The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-11
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Gen. 6unter's oc.........'..''' ] 1'Uoo
Den. Bfannsls tK.y Wss.. csc )...... o OO
0Sns curtis and Steele .............- zo,VVo
Gems. ID K aud Wool. ....'.... ~ ~ ~
Gen. BiuGt's Department OF knnsas.. o'ooo
New Mexico and going ............" ~ WV
Gen Mitchell . column ............ lo,too
q unrd duty In KY and Tenn.........." 10 wy
Guard duty in Missouri. .............'. o,ot"
Gnard duty below Island lo..".....'.' 49,
Guarding prisoners North ............. 7coo
rots, SOC. OOo
Now, from the above there should b. de'
Quoted ten to fifteen Per cent. for soldiers 10
the hospitals, at home, on iuri3aEn; ana ",s .
totsl of 43O 600 men capable OF doing outy
The exac; number. ii the ex .ct tru'n were
known, may not exceed 40o, ooO shcient nen.
Scores o! regiiusata that marcneo IRON hons
/ oo) stronR can muster now only 300 TO 600
men, and few regiments number more man
100 or $50 rank and file. The EeosIs Lave sax
fered the same degree of shrinksgs, and par
The number Of soldiers at home on fur
lousn, with sick cert!1i 3ates, 10 mucn g eater
than IL generally Supposed, and We ooubs
unstbsr the War ID sparinens IL aware OF how
many thousands there are Of such. A ma
jori.y Of surgeons and il far easier TO give Ger.
tihea.es to tro or three hundred aiiing men
in g regiment, On which they caa obtain leave
Of absepce, than to attend to them In their
camp hospital; and 1t y bit natural that
tbose who thus get home should be In no spe :
ciai hurry to set vel enough TO return, al
their pay runs on while ahssnt Jus: the same
Is when present with their regiment The
order Issued LAST winter to stop recruiting TO
MI NJ emsciate1 regiments was an unuiss
oae, and has lately been reSoksd.
ruSIsHxBST or sHIHDJIKa CONTRACTORS.
Ths act to prevent and punish fraud on the
par, OF officers entrusted with making con
tracts with tie Government, which hes inst
been approved by the President, estabiishe:
an cfIlce In which all CONTRACTS ara 10 be flied
for pubic inspection. Caicers making con.
tracts ara required TO swear that they coIc!u
dsd the same without any heneht or advan
t1gs TO themselves, or TO any o'har psIs- AS
less man one hundred nor more than i've huI
dred doll ATS, aud cut not m ore than
. K months
MILITANT RAILRoAbs IN TEB SOUTH.
Ihs advantages ot.raiifoads and navjE able
vatsrs for military cper ATOMS hare Cas eesn
halt ~ mach appreciated By cur Severn
mens as By the pseudo concern OF JEFF. Davis.
kbont ths first etsp OF The latter vas ID I'M
tta:s tha Guiding OF ccnnsctirE l:nsa hetwsen
main routes in the South, 10 the end that
.rocr, could d IaR.a.y s1ase VA 1 much con-
po.sa reseiss; Wien It wa. ascertsinsd that 9
was not going to march upon Riahmont via
Fredericksburg but all see and approve his
present lire of comm ur .c alton, whereby be
IL. By steamers BE- rail cars, within ten miles
Of the rebel rital.
LATEST FROM TIE NORTH.
The following seminary IL eomiiisd nom
the New York Herald. OF Saturday. June -
IL will rs saen that the Eederais now claim
ouiy $50 prisoners captured In tbs late battle,
which - coming down considsiebly from
their nrst bopst. We bslievs the present
number 10 cverstataa:
THE ExITLE BELOW KIonSoSp.
McCLsLLAr's UsApQUARfK8s June Two
desarisrs, ~Lo osms IL th.s morning, state
that Gen ICE Johnston was seriously II not
MORALLY wounded tnroash TIE groin, by a
Minnie ball, during the late hattie.
Den. GustAyuJ W. Smith 10 nou In cor,
mana. Other infozm alton received goes 70
corroborate these facts.
estimated at 10000 killed, wounded and miss.
ing.
No material change mas taksn place IN the
position of the enemy.
a negro has arrived bers who le II Rich.
mcni yesterday. He represents thing as Id
a terrible state Of con fusion and uucer tainty.
No troops are IN the city excepting those do
ing guard duty and tending 10 tn. 81, h sua
wounded, all bsinE omteiied to remain out.
side. Thsre were no s:gas OF evacuation, but
on The contrary everything goes 20 show u
determined resistance ON the part Of the
rsoe!s.
Ths negro states that during .ha a.ht Of
Sunday the house tops and all sievaseI posi.
tons were covered With reop's 10 witness the
battle, egs,y one expecting 10 ses Cnr sroors
driven into the Chickahomius; but when
they Jaw the rebels running towards the city
the greatest CONSERVATION prevailed
Many CT the Inhabitants have crossed tho
J imes river, sxpscirg the city to BE- OCCUPIED
by oar sroops soon. It's rnmored that den
Magrnder is going to resign, having become
diskus;ed With the rebel military adminis "a.
ton.
We nre informed that there ere no t.oops
bstwosa the kappahanuock and the army of
the Potom &C under Gen. Mcclellan. A Avg
OF truce came in to-day from General HuGsr,
asking for the bodies Of Gelesa al Pet:ixrsw,
aud Coils. Davis, Leightfoot, Loog, and Bre.
the late battle. Oh. Davis was the only or e
killed Lsixhfoot and Long are prisosers,
and breton was VIC andsd, as % leo Gen. Pc
uSrsw. Col. ID vis's bcdy viii be retui ned.
sPRIsOsEss CT WAR.
WHIrEaoUss. Pam unky liver, June The
following are the names Of eleven oficers
who, with two hundred ard thirty priva;es,
we're maze prisoners Of war. They are now
in charge OF Gap, John savanamSn, Sixty.
fh'rd rsx:ment NsW York state vciantesrs.
Col. Ghas. A. L,ish.foos, Twenty. Second
Ls.Usl. .Jonn .. Long, Tusn.y-sseona N.
c .rolina.
nj Tally. arayblu, Twenty. Eighth
capt. T. S. Mays, soash Carolina.
asg. vArrI1o's srArP
Lit. w. u. Clseg, Fourteenth Georgia,
L.. n. I. NJ iisr, Forty.niut GA,
Ls. " J.. n. = seston, Fourtsenth Ga.
LII. A. l.. Furisv, Twenty .secocd N. o.
Lit. John MsIntirs, Sixteenth N. q.
Second Lieutenant ~. ID noon. Forty. first
Virginia
Conrad Koyd, Second Lieutsraut Nelson
A 'tiilsry. Virginia.
WOUNDED on ras xSHHsBEc.
MAYOR II a Hubbard, sth AlsaamA.
1t " w Horsisy, 90 b, 49.h Va.
LII y BrangaD, 40 !, ssh Ala.
4 Jones, DO u, ID Florida.
Is Hughes. Go u. 4s.h Va.
Horton, 10 ., 9th Ga.
u HastnS, Ca u, 18th Ga.
Us Az, 10 j. l9td Va.
J O1llen, 90 y, etn Ala.
u spencer, % I. 3tsh VI.
j A MCCORMICK. TO q, l0lh Va.
r Smith, % l, Ssh Ala.
4 Z alum, 10 I. Sth Ala.
Corpl y q hu:lsI. 1;o I. 49th Va.
= 0ryont, d, q. asso Va.
Wost. 10 y, 3stA Ga.
koTrsil. 90 d, ASth Va.
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