Affairs in the West--fight at Munfordsville, Ky.--blockade of the Ohio at Hamilton.
A dispatch from Munfordsville, Ky., dated the 16th, says that Gen. Bragg attacked the Federal that morning, and the fighting continued all day.--The dispatch says:‘ The Union forces, under command of Colonel Wilder, are fighting bravely, and are determined to hold the post. The enemy's forces are represented to be large.
We learn that a portion of Gen. Buell's army has arrived and are engaged with Bragg's forces.
The Journal, in its editorial to-day, appeals to the authorities to have the city fortified.
’ Brigadier-General Jackson's division was reviewed this forenoon by Major-General Gilbert and staff, and made a fine display.
A train of eleven cars, that conveyed Colonel Dunham's regiment to Bacon Creek, was attacked by a squad of rebels. Some rails having been torn up, the regiment, after taking out all the ammunition and most of the provisions, abandoned the train, when the rebels pushed it on the bridge and set fire to both.
Louisville, Sept. 16, 1862.-- The battle of Munfordsville was renewed at an early hour this morning and continued all day.
The rebels were heavily reinforced, supposed by Generals Polk and Buckner, and both engaged. --Their force is estimated at 25,000.
General Wilder still held out at last accounts and was fighting desperately. The Unionists have been reinforced since Sunday by one regiment and a battery of light artillery.
The telegraph wire was cut in several places between here and the battle-field.
It is reported that General Buell was at Dripping Springs yesterday morning, moving north. The fate of Green river bridge probably depends upon his arrival.
Ex-Governor Helm, Harvey, Winter, Smith, and several other prominent Kentuckians from Elizabethtown, were brought to this city under arrest to-night.
It is reported to-night that General Buell has got up and is engaged.
The mail boat succeeded in getting to Cincinnati from Louisville, on the 16th, under convoy of a gunboat; but the line has stopped running since.--A dispatch from Cincinnati says:
‘ A gentleman who passed last Sunday within the rebel lines at Florence, reports them to be thirty thousand strong. Humphrey Marshall having joined, with a large force, within the last few days.
The rebels blockaded the river yesterday at Hamilton, nine miles below Rising Sun. No mail boat has left for Louisville to-day. Our gunboats went to Hamilton this morning and shelled the woods for several miles, but the battery had been withdrawn.
’ A dispatch from Gallipolis, Ohio, on the 15th, says that, ‘"no particulars"’ of the fight at Charleston, Kanawha, had been received, but that the ‘"rebels were repulsed with great loss."’ It adds:
‘ Lightburn's forces marched through in perfect order, taking the Ripley road, going towards Ravenswood, on the Ohio river, where they arrived this evening, bringing his baggage train through in safety. Steamers have been sent to his assistance.
The Forty-seventh Ohio, Ninth Virginia, and Second Virginia cavalry, who were cut off at Summerville, succeeded in joining Lightburn, and were in the Charleston fight.
This place is full of refugee contrabands who came down the Kanawha in boats, most of whom are in a destitute condition.
There are 500 sick and wounded soldiers here, sent from Charleston before the fight.
The enemy is supposed to be moving slowly down the Kanawha.
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