New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-06-04
had left twenty minutes before. Six hundred
wounded sent 10 White House last night

StOrm-0O,OOO Wen uhoer S0hnsVn
near Richmond - FerGicstiOus on
Charles City Road-Darbytown Road
FortiRcd-Two Officers Dismissed from
the Service.
Correspondence Of The N. Y Tribune
SEVEN PINES SIX Mills FRox RicENorp
Saturday May 81, 1862
Commssary Green brings from the railroad depot
the story Of the shipment by return provision tram
Of the prisoners taken by Gen. Porter in the Han
over Court-House affair. These prisoners surren-
dered, they were not captured. There were over
500 Of thenl-aIl North Caroljnians. Their Colonel
freely stated that the entire North Carolina Brigade
hid deliberately determined 10 withdraw from the
Rebellion by a surrender in the first fight they got
into-let they felt thas their State had Withdrawn
fror- ae war and retained to its allegiance to the
Union. and that it wac their duty to follow It's ez-
ample Tia, only his own regiment executed thus
purpose the others being 70 placed that they could
not get away, without being exposed to both Rebel
and Union fire. T is the best sign seen since our
army landed at Fort Monroe.
A pickle. disturbance in front yesterday, followed
by the burning Of Virginians house by Rebel
hands 30 as deprive of its use, led 10 the per-
baps unnecessary employment of artillery and shells
which in turn led to orders from division and brigade
headquarters for the regiments to get instantly under
arms-wbich in turn led certain thousands Of men
away to picketing ground all around our lett and
front-ihe sultry sky filling the while with clouds,
and the forging of thunderbos audibly proceeding in
the heavenly stitby. At O'Clock a fire more unen-
durable than Rebel nusketry, fell on our troops.
confess to have turned my back it, and fled as fast
as the insane huttering Of my saddle blanket extern
ported into shawl, and the wildness Of the horse
Bayard made frantic with lightning, would permit
NE TO do. But did no. 90 fast through the cas-
cade Of rain but what respected the footpath rights
Of soldiers, flying in vain from the pursuit Of the
storm, and took photographs in my heart OF the
control Of their w-Engsnd mothers, too young to
60 to war, staggering IN the deep mud under the
weight of maskets and drums, and curvlng their
backs with the instincts Of animals agains the falling
food. Arrived at camp, no man aneaddled. Ihe
shelter Of the Sibley and the Wall tents
was incontinently sought-and not found. And
here make rheumatic, soppy, suffering, tear
full protest against thnt style Of canvas architecture
known in the army 10 "Sibley." Its place 10 the
Plains. Its excellence is ts adaptation TO ire KIN
died beneath the tripod OF the sustaining pole, whose
smoke shall be below the eyes of the sleeping in
mates. Its seasonablenets 10 wintry from this posi-.
bihty Of warming it. In Summer, It is an oven Of
heat In rain storm like that of last night, Il is
Jus; az good as O house with the roof oil, and 10
better-for its cap ia always lost. The twist Of tho
rain descended through the hole, and searched, in
ts consal-shaped fall. every inch Of the interior,
and soaked every endeavor TO sleep dry. And the
canvas leaked. Its slope served as seive, and
every strip Of the cloth dropped water more or lees
Tut this is grumblipg at discomfort-not to be in-
obliged in In the face OF the regimental misery
which leads Thousands of men to stand up in the
dark, hour after hour, in rain which puts the
earth aiioat and makes rails or boards utterly I'M
practicable az beds. i went among the early-kin-
died fires this morning, and from the bottom OF my
soul piled the soldiers whom this arocious eli
mate forces to wade " On to Richmond" No ket-
ties were on the Goals, and no strips of bacon were
being toasted on the ends Of twigs. But innunera-
bic little stakes crclng the flames held on their tops
shoes and stockings TO dry, while the inest-looking
and the manifest men In America sat with their
bare feet in the mud, silent and thoughtful. Had
the sun shonc, the army had laughed of its
misery with its golden rising. But the skies are
leaden, and long before our clothes are dried with
the electric heat OF our bodies, this Rebel rain viii
coax ms anew.
very intelligent negro, just brought in, repre-
sen,s that there are strong fcrtcaious on our lett
on the Charles City road, quite near to Richmond,
mounted with heavy guns; that there are strong
earthworks heavily armed the Darbytown ROAD;
that johnson lies in the woods west OF the Chares
wy nhu Dai"y WV" tS., co nno - I'll
IN b .u,hlv nurnoees In fall on us ~ we come
VIM" NJ ~ :. = r.. u,no,o,,;onaIIy n ,arr;bl,
up. Inc ieit wing Inc u"i"o''''""''y '
contest ahead of it.
nv the finding of Court. Martial approved by
H. 'Copnandin al .eueral lieutenant Oliver Wal
the Sohhi -oe,ein, iuen"': - :" ~
ton OF the lat Massacn'fetts WAS uizlnssel Ion ie
army Yesterday for cowardice AT Wiiainsbnrg.
The noyelty Of the onensc and the severity Of tue
pnuishment in the case Of Captain John Brown OF
H. Nawyork 9Th will nstify the publication OF
o. NJ 10 I, fnli Ianrepd n.
o'uo' NJ tr 10 ~ irrI ov TIVE Porox,c
manu- AM en- 80 % -, y, ~. ~, % zoe,
,Anr nhH -. m ~, R.c,.,' V,i},'ry Com,,is
oKS khHL W, ~ w. n isco,1 ,..,sI n :
son OF which Col w. D. aseAe -
Army Is President eon'sneu ~ .n.u ~ y, ,s 'N.l i
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