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Night came on. At 8 P. M., all of our band whose fortune it was to return had landed on Harrison Island, and the fire from the Virginia heights had ceased. The rebels took all our guns but one. When I left yesterday they had shouted to us, telling us to come over and take away our dead sons of b — s under a flag of truce, had also mounted our own guns on the heights, and warned us to leave the island in four hours. The Washington Star's account. From the Washington Star, of the 25th inst., (the king devil of all Abolitiondom,) we gather the following in relation to the affair: It has transpired that Major Gen. MeClellan did not design throwing either the force of Gen. Stone or Gen. Banks over the river; and that all that was really intended by Gen. Stone was to accomplish a reconnaissance in some force, without fighting an engagement. To that end Col. Devens was sent over the river with 300 men, and on Col. Baker was devolved the duty of covering Col. Devens's ret
Night came on. At 8 P. M., all of our band whose fortune it was to return had landed on Harrison Island, and the fire from the Virginia heights had ceased. The rebels took all our guns but one. When I left yesterday they had shouted to us, telling us to come over and take away our dead sons of b — s under a flag of truce, had also mounted our own guns on the heights, and warned us to leave the island in four hours. The Washington Star's account. From the Washington Star, of the 25th inst., (the king devil of all Abolitiondom,) we gather the following in relation to the affair: It has transpired that Major Gen. MeClellan did not design throwing either the force of Gen. Stone or Gen. Banks over the river; and that all that was really intended by Gen. Stone was to accomplish a reconnaissance in some force, without fighting an engagement. To that end Col. Devens was sent over the river with 300 men, and on Col. Baker was devolved the duty of covering Col. Devens's ret