The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-28

n about eleven or twelve O'Clock Tuesday night
sh,s we're reported outside the harbor, and the rcg
ment which wns about going to bed, vas mustered 70
rms Tho lights belonged to slips bringing moro
federal troops and the regiment got to bed again At one
or two O'Clock
and Company g. Captain Ncvns, forming tho advanc
snars marched TO the railway stat,on where
they found an engine and two or three pas
SCI ger cars ready 10 start. Tais was the work
81 the Massachusetts, regiment with General Buter VINO
had found The engine dismaptled. "who knows how to
maize m erglne9' asked General Butler. Six practical
machnists stepped the ranks but one claimed the
privilege OF making repairs II made that engne sad
be, and pointed on. his private mark.
Tho sixth and Second companies were unable 70
rroccsd In the cars more Ehan three or four
mics because the rails torn M. Then
commenced tho march Scouts and sixirmishcrs
rare thrown out In front and each side Rails
arm srom switches at AZ napols too short for use and
having Ia u peced ont with oss Of tmbcr, replaced
,ho missing rale excepting where they could DO found
IN the bushes beeides the track The rails and timber
were carried on baggage cars which were pushed by the
men Cn the front was howitzer, with guards and
spd eunners All day they marched, mending the track
wherever II needed mendiDg, pushing along the cara
under a sun which broush. the thermometer up to
oishty nrc occasionally bearing shots In The Distance,
but In no wiFe molestet.
Ahont sunse, they reached the remains Of the bridge
oear Mersvie twenty feet high and sixteen feet long
which had boon burnt and the engineer corps Of tho
regiment assisted by the Massachusetts men who had
done good service throughout the day In repairing Tie
track rebuilt the bridge and relad tho rails, 90 that
after heavy ehower which wet the men through they
were enabled TO proceed. After nighan the march con-
tinued, through ewsmps aud mist, out Of which chni
plosts came Company had been orderoi 70 rou up iB
~. -Irzx- no1a~ Al ILL., A~x4
be replaced The baggage still TO be pushed
bv men, Who had sleep for twenty four hours, who
Lad experienced unusual heat and unusua chiiness BY
turns FOR twenty hours, and who were wet and OK
hansted.
rals secpcrs and all-were found at the bottom OF
a high embapkmont, appearing to have been thrown
down there very recently The advance scouts indeed,
sar the non who did It running away. This section OF
railroad hauled up BY the howttzer ropes and re-
placed.
the regiment coeed up when the whole body marched
to within two miles OF the Annapolis Junction, whore
they awaited the arrival Of the cars from Washington
thave deacribed the march Of tho advance corps That
az the readuc Of the regiment similar They did not
have the labor Of laying rails ani pushing cars, but
nnschcd the twenty .fvo miles, after scepies night
and scanty breakfast under proing sun, In day 30
hot that o large portion Ten out oi the rhhA5
After tho halt the rails OF the neghborng fences made
sufficient nres In all they we're paid for. One 20
ccssiont farmer charged o and on receiving that sum
declared that be hsd always heard that the Seventh re
gimont were gentlemen, and that now he knew u.
Afcw Of the men MANAGED 10 breakfast At farmers'
houses for whNh they uniformly paid tho country pco-
pie Of Maryland, whom seccssonsts, hid endea-
vcred 70 convince that tho Northern troops were te
bet,or than Indians and would treat them accordingly
wore asrccably disappointed.
Every ono expresses surprise that no one In the res
men, has been attacked with fever and ague Ever
is fnll Of admiration at the pluck which ths Md ssoys
regiment displayed Only sheer pluck could have carried
them through 90 much fatigue and exposure.
Every ore In the regiment; with whom have talked,
praises the Massachusetts, regiment whose services
invaluable.
AZ about noon today the FHlh and Eighth hAs
sschusets regiments, and the Ehods Island rcgimsns
arrived. rhoy had como by rail 10 tbs junction,
and had thence marched all nght-as thsy met
no cars-about twelve miles, 70 within SIX niles Of
the city They looked bot and fstisusd, but, smalas
ing the Seventh, marched in review before tho Presi
dent al the white House.