The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-08-09

Closing, and when within three hundred yards
OF the enemY's battery, the latter opened fire,
with both guns. Our boys returned the FIRE,
but the enemy being strongly entrenched along
the edge OF the creek, and under cover of the
trees, dId not suffer much.
Our men were seriously annoyed by flank.
firing, and by shots from an old log house oc.
cuPied by a portion of the enemy The
strength OF the enemy was not apparent, and
could not have been less than fifteen hundred
Two companies OF the Twenty-frst and two OF
the Twelfth gallanlly charged down the hill
and along the edge OF the river bank, routiLe
the enemy who had annoyed their flank The
enemy we're now reinforced by FIVE companies
OF FIVE hundred men, from Charleglown. max
ing their whole force over 1900. Oar troops
continued their fire until their ammuniticn
gave out, when they were compelled 10 retire.
-Four Of our men were killed in the sklrmlsh.
and seventeen wounded. OF these we hav.
only partial report.
| The killed include: George Blen, Of Com
pany L, 2lst Regiment: Lieut.. Guy Pomeroy.
OF ComPanyD, 2lst, wounded, and since died
Capt. Allen, OF Company D, 2lst Regiment.
There were seventeen wounded and tree miss
ing. Capt. Hill, oil Middetown, was wounded
in the leg. Capt. Sloan, Of HIlsborugh, was
shot in The body.-Capt. Smith, OF Xenia, re-
ceved shot from musket.
Lieut.. Brown, OF Dayton, was taken prisoner.
Perry Taylor, OF Xenia, was wounded Tim
berIake, of Xenla, was reported missing. Col.
Norton, was wounded IN the leg, aud was Ia
ken prisoner.
Ii was reported that COL Woodruff, and
other officers OF the Second Kentucky, who
went 10 the assistance Of these men, were cap
tured, but the statement needs confirmation.
The steiner Dunlealh brought down the body
of Lieut.. Pomeroy, and it will be forwarded
TO his friends IN Putnam county.
LATEST FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
The steamer Adelaide, Capt. Cannon, arrived
yesterday morning from Old Point Comfort,
but brought no news of special interest.
difficulty occurred at Newport Newspoint
On Thursday, in which a private made an al
tack on an officer. The latter fred on his as
sail5ht, the ball entering his face and passing
out Of his neck, producing serious il not ia
tai wound. The whole atmy at that point is
said to be IN a state Of insubordination, and it is
apprehented that there will be general revolt
against the authority ofthe officers,
THE EXPEDITION TO THE.rseoNoKE.
On tuesday afternoon NeHefdl Dulier sHHI
th e armed vessels to the mouth of the POGO
make river, on the Eastern Shore, for the pur-
pose of capturing the steamer Wilson Small and
other vessels suspected of affording " aid and
COMFORT to the ConfedeIaIes, by carrying pro.
visions.
On reaching the mouth of the river, inside OF
Watts Island, where the channel is intricate,
and approaches near 10 the Virginia shore,
battery of heavy guns opened FIRE on them from
the shore. They attempted TO escape when the
whole of the gun5oats run bar and there
remained.
The Vrglnrans immediately sent into the in
terror for reInforcements with view TO the cap
ture or destruction of the vessels. They had
not been heard from at Fortress Monroe up to
Thursday afternoon, and it was supposed they
had fallen into the hands of the Confrderates.
Where the Federal vessels grounded is only
about mile from the point where sanguinary
battle took place in 1914 between the large flo
tila under Com. Whaley and the English for
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