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could be brought to bear on any point,
and that well provisioned and garrison
ed, it could hold out against the whole
army and navy of the Lincolnites.—
N. 0. True Delta 14.
by the mysterious wavings, raisings,
and droppings of the flags. A steamer
comes up with the pontoons on board,
with which a bridge could be speedily
thiown across. Anaccountably enough,
to on-lookers, she slowly reeonnoiters
and steams back again. Perhaps after
all, it is better to have no bridge there.
It simplifies the question, takes escape
out of the count, and leaves it victory
or death to the cowards that slink be
hind the bluffs as well as to the brave
men who peril their lives to do the
State some service on the fields be
yond. Preparations go rapidly forward
for crossing the division (Gen. Nel
son's, which has the advance of Buell’s
army,) on the dozen or so transports
that have been tied up along the bank
We have spent but a few minutes on
the bluff, but they are the golden min
utes that count for years. Well was
it for that driven, defeated, but not dis
graced, army of General^ Grant’s, that
these minutes were improved. Col.
Webster, Chief of Staff, and an artille
ry officer of no mean ability, had ar
ranged the guns that he could collect,
of those that remained to us, in a sort
of semi-circle, protecting the landing,
and bearing chiefly on our centre and
left, by which the rebels were pretty
sure to advance. Corps of artillerists
to man them were improvised from all
the batteries that could be collected.—
Northern Account of the Battle of
Shiloh.
We take the following extracts from
Northern accounts of the battle of Shi
loh, published in the Richmond (Va.)
Disjntch, of April 22nd:
THE CLOSE OF SUNDAY’S FIGHT.
We have reached the last act in the
tragedy of Sunday. It is half-past four
o’clock. Our front line of divisions
has been lost since half-past ten. Our
reserve line is now gone, too. The
rebels occupy the camps of every di
vision save that of W. H. L. Wallace.
Uur whole array is crowded in the re
gion of Wallace’s camps and to a cir
cuit of half to two-thirds of a mile
around the landing. We have been
failing back al! day. We can do it no
more. The next repulse puts us into
the river, and there are not transports
enough to cross a single division till
the enemy would be upon us.
Lew. Wallace’s division might turn
the tide for us—it is made of fighting
men—but where is it? Why has it
not been thundering on the right for
three hours past ? We do not know
yci that it was not ordered up till noon..
Buell is coming, but he has been do- J Twenty-two guns in all were placed
ill day and ail last week. His " * ~
cers and men alike shared the confi
dence that their morning assault would
be final.
As the sounds of battle died away
and division Generals drew of! their
men, Buell had arrived and Lew. Wal
lace had been beanl from. Both
would be ready by morning, and a
council of war was held, and it was
decided that as soon as possible after
daybreak we should attack the enemy,
now snugly quartered in our camps.—
Lew. Wallace, who war. coming in on
the new'roqdfrom Crump’s Landing,
and crossingSoake Creek just above
the Illinois Wallace’s (W. H. L.) camps
house u«.s filled with the wretches,
who not only plundered all they could
lay their hands upon, but alter using
the most brutal and beastly language
to the old man’s wife and daughter,ac
tually attempted to outrage them. The
ladies begged, implored, and even got
on their knees, but to no purpose
Their cries and screams were heart
rending, but there was no mercy there,
and no earthly protection but an old
gray-haired father. The scoundrels
took the young lady and attempted to
throw her down, but she succeeded in
reaching a corqer where she'crouched,
and dragged her old father upon her to
was to take the right and sweep back 1 shelter her from worse than death.—
towards the position from which Sher
man had been driven on Sunday morn
ing. Nelson was to take the extreme
left. Buell promised to put in Tom
Crittenden next to Nelson, and McCook
next to him by a seasonable hour in
the morning. The gap between Mc
Cook and Lew. Wallace was to he
In the meantime the mother was as
saulted in the same manner, but hav
ing greater strength than her daughter,
succeeded at last in tearing herself
away. Failing in this, the Yankees
went to the old man and demanded his
money, threatening death upon his re
fusal to give it up. He gave them all
filled hy the reorganized divisions of he had—$120—and his terrible perse-
Grant’s o’d army ; Hurlburt coming ! cutors left him. During this time they
next to McCook, thin McClernand I were swarming in the house ot Mr.
and Sherman closing the gap between 1 Whitehurst.
»ng it
advance guard is across the river now,
waiting ferriage, but what is an advance
guard with sixty thousand victorious
foes in front of us ?
We have lost nearly all of our camps
and camp equipage. Wc have lost
nearly half of our field artillery. W’e
Lave lost a division General, and two
or three regiments of soldiers as prison-
«rs. We have lost—how dreadfully,
we are afraid to think—in killed and -
wounded. The hospitals are full to!
overflowing. A long ridge bluff is set
apart tor surgical uses. It is covered
with the maimed, the dead and dying.
