] much greater.
The 10th Ohio lost 282 killed [and wounded]
yesterday.
Company B. Capt. Farman [of Pope’s regiment]
mostly from Louisville lost in [killed and wounded] all except twelve men.
SOURCES: The
Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, October 18, 1862, p. 2, the right
side of the article was caught be the seem of the bound newspaper volume and
partially torn from the binding I have had to reconstruct the article by using
articles from the Muscatine Weekly
Journal, Muscatine, Iowa, Friday, October 17, 1862, p. 4, the Illinois State Journal, Springfield,
Illinois, Saturday, October 11, 1862, p. 2 and The Rock Island Argus, Rock Island, Illinois, Saturday, October 11,
1862, p. 2. The missing or illegible
words from the Union Sentinel article appear in brackets.