Des Arc semi-weekly citizen., 1861-06-04

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 of the Harris Guards formed out on the
 bank and declared they would not l-are until the scouts returned, and we did not budqe from the position we had taken, un- ldI Bradley promised to waii until day5reak for them, and also promised that ample provision would be made for their security and safe return 10 us. The scouts were twelve in all, and four from our compay, Mai. Glenn, Tom. Barnett, Ed. Poe and Jim. Blunt lban whom no men stand high CT here, and we resolved not 10 desert them in their hour of need Our boat al daylight went four miles up the river, and then come down the river 10 this point, two miles below Randolph, and when we reached here we found out that Bradley had made no provision for the scouts what ever, and I've rarely seen such an excite ment as 1t created and especially in our com pany We tried every means in our pow CT to charter some boat to return for the scouts, but were unable to do so, and curses
 loud and deep were heaped upon the head of our cowardly commander. Maj J. J. Gaines, of our Artillery, applied to Gen. Sneed, at Randolph, for steam tug to go
 in search of our scouts, and having ob- tained it, requested Gen. Bradely to furnish him with one cannon, and also, detail five men from each company that had repre- sentative in the party of scouts 10 go with him. and Bradley refused But Bradley ordered Capt. Oley and ten men, unartned, 10 proceed after our scouts, with orders to run if they saw the enemy! Our scouts returned about 1 o'clock Monday evening to our camp, coming down 70 miles in the mid-days sun, h an open skif, and We
 learned from them that the report was as false as t was absurd; and that they had captured about 20 miles above Beardeld an Abolition spy, and after our scouts told aim they were United States troops, he informed them that several thousand Abo- litionlsts would be down on our camp in ten days-a tune which our redoubtabe commander no doubt conceived had al- ready elapsed and so believing, lad com- peIied us uawlllingly to desert cur post a post which with the artillery we would have had in two days, We could bid def- ance 10 30.O0O of Old Abe's minions.
 Bradley has stationed us miles below Randolph, on the Tennessee shore, where we will never see an enemy, and never nave an oppor. ini'y 10 wipe away from our esculchroas the foul stigma which his disgracelal retreat has brought upon Us As soon as ,.e arrived here he left and weut horne, hs excited inauguration no doub, filed with lancies about that terrible 50,O00 aboiIlionlsts. We s,aid al Bear
 field about 4S hours and then decamped Our triumphant ertry and disgracefuI re-
 treat from lha, point reminds me of an ancient ballad, which relates now the King of Frsnce wi,h his army yalanty marched up he bill and then marched down again
 l understand that the officers of our re- giment held meeting last night, and de- aounced Gen. Bradley and bis actions, since 10 command, in very severe terms, P.edging themselves no longer to be gud- ed by a man who had acted as a coward and a traitor. They brought several charges against him, the principal of which was, that he ordered a retreat without holding n consultation with the officers that he vacated the camp, making no pro. visions, whatever for our scouts that he encamped us on the Tennessee shore, out of our State, which we had sworn to pro- leci; that he had retrealed peIl-mell, and lost a great many useful articles of bag gage. provisions and ammunition, to con- siderable amount; that be also permitted a steamboa, to proceed on it's way, which had been stopped by our Colonel, and which had on board 300 Dutch-withoul even inquiring into lhe cause of such sez- ure; he also carried of with him, when he left this point on the Ohio Belle. all