The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-07-01

Turkey LAisnd. followed by our field pieccs TIE
enemy werc fleeing down the river bank, hotly pur
sued by our troops and were falling thick and fast
at last accounts The firing was inccssans.
cor. LAMAR
In our REPORT of the engagement Of Gen. Magru-
der ON Sunday afternoon, as published yesterday
we noticed the capture Of Col LaInar, Of Georgia
after receiving severe wound We are gratiiicd
to BE- able. to state that the gallant Colonel was
yesterday recartured and brought to this CITY, In
addition, some two hundred Yankees were taken at
tEc Same point.
rus GALLANT DEAD.
we learn with much regret that Major Austin B.
Smith. of Gen Writings staff. diod on Sunday las,
in this city from the effects Of wound received
Friday, white gaiantly leading an assault against
one of the cnemys heavy batteries. lie was disa.
bcd by fragment OF shell which struck him in the
shoulder. and ampu,ation was subsequently resorted
to, but no died shortly afterwards. Major 8 (who
was q son of Ex-Governor Smith, occupied the po.
si.ion Of Navy Agent in San Francisco under Bu'
ehanans Administration. He left California for
Virginia after the State seeded was arrested in
New York and thrown insa Fort Warren. where he
remained until bis cxchapse was effected Since his
return to Virginia he has been among the most &C
tive in the defence Of his native soil. s
~ HoNRORs OF wAR.
In addition to several hundred Confederate sol
diera who lay wounded the ba. tic field yestsrsI
day. and of whose situation notice WAS given the
Government authorities, there remained al u
point one and a half miles from DR.. Gaincss farm,
the of the former conflict (Which is the same
distance beyond New Bridge0 where a Hospital
had been established. 260 badly wounded Yankee
prisoners. like soldiers, without Il
guard no parties to wait on them or provisions TO
eat. Four of their own Surgeons attended tiien-
Sixty of their dead lay unbured in their midst,
and the stencil had begun to be awful AL OF them
Were suffering greatly for want of help short
distance from the above Hospital was collection
of our own wounded, quite as bal off as we
have previously said
A YANKEE COLONEL.
Col. Brewster, of the I'D New York regiment
arrived in the city yesterday afternoon under mill.
tary escort. The Colonel is rather a good looking
man. and is doubtless Il good officer. from the fact
that he has made his way to Tie capital of the Con-
ederacy n few hours in advance OF his illustrious
Commander-in- Chief.
TIE UBIQUITOUS JACksoN!-wHEEE Is nEl
a citizen Of Richmond convcrsing with two
wounded Federal officers train coming from
the battlefield, when Cf tho latter remarked
that Mcclellan fully aware OF all the
meuts Of the Confederates-that nothing transrircd
on our lines of which b. was not Immediately i'll
formed "Ah," said the citizen, perhaps then you
can tell where Stonewali Jackson is at present
"oh, yes, replied the Federal, che is in the Valley,
ard has been largely reinforced" Indeed" was
the reionlcr now what would you say if wa,
tell you t.sat S;oncwa is now in the rear of your
army on the Chick kahominy, with a fair prospect of
giving Mcclellan worse rout than he gave Banks
on the Shenandoah. The Federal started as if he
had received another shock from a bonlb-shc,l and
at once subsdc1 into silence.
ANOTHER BATCH OF YANKEES
There arrived at the Confederate States Military
Prison on Sunday, june 29th, two hundred and
seventy Yankee prisoners of war, including the
following officers. viz
Major D. Davidson, 4.h U. s. infantry.
James Markson, 2d Lieutenant company T. I'D
New York.
Surgeon II. Grimes, [Major) 81 N. York, Sickles's
Extelsior Brigade.
1st Lieut.. a NJ. Judson, company Il, a3d Pcnn'a
I'd Lieut.. Geo. l. Brown, company b, Cd Maine.
John J. McC;owan Surgeon, (Major,) ID N York,
Slckless Excelsior Brigade.
Capt. John NJ. Oakley, company A, lst u. S. vol
unteers.
Cd Lieut. J. A. Cozao. company F, lst u S. vo.un.
teers.
Major VIM Birnen, 4th Kew Jersey regiment.
Some half dozen of the wounded prisoners died
on Sunday night, including Julius A. Smith, 81
Lieutenant 6lst Pennsylvania and number de
ceased yesterday. Up to Sunday night about 9, 100
Yankees had been received here, and lodged as
comfortably as circumstances would permit
The followidg Yankee officers arrived yester-
day:
Second Lieut. G. Washburne, company c. 2al
Massachusetts,.
= Firs. Lieut. James n Welch, company K AID
Pennsylvania.
Second Lieut. D. G. Dale, company X, I'D Penn
sylvania
First Lieut., S H. Plllsbury, company b, 9Th
Maine.
Captain E. A. Irwin company X, 42d Pennsyl.
vana.
Captain c. L. Conner, company D, 9Th Pennsyl-
vania.
Second Lieut. S. +. Hnrd, company E, 5th New
Hampshire.
Second Lieut. L. J. Hume, company X, 10Th Mas
sachusetts
Col VIM, L. Brewster, Ith Reg'i Siekless Excel.
sor Brigade.
JB O'Hagan, Chaplain, 4th Rcs't sickless Ex
c.lsior Brigade
Captain NJ w. Burns, company A. 4,h Regiment
sickle.s Excelsior Brigade.
ALSO. lot of Yankee negroes AMI 600 white mt II
of the same sort.