FROM GEN. M’CLELLAN’S ARMY: Heavy Losses of the Rebels in General Officers; RELATIVE POSITIONS OF THE TWO ARMIES (9/24/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/24/1862

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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF POTOMAC, Tuesday Evening, Sept. 23.

Information received to-day from a servant, who deserted from the rebels yesterday, shows their loss in general officers in the late battle was greater than ours. Gen. WRIGHT, of Georgia, was wounded in two places. Gen, BRANON of North Carolina, was killed. Gen. LONGSTREET was wounded. Maj.-Gen. ANDERSON, commanding a division, was wounded. Gen. COLQUIT, of Georgia, was killed. The rebels admit their loss to be 20,000 at the battle of Antietam, and 30,000 since they entered Maryland.

The Alabama Brigade, commanded by Col. CORNING, acting Brigadier General, has not been able to muster fifty men since the battle.

The residents of this section of Maryland have suffered terribly since its occupation by the two armies. In many cases families which, a few days ago, were in comfortable circumstances are now wanting the necessaries of life. All forage, and fuel, and also subsistence used by the army, wherever taken in the regular way by a responsible officer, or taken indiscriminately by those in want, is promptly paid for by Gen. INGALLS, Chief Quartermaster of the Army, and Col. CLARK, Chief of Subsistence, upon the proper affidavits being made. The claims of those whose farms have been laid waste and buildings destroyed during the battle, are referred to the authorities at Washington for settlement. A people so loyal and who have sacrificed so much for the Union as these in this section of the State, are not only deserving of the sympathy of every lever of the Union, but the Government should take the matter in hand and instantly relieve their wants.

The movements of the rebels are mysterious. The military authorities here feel satisfied that the whole rebel army is

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