Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-07-25

men and the official dispatches is accounted f,l
| by the fact that the latter are based upon the
returns OF the surgeons, and that many of tho
killed are oitentlmes never reported until aftc,
the publication of the official accounts.
One remarkable fact which commanded the
special attention of the members of Congress
was the absence from that portion of Virginia
visited by them Of all the male nha bitants ca IA
bic of bearing arms. They state that they saw
but few people, and those were chiefly old wo-
men and children. The women seemed to regard
the soldiers with bitter hostility, and. to quote
the language of one of the Congressman. their
''eyes fairly flashed fire whenever they Iookcd
at SOLDIER
Gen. Mcdowell expressed no fears of being
attacked, but seemed apprehcnsive Of some OF
the volunteer corps stumbling upon a masked
battery, and thus "precipitating a general en-
gagenent."
The loss of the Confedcrates is not known,
but is conjecturcd by the Federalists to have
been heavy. Among the killed is said to be
one Col. Fountain-at least, negro deserted.
SO stated
The excuses Of the Federal troops in Virginia
are exciting general Indignation among army
officers. A member of Congress, who visited
the scene this morning. states that the village of
Germantown has been entirely burnt, with the
exception of one house, in which lay sick man,
who had been robbed, he was told, by an army
surgeon Of nearly every article he possessed of
the slightest value, even to his jack knife
Gen. Mcdowell has issued orders that the
first soldier detected in perpetrating these dcprc-
dations shall be shot, and has ordered that a
guard be placed over the principal residences of
any town The troops may enter.
Later from Bulls Run.
A correspondent of the Baltimore. Exchange,
whose letter is dated at Washington on the 22d
says: Making all allowances for exaggeration,
it has become the settled conviction of all classes
Of people here that the Federal forces were not
only badly cut up, but that they suffered Sc
we're defeat The most reliable reports place
their loss in killed and wounded in the fight on
Thursday last at twenty-five hundred men, An
officer high in the service stated in my hearing
that on calling the roll the following day. three
thousand men were returned missing. The re-
port that the Massachusetts 1st and New York
18th regiments became utterly demoraized and
ran away, disencumbering themselves of every
thing-knapsacks,c anteens muskets, &C., that
obstructed their flights confirmed by the tes-
tmony OF numerous witnesses. It is said that
their officers set the example of this shameful
act of cowardice
Corcoran's Goth New York regiment-Irish-
is reported to have been almost annihilated, only
one company of it remaining. It was their
tremendous losses and not the want of ammll-
milton and of water for the cavalry-which lat
ter mig ht have been had in abundance in Bull
Creek-that caused the retreat of Tyer's divi-
sion to Centreville. The extraordinary gallan-
try and enthusiasm of the Confederate troops is
attested by all the officers who have since arrived
in Washington from the scene of action. SO
much for the battle of Bulls Run.