Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-08-08
Tn. Movement upon Washington.

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The Movement upsn Washington.
Ex-oFFIcEHoLDBRs FROM WASHINGTON AT TIL
coNFEDBRATR TRAT.
| From the Richmond correspondence Of the Mem
phis Argus.
RICHMOND, July 27.-There 10 an ominous 81
| lence the past few days In Richmond, In respect
/ cedes and foreshadows i'm portant movements
the carrying out Of the legitimate military coDse
qnences OF our great victory at Manassas rather
/ stone Bridge-a few miles west of the junction
| Those legitimate ends the expulsion Of the
enemy from Alexandria and w ashington and the
| liberation Of Maryland from the thraldom Of Yam.
| kee oppression and intolerable alien insolence.
| am we'll informed when | say to your readers that
i these are the ends which our victorious army
| shall, under kind Providence attain before they
| wreathe their brows with the laurels so nobly
| sunday, 2lst July
General Beauregard has issued an order pro-
hlolung any person, unless specially authorized
g Hy sne SscrsaIy Of War, from passing beyond his
OF this precautisn Is obvious and Suggestive In
tce nrst place. men, or rather scanps after tarry-
ing iew weeks In Richmond, easily procure
pass TO rescue their trembling families from the
hessl1ns at w ashington. They pass through our
lines with impunity, and after they have reached
Warrington in safety, and received their thirty
pieces or silver" we find out that they Were
spies. And, again, the order evinces the caution
that important movements inspire. Gen Beaure-
gard Is now advancing upon A exandria in small
columns ana Snort marches, and must continue to
10 so until all his extensive preparations are
complete. Hence the absolute necessity of ex-
cludinS strangers from our lines
nave converted with several officials In the
war Department to-day, all could learn with GER
talnty was that, with Manassas as base Of opera
hons, we are pushing our columns onward to- ward
Aiexandria on the right and the Potomac above
the Chaln Bridge (some three miles above Ar
lingtOn fortihcations) on the left This movement.
you VIII perceive by glancing at the map of the
Potomac, suppOses a cooperation with MARYLAND
along the Potomac borders Of Montgomery county
taiHty Uf relief anu wOuIa raise one hundred
and twenty thousand strong tomorrow.
since the battle OF Manassas Richmond Is lite
rally swarmin9 with northern ex-oficeholders in
Washington They held on there until they were
kicked out, took the oath Of allegiance to Lin
coins despotism, and now have crawled down to
Lincoln turned them out for their southern ssnti-
HsntS! Would you believe II, we have many
such creatures In office here now
l myself know several old Washington place.
holders who had to make way for hungry aboli-
uQnlsts In w ashingtOn, now in public Office in
Richmond and vet they could not get the ind orse-
ment Of a single southern man Of character or
Standing. The way they do IL is through 2lioues
OF old Washington oficeholders, some Of whom
bold places Of responsibility and profit here.
This is shameful and must be broken up.
The FIELDAND RKeIMRSrAL OFFICERS KILLED
AND WOUNDED AT BULL Run From late South
ern papers we make up the following list of Field
and Regimental Off GERS killed at the battle OF
JEFF. Davis pronounced 1t ''dearly bought vic
tory" -
coNFEDxRATR OFFICERS KILLED
General Bernard Bee, South Carolina
Colonel D. X McRae, North Carolina.
Colonel Charles r. Fisher, North Carolina.
Bhgadler-General E X Smith, Regular rmy,
General Francis Barlow, Georgia.
Colonel Lamar, Georgia.
Colonel Nelson, Second Virginia Regiment.
Colonel Mason, Of General Johnson's staff.
Colonel Francis ] Thomas, Of Baltimore
Lieut. Col Benj J. johnson, Hampton Legion.
CONFEDERATE OFFICERS WOUNDED
Colonel p. L. Moore, First Virginia Volunteers
Major Robert w heat. Louisiana Battalion.
Colonel Gardiner.
Colonel l.. J. Gartrell, Seventh Virginia Regi-
ment.
Colonel Jones, Fourth Alabama Regiment.
Colonel n. C.. Stevens, of Gen. Bees staff.
| Major Scott, Fourth Alabama Regiment
| Major Stevens, aid to General Smith.
| Major Wheat was previously reported dead
but there Is now prospects Of his recovery en-
The Federal forces lost no ield or staff officers
The fOllowingis complete list of the Regimental
\ officers killed and wounded:
FEDERAL OFFICERS KILLED.
4 Col Cameron. SeventV-ninth New York.
Col John =. SlOcum, Second X hode Island
| 1t. Col Edward ID Fowler, Fourteenth New
York.
FEDERAL OFFICERS WOUNDED.
Maj or Sull van Ballow, second Rhode Island
1t Col. John A. Creiger, Fire Zouaves.
| 1t. Col Robert 5 Nick. Elliott, Seventy-ninth
New York Militia
1 Col Farnham, Fire Zouaves
| Col. Heintzelman, Seventeenth U. 8. Infantry.
Col Hunter, u. 8. Army.
| Col w. g b. Tompkins, Second New York
| Col. A. w. Wood, Fourteenth New York
| Col. Corcoran, prisoner, slightly hurt
! III The Ofdcers and soldiers in the Confed e