Weekly Gazette and Comet Newspaper Article, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA submitted by: Charlotte Sehon ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEEKLY GAZETTE AND COMET. VPL. XLX. BATON ROYGE, LA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1862 NO.2 FROM OUR ARMY. The Richmond Dispatch ofthe 26th ult., says. '' We have at last auth?ntic accounts of the position of our forces under Gen. Lee, but we are sure our readers will pardon us if we decline to discline their whereabouts.S??ice it to say that our army is not in Mayland,but in a posiIion to meet the enemy should he attempt an invasion of the Valley. A gentleman from the immediate neighborhood of the army, and who left there on Tuesday morning, says that recruits are daily reaching Gen. Lee and that the army is now in far better conditiont than at any time since the battle of Manass?s. The offlcers and men are in buoyant spirits, and are anxiously hoping that the enemy will attempt the passage of the Poto??ac. Of this, however, there seems very little probability, as it is currently reported, and generally believed, that McClellan is falling back in the direction of Washington. The movements of the enemy are closely observed, and within the course of a week or ten days there will be some developments which will once more alarm the inhabitants of the Pennsylvania border. The victory of Saturday last , though complete and decisive, has been somewhat exaggorated. The numbers of the enemy who crossed the river were not near so large as has been represented and perhaps not exceeding three thousand men. With the exception of some three hundred, all were killed, wounded, or captured .he next day, the enemy , under a flag of truce, came over to bury their slaughtered comrades, and there statements were that only three hundred of the whole force answered at roll call that morning. Most of these were killed in their efforts to escape. The gentleman alluded to says the whole Valley is one vast camp. From Winchester to Staunton the camp fires of troops hastening on to the Army of the Potomao, are continually seen.He believes low estxmc to of twenty-five thousand a low estim?te of tbe number of the troops met between the two points.''