And our men are discouraged by pro-
longii.g a defeat. Nothing but the
most energetic exertion on the part of
t ie oilicers prevents them from becom
ing demoralized. Regiments have lost
their favorite field officers, companies
the Captains whom they always looked
to, with that implicit faith the soldier
learns, to lead them to battle.
Meantime there is a lull in the firing,
for the first time since sunrise you fail
to catch the angry rattle of musketry
or the heavy booming of the field guns,
hither the enemy must be preparing
lor tli; grand final rush that is to crown
’he day’s success, and save the South-
< :n t unfedcracy, or they are puzzled
by our last retieat, ami are moving
cautiously, lest we spring some trap
upon them. Let os embrace the op
portunity, and look about the landing.
W e pass the old log house, lately Post-
< Ulice, now full of wounded and sur
geons, which constitutes the “Pitts
burg’ pan ofthc landing. Gen. Grant
ami staff are ill agroup besi le it. The
t'cneral is confident. “W’e can hold
them off till to-morrow ; then they’ll
!>:• exhausted, and we’ll go at them
with fresh troops.” A great crowd is
collected around the building, all in
uniform, most ofnliem with guns. And
yet we are neeiiing troops in the front
in position. Two of them were very-
heavy seige guns, long thirty-two’s.—
Where they came from, I do not know ;
1 only know that they were there, in
the right place, half a mile back from
the bluff, sweeping the approaches by
the left, and by the ridge Corinth road;
McClernand and Lew Wallace.
TIIE NIGHT BETWEEN TWO BATTLES.
Stealthily the troops crept to their
new positions and lay down in line of
battle on their arms. All thtough the
night Buell’s men were marching up
The first to enter the house was a
Lieut. Hale br Hays. He stood in the
door way, in full view of his men,who
were gathering around, and said to Mr.
\V. “Pave you been robbed or mo
lested bv our soldiers.” No was the
from Savannah to the point opposite answer. The Lieutenant then walked
Pittsburg Landing and be'ng ferried ! in where the old man and his daughter
across, or were coming up on trails- s<*t, followed by
^ a swarm of his 10b-
ports. By an hour after dark Wallace! hers, and here the Lieutenant might
had his division in. Through the mis- j have added, “ns you have not already
direction he had received,he had start- j been robbed, 1 have brought men to
ed on the Snake Creek road proper, i do you that kindness.” 1 hat was
which would hare biought him in on | certainly his intention, lor he had no
that there was nobody to work them : the enemy’s rea- miles from seaport J sooner sat down than the plunderers
that Dr. Cornyn, Surgeon of Frank
Blair's First Missouri Artillery, proffer-
ed his services, that they weie gladly-
accepted, and that he did work them
to such effect as to lay out ample work-
tor scores of his professional brethren
on the other side of the fight.
Remember the situation. It was
half-past lour o’clock—perhaps a quar
ter later still. Every division of our
army on the field had been repulsed.
The enemy were in the camps of four
out of five of them. We were driven
to within little over half a mile ot the
landing.
river. Before us was a victorious ene
my. And still there was an hour for
lighting. “Oh that night or Blucher
would come!” Oh, that night or Lew.
Wallace would come ! Nelson’s divi
sion of Buell’s army evidently couldn’t
cross in time to do us much good.—
We didn't yet know why Lew. Wallace
wasn’t on the ground. In the justice
of a righteous cause, and in that semi
circle of twenty-two guns in position,
lay all the hope we could see.
Suddenly a broad, sulphurous flash
of light leaped out from the darkening
woods, and through the glare and
smoke came whistling the leaden kail.
