The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-07-05
LETTER FROM TIE SEAT OF WAR.
Camp near Williams port,
June 2oth, 1861.
Dear Major

Dear Major
| For long time ( have prom
ised to drop you note and having little lei
sure just COW, will avail n yself Of it. The
! papers and letters home will have informed you
that We crossed the Potomac into Virginia at
this place on Sunday last, and after entering
| Virginia about three miles, our orders tc march
! forward on Marliusburg were counlermanded,
and We broke up our camp and agaih crossed
| the Potomac to this place, We are eucamped
near town on a bluff commanding the river.
| There is great excitement here this morning.
Most of lat inhabitants have left town under
apprt hrGsion o! an immediate attack from the
Virginia side. Troops Of torsr, wearing uai-
forms, are plainly visible IN the fields and along
the road, from our camp. A troop Of horse
this morning were seen TO drive of the caulr
IF farmer "a union mani up the road towards
ne rebel camp. They also took two OF his hor
ses You may ask Why we did not immediate
! ly recross the Potomac and drive back these
guerriIlas. can only say that anxious as we
are 10 DO SO, we have only TO obey orders. We
are waiting The arrival of the Rhode Island bat
tefy, and the cavalry, when movement will
be made across the river. Ny own impression
IS :hat there is no considerable force 10 this
neighborhood, bot these troopers are employed
to amuse Us here, aud prevent our march TO-
ward Richmond. 1t is thought, TOO, that there
!, masked battery 10 the woods opposite the
camp II that be SO, we will know it before
many hours.
Ieuy Brown and Jake Peck have Just come
IN and report that trooper hasJu been shot
from his horse on the Virginia side. He was
seen to fall from his horse He rose again,
walked = short distance and fell. A number Of
officers on the bluff, viewing he or,osta
side, aud the movements of the emmy, with
field glasses, A are has been kept upalI ,ora-
! ing By ih4 ehar~ shooters ~ ?" iT.-
COMPANY K .nE asrs-. 20
th-n q a.-E .a. &. = group II i..o or lnfrr
h,fsr, ana 'n-y seampsr of. I am writing
hI- all taIs gong on, ia fall view If both
shores. If step out OF my tent. I hear dis
tnctly the wiz bang Of the mime riffs aud
mus<t<. But ii is petty, Ildp gurrriile war
10 which oonf-ss ! lrrl no interest. If the
enemy Is in strong lore, the march against
them shoui b- made at once. Ifnot, we ought
( TO be- allowed to go to Washington or the seat
OF va, and not b. amused by the fling of a
lew Berkeley county troopers.
! said that nearly all the inhabitants OF this
/ place have left. The greatest alarm prevails
l saw Miss Ensmingpr formerly Miss FIorrnda
Cufroihl this morning. She Is the vile of the
landlord Of The Potomac House .he principal
hotel. The servants all lrft to-day, AID tRpy
were unahla TO provide dinner for their nUsl&r-
Gus guests. She declares that she viii stay and
ser the worst. The housr had been doing a
tremendous husiress, but Il IS now surrounded
by guards, the bar IS CLOSED and no soldier is al
lowed to enter without pass signed by the
commanding officer OF brigade. Many Of thr
/ private houses have been Entirely deserted, and
a guard stationed at the doors 10 Protect it from
/ plnnder. The town he's truly desolate ap-
/ Prarance.
Yesterday afternoon Col. Bowman, Of the
9th Pa, Regiment, and one Of hls officers took
a pleasure ride over the Potomac and up the
road. They have not since been heard from
They have, no daui o-pn captured by tn r~f-
els OR company as detailed lor pica,, 5'.
last night, on h. river shore, and oo ta- CA.
Er-ry nan in the cnmprny as out 1T a. -
The order first was to wad- BE stream, amt