The Victory At Antietam

"Washington, Sept. 30. The following report of the viotorv of Antiotam has bnon forwardad to the headquártéra of the army by General McCIellan : NearShaepsbukg, Sept. 29-1:30 P. M. To Mnjor-General H W. Halleck, General-inChief United States Army : I have the honor to report the following as soma of tho results of the battle of South Mountain and Antietam : At South Mountain our losa was 443 dead, l,80G wounded, and 76 missing- total, 2,315. At Antietnm our loss was2,010kil!ed, 9,416 wotinded, and 1,044 missing. - Total, 12.169. Total loss in the two battles 14,794. The loss of the rebels in the two battles, as uear as jan be ascortained from the number of their dead found upon the field, and from other data, will not fall short of the following estímate! Müjor Davis, Assistant Inspector General, who superintends the burial of the dead, reporta about 3,000 rebels buriod upon tho field of Antietam bv our troops. Previous to this, however, the rebels hnd buried many of their own dead upon the di.stant portion of the battlefield, which they occupied after the battle, probably ac least 500. Tho loss of tho rebels at South Mountain cannot be ascertained with aocuracy, but as our troops drovethern from the commencement of the action, and as a much groater nurnber of the r dead was seen on the finid thnn of our men, it is not unreasonable to suppose that their loss was greater than ours. Estimaling thoir killed at500, the total rebels killed in the two battles would be 4.000. According to ihe ratio of our own killed, thi would rnake their Ios3 in wounded 18,742. As nearly as oan bo determinad at this time, the number oí nrisonero taken bv our troons in the two bfittles will, at tho lowest estimate, umount to 5,000. The fu 11 return will iio doubt show a larger number of these. About 1,200 are wounded. - This gives mo a rebel loss in killed, vvounded and prisoners of 25,545. It has been observad that tliis doen not indudo thuirstrugglers, the number of whom is p:iid to be by citizens verv largo. It may bo safely conuluded', therefore, that the rebel arrny lost at least 30,000 of their best troops from the time oir troops first eucountered the enemy in Maryland nntil he WB driven back into Virginia. We captured thirteen gun.", seven caissons and nine lirnbers, two field forgce, two caisson bodies, thirteen colore and ono bignal flag. We have not lost a single gun or a color on the battle-fiold of Antietam. - 14,000 small anns were oullected, bebides tho hirgo number carried off by oilizeoa, and thoso distributed on the ground to roeruits and other unarme.d rnen aniving irnmodiatoly aiter the battlo. At South Mountain no collection of small arms was made, owing to the hasta of the pursuit from thut point. - 400 were taken from the opposite side of the Potomac.