The rebels were making their crown
ing effort for the day, and as was ex
pected when our guns were hastily-
placed, they came from our left and
centre. They had wasted their fire at
1,000 yards. Instantaneously our deep
mouthed bull dogs flung out their so-
and where he would have been gobbled j begun. Every room, lrom the ground
at a mouthful. Getting back to - the! to the attic, was crowned with men,
right road had delayed him. He at j who were stealing everything they
once aseertaine 1 the position of certain • could find; bed clothing, crockery,
rebel batteries which lay in front of j spoons, knives and ferks, glassware,
him on the ri<ri t, that threatened ab-! baskets, razors, brandy, combs, paper,
solutely to bar lis advance in the morn-! tobacco, window curtains, his own ant
ing, and selected positions for a couple j his children s clothing, and everything
of his batteries from which they could j they could carry off. From the house
silence the one he dreaded. Placing | they wont into the y ard and common-
these in positim and arranging his! a war with the fowls, stole the
brigades for support took him till one { noney and turned o\er the bee hives,
o’clock in the norning. Then his wea- 1 hey then opened the barns, and stole
_ i ned men lay down to snatch a few J a sa all quantity of cotton, some bags,
Behind us was a deep rapid j hours ol sl * before otlterin? r into the J farming utensils, and even the keys in
Valley of the ,'hadow of Der.th on the t lhe doors. They then went out and
morrow. [ shot a fine yoke of oxen, some other
By nine o’clock all was hushed near * oilier cattle, a number of hogs, and to
die landing. The host of combatants j ca P die climax, the Colonel came
that three hours before had been deep! along, took am. carried oft all the old
in the work of human destruction had j gentleman s horses, (tour,) riding the
all sunk silently to the earth, “the wea- j best one himsell and giving the others
ried to sleep, the wounded to die.”—! to his officers, lwo of the horses
The horse started to »un away, as Mr.
Oldfield told them he would, and Mr.
Oldfield and Mr. Curoming were just
in the.*ct of jumping out asthey stop
ped the horse, and all the Y ankees had
their rifles aimed at their beads think-
ing they were going to escape. The
Yankees also went to the house of Mr.
Hynura,a very quiet, steady farmer,,
and took two of Lis, horses.
——‘“—r
Correspondence of the Mobile Register,
Highly Interesting from the Mississip
pi River.
Memphis, April 15, 1862.
I returned to this place yesterday,
to look after affairs up the river, ar.d
to make some necessary arrangements
for the summer campaign. There was
but little left to write you respecting
the late battle of Shiloh. You have
been furnished with a general, if not
comprehensive view of the battle,
its plan, progress and result. Such
details as are known only to tbe in
dividuals coneerned in them, or to
their respective command, and which
the continuons rains and shccking
roads rendered it next to impossible to
collect and verily for publication." will
find theii way to the public through
private reports and correspondence.—
Our encampment extended over an
area of several miles, and many] ot
these regiments were still on active
duty and in the immediate vicinity of
the enemy. This state of things greatly-
increased the difficulty of procuring
such personal details and incidents as
l have alluded to.
There is one fact, however, to which
l desire to call special atttentidn.—
You will lemember that several north
ern regiments returned from Centreville
Letter from the Weit. ■ ] consequence of the great rains that
We make the following extracts from ; have fallen having rendered the roads
impassable. When the baU.e does
come off, (you mark my prediction,) it
die a .bloody .and awful one. I
a letter received in this place :
April 11th, 1862.
- : Yours of the 8th
This fact indicates the
My Dear -
arrived to-day.
pleasing assurance that our great mail
.thoroughfare is still open. Since my
last was written, the war-plot has thick
ened wonderfully, and events have
crowded upon each other in rapid suc
cession, and of great magnitude, which
must exert an influence of no small
importance upon the issue of the war.
1. Tbe great battle of Shiloh has
been fought and won by the Confeder
ate Army. The victory of Sunday 6th
was complete—that of Monday not so
satisfactory altogether, but still we
claim it as a decided victory*, lhe re
sults ate of coutse unknown as yet, in
all their rojnute details, but suffice it
to say that we drove the enemy to their
gunboats, aoout 2J miles from the bat
tle-field, killed an awful number and
wounded as many more, as usual ;
took 4000 or. 5000 prisoners, and (it
said) lour millions of dollars worth of
army stores were taken, and that por
tion that could not be carried of by us
was destroyed; eleven batteries were
taken—60 or 70 pieces of artil ery.—
Our loss was very great—still un
known. 1 never heard of as many men
being wounded. Gen. Johnson, the
Chief in command, was killed while gal
lantly rallying some wavering troops.
He has forever silenced, by his gallant
and heroic conduct on that fatal field,
it is to be hoped, the cruel slanders of
his enemies. My opinion is, that he
was a great man. He might have been
saved, the Drs. say, if he had only re
tired when first wounded. It was a
to Washington on the morning of the j V vound just above the knee, and an ar-
battle of Manassas. -Their time had < ter ., w . ;g cut xvhicti might have been
expired, and they marched away from i bound up, but he refused to retire, not
the battle field to the music of v>ur. thinking it a serious matter until he be-
norous response. The rebel artillery-
opened, and shell and round shot came , -II ,, • ,,
* ’ iir woods away inland you caught laintlv
tearing across the open space back af
cannon.
The 14th Mississippi Regiment,
whose term ol service had expired
some days before the lote great battle
on the Tennessee, pursued a very
different coutse. Anxious to strike a
blow tor their native land, they deter
mined to remain until after the battle.
