Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-06-21
THE SENTINEL.
I FIR ON the Baltimore SIM Of the 18th Instant.
THE WAR MOVEMENTS.
RumoRs AND sPEcULATIoNs.

HI IIORS AMI SIECb LA llONS.
Some active scouts sent out from Wash
inrton are said to have discovered anoth-
cry battery about twenty miles below
.squi Creek 1t is situated on or near
Matthias Point, which is opposite Port
Tobacco, Nd.
Several additional regiments wero on
Saturday moved from Washington over
to the Virginia side Of the Potomac.
Col. Thomas c. Hindman, late mem
Der of Congress from Arkansas, has
reached Memphis with 600 troops for
Virginia
LATER FROM OLD POINT, &C.
The steamers Adelaide and Georgian
ma, arrived on Saturday and Sunday
morning. from Old Point Comfort. They
bring intel ligence that movement was
to have been made on Yorktown on Sat-
uriay night by large body Of troops,
nnder command of Major Genera! But
Ter, and it was expected they would reach
- il by Sunday morning, if there was no
opposition by the Confederate forces.
There are now one hundred sick and
wounded in the, hospital at Old Point,
aid deaths among the wounded frequent
ly occur, 4 young man named Cady,
from Philadelphia, wounded at Great
Bethel, died on Thursday.
Miss Dix, with three nurses, has re :
turned from Old Point and gone to Wash
ington to attend the wounded in that city.
9lle big gun Union" was taken to
Fortress Monroe.
The result of the expedition towards
Yorktown is looked for with a good deal
ofintercst, and it is expected that a des-
pcrate battle will he fought. The Con-
fedcrate forces are thought to be about
ten thousand strong, and they have good
Notifications.
THE BATTLE AT GREAT BETHEL-AN-
OTHER SOUTHERN ACCOUNT
The Richmond Dispatch of Thursday
Las an interesting account of The battle
at Great Bethel After describing the
opening Of the engagement, the writer
in the Dispatch says:
Finding that bombardment would mol
answer the enemy, about i o'clock
tried to carry the position by assault, bu
met terrible repulse at the hands of the
infantry as he tried to scale the breast
works. The men disregardcd sometime.
the defences erected for them, and, leap
ing on the embankment, stood and free
at the enemy, cutting them down as they
came up. One company Of the New
York Seventh Regiment, ander Captain
ANInfbrSaton Of 10, I.lya he ,.olo,,bl
GU the left. The marsh they crossed
was stfewn with their bodies Theil
captain, fine looking man, reached the
fence, and leaping on log, waved his
sword crying, " Come on, boys; one
charge, and the day is ours" The words
were his last, for Carolina rifle ended
his life the next moment, and his men
Ged in terror back At the redoubt on
the right company of about 800 New
York Ipuayes charged on one of our
guns, but could not stand the fire of the
infantry, and retreated preciptately.
during these charges the moin body
of the enemy, on the hill, were attempt
5%g to concentrate for general assault,
but the she'll from the howitzer battery
prevented them. AS one regiment would
give up the effort, another would be
e marched to the position, but with no bet
Ter success. for she'll would scatter them
like chalf. The men did not seem abb,
to stand the fire at all
About ono o'clock their guns were ST
fenced. and few moments after their
Infantry retrcatea precipitately down tn,
road to Hampton. As they retreatot
many of the wounded fell along the roat
and died, and the whole road to Hamp
& ton was strewn with haversacks, over
coats, muskets, &c, which the men hal
thrown off in their retreat
After the battle l visited the position
they held. The houses behind which
they had been hid had been burnt b,
our troops. Around the yard were thu
dead bodies Of the men who had beer
killed by our cannon, mangled in tht
most frightful manner by the shells. Tn,
uniforms on the bodies were very differ
ont, many of :hem are like those of tn,
Virginia soldiery A little further oil
We cano to the point to which they haC
carried some of their wounded, who haC
since died The gay looking uniforms
of the New York Zouaves ccntrasteC
greatly with the paled, fixed faces o
their dead owners Going to the swan,
shrough which they attempted to pas
to assault our lines, presented another
bloody scene Bodies dotted the blacl
morass from one end to the other.
saw one boyish, delicate looking fclloy
lying on the mud, with a bullet-hol
through his breast His hand wa
pressed on the wound from which bis liz
Blood had poured, aud the other wa,
clenched in the grass that grew nea
him. Lying on the ground was Tcs
lament which had dropped from BIZ
pocket, dabbled with blood On opening
the cover ] found the printed Inscription
(" Presented to the defenders of th eli
country by the New York Bible Society.
Among the Layersaclis picked up alon.
. the route were many letters from th
Northern States, asking is they liked th,
Southern farms, and if the Southern bar
tarians had been whipped out yet
&c Theforco Of the enemy brought agains
us was 1000, according to the statemcn
ofthc six prisoners we took Ours wa