The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1862-07-23
The War News of the Past
WEEK.

The following is brief summary of the
war news received during the week ending
Wednesday, July is:
Vicksburg is not yet, reduced. An
engagement took place before the town on
Saturday, June %, between Commodore
FARRAGUT's feet and the rebel batteries
According to one account, only one vessel,
the Hartford, passed the batteries, and
according to another; three or four passed
but without silencing them. The feet
was under a very heavy fire for over two
hours, but the casualties were only two
men killed and fifteen or sixteen wounded.
Commodore FARRAsuT was wounded in
the head, but not seriously. Our army,
under General WILLIAMS, witnessed the
engagement from the opposite bank of the
river. General VAN Dorm was in COM
mandat Vicksburg. Recent accounts rep
resent the bombardment of Vicksburg as
going on, with great energy, and most of
the houses as being riddled with shot
Five thousand negroes are said to be en-
ployed on the canal for turning the course
Of the Mississippi at that point, and
throwing Vicksburg inland.
Four companies of the Ninth Pennsyl-
vania cavalry were surprised and cut to
pieces at Tompkinsville, Tennessee, on
Thursday morning, the 10th inst, by
STEvENs's S cavalry. STEvENswas report
ed to be on his way to Bowling Green to
destroy the bridges. a
| At an early hour on Sunday morning
last, between three and four thousand
rebels mounted infantry, Texas rangers,
Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee cavalry,
mostly armed with carbines and shot guns
attacked our troops at Murfrecsboro,
Tennessee, consisting of the Sd Minnesota,
Colonel LESLIE; six companies of the 9th
Michigan, Colonel PARKHURsT, three
hundred strong; the Sd battalion of the
7th Pennsylvania cavalry, two hundre
and twenty-five men; Hewitt's battery
sixty men; the 4th Kentucky, twenty-fi
After desperate fight, the Sd Minnesos
the 9th Michigan and Hewitt's bate
surrendered. The loss on both sides m
have been heavy. The Pennsylvania :
lost two hundred in killed, woundnd
missing. 1t was reported that we
thirty thousand dollars worth of al
stores. Nashville is said to be threate
by large rebel force, but our troops
concentrating there for its protection
Great excitement was created on S..
day and Sunday last, on both sides o
Ohio river, by reports that the noted
John Morgan, was advancing, with t
or four thousand men, on LexingtC..
Frankfort, Louisville and other places in
Kentucky. Some two or three thousand
men from Ohio and probably as many from
Indiana, were Immediately forwarded to
Kentucky. But dispatch from the Sec
retary of War on Monday reported that
Morgan was retreating. A dispatch, how
ever, from General Ward, received BY
Mayor Hatch, of Cincinnati, early on Tues
day morning, stated that Morgan was with
in twelve miles of Lexington.
Rebel accounts speak of the capture by
Van Dorm of Baton Rouge and the Fed
eral troops stationed there. But no other
Information of such an event has been
received.
There has been no news during the past
week of any fresh fight in the vicinity of
Richmond. Both armies seem to be paus
ing, resting and preparing for new move
or another bloody conflict. Both, it is
said, are being reinforced. A Richmond
rebel paper, the Dispatch, says that Gem
eral MCCLELLAN has secured the safety of
his army in a most masterly manner, by
encamping on high healthy grounds and
in SO strong a position as to be impregnable
to an attack.
Army COrreSDOndence.