Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1862-02-27
Miscellaneous War News.

70 killed and 222 wounded. The rebel loss
vas l3 killed and 80 wounded.
Cen Haleck telegraphed to Gen. Mcclellan. |
Thursday last as follows :-"One thousand T.
more rebel prisoners have been taken. They
,ame down the river to rel force Fort Donel- |
ion, not knowing we had captured it,
The 1lth Illinois regiment was awfuly cut
lp at Fort Donelson. OF company G, only l6
members remain who we're not killed or wound |
ed, or taken prisoners and of the whole rcgi- |
nent there are not over 40 effective men left
The pique of some Of the special CORES
pondents at Washington against Gen Mcclellan |
is accounted for by his refusal to be pumped as
to his plans. 1t is now said that it is not the |
mud that keeps the army of the Potomac quiet, !
but that it will move when its fixed time comes,
and that its operations will vindicate the wis
dom of the general plan of the campaign as
as the successes at the West have
rindicaed the strategy there 1t is now known
that the advance up the Tennessee and Cum
berland was made at the earliest moment after
the gunboats were ready, and was neither
hastened nor retarded by Secretary Stanton
nor anybody else.
Gen Bishop Polk has, it is reported upon ap-
parently good authority, in recent letter con-
tended strenuously that the South should, as
military necessity, emancipate all the slaves
within her borders. SO says the Washington
correspondent of the \. Y. Tribune.
Beside the small arms and other minor mu-
nitions of war captured by our troops at to-
anoke Island Fort Henry and Fort Donelson,
which are numbered by the thousand, we have
taken 10 large field and siege guns, some of
them Of immense caliber and of the most i'm
tbOso "',oli ,an =" "'u'I'o,' " MS WIZ
r; rGso ueSt.oltu WIN Tue reoel ieeI at hoa'ohe'
,., - "'''7 '"e cnonil Vi '"e O"4''i '''
Tho FAM ,nor,,. h.... ,.,;oh l.. c,;.
Fr;Ja,. ,ho 1tL Co., '.. ~.
obi;,,:1 ~ ro,,,n,, ir 'a.'u
yb;cb o,,orn,,,ad - ,,'' ,h, w., r"o .'f
c:, e.. "''0'nP.cu W 10" c"e'h were noC SUI
hind, and the other three were started for their
destination the same evening, each towed bv a
steamer. Difficulty had been experienced in
finding mechanics sufficiently skilful to place
the mortars in position. until Mr.. w II. Os-
borne, president of the Illinois Central. gen.
erously placed AZ the disposal of the novern-
ment fifty of the best machinists in the compa-
nys shops at Chicago. There is now pros
pect that all the boats, thirty eight in number,
will soon be ready for service.
Professor Swallow. the state geolonist of Mis-
souri, was arrested Wednesday night. and COM
mitted to the military prison at St. Louis The
names of the rebel officers captured in M;ssou-
IL II, were incorrectly reported from oeaaila;I
rne! "eie ~ lioe; S1' NJ 'CoISei, vi
C'oss anu N1p': l"9c-"'' Vi w prn C ,ice
T SaH' ln.s rice Is so'i Vi ,oe'' eih iiIe
i"e p',,InGIs o "ele oy oaP, n.uoo ooo
Vi 'ne otn ioMa ieStuien, ine! i"u SUM- NV .
recruits WIN 'hem lot o,u [I'ce III charSe' ou'
Tney "Su Is' oiGsseu 'ne OIase ,ne. H ;1 G'u as
S9P'' : otuoos I'D" ou' sn''ii ioioe he u'o "o'
Mcclellan. .,CgarLsvilI has haen talen With
supplies enough for our army for twenty DAYS.
/ The place is now occupied by Gen. Smiths di-
VISION
The Massachusetts 31st reoiment and five
companies of the Maine 18Th. sailed from Bos-
/ ton ON Friday. ON the steamer NTississinn; for
Shin Island. Gen. Butler left Thursday ninht
via Fortress Monroe. TO assume command n,
Shin Island The Mississipni not being able
to take all the troops in readiness. six comma.
nies of the Maine 18th. under Iieut Col Rnst
proceeded to New York via Fall River. II !.
understood they will be sent direct TO Shi,
Island from New York
~. 40
OeheraI Etnah Allen liltcheocK declines the
MAYOR uemc'a'Shlp recently rendered nim' De-
ing uh"il'ihg 10 assume the responsiveness ol
such position at MS advanced age
The obscure Gen. Bushrod r. johnson. cap
tured at Fort Donelson. is graduate of Yves,
Point. in the class of 1876 and n native o
Kentucky. He was Second Lieutenant in the
Third Infantry resioned from the army IL
lS47. and next wear became Professor of Math
ematics at the Western Military Institute
Georgetown. Kv.. which most he filed until las
wear.
Uen' bucKner, the hrst prisoner Ill rank cap
tured at Fort Doneson, is Brgader- Genera
in the rebel army. and for some months was i,
III ., -, W, n.o.,,.,.
ae; IIa : n,;'.a II .,e MeS'e,n of W.
Pin and l. NOW 90 ,aon! of a,,o In 1s14
he was appointed, by brevet Second Lieutenan
IN the second Infantry, and next year ne -, wa
IsaG h U' | TO tha S;xII
Infantry, in which he went to Mexico. and wa
breveted First Lieutenant for gallant conduc
at Contreras and Cherubusco, at which latte
battle ne wounded lie was subsequently ore ore
W. ~, e''"''' e ho,,ar =
he took an active hut secret part with them
and as commander of the Kentucky Stat
Guard, he exercised powerful influence on tn
fighting element of his native State. Las
Summer he visited Washington, representa-
himself there as loyal ingratiated himself int
Gen. Scotts confidence, obtained permission