They did remain, and mod gloriously
did they uphold the flag of their gallant
State. Having done their duty, as
well to themselves as to their country,
they will now return home on a short
visit, and then re enter theseivicc for
the war. Their noble example should
not he lost upon other six ami twelve
months troops.
One company in Blythe’s Mississippi
regiment lost 42 in killed and wounded.
The stars looked out upon the scene,, were splendid animals, worth fixe hun- 'p|, e | QSS 0 f q ie fllt i re regiment, inclu-
and all breathed the natural, quiet end j dred dollars.
of a Sabbath e-ening. But presently : I he writer gives some further ac-
like
there came a flash that spread
sheet lightning over the ripples of the
river current, and the roar of a heavy-
naval gun went echoing up and down
the bluffs, through the unnatural still
ness of the night. Others speedily foi
lowed. By the flash you could just
discern the black outline of the pirati
cal-looking hull, and see now the gun
boat gracefully settled into lire water
at the recoil; the smoke soon cast up
up a thin veil that seemed only to s if-
ten and sweeten the scene; fioin the
COWARDS.
On the bluff above the river is a sight
I hat may well make our checks tingle
will* shame for some of our soldiers.
There are not less than three thousand
skulkers lining the banks. Ask them
why don’t they go to their places in the
line! “Oh, our regiment is all cut to
pieces.’’ “Why don’t you go to where
it is iorming again ?” “I can’t find it,”
and t! c hulk looks as if that would he
lhe very last thing he would want to
do.
Officers are around among then.,
try ing to hunt up their men, storming,
coaxing, commanding—cursing I am
afraid. One strange fellow—a Major,
if I remember aright—is making a sort
o r elevated superfine Fourth of July
speech to everybody that will listen to
him. He means well, certainly : “Men
of Kentucky, of Illinois, of Ohio, of
lown, of Indiana, I implore you, l beg
of you, come up new. Help us through
two hours more. By all that you hold
dear, by the homes that you hope to
defend, by tbe llag you love, by the
Stale, you honor, by all your love of
country, by all your hatrtd of treason,
1 conjure you, come up and do your
duly now.” And so on for quantity.
“That feller’s a good speaker/* was the
rnlv response I heard, and the fellow
who gave it nestled .most snugly be
hind his tree as he spoke.
1 know well enough the nature of
the skulking animal in an artny dur
ing a battle. I had seen their perform
ances before, but never on so large a
scale—never with such an utter sick
ness ofheart as I looked—as now.—
Still, 1 do net believe there was very
much more than the average per cen-
t ige. It was a big army, and the run
aways all sought the landing.
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL BUELL.
Looking across the Tennessee we
see a body of cavalry, awaiting trans
portation over. They are said to be
Buell's advance, yet they have been an
hour or two alone. But suddenly
there is a rustle among the runaways.
It is, it is! You sec the gleaming cf
the gun-barrels, you catch amid the
leaves and undergrowth down the op-
pos.te Side of the river glimpses of the
steady, swinging tramp of trained sol
diers. A division ofBoell’s array is here!
And the men who have left their reg
iments on the field send up three cheers
for Buell. They cheering! May. it
parch their throats, as if they had been
breathing the simoon!
Here comes # boat across with a
Lieutenant ^awl two or three privates of
flie Signal Corps. Borne orders are
instantly given the'tffficer, and as in-
stantlv telegraphed to the other fide
the bluff May 1 be forgiven for the
malicious thought, but 1 certainly did
wish that one or two might drop be
hind the bluff among the crowd of
skulkers hovering under the hill at the
river’s edge.
Very handsome was the response
our broken infantry battalions poured
in. Tire enemy soon had reason to
remember that, if not
Still in tlirir ashes live the wonted fires,
at least still in their fragments lived
the ancient valor that had made the
short-lived rebel successes already cost
so dear.
THE GUNBOATS OPEN FIRE.
The rebel infantry gained no ground*
but the furious cannonading and mus
ketry continued. Suddenly new ac
tors entered on the stage. Our Cin-
cinnatti wooden gunboats, the A. O.
Taylor and the Lexington, had been
all day impatiently chafing for their
time to come. The opportunity was
theirs. The rebels were attacking on
our left, lying where Stuart’s brigade
bad lain on Licking creek in the morn
ing, and stretching thence in on the
Hamburg road, and across toward our
old centre as far as Hulburt’s camps.
Steaming up to the mouth of theii':!.
the muffled explosion of the shell, like
lhe knell of the spirit that was taking
its flight.
