New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-07-04
PAc Change OF Base "A uigbt n"rch
Threash she Woods- ZIG Regimen"
Rnroh out Of Richmond.

CORRESPONDENCE of The N. Y. Tribune.
HGsALps, ON JAxss RIVER, Monday June So p ~.
Keyess corpe marched through the White Oak
Swamp, by the bridge of that name. Peek's divls-
IN arrived a. the Twin Oaks farm house at sunset.
esyaggng began to manifest its evil omen from the
nomeut the command Forward" was given 81 'he
6even Pinee.
We spread our blankets not with eheerfoness Oh
estarday night. The change Of our army o"fo
an exceedingly delicate operation, whose su'.,.'
must necessarily depend on CELEBRITY. why war ''i'
division ordered to halt here! we can malcn oy
night ss well as by day-sye, and better why 40
We halt
Sunday morning came and soon brought with 1t
strange stampede of hundreds OF mule teams with
their wagons attached parked in the further side OF
n vast wbeat.feld. The terror that impelled the
mass into frantic motion was electric from one end
of the line TO the other. At the same instant, and
with the square front Of q cavalry brigade, these
obstinate animals, coupled by sixes, charged for
ward, scattering drivers soldiers, and officers. The
thunder of the wagons and the cries Of the team
aers misunderstood by the camped soldiers IN adj
vance of the scene, shook the nerves Of the nmid,
and il was but moment before the Gemoraizing
cry of 1.-THE Rebels are coming" thrilled through
she regiments Had l list Of the names Of the
officers who ran under its whipping and squirting,
certainly would publish it,
Musketry firing and the near report Of cannon,
about 81 o'clock of Sunday forenoon. Saddles went
on 10 excited borses in double-quick. The sounds
ceased with the thorough excitatOn OF the troops with
In hearing of it. North Carolina regiment, coming
ID, unconscious OF our presence, from side road to
the line of our advance, was fired upon
and charged upon before it could get ont OF
abe way. One of the Ruffns of North
Carolina was among the % prisoners brought
in--ths Major of the regiment-shot through tho
lungs, and the band of death upon his brow as he
carried 10 headquarters.
The hours of suspense and Of torment go by-and
he order TO march does not come. 1t is the con-
finuous ga;e-ike swing from right to left which shall
make this change Of base successful. Why do ne
not march? -Four O'Clock. Hurrah An orderly,
cismounting from horse whose tanks heave with
the hss.e with which he has been ridden, brings
message to Gen. Peck to the effect that his division
will march precisely at P. m. l klsaed my steed
as frightened his saddle girth. But was there ever
pupctuality in the movement of an army! AT six,
the column of Abercrombe having filed past, we
came out from the shade Of the Twin Oaks, and
We we're to march by a side road toward the Turkey
Bottom Bridge. The distance TO the base upon the
James River, which we sought TO establish, was
reokoned. upon our imperfect maps to be only eight
miles,
We brought up the rear Of the column. lis head
wss miles away from US. The path was an
ancient road for planters use, overhung with trees
snd cot deep by time and rains Darkness came
soon within its shades, and from the moment that it
grew dark the immense line Of wagons and troops
began TO CATCH and hitch, and halt. A night march
Of our army, through forest, was new experience
20 he. Fifteen feet-ffty feet, was considerable
advance when my horse stopped; at the instant the
captains ahead of me stopped-snd bis stopped,
when wagon half mile ahead stopped. There
tbe hub of an ambulance was locked into
4 pine, and the sleeping driver Of the sue
eeding carriage had unconscously choked the mar
ow road by allowing his hoTses TO try to pass
Il 70 disabled vehicle. All night long, these stop.
~ yes and delays occurred-oecured from bad driving,
In 10 the miry depths of the streams which crossed
sh , highway-from the nsTowneas Of the road, and
the intrusion upon it Of the forest trees And Of
Ten as these delays took place, the footballs Of the
Mn gglers upon the dried branches in the woods on
eith er side could be continuously heard, and when
foro I'd 10 the road their steslthy march could be
seer fitting by in the faint starlight, which stole
thro 1gh the treetops.
A breaking short of of the tongue Of esisson
waco imposed long halt. Water became an OBJ
ieet o passionate and savage search. Where there
are la hts there farm.houses and FIVE Of rode
towar the candies beams. With snort and and a
reco', my horse kept shying objects on the field
which, could no. distinguish.
Halt ng and marching waiting and moving silent
and lsh ming, the great corps darmee crept through
the dafk woods To light match to fire the tobacco
in the pm crime. Mules had been excluded
from the column, 70 avoid al Urn from their overtime
ful throat Conversation, save in whispers, was in
terdic.ed. The armed thouss nds and the batteries
of cannon, and the immense tn 'ns of wagons moved
in dsrknea and silence over the sandy and tree
sapped old road. By two O'Clock in the morning
she irritatinA' and consequently exhsusting char.
seter of tho march began to ia u on the column.
The upsetaR Of battery for, 70 wagon in q
run made a halt that promised Il be long. We
sumbled of our horses and soon wa asleep on the
xround. II med but minute befoi Q we were all
on our feet. A charge like thunderb olt down the
stesp roadway, parted ours and our ea orts horses
IN the CENTRE and scattered the dEago, MS INTO the
woods. A span of runaