Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-06-16
Special Correspondence Of the Chicago Times.
From Washington.

Incidents Of the Battle on the ChickahOminy-
Stories Of Rebel BdrbGrties ErpIOded-EE-
posure Of our Plans and Strength to the Rebels
Plots AGAINST Mcclellan.
WASHINGTON, June 8.
How the rebel troops will fight IN the next and
probably last great battle before Richmond, may
be judged from the manner in which they con-
Quoted themselves on last Saturday and Sunday.
| have seen MANY of the officers and soldiers who
were engaged in different parts of the field, and
their universal testimony is, that the rebel troops
fought with determined courage, and held their
ground steadily. The accuracy of their aim is
sufficiently attested by the long list of our killed
and wounded. which amounts to fully 1000, in
stead of 5000. There is no use in cOncealing
the truth, and / know il to be so. The only won
der is that not more of our officers were killed.
Captains, Colonies, Brigadier Generals, and even
Generals of divisions, exposed themselves with
bravery bordering on recklessness. The Tete-
rams, Generals Heintzelman and Sumner, we're
both under fire. and as cool as if on parade. Gen.
Philip Kearney, followed by his staff, rode uD and
down the line of battle amid the leaden hail,
cheering ard animating his men. Gen. Jami-
sons horse was shot under him-an animal that
/ have often admired, and which the General will
find difficult to replace. General Berry, another
of Gen. Kearney's Brigadiers, was untiring in his
efforts to make the fire of his brigade effectual,
and it did fearful execution. Gen. Birney alone,
Gen. Kearney's third Brigadier, failed to emulate
the example of his chef, and his brigade, in con-
sequence, was useless. he has been relieved of
his command. He is a son of the celebrated Jas.
G.. Birney, once Abolition candidate for President,
and is, believe, an Abolitionist himself.
A startling fact occurred in connection with
one of the prisoners whom we captured. On the
person of Col. Washington, a rebel officer, was
found a complete and correct list of the army of
the Potomac, including a minute statement of its
present organization in corps, divisions and brig
AIDES. The name OF every division commander
and of every Brigadier General was correctly
given. with the name and number of every regi-
ment in each brigade, and the approximate
strength of each regiment. More than this, there
was also attached a plan of the country on the
Chickahominy near Richmond; with the position
of each division of our army correctly marked
on it. That it had very recently come into the
rebels possession was evident from the fact that
several of the divisions had moved their positions
only two days before, and these changes of po-
sitions were carefully noted on the sketch. The
completeness and accuracy ofthe entire document
proved that it could have emanated from no tyro
in military matters, and gives ground for the
painful suspicion that there is a traitor in the
camp who has access to the secret movements of
the army. it was said, at first, that, together
with this document was found its counterpart rel
alive to the rebel army. This, / find on inquiry
in the proper quarter, is entirely incorrect A
little slip of paper was found, containing a few
memoranda of a single brigade in the rebel army.
That was all the information concerning the rebel
army that was derived from the capture of Mr..
Washington.
1t is well for the country that there are still
left some newspapers whose editors have manli-
ness and frmness to denounce and expose as it
deserves the outrageous plot to which Stanton
and Mcdowell are the chief parties, and to which
| Iincolu hos boan uncopcofouc1v probnhlu n a
sorry, in pursuance of which the fruits of McClel-
lan's patient labors for ten months are about
to be snatched from him. For more than six
months, Gen. Mcclellan devoted all his energies
to the undertaking Of forming an ARMY. When
he had completed this h~erculean task, he pro-
ceeded to carry on the war in pursuance of bis
plans, which were those of General Scott. But
from the very first moment these plans have been
in~terfered with by Stanton. The climax of this
interference was reached, when Mcdowell, with
80, 1000 troops, was kept idle at Fredericksburg
for six weeks, aid 5000 troops were wasted
upon Banks and Fremont, in order that Mellow
ell might attend the unconstitutional secret mill
tary councils, held at Washington under cover of
the night, under Stanton's auspices; while Nc
@ elan was left with his little army thinned out
by battle and disease, to fight his way step by
step from Yorktown to Richmond, only to find
himself, when there at last. confronted by a rebel
army ofvastly superior force. But justice, though
asleep now, will awake.
l had a very interesting interview yesterday
with Col. Henley, the brave commander Of the
MARYLAND regiment that was so badly cut up at
Front Royal on the 25th ult. They were enga-
ged by a Confederate Maryland regiment, and,
as neither would give up, the carnage on both
sides was fearful. The Union regimen. was
nearly annihilated, only 800 men remaining when
the fight was over. The papers have been filed
with accounts of rebel atrocities committed on
this occasion by the rebel soldiers. and by the
women of Winchester. / find, on inquiring of
Col. Henley, that there is not one word of truth
in all these wonderful stories. None of our
wounded were bayoneted or fired on. None of
the women in Winchester fred on our retreating
troops. Quarter was always granted to them
whenever asked. So far from having been
fred upon when in an ambulance, Col. Henley
was treated with kindness, and has been sent
home on parole to his family in Baltimore. All
our wounded were treated kindly.