THE GREAT BATTLES: The Advantages on the Side of the National Army; THE BATTLE NOT RENEWED YESTERDAY (9/19/1862)

A great battle has been fought, and we are victorious. I had the honor to open it yesterday afternoon, and it continued until 10 o'clock this morning, when I was wounded, and compelled to quit the field.

I only regret that I was not permitted to take part in the operations until they were concluded for I had counted on either capturing their army or driving them into the Potomac.

My wound has been painful, but it is not one that will be likely to lay me up. I was shot through the foot.

The news received during last night indicates that the result of yesterday's fight was decidedly in our favor; but still another battle is necessary to determine who shall finally be the victor.

It was expected that the battle would be again renewed this morning, but no firing has been heard, and it is supposed that burying of the dead is the order of the day.

Surgeon-Gen. SMITH dispatched a special train to Hagerstown yesterday to attend our wounded.

The number of wounded in Gen. MCCLELLAN's army is very large; most of them will probably be brought into Pennsylvania.

Information received here this morning direct from the battlefield, represented that the battle would undoubtedly be resumed to-day, but up to this hour no firing had been heard at Hagerstown. The forces remain about in the same position as in yesterday's fight.

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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Field of the Late and Pending Battles: The Great Battles in Maryland – 2
The Great Battles: The Advantages on the Side of the National Army – 3-4
A Fight at Leesburgh: A Reconnoisance from Gen. Sigel’s Force – 4-5
Our Special Correspondence: Letter from Boonsboro – 5
Letter from Baltimore: The Secessionists Still Confident – 5
Affairs at Harrisburgh: The Battle Near Sharpsburgh – 5-6
The War in Maryland: Battle of Hagerstown Heights – 6-7
Gen. Buell’s Department: The Retrograde Movement of Gen. Buell – 7-8
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 8
Base Ball – 8
Editorial: The Maryland Battles – 9
Editorial: Who is Responsible? – 9
Editorial: A Great Battle in Kentucky Impending – 9-10
Has the New Privateer Reached Mobile? – 10
Another Day of Excitement – 10
Forming the New Army – 10
Important from Cincinnati: The Rebels Again Falling Back – 10
News from Fortress Monroe – 10
The War in the Southwest – 10

Today begins a two-day battle at Iuka, northeastern-most Mississippi, a Union victory:

Mississippi 1862 Engagements

Date	Engagement	Military Units	Losses	Victor
April 29 - May 30	Corinth, MS	Union Army of the Mississippi (Halleck, Grant, Thomas, Buel ~120,000), Confederate Army of the Mississippi (Beauregard, Bragg, Van Dorn ~65,000)	Union 1,000+ total, Confederates 1,000+ total	USA
Sep 1	Denmark, MS	Union Army of the Missippi, (Dennis ~1,000), Confederate Army of the West (Armstrong -4,000)	Union 108-total (8-killed), Confederates 288 total (11=killed)	CSA
Sep 19-20	Iuka, MS	Union Army of Mississippi (Rosecrans, ~4,500), Confederate Army of the West (Price, ~3,179)	Union 790-total (144-killed), Confederates 1,516-total (263-killed)	USA

Iuka marks the 147th engagement to date, with 63 Union victories, 64 Confederate victories and 20 inconclusive.

Summary of Civil War Engagements as of September 20, 1862:
Engagements in Confederate states:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
South Carolina	2	2	1	5
Virginia	7	25	11	43
North Carolina	5	1	0	6
Florida	1	0	0	1
Louisiana	3	1	0	4
Tennessee	5	3	1	9
Arkansas	4	0	1	5
Georgia	1	0	0	1
Mississippi	2	1	0	3
Total Engagements in CSA	30	33	14	77

Engagements in Union states/territories:

State	Union Victories	Confederate Victories	Inconclusive	Total Engagements
Maryland	3	0	1	4
West Virginia	9	3	2	14
Missouri	12	12	1	24
New Mexico	5	8	0	13
Kentucky	4	6	2	12
Oklahoma	0	3	0	3
Total Engagements in Union	33	31	6	70
Total Engagements to date	63	64	20	147

Over 2,300 battle casualties bring the war's total so far to 225,200 casualties including 26,400 killed in action.

"Base Ball – 8"

Base Ball -- two words.
The new Union Ball Grounds in Brooklyn opened in May 1862, the first enclosed ball field in America.
In September 1862 Union Grounds saw the championship game between Eckford of Brooklyn vs. the Atlantics, also called the Bedford Boys.

The Eckfords won the final game 8 to 3 and continued to play ball until the 1872 season, their last.

The losing Atlantics had a more interesting history, becoming the Brooklyn Grays, then Bridegrooms and Superlas, before in 1911 renamed Brookly Dodgers.
In 1957 the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles, CA, where they remain to this day... ahem, I mean to say, 160 years in the future! ;-)

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