We knew nothing then of the effect
of this gunboat cannonading, which
was vigorously kept up till early morn
ing, and it only served to remind us
the more vividly ol the day's disasters,
of the fact that lull* a mile off lay a vic
torious enemy, commanded by the
most dashing of their Generals, and of
the question one scarcely dared to ask
himself, “what of to-morrow?” We
were defeated; our dead and dying
were around us; days could hardly
sum tip our losses.
[The writer closes his description
with a quotation from what he calls a
“grand refrain of Whittier’s,’’ written
after the battle of Manassas. We have
already devoted enough space for one
day to the Yankee correspondent, who,
whatever rise may be said of him, is
candid enough to admit an overwhelm
ing defeat, with a considerable display
of cowardice among the “National”
troops. We have the account of Mon
day’s battle, some extracts from which
we give hereafter.]
count of the doings of the intamous
scoundrels in his neighborhood, and
closes as follows:
Shortly after this, the troops return
ed to Elizabeth City, seme to their
vessels, but most of them by the land
route. I do not know how many there
were, but there was at least a large■
portion of the 6th New Hampshire
regiment had about 250 New York
Zouaves. J have been tool that as
soon as they reached town they em
barked and left for Roanoke. I had
forgot to say that they tried to pursuade
to go with
ding the Colonel and Lieut. Colonel,
was 221. The Tennesseeans and
Kentuckiins fought with great spirit,
and proved themselves to be the wor
thy brothers in arms of the heroic reg
iments from the Gulf States.
The condition of affairs up the Miss
issippi river is by no means satisfacto
ry. The reduction of Island 10,
though anticipated, is a veiy serious
blow, and will be followed soon, I fear,
by tbe fall of Fort Pillow. There
would be no difficulty in holding the
river against gunboats alone, but the
case is very different when there is a
large co-operating land force. 1 need
Mr. Whitehurst* negroes to go wnn no t'referto'the deplorable consequences
them ; but they all refused, and thus | that v0 „, d fo „ ow tbe fa „ of ^’pillow;
ended tins outrageous Yankee laid in- j t j, ev w jjj reai | d y occur tp th e mind of
to North Carolina. even- intelligent reader.
Tbe Yankees lu North Carolina.
Their Raid Upon Elizabeth City.
creek, the boats rounded to. There I A correspondent of the Petersburg
was the ravine, cut through the bluff ) Express gives the following account
as if on purpose for their .hell*. of lhe brutal conduct of the Yankees
Eager to avenge the death of their
commanding General (now known to
have been killed a couple of hours be
fore,) and to complete the victory they
believed to be within their grasp, the
rebels had incautiously ventured with
on the occasion of their recent visit to
Elizabeth City. The Utter is dated
South Mills, N. C. Apnl 14 :
On last Monday night I slept in Eliz
abeth City. Very early in the morn*.
shot soon taught them. This was a
foe they had hardly counted on, and
the unexpected fire in flank and rear
disconcerted their well laid plans.—
The boats fired admirably, and with
a rapidity that was astonishing. Our
twenty-two laud guns kept up thejr
ttorm of tbuuder; and thus amid a
crash and roai and scream of shells and
demon-like hiss of Minnie balls, that
Sabbath evening wore away. We held
the enemy at bay; it was enough.—
The prospect for the morrow was fore
boding ; but sufficient unto the day is
tbe evil thereof. We had plenty of
of evil that day—of course, therefore,
the (text was applicable. Before dark
the 36th Indiana, from Nelson’s ad
vance brigade, had crossed, advanced
into line with Grant’s forces at the
double-quick, nnd bad put in .fourteen
rounds as amearnesl ofwLat should be
forthcoming on the morrow.
The enemy suddenly slackened his
fire. His grand object had been de
feated ; he had not finished his task in
a day; but there is evidence that offi-
in reach of their most dreadful antago- j ing I was aroused and told to look out
nists, as btoadside after broadside of j nnd see the Y’ankees passing under niy
seven-inch shells and sixty-four pound | window! I looked out and there they
went, about two hundred Zounres,
traveling at a quick pace towards the
“rebel” militia camp, about a mile from
town, where there were about one
hundred green inilitia. I waa also in
formed that large transports had pass
ed up the river.
In about two hours one of the com
panies returned, flushed with a glorious
victoiy, having with them about thirty
prisoners, while behind them came oth
ers driving cattle which they had sto
len on their way. Shortly a’fter this in
came the other company that I bad seen
go by, singing a drunken song, anti
keeping step to the music. I waited
uinil the last straggler had passed, and
these were all I had seen go out in the
morning, I concluded I had belter
march in the direction they bad march
ed from.
A short distance from there was the
house of a respectable citizen, whose
name, for reasons that may hereafter
be seen, I forbear to give. Here acts
were performed of the most shameful,
cowardly and brutal character. The
MORE OF TIIEtR DOIXC3.
