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The Peninsula battlefurther accounts.
From persons who left Yorktown two days after the battle at Bethel Church, we learn that on Wednesday morning our camp was approached by five New York Zouaves under a flag of truce.
The object of their mission was ostensibly to be permitted to bury their dead and to effect an exchange o that at roll-call on Tuesday morning, 440 were missing.
Below we give further particulars of the battle:
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Yorktown. June 11, 1861.
As the steamer from your city is in sight.
I hasten to give you a brief description, of the battle of Bethel Church, which took place yest erday before I got to the wharf, and I will add a word.
Monday evening, (the day of the fight.) the order was issued that our whole force should retire upon Yorktown, and the march was taken up at sunset.
Everything was removed that was of any value.
The following are the reasons for this movement: 1st Our ammunition was ne
Matrimonial,
--A member of the New Orleans Zouaves, a splendid specimen of the Southern soldier, and a gentleman, we learn of considerable property in that city, conducted to the altar of Hymen, on Wednesday evening last, a young lady of Richmond.
We happened in at the ceremony, which was performed by Or Duncan, of the Methodist Church, of this city, in the elegant and spacious parlors of the St. Charles Hotel, and could only learn that the name of the happy Zouave was Angus, and that of the bride Pocahontas.
The happy pair started at six o'clock A. M., on Thursday, for Yorktown.
Thirteen prisoners of war (including sounds persons arrested as spies) were brought to this city from Yorktown on Thursday, and after an examination at the War Department, were deposited in the county jail for sate keeping.
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Eject of the News in Norfolk. Norfolk, Va., June 12, 1861.
The greatest excitement was witnessed here last evening.
out of the announcement that a dispatch had been received by Col. Huger, stating that 4,500 of the Lincoln hirelings were met by 1,000 Confederate troops under Col. Magruder, at Bethel Church, between Yorktown and Williamsburg and defeated with great loss.
At night, tar barrels were burned, and the utmost enthusiasm exhibited.
The dispatch says our men fought like lions, and the greatest skill and bravery are to be awarded them in the struggle.
Col. Magruder receives the lasting praise of our people, as he will the whole South, for his action in this contest.
It is but a part, however, of his military character to be expert in war.
The event has been received here with such glowing delight that I could not forbear making mention of it, although you have probably been advised of the minutest particular