A gentleman arrived here to-day, directly from Gen. McClellans’s headquarters, and reports that our forces have greatly the advantage of the enemy, as time will show, that our sharpshooters are the terror of the rebel gunners and that our approaches command the rebel entrenchments. Everything is working as well as the most sanguine could wish.
On Monday last there was firing between two rebel regiments within the rebel works causing much commotion in our camp. It continued so long and so severe that it was mistaken at first for a regular assault on our out posts, and the long roll was beaten in our camp. It turned out that one of their regiments were firing into another, which returned the fire with spirit. Our forces could distinctly see them carry off the dead and wounded. The affair is believed to have been a mutiny and measures taken to quell it. The Virginians now being forced into the service at the point of the bayonet, resist as far as they can, more especially those being drafted and forced into regiments from other States, to fill the latter to their respective quotas. It is supposed the mutiny grew out of something of the sort.
Information was received in our headquarters at Yorktown, that the rebels were concentrating a large force at Gordonsville, hoping to bag Gen. Banks, and that it was their intention to allow McDowell to get across the Rappahannock and then precipitate a superior force upon him.
The Richmond Examiner, of the 22d says:
“Official dispatches received yesterday state that the bombardment of the forts below New Orleans continued during the whole of Saturday, and that there were no [casualties] on our side. It is stated that the enemy’s armament, owing to the shallowness of the water cannot bet sufficiently near to the forts to bother the walls to any extent, that there is no possibility of reducing them but by shelling the garrison out.”
[Note: this article is a continuation of the column headed “From Washington.”]
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
On Monday last there was firing between two rebel regiments within the rebel works causing much commotion in our camp. It continued so long and so severe that it was mistaken at first for a regular assault on our out posts, and the long roll was beaten in our camp. It turned out that one of their regiments were firing into another, which returned the fire with spirit. Our forces could distinctly see them carry off the dead and wounded. The affair is believed to have been a mutiny and measures taken to quell it. The Virginians now being forced into the service at the point of the bayonet, resist as far as they can, more especially those being drafted and forced into regiments from other States, to fill the latter to their respective quotas. It is supposed the mutiny grew out of something of the sort.
Information was received in our headquarters at Yorktown, that the rebels were concentrating a large force at Gordonsville, hoping to bag Gen. Banks, and that it was their intention to allow McDowell to get across the Rappahannock and then precipitate a superior force upon him.
The Richmond Examiner, of the 22d says:
“Official dispatches received yesterday state that the bombardment of the forts below New Orleans continued during the whole of Saturday, and that there were no [casualties] on our side. It is stated that the enemy’s armament, owing to the shallowness of the water cannot bet sufficiently near to the forts to bother the walls to any extent, that there is no possibility of reducing them but by shelling the garrison out.”
[Note: this article is a continuation of the column headed “From Washington.”]
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Saturday Morning, April 26, 1862, p. 1
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