The Wilmington Journal publishes
a letter dated Onflow county, N
April 14th, from which we make some
extracts. It is well enough to let the
people know what their fate will be if
they fall into the hands of the heathen
Lincoln hirelings:
On Saturday last.thc 12th mst., some
of Capt. Ward’s cavalry were sent thro'
the country to notify his p : ckets that
the enemy were in the county, on their
way either to Onslow Court-House or
Sxvanboro’, and to tell the pickets to
gpt across New rker as soon as possi
ble. The intelligence that a regiment
was to thvade the county, to destroy
property, and heap all manner of in
sults upon the people, naturally creat
ed much excitement.
On the same day (the 12th) some
ten or fifteen Federal soldieis wrnt to
the house of Richard Oldfield, in Jones
county. Mr. Oldfield had just return
ed from Kinston and Goldsboro’,where
he had been to carry away what few
negroes he had left, and having met
with some, of his neighbors that had
entered the? service, he had kindly
brought home some letters from them
lo their friends. Mr. Oldfyfc! was
handing ovej^ the letters to Mr. \V. A
Cummings oha of his neighbors, when
the enemy’-s party came up. They
seized the letters and took both Old
field and Ctfmwings prisoners, and
sairl they would not take five thousand
dol ars for the letters. They then
went to work destroying Mr. Oldfield’s
property, cutting up his hames», &c.
They then went iuto his house and iu-
to every room of the bouse, unlocked
every door, trunk anil drawer, tearing
everything) to pieces. They found a
basket ot eggs, they broke and sucked
them ; took a jar of butter, and what
ever else they wanted—took the locks
off his doubte-barrelied gun and. threw
them away; scattered his powder over
the yard and carried off bis shot.
They were also very insulting to his
wife, and she told them their conduct
showed they were no gentlemen, or
they would not go into a lady’s private
room and abuse her.
They took all of Mr. Oldfield’s horses
and mules; hitched one mule forward
of a cart and loaded it, taking a crip
ple negro to drive it away, and told
Mr. Oldfield they would return next
day after all the meat be had. They
also drove off all his stock, cows and
calves, sheep and lambs, old hogs and
pigs, and hitched one of Mr. Oldfield’s
horses to his own buggy and carried
him and Mr. Cummings to Newbern.
Fixe of the enemy’s gunboats and
three mortar boats proceeded to Fort
q Pillow Sunday nioruing, the !8tb, and
' opened fire upon the garrison. The
bombardment continued without results
up to 10 o’clock, at which hour the
courier left. Firing was heard here
as late ac 2 p. m. by persons who
were out on the river, ard again on
yesterday (Monday.) The town is
full of wild rumors—some .of them go
ing so far-as to state that the Fort has
fallen.
he entirely reliable, that a considerable
body of men has been landed by the
Fedorais above Fort Pillow on Fotked
Deer River, The transports were ena
bled to aseend the river some distance
owing to the high stag-o of the water.
The forces there landed wilj doubtless
seek to invest the Fort by land, and
will cooperate with the gunboats on the
Mississippi. Fort Pillow, as you have
heretofore been informed, ia situated
just above the mouth of the Hatcbie
river, and is seventy miles above Mem*
phis by water and thirty by land.
The enemy ia moving out also from
tj,»e lower Tcnncssuo through Paris,
across the country towards the Missis
sippi* They destroyed the depot build-
ngs at tbe Henry Station, on the Mem
phis and Ohio road, on .Saturday, to
gether with five car loads of government
stores. Their intention is supposed to
be to occupy that part of the Stale ly
ing above Fort Pillow and between the
lower Tennessee and Mississippi rivers,
and gradually to advance on Memphis.
Bnt few details have been received
of the seisare of the Memphis and
Charleston toad at Huntsville and De
catur. The. number of locomotives and
cars captured has not transpired. The
passenger train bound from Chattanooga
to this place was taken, as I learn from
the agent of the Southern Express
Company. Tbe ronte agents of that
company, it is supposed* were on.the
train, as they have not bcea.heard from.
Tbe mails were doubtless seized also
aud rifled of their contents.
Affairs remain quiet at Corinth.
