The Peninsula.
All is quiet on the
Peninsula since the late gunboat fight.
The forces engaged in the actions with the steamers at
Deep Bottom and
Turkey Island were eight companies of the 26th Va. regiment and one section each of
Capt. Armistead's and
Capt. French's light batteries, the whole under the command of
Lt. Col. Couneil, of the 26th.
All the forces belong to
Wise's brigade, a command that has always done good service when the enemy gave it a chance to meet them.
In the engagement at
Turkey Island the monitor only fired one shot, and that after she had gotten nearly a mile down the river.
This shell exploded among the artillery just as they were limbering up, wounding three members of
French's battery--one of them
private Gibson, of Giles C. H. severely.
A revival of religion is now progressing in the 46th Va., under the ministration of
Rev. W. Gaines Miller, the
Chaplain, and also in other regiments of
Wise's brigade.
There have been over 50 professions of conversion in that regiment, 170 in the 26th Va., and a number in the 4th Va. heavy artillery, at Chaffin's Bluff.