Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-08-01
WAR MOVEMENTS.

was that the Conlederates were preparing to
cross the Potomac at Lcesburg with an army
forty thousand strong. Gen. Mcclellan has al
| ready instituted the most desirable reforis in
the army at Washington. His vigorous mea-
sures and. strict discipline are already hating
the most decided effect.
| Mrs. Hinsdale, who was captured at Centre
vile, taken to Manassas, and employed there. as
hospital nurse, has returned to Washington
and reports large number of the wounded
troops as being well cared for in the hospital at
Manassas. The Confederates say they have as
prisoners over thousand of the Federal troops
Liberty has been rendered to all, provided they
will take the oath not to take up arms against
the Confederates again. With the excanniI;Ioon Of
the Captain of Maine regiment and several
prvates, all refused the cee..er. A couple Of the
prisoners have also escaped and returned to
Washington. They disprove the reports that
have been circulated of barbarity toward the
prisoners by the Confederate troops, and espe-
olaly contradicts the statement that Studley
Church, used as a hospital during the engage
meut, had been burned with the wounded in it.
| The Richmond Wing of the 18th states the
Confederate loss of killed and wounded, in the
Bull Run BATTLE at 1900. Like the United
States troops they lost number of their officers
Colonel Wade Hampton, of South Carolina, was
wounded, not killed as at first reported. The
report that General Johnston had been killed
arose from the killing of Lieutenant Colonel
johnson of South Carolina.
An attack is expected upon the entrenehed
camp at Newport News, the Confederates Raw
ing demanded its evacuation A naval force
had been sent up from Old Point to assist in the
defence Of the Point. The troops had abandon
ed Hampton, and a part of the village had been
burned.
From Harper's Ferry we learn that all Of
General Banks division except one regiment are
now on the Maryland side of the Potomac. His
force was being rapidly increased by the arrival
Of the three year regiments. Advices from
Winchester and Charlestown state that none OF
Gen. Johnson's force had returned there up to
Sunday noon. &
Generals Wool and Harvey, it is stated, are
soon to be called into active service by thetloy-
Dispatches from Cairo state that the Confed-
crates gathered in large numbers in Southern
Missouri, and are said to have two thousand
men at Point Pleasant. Gen. Watkins has five
thousand Confederates at West Prairie, and Abe
Hunter one thousand five hundred in South
Missouri Three thousand more are near Bloom
field Six hundred loyal Missourians are mus
tering into service at Hamburg.
From Western Virginia we learn that the
Federal troops, under General Cox, occupied
Charleston, on the Kanawha river, on Thursday
last The Confederates retreated, burning the
bridges and also steamer on the river. Gen
Rosencrant's column was moving across the
country to intercept them. -
Reported Movement of the Confederate
Army-FOrty Thousand Troops to Gross
the Potomac from Leesburg. e
Washington, July 29.-Reports have been
circulating here to-day, and the names of promi-
nent gentlemen given as authority for them, that
the Confederates have either commenced moving
or have made arrangements for the immediate
passage of 10000 of their troops across the Po-
tomac, from the direction of Leesburg into Mary
land. This correspondent however, has nc
means of verifying the statement ~
The Army of the Movements
of the Observation-Disclosures Ferry Eva
cuated, &c.
Hnper's Ferry, July 29-Advices from Win
chester and Charlestown say that none of Gen
Johnston's troops had returned thither up tc
Sunday noon. One regiment of Loudoun coun-
ty volunteers have returned to Leesburg from
Manassas, and it is thought that as many as
three more are on their way from Manassas tc
that point. Gen. Johnston is understood to be
still at Manassas. Gen. Lee has been assigned
to the command on the upper Potomac, in place
of Gen. Wise, and Gen. Garnett, deceased. with
orders to unite their columns and fall upon Gen
Rosecrans, the successor of Gen. Mcclellan.
The 1st Wisconsin regiment, nnder Colonel
Starkweather, is guarding this river at and a.
bove the Monocacy junction. They hssaaa
brush with the enemy's cavalry on Saturday,
killing two and capturing several of their horses
The entire force under Gen. Banks crossed
the Potomac to the Maryland side yesterday
except the I'd Massachusetts,, which remains al
the Ferry, as a guard This movement was in
consequence of the indefensble character ofthis
place. The army now lie encamped in Pleas
ant Valley, in and around Sandy Hook, IN g
strong position, two miles from here. SeYera
regiments have arrived here to replace those
whose time have expired The I'd Rhode Is
land battery has arrived to take the place of The
1st, whose term expires on the I'd of August
The 18th and 10th Indiana regiments have'alst
arrived.
j From Old Point and Fortress Monroe.
The steamer Louisiana, arrived at Baltinnor,
on Monday from Old Point Comfort and brough
some intelligence which promises an early con
fict in that vicinity.
On Sunday General Magruder sent flag o
truce to Gen. Butler, with demand to evacuat
Newport Newspoint within twenty-four hours
4 or he would shell it. Immediately preparation
were made for defense, and the sloop offwa
Dale and the steamer Minnesota were sent ri
to assist the batteries at the Point against tn
assault. Gen. Magruder is represented to hav
fifteen thousand troops, with plenty of artiller,
and cavalry.
On the evacuation of Hampton by the Fede
raj troops the stores were all broken openl an
every thing portable carried off. What ooul
not be conveniently removed was destroyed
and the town was left perfect wreck I'm
, work of destruction is said by those VINO cam
up on the l., to have been done by the Na'a
Brigade,