P. W. A.
gan to te<ri in his saddle. When being
asked by Gov. Harris, it he was not
badly hurt, he replied “1 am wounded,
Governor, and I fear mortally!” lie
lived but an hour. \\’e took General
Prentiss, the insolent fellow who had
command at Cairo last summer, and
said he would take his 4th of July din
ner in Memphis He is now in Mem
phis, but not exactly as he expected
when he made that boast. He passed
through this town with 1600 or 1700
of the prisoners. He was very lively
and talkative to the crowd, ar.d among
others addressed himself to Mrs. M.
lhe wife of one of our citizens in such
wise as this : “Madam, your men fight
very well, but you have not enough of
them. We’ll get them all yet.’’—
“Well sir,” said she, “ when you take
all our men the women will take up
the war, and whip you out.’’ I am
now nursing a wounded soldier, one
of our students, who was shot in the
face on Sunday morning, while in the
act of charging one of the batteries.—
Poor fellow! he was Ipft on tb.e field
and had no attention all day—was ta
ken first to a stable, and then to a tent
hospital and greatly neglected. On
Tuesday our army having fallen back
to their encampment, J8 miles from
the battle-field, the wounded were left
in the charge of the Surgeon of the
Regiment, until they could be sent for.
The enemy finding the field abandon
ed, returned and re-occupicd it, and
took tbe Surgeon #nd all the sick pris
oners. Learning this fact, Col, For
rest, of Memphis, with a iarge body
of cavalry, went back and drove the
enemy from the field again, killing 200
and taking 40 prisoners, and rescued
all the wounded except those who
were too far gone to be moved. Our
boy was brought off safely. Tbe sur
geon nobly determined to abide by his
wounded and dying, and no doubt he
is a prisoner again.
j); jfc 4 s s#c a#e ;*<
2. The encouraging report I gave in
my last as to the state of matters up
the river, has not held out iu the se-
Qtr Friday night, 4th inst., du-
tremble at the thoughfof tlie slaughter
—perhaps my precious boy maybe
one of the victims G<»<1 only knows!
To Him I commit him, and all the
interests of this great country—my na
tive land..
Returning yesterday from Corinth,on
a long train 6f freight cars, loaded
with wounded soldiers and visiting cir
izens, the cars ran off the track, and
we had a terrible smash-up of matters.
I was not hurt, but the car in which I
rode was thr >wn off, and I \x*as thrown
out, together with every one else that
was in it. One man was killed—n
great many hurt-—some wounded sol
diers had their legs broken. Five
cl rgymen on board all escaped. It
was a merciful preservation !
Outrages of thf. E> bmv in Fau
quier.—Intelligence has just been re
ceived here of a most diabolical outrage
committed a fear days since by the
Federal*, the victim being Dr. Shu
mate, a xvell known citizen of Fauquier,
residing about nine miles from Warren-
ton It appears that the Yankees upon
occupying Fauquier, selected the res
idence of Dr. Shumate as quarters for
some of their officers, and directed tho
Doctor to vacate. This he positively
refused to do when they told him he
might remain if ho would take the oath
of allegiance. He spurned the propo.
sition and testified to them his utter de*
testation of their connfry and their
cause. Finding the Doctor obdurate,
they tacitly acquiesced in his remain
ing in bis own house with his family.
The Doctor has a daughter, a beauii*
ful young lady, who very soon became
rhe.object of Yankee persecution. O.u*.
of the vile wretches who degraded ihn
lianorable rank of Major, made several
vain attemp8 to outer the sleeping
apartment of the young lady, when tho
outrage reaching the ears ot the father,
he told the scoundrel that another such
attempt would cost him his life, for ho
would shoot him like a dog. In spito
of this precaution, the God forsaken
xvretch again attempted to accomplish
his diabolical design, when, true to l»is
word, Dr, Shumate sped a ball through
his craven heart, liardly had this
dvaerved retribution been effected, be
fore tbe Major's companions—all offi
cers—fell upon the Doctor apd slaugh
tered liim irstantly, fairly riddling his
his body xvitb bullets. „
Only two men in Fauquier, na far ns
heard froip, have taken the oath of
allegiance to Lincoln.
I hear also from sources supposed to quel. „ .
■ ■ ring a fearful storm, a gunboat and a
More Arms Arrived.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of
yesterday says, we have the gratifying
intelligence that two vessels have ar
rived, withiu a few days past, bringing
several thousand stands of arms, pow
der, blankets, aud other articles need
ed at the present time.
G. St. Leger Grenfell, lately a Lieut
enant-Colonel in the British army; has
arrived in this city, on hia way to Rich
mond, desiring to'outer into Confeder
ate service.—Charleston Courier, 21*;.
tug"passed the Island successfully, al
though fired upon by our batteries,
and took refuge under at New Madrid.
Since which time, they have crossed
over a sufficient force to capture Tip-
tonyiile and the region around the Isl
and, and we suppose the Island and
all our troops are now in the power of
the enemy. I do pot know how ma
ny we had there—not very many, how
ever. This is unfortunate—still we
have For; Pillow between us and dan
ger. I have, however, great fe*‘ s now,
lest the enemy pass that place—as
contrary to the usual state of things at
this season, the river is very high, and
theii boats ean pass down at almost
any part of the river—while at low
water tbe only channel passable brings
them directly in the very jaws of our
batteries. Things in that direction
look very unpromising, and you may
prepare yourself to hear bad news ere
long. If it were not for the unusual
rise in the river, we might hold the
Fort, but 1 confess I greatly fear for
our success there. If that Fort falls
Memphis is gone ot course, and so N.
