Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-31
Now. from tho Rebel Camp a. pen.acola


From the Cincinnati Commercial.
We had an interview yesterday with q
young man who left the rebel camp at Pensa-
cola on Saturday last, July 20, between twelve
and one o'clock. He was a member of com.
pany H, of the ninth Mississippi regiment,
Capt B. Moore. He enlisted on the 18th Of
March last for twelve months, and the compa.
ny reached Pensacola eighty-ive strong.
| When he retired from the service the company
consisted of twenty-five men. His retirement
leaves twenty-four. The rest of the eighty.
five are dead of typhoid fever, given out and
discharged, or deserted. Two Of the commits
stoned officers-the first and second lieutenants
obtained furloughs about two months ago
for fifteen days, and have not been heard from
since. The regiment to which he was at.
tached had buried eighty two men since going
into camp. Nearly all died of typhoid fever.
Provisions reach Pensacola now by way of
the railroad which connects that place with
Montgomery. There are plenty of''sheet iron
crackers" and corn meal The bows have
crackers one week and corn meal the next
They have bacon and fresh meat in tOlerabIe
plenty, but there is much complaint among
the men as to rati0ns. Desertions were fire..
quent and dissatisfaction very prevalent. On
Thursday afternoon last the quarters of the
Alabamans were burned accidentally While
the fire was raging the United States brass
band at fort Pickens came out and PLAYED
"Hail Columbia" with fine effect to the great
amusement of others.
We gather the following particulars of the
position Of the rebels THE Louisianaians are
stationed at the navy yard. They have one
mortar battery and two gun batteries. The
batteries comprise three mortars and six inch
columbiads. There are of troops stationed at
that point about eight hundred Louisianaians
and five hundred confederate regulars. Be
tween the navy yard and Barrancas there are
four batteries. Three of them have three
8inch columbiads each, and the other has six
inch columbiads. These batteries are stu.
ated about three hundred yards apart Back
OF them is mortar battery, where six 10inch
mortars are mounted.
Barrancas has thirty.two guns mounted.
Nine OF them are l2pounders, mounted en-
bdr6ette. There are two ten inch coIumbiads
at Barrancas. The rest of the guns are "a
and 32pounders. The fort is strongly protec-
ted with sand bags and COW hides, and is flank
ed by redoubts. The fort and redoubts are
occupied by Alabamians, Georgians and Flori-
dams have built redoubt about five hundred
yards in the rear of Barrancas. They have
two 24pounders mounted in front of the re-
doubts, and two companies of flying artillery
here. There are two masked batteries, one
with six and the other with four eight-inch co.
lumbiads, in the woods near the lighthouses to
the right of Barrancas.
In tort McRae there are twenty-five guns
mounted, four 24pounders, en- barbette; two
eightinch columbiads; the rest 32pounders.
There is a pivot gun on the left of the fort
Two teninch coumbiads are mounted as piy-
OF guns on tile right of the fort. There is a
mortar battery about mile and half from
the lighthouse, where there are three mortars
mounted. About two hundred yards in the
'front.' OF this mortar battery there are two 9TH
er I, ten inch columbiads, mounted as pivot guns.
lhese guns are about three hundred yards
sippi regiment.