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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Twenty dollars reward. (search)
War matters. The Northern papers furnish some further accounts of war movements, from which we extract the following: From Old point. The Baltimore Sun, of Friday, says: The steamer Georgeanna, Capt. Pearson, arrived yesterday morning from Old Point Comfort, and reports everything quiet at that point. Col. ButlOld Point Comfort, and reports everything quiet at that point. Col. Butler, a brother of Gen. Butler, was among her passengers, and he went on to Washington. She also brought up five or six soldiers returning to the North. With regard to the trial of the large rifled cannon, mounted on the Rip Raps, passengers by the Georgeanna report that it will be useless in its operations against Sewell's Poilock on Wednesday afternoon, with ninety tons of shells for Fort McHenry. The Georgeanna passed her off the mouth of the Potomac. An impression prevails at Old Point that Col. Magruder has retired from Great Bethel to a larger battery between that point and Yorktown, but the Federal scouts have not advanced beyond New Market,
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1861., [Electronic resource], Important from France. (search)
the battle they shook hands affectionately with the spades, calling them clever fellows and good friends. The men are influenced by high moral and religious sentiments; and their conduct has furnished another example of the great truth that he who fears God will ever do his duty to his country. The Confederates had in all about 1,200 men in the action. The enemy had the regiments of Col. Duryea, (Zouaves,) Col. Carr, Col. Allen, Col. Benedick and Col. Wardop. （Massachusetts,) from Old Point Comfort, and five companies of Phelps' Regiment from Newport: News. We had never more than three hundred actively engaged at any time. The Confederate loss was 11 wounded, of these one mortally. The enemy must have lost some 300. I could not, without great disparagement of their courage, place their loss at a lower figure. It is inconceivable that 5,000 men should make so precipitate a retreat without having sustained at least this much of a reverse. Let us devoutly thank the liv