Orleans. But the taking of New Or
leans and Memphis is not the taking of
the Confederacy, and after all, they are
not taken yet. I learn to-day that
Gen. Price of Missouri will pass here
to-morrow en route for Corinth, and
that his whole army will be there very
soon. We shall give the enemy a
warm reception when they attack us.
The late battle was aggressive on out
part, and the intention was to whip
the enemy before the division ol Buell
should get to the Tennessee liver. We
then were to fall back and wait the at
tack at or near Corinth in our own en-
campinent. All our army are. now -at
Corinth, except Gen. Breckinridge’s
Brigade, and it is said that he and the
enemy are skirmishing to-day and yes*
terday. ; Two hundred additional pris
oners were taken yesterday. No great
battle is expected there under 20 days,
such is the difficulty of marching anti
carrying artillery and army stores, in
Tbe Fight al South Mills, V, ۥ
Wc are indebted to a gentleman in
Portamoutb for tho subjoined account
of the fight at South Mills, N. oil
Saturday lust. We learu from a pauj.
euger that Capt. McComac of Henning-
scu/s artillery, xvho was killed in the
fight, fought xvith the most determined
bravery, cheering his men on and expj-
sing himself with apparent indifference
to danger..-
Portsmouth, April 21.
I have just seen an intelligent mem
ber of Col. Wright’s 3d Georgia Regi
ment, who was wouuded in the latiis
at South Mills, nnd I will give you a
hurried sketch of bis statemeut concern
ing the fight. Three militiamen deser
ted to the Yankees and gav-e lnftmft'x-
tion ol our numbers, situation, &c —
They landed Friday night largo force*
and commenced tho inarch, ile then
hurr<ed forward with three companies
of infantry, an artillery company, and
ono cavalry company. Reaching a
very large old field, skirted by woods,
be sent forward gome men aud brunt the
houses, destroyed tb.e fences, &c. The
enemy, variously estimated »t fr<?m
500 to 3,000, soon approached uncon
scious of the force awaiting them,
As soon as they came within long
range, the artillery opened with terri
ble effect upon them, aud after silen-
c p » their battery our guns ceased firing,
that might induce them to charge.
Thinking (bat QUf battery was disabled
they made a furious charge, not
knowing that there were infantrymen
waiting to receive them. When about
250 yards from ns, our men were oruer-
pd to fire, and after firing about flitch
rounds, loading on the ground and rising
on the knee to fire, the enemy lied od
to the right aud broke for the woods.
Col. Wright, fearing a llaak move
ment, and and not having his xvagou
containing tho ammunition, retired 1J |
good order to our entrenchment. "’8
near that the onerny have now retreat
ed to their gunboats. Reinforcements
have been sent to Col. Wright.
and his men fought with the most ar-
tcriniued courage. On onr side tho I*|.
was from eight to twelvo killed,
about thirty wounded. The enemy *
loss is estimated at from 300 to " l .
All of our wounded were brought od t p!
field hut Lciut. Wilson.—RtrhiM'-,
Ditpatch gr T- W. "
The Conscription Lair aud tlie Jld
lia.
Tho following extracts, say-
Constitutionalist, we take from % ic« ; '
letter from the office of tho Adju« :
and Inspectors General of Georgia-
a gentleman in this city, an l eontsl*
matter of general interest to tho public
Sir : lu roply to your qnquiiy
19th inst., 1 am directed by tho M
taot General to state, that" the
nor will keep op the. State Mild' 1
ganization under existing Siftfe**’
with the persons left benind, l*" 1 '/
to military duty uuder our statute *
ter tho full opoiatiuu ot the codscrip"'
act. . ; ' f t
All persons subject to militsT !"/
by onr State laws, will bo am$ nal *■’
the same, as to drills and otht-nviirr, 1
til actually eurolled in pursuance
act of Congress.
Commissioned officers of the 18
will be subject, like alt others. ‘
operation of the conscription net, * f
ding to tho construction of the 1»*
placed on' it .by the Governin'-
Very lospeclfuliy-
Yopr ph,t serv’t.
L. Ill Bnisfot-
Salt.—Wc hear it stated ,! ' jt |
the intention of the Governor t° ,
Salt Works at some point on the 1
This will help matters, but no*
duce a tenth o! what is rtrc svS'T'