New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-08-21

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we're TO remain aud protect him. His face IL a
duplicate Of jim Lane's. The resemblance was noted
| by every ore who lad ever seen the lank kansas
Senator. NJ own attention was called 10 1t by an
ordeily exclaming, "Bv the Popel Ia new oath
lately come IN Vogue with this army there's Jim
Lane y
sundays march was very severe, not from heat,
for the day sas cool not from the distance made,
bat owing " tie ankle-deep dust in the narrow
road OVER which three corps had already passed. and
10 tie continual blocking Of trains which kept tue
men III column sixteen hours to make AZ many miles
From any slight emiaence one could trace the exact
course OF tie march for lies either way by the
clouds OF dust. In VILLAGES in Indiana during
Tic dry mOu,be, II il SAID that the mothers habiu-
ally sally forth toward evening, with water and
towels, in search of their children, and are some
lines forced To wash dozens before they find their
own. Before We had marched an hour the same
process appli 10 ,ome Of my friends would have
been Il grea, help TO recognition.
Several miles back could always detect sepa-
rate cloud which told the locality Of PleasotoD
cavalry brigade, and kimbai 5 brigade, formerly oi
shirlds's uiyisUr. Tus cavalry, which, IN delault
Of being followed by the enemy devoted all lie en-
ergie- driving up .tragllers of which class there
were numbers, consists OF the 9TH llinns, the Slh
Pennsylvania and the 9th United States. kimbal had
with him TWO light batteries He reported directly
10 Plca-onton, WHO reported to Sumner.
On Sunday night Reyes, Franklin, and Sumner
bivouacked at the Chckahominy, all having crossed
but Sedgwck's division OF the latter corps. Rad
ing with that division late IN the evening, caught
sight OF camp fires IN the dirance learned that they
were across the river, and ! knew We mast Yet
march 10 them. Ii the men wgO bad walked aud
carried mufkets We're az fatigucd as who had rat
my horse sixteen hours, tie sight Of those Tires WAS
welcome to them. In imitation Of G. T.. X. James,
solitary hOrsemsn, l cried " Adlopks! my gallant
s,eed,' aud pushed bravey but hungrily on. |
rested thai night the hours the division did from II
TO 81 the next morning, and then rode over the
bridge with them.
few words in regard to that splendid bridge are
worth while. Built i'll tie new pontoon system,
under the supervision OF Capt. james L. Dnane,
L. 5. Engineers, II Ii Go yards long and required
precisely 100 loutoous 20 feet apart Thirty miles
Of rains and 800 passed over II before II was
taken up NJ p. M, yesterday. IL answered lis pur-
pose completely and elected the admiration Of every
en- gineer in tie army But for il the crosei would
necessarily have been much further mp, requiring
longer, and posribly u harrsssed march.
IIeintLelrnan did pass there, and for my own part
have not heard OF his wbereabout since. lie has
not appeared xt Williamsburg nor at Yorktown,
aud has had time for either. lie has with him
Averilrs Cavalry; and there is theory that be -
making for the Rappshanpock overland though II
may oct that lie is merely hating on Tie upper
ChickahoDliny to protect our flank.
The march Of the maiu column has been entirely
unmolesled, not even u videste having been seen
following warily after. There il, indeed, report
that luBt hr GIeAsantOn was leaving lihrrlrons
Landing, Rebel squad rode prematurey into the
deserted camps, and were hastily driven back. he
osng one and tue enemy several; but have
reasons for discr,diting the story.
Foragng for any thing and everything edible has
been tue most inter, sting item OF the march. Tue
corn-felds, Just arrived NJ roasting adolescence,
have been systematically stripped for mile either
side Of the roads marched over. Every farm house
in sight was vsi ed by continual stream Of out-of
thcir. ranss soldiers. Eggs and poultry first DIE
40, cared, then pigs ana oalve,; horses aud mules
were pressed Into the transportation Of SOLDIER,
who turning them loore after ~ few miles. would
not get ont Of view before others Lad mounted them.
La every kitchen you would find crowd hnpyng
up the manufacture of boccah~s by the servants, or
themselves boldly veuturiDg upon the mysteries Of
cookery. They climbed for fruit, ripe or green;
they d. for potatoes; they munched cabbage. they
MIXED cows.
DO no, zee how the people left in the country arc
10 avoid starvation doubt if there prnsins cock
to crow tomorrow morning on all the route between
here and Harri-ons Landing Moreover, the ne
groes of the whole region JON the army Oh Its msrcb.
They were coniented remain AT the old homesteads
while We were between them aud their minister's, but
now that We depart they too sharp 10 expect to
zee thoso white ruuawsys Ill peace, aud prefer not 10
rec them ut all One Intelligent old woman told me
she "knowed we Was boun 10 be free If you stayed,
and now we boun ~ 20 long with you TN be free.
II undreds seem 10 be " boun' III the same way.