The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1864.

They come to Grief at Reams's Station--their Losses.

Upon leaving Staunton river they went on to Creek bridge, intending there to cross and return to Grant's army. They crossed, but found more rebels than they expected. The writer says:

It was an hour before sunset when the fight commenced, and about 11 P M the impossibility of forcing a passage at this point having been clearly demonstrated, Gen Wilson dispatched Gen Kantz up a left hand road towards Reams's Station.
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Gen Kantz division was followed by the wagon and ambulance trains of the whole force and Gen Wilson, having constructed a line of rifle-pits in the rear of the front line of battle during the night, left in them the 1st Vermont and the 8th and 22d New York, withdrawing the rest of his force a short time before daylight, and following Kantz to Reams' Station.

The men left with the lead horses of the regiment, which remained to cover the rear, came in afterwards, and reported that the enemy, turning the right flank of the men in the breastworks, had captured the whole party.

Gen Kantz, on reaching Reams's Station, soon found that the enemy were strongly posted at that point also, and was sharply engaged before daylight. Wilson, with the troops he had brought up from Stony Creek, passed by Kantz rear, and was about to take position on his left, but had hardly formed in line of battle when he was attacked by a heavy force of infantry. A column of cavalry in the meantime, accounts say, passing round to the rear.

The accounts of this affair are rather confused. But it appears that Gen Wilson, perceiving that his command was in danger of being surrounded, determined to try to save a portion of it by moving out to the right flank, in a direction nearly due south, Gen Kantz in the meantime retaining his position, as also the 2d Ohio and parts of the 5th New York, 2d New Jersey, and several other regiments, belonging to McIntosh's and Chapman's brigades.

The reports in regard to the facts of Gen Wilson and the party accompanying him are vague and conflicting, and the simplest solution of the matter is for the present to admit our ignorance, for in fact the rumors so far received are scarcely worth repeating. Gen Kantz, seeing that every moment was increasing the dangers already environing his force, gave orders that each regiment should endeavor to cut its way out as best it could, by moving a few miles further down the railroad and crossing it, where the thick woods on the east side would conceal their movements.

It is reported that Fitz Hugh Lee was killed in one of the engagements. The first information brought to headquarters of Wilson's position was by Capt Whitaker, of the first Connecticut, and Aide de Camp to Gen Wilson. He left Reams's station at 8 A M, of the 29th, with forty men of the third New York cavalry, and by cutting his way through the rebel pickets, and also through a portion of a column on the move, he reached headquarters exactly at 10:20 A M.

Dashing at full speed through woods and swamps, over ditches and fences and in some cases, cutting their way with the sabre through the rebel troops, the greater part of Gen Kantz own division, consisting of the fifth and eleventh Pennsylvania, first District of Columbia and third New York, with the numbers already stated of the second and fifth Ohio and a few other regiments, made their way with great difficulty into our lines, the enemy pursuing and firing upon them until they got within our picket lines on the Jerusalem plank road.

Many were doubtless killed and wounded in running this terrible gauntlet, and many a horse and rider must have fallen in the break-neck race through the woods. Col Spear. commanding the Eleventh Pennsylvania and Third New York, was the first to cross the railroad, and notwithstanding the hurry and excitement of the moment, some officer found time to cut the telegraph wires. Our train, including the ambulances and wounded, must have been captured.

The caissons of some of our batteries had been blown up before entering the fight at Reams's Station, but the guns and limbers must have fallen into the enemy's hands; not, however, before they were spiked and as far as possible disabled.

It is said by some other men coming in that the rebels shot and bayoneted many after they had surrendered. One reports that while lying in a swamp he heard another, near him, cry out, "I surrender." "Surrender, you--Yankee," was the reply; "take that," accompanying the exclamation with a volley. I hear that the Richmond Enquirer, of the 27th, urged that no quarter should be given to any of the raiders, alleging that the death of every one of them would not be all equivalent to the rebel Government for the damage done.

This, if true, is the most conclusive testimony that could be asked as to the complete effectiveness of the raid. Prisoners captured near Reams's Station state that Gen Lee had sworn not a single raider should get back. He has evidently made stupendous efforts to make his oath good, for not a single crossing on the Weldon road was left unguarded.

The enemy had scouts out for miles to the westward on every road by which our troops could possibly approach, and carried information of the direction in time to meet us with a superior force at any point. It is difficult to ascertain exactly, which troops were encountered at Stony Creek and Reams's Station, but it is certain that there was infantry at both points, besides probably the greater portion of their cavalry.

The 6th corps was immediately ordered out to the assistance of the cavalry, but by the time they arrived the affair was over. They took a position and remained there until the afternoon of the 30th, employing themselves meanwhile in destroying the railroad, which was done most thoroughly for three or four miles.

A later telegram announces the safe arrival of Gen. Wilson with the Third Division:

The cavalry of the Third Division, with whom I have just conversed, present a sorry picture. They are dusty and almost worn out by twelve days incessant marching and vigils, during which they have marched over 350 miles or perhaps 400 miles, finding it impossible to cut through the rebel lines at Reams's Station, and no help coming from the vicinity of Petersburg, General Wilson ordered his command to retreat under cover of night towards Suffolk.

Having crossed Nottoway river about thirty miles below Petersburg, they struck for the railroad and crossed at Garrett's Station, and bearing southward crossed the Blackwater at the county road bridge, and came into our lines at Cabin Point five miles southeast of Fort Powhatan.

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Cabin Point was a frequent location mentioned in the newspapers.