Special to New York Papers

(Tribune’s Dispatch.)

WASHINGTON, March 10. – There was a fight at Sangster’s Station yesterday between General Kearney’s brigade and an equal number of rebel regiments.  The latter were driven back.  Several were killed on each side.  Lieut. Worden, of the Lincoln cavalry was killed.  Thirteen rebels were captured.

(Tribune’s Special.)

WASHINGTON, March 10. – The Senate War Committee to-day authorized their Chairman to report back from the House Bill authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase coin with Treasury notes or bonds, striking the latter clause which leaves the purchase optional with the Secretary.  And also the section on making the fifty million of Treasury notes of the old issue a legal tender.  Senator Fessenden will report the bill as amended to-morrow.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will, on Wednesday, come to a final conclusion on the case of Senator Powell.  There will be majority and minority reports.  The minority, as in the Bright case, being for expulsion.

Light cavalry have been sent in pursuit to harass and track the rebel retreat.  It is supposed to be their design to fall back first upon Fredericksburg and then upon Richmond.

Our Troops occupied Centreville and Fairfax Court House to-night.

Two companies under Maj. Hatfield were ordered yesterday morning to go to Fairfax Court House, by Far’s Cross road.  When within a mile of that place they met the enemy who retreated before them.  At 4 o’clock, last evening, they entered the Court House, followed by a full regiment.  The two companies under Major Hatfield were then ordered back to Far’s Cross roads, where they met the body of the regiment and bivouacked for the night.  At twelve o’clock, noon, to-day, Major Hatfield’s company were within sight of the village, and found that it had been evacuated in the night, the enemy leaving their tents and other property behind in great profusion.

Lieut. Alexander, of the Lincoln cavalry soon after arrived with a detachment of men and passed on as far as Cubs’ Run, three miles above Centreville, where he discovered a vast number of tents left standing.

(Post Special.)

WASHINGTON, March 11. – The President will probably sign the bill establishing the article of war to-day, prohibiting officers of the army and navy, returning fugitive slaves to their masters.

Lieut. Worden, the gallant commander of the Monitor, is here and rapidly recovering from his wound.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 15, 1862, p. 4

Fight between Two Brigades

Special to the Tribune.

WASHINGTON, March 10.

There was a fight at Sorgster’s station yesterday between Gen. Kearney’s brigade and an equal number of rebel regiments.  The latter were driven back.  Several were killed on each side.  Lieut. Weeden, of the Lincoln Cavalry, was killed.  Thirteen rebels were captured.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 12, 1862, p. 1

The newspaper accounts of . . .

. . . the battles, skirmishes, sieges and marches are most unjust and unfair in three cases out of five.  We have had it well illustrated in the West, in the accounts of the various battles given to the public through the medium of Chicago papers.  The real heroes were never heard of through these mendacious historians.  The praise was uniformly bestowed upon some favorite Regiment or Division and upon [officers] who had bought and paid for their favors.  At the recent battle of Williamsburgh the same thing occurred.  The public were led to believe that Gen. Hancock did all the fighting, which consisted simply in one gallant bayonet charge.  This is very unjust and unfair, and the correspondents who wrote these lying accounts ought to be kicked out of the army, – drummed out of camp.  The truth is Hancock had only between twenty and thirty killed and wounded, and only four regiments engaged.  His affair was but a skirmish.  On the left, Heintzelman was compelled to fight a great battle, of vastly more consequence than Bull Run, and he won it, too.  He had seventeen regiments engaged from first to last – twelve of Hooker’s and five of Kearney’s; and his loss in killed, wounded and missing, was two thousand and forty-six!  The facts are that the courage of our men enabled Heintzelman to fight for six hours against the odds of three to one, and against other and greater odds than disciplined troops ever before encountered. – And wider and wider spreads the opinion through the army every hour that it only needed that Sumner should have spared Heintzelman a third or half his force standing idle in the woods, only have a mile off, to have enabled him to crush the enemy right at Williamsburgh, and have taken or dispersed the great force which we may now have to fight again in the Chickahominy swamp.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 24, 1862, p. 1