Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-05-13

PIrrssrRe LANpINe, TENN.


u. BrseHAx, Esq-Time here drsgs it, slow
length along-the only relief 70 the moDotony of
the amphibious life on the river hotels being the
arrival Of all sorts Of exciting yarus from the
advanced camps. which hunted down prove to be
sheer inventions of the fertile fancy of the team
sters and army followers
The lines are gradually but very slowly clos.
ing around Corinth. and bets are two 20 one that
enemy Of any considerable number will be
found in the intrenchments OF that noted place
when our army reaches them.
The heavy rains of Saturday and Sunday
nights delayed operations. which the fine weather
of a week previous had fairly set in motion. The
heavy siege guns have to be dragged along by
oxen, and one nights rain renders the low
swampy grounds of the ravnes impossible for a
day at least to anything larger than ap-dog
The soil of these low places il peculiar TO them
selves Cover them with water which a few
hours rain will do, and they perfect quick
sand Give the water a day to run off, and they
dry out with few hours SUM- and become passa
bic again. / have seen a division move its artil-
lery and trains over one Of these places with
scarce the trace Of wheel on the ground and
one nights rain render il utterly impossible TO
Bring an empty wagon back over the same road
You can conceive then the difficulty of moving
forward the immense army.
The good people at home must be patient and
take matters coolly. as the sanitary people and
curiosity hunters here have TO do; and If General
Beauregard happens to give Haleck the slip.
they must not grumble until they come here and
see the difficulties the latter had TO overcome to
get at the active little Frenchman.
Gen. Popes division on the left have had the
principal part of the diminishing as yet. He oc-
cupied Pennington after shIrp resistance. and has
had some opposition to nearly every days move.
He has taken "A great many prisoners, but no two
gangs of them, i am informed, agree in their
statements of the number of troops or the
dtion OF things in Corinth. The IMPRESSION
however, grows that the big fight of the war will
not come off i'm this "Heck of woods"
The orders about persons not in the army 90
ing the front very strict. but strct
they are, people without shoulder straps will get
there at the risk Of being shot. II the army had
the spirit of adventure of some ct its followers,
il would get licked or do something before many
days Gen Halleck need not be afraid of any
one. from personal observation learning his force
or it, disposition Ii cannot be done. Spies with
in his lines would be as harmless a sucking
doves. His stringent orders must have some 9th
er object in view than simply that of keeping the
world in the dark in regard to his plans and their
progress.
Iwould Judge from what | can gather that our
advanced line Is about four miles from the enc
my. and that fight OF foot-race cannot be de
layed for many DAYS | enclose YOU an order
from the rebel General Chalmers. picked up by
Lieut. Messenger, OF the SD Ohio, Gin a deserted
"secesh" tent on Friday last. May %. ten miles
south of here. You will observe that the in
structons for the order-to muster out certain Of
fcers-s from Gen. Bragg The impression
here *, that the officers named rs mustered out
of the Confederate service. had charge of the
lines hastily collected before the late battle for
thirty days, there many such then 1T
COrinth
Our indianapolis friends here are we'll as far as
/ can learn. Capts. Harris ana Lyman, of the
Quartermaster Department have floating quar-
tiers on the river. MYERS, Stevenson and Yohn.
of the Pay Department, arrived yesterday with
pockets full OF rocks for tire boys, and daily
see dozens of faces well known on Washington
street
The news of the evacuation of Yorktown
reached yesterday and published TO the
army. The boys call these frequent euacuafions
the Tennessee Quick Step" b.
Copy of order found by Lieut. J B. Messenger,
SD Ohio. ten miles south Of Pttsburg Landing
in tent of deserted "secesh" OF Friday, May lst
1862:
Headquarters IN BRIGADE. WIrHERss DIv.l
Corinth, Miss, April 10, 1862. I
GENERAL ORDER, No. %: In obedience to in
structon from Major General Bragg it - hereby
ordered that the following officers be hOnorably
discharged from the service of the Confederate
States:
Capts. Moses McCarley. Dick Allen, Lieuts
Daniel Alien. Stfingfellow aud Stevenson. 80
Mississippi.
Capts. Milan. Wilburn, Alcorn, Young, Lieuts.
GLEN. Holdhouser. Tate. II II Fowlkes Capt
l. NJ Laishea, LIST Mississippi
Lieut.. Cooper Captain Reed, Goth Mississippi
d.. . ft.... -. MI.
W. II. STRICKEN, a A. A Gen.