Litchfield enquirer., 1862-05-01


 expired, and who were required to serve years longer, laid down their arms and refused to fight Gen. Beauregard detached regiments to guard them as prisoners.
 | OUR LOSSES AT THE PITTsBURG BATTLE "A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press. writing from the Tennessee battlefield, gives this esti. mate of the casualties of the action: No accurate list of the killed and wounded can be made for some time From the best au thority can gather, I judge our killed will amount two thousand, and our wounded and missing to eight thousand more, of whom fou, thousand or five thousand are prisoners Some of the regiments which were badly cut up a Donelson will have to he disbanded. In one dred men left In others all the field officers and most of the captains are killed The Eight. eenth Wisconsin reg ment was raw regiment recruited from the pineres, and composed o the hardest and best of that celebrated ocalit, men who hunt and trap all winter, and work in lumber mills all Summer.
 They went into battle less than two weeks af. ter leaving Milwaukie 960 strong Their colo. nel and maj or were killed and their lieutenant colonel desperately wounded. Out of seven cap. tains who went into the fight, only one remains, and 5SO men, sick and we'll, are all that now oe. cupy their camp. The rest are killed or wound ed or prisoners. They were on the extl eme left and their great loss was owing to the fact that they would not fall back. Their field officers were brave even to rashness, and the men would not fail them. Out of company of seventy odd men in one of the Illinois regiments. only five men are left for duty. There are many such in stances, all of which go to show the unflinching bravery and the unconquerable determination | of our men.
 | CAPTURING GUN There is an old chap in the berdan sharp shooters, near Yorktown, who l is known as old Seth. He is quite character, and is crack shot-one of the best in the regi ment. His instrument as he terms it, is one of the heaviest telescopic rifles. The other ight at roll call 'old Seth was non est This was | somewhat unusual, as the old chap was always up to time. sergeant went out to hunt him up. he being somewhat fearful that the old man had been hit. After perambulating around in the advanc, of the picket line, he heard a low 'halloo.' Who's there ? inquired the sergeant. | It's me- responded Seth, and I've captured a Secesh gum Bring it in,' said the Sergeant | Can't do it, exclaimed Seth.
 1t soon became apparent to the Sergeant that old Seth had the exact range of one of the en emy's heaviest guns, and they could not load it l for fear of being picked off by him. Again the old man shouted, Fetch me couple of hayer- III, cussed varmints shan't fire it. agin while the scrimmage lasts This was done and the old patriot has kept good watch over that gun! In | fact 1t is captured gun.'
 THE MOUNTAIN DEpARTMENr.-The combined movements ordered by Gen. Fremont against the guerrilias in Webster County have proved emi. nently successful. Lieut.. Lawson with one de- tachment employed in this service has returned, and others are returning
 In severe running fight of seven miles, Law son killed l7 guerillas, and took l9 prisoners The town of Addison small place, the only one | In the new county, being deserted, was burned It had been a guerrilla haunt. formidable organization in Braxton, Webster and adjoining counties, is entirely destroyed, the leaders pro- posing to surrender.
 It is understood that the guerilas taken will be promptly tried and shot
 Gen. Milroy's scouts on the 23d inst. attacked the rear guard of the enemy ten miles east of the Shenandoah Mountain, the boundary of this Department.
 They killed one Lieutenant and two men, and captured Lieutenant and one man. None of our men were hurt.
 The Rebel conscripts are deserting in large numbers, swearing Unionism and returning home.
 General Beauregard, it would seem, is tin a military sense) defunct The following epitaph was recently discovered on an old grave stone at Weisnichtwo, near Corinth:
 Here lies Touttant de Beauregard
 Who for the truth had no regard;
 When seized by Satan he will cry:
 I've caught old Satan-vctory ?"
 In alluding to the transfer of Gen. Pope's ar my to Pittsburgh, the Chicago Post says that its position at Fort Pillow has been occupied by another corps, and that operations there will go on as usual. It adds: ''in he meantime, Gen Halleck has his army again in order with fresh troops and increased artillery, he is now in the field. His army is, we are informed, so arrang- ed that it is impossible, except by force of twice it's numbers, to defeat him. Gradually he is preparing for the work, and if Beauregard proposes to water his horse in the Tennessee River, he will have to make a wide detour to ac- complish that interesting deed. Skirmishes be- tween pickets are of daily occurrence, and it is not violating any rule to say that cur pickets never fall back; they have force behind them always to ma1ntain their advance. Further we dare not publish Sufficient to say, that anoth CT bat'l, may soon occur, and when it does the rout and permanent dispersion of the rebel ar my is ineyitable.''
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 The work is progressing so rapidly on theiron clad frigate Philadelphia that she will soon be ready for launching The Al inch iron plates, which are to be below the water-line, are nearly all in place, and those which are to beabove the water-kne will be put on after she is launched Her spur deck is nearly finished. It consists Of three inches of wood and one inch of iron. She will be bark-rigged, and her spars so arranged that when in action they all come down to the decks The ship begins to present a most for midable appearance, and when completed wilt, no doubt, be able to withstand the shots from any antagonist.
 The steamboat Francis Skidday, which arrived, on Saturday, from Albany, brought on 800 men of the Sixth Vermont Regiment, under command Of Capt. Jones k4e tS Ss3s7 -S