Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1862-09-12
TWO RAILROAD ACCIDENTS -6
.. SOLDIERS KILLED.
Gen. Schenck Nominated for Congress.
WAR GAZETTE, WAR DEPARTMENT,
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| w sept. e.. \
| Te United States Marshals, Military Commandments
| Provost Marshals. Police OGicer., Sheriffs, &c:
| The quota of volunteers and enrolment o.
militia having been completed in the severa
States, the necessity for the stringent enforce
ment of the orders Of the War Department ir
respect to volunteering and drafting no Longer
exists. Arrests for violation of these orders
and for disloyal practices will hereafter b.
made only upon my express warrant or by
the direction of the Military Commander OF
Governor of the State in which such arrests
| may be made, and the restrictions upon traye
| imposed by these orders are rescinded.
tsigned) J. G. TURNER Judge Advocate.
WASHINGTON, Sept 7.
Assistant Surgeon Green, of the 10Th Indi
ana, returned this morning from Gainesville
| where he has been since the battle of Thurs
day, having remained behind to attend to on,
wounded. .E r
| asst Sunday, our wounded being in such
a bad condition, DR.. Greene started off to meet
the ambulauces. Coming to their assistance
under flag of truce, and when within mailing
distance he was met by Gen. Hill at the head Of
his division, who ordered him to return to
Gainesville, where he remained a prisoner for
three days. After stating his case before
Gen. Walter, who came into the yard where
the prisoners were kept, he was uncondition-
ally released.
d. Green furnishes the following: When
the battle was at its height on Friday, jackson
being in command, the rebel army, heavily
pressed by our troops, began to waver and fall
back, when therumbling Of Longstrect's ar
tillery was heard coming to their assistance,
and instantly shout went up. Owing to this
circumstance it infused new courage into the
rebels, and when this reinforcement arrived,
at noon, they made fresh assault upon our
lines, dashing over the wounded of the day
previous, who were lying upon the ground
without any shelter whatever, and many of
whom were badly injured.
| DR.. Green was informed by the Quarter
master Of Pryor's brigade, the report be-
ing confirmed by officers with whom he had
conversed, that during the engagement of Fri
day, Gen. Pryor was captured by our forces
and given in charge of a guard of one man.
The rank of Pryor was not known, he being
dressed like private. He, however, escaped
by shooting the guard with a Derringer which
he had concealed on his person.
Green confirms numerous reports relative
to the boasting of the rebels, and says they
express confidence of being able to get into
Maryland were they expect to get 10000 re-
cruits. He also confirms the report of the
existence of much restitution among the en-
envy, but attributes the scarcity of food to
the great difficulty of transportation, their
army being such great distance from their
base of supplies. ..a.
This is the account given by the rebels.
From all appearances the Division of Gen.
Walker has left the scene of the late engage
ments, for Harper's Ferry. No one seems to
know anything of the whereabouts of Gen.
jackson, there being studied silence in re-
gard to him. l, .....-
Gen. Lee has removed his headquarters to
position near Leesburg.
DR.. Green was informed by a Quartermaster.
that although many of the rebel soldiers ap-
peared without shoes, they still had sufficient
on hand, but as matter of economy they will
not be issued until the middle of this month.
He says the feeling is general among the men
that the war will soon be ended, and they saw
they will die before they will yield in their de-
termination to be what they term an indepen-
dent nation.
According to their own estimate of their
numbers in the late series of engagements.
they have not less than 10000 men, with
forty batteries and field pieces, most of them
rifed cannon.
Dr. Green reports the loss among the rebels
as very large.
WASHINGTON, Sept. Z.
Tribune's Washington Correr pondence.
A rebel Surgeon, who amputated Gen. Ew-
ellis leg, told one of our Surgeons yesterday
that Ewell had since died.
The order for court of inquiry into the
causes of the recent reverses has been coun-
Acquia Creek was evacuated yestepday.-l
Fifty -eight cars were burned, and quantity |
IF supplies were destroyed. The engines, and
whatever else could be carried away, were
brought to the city. Before the transport got
'ut of sight squad of rebel cavalry appeared
! mile from the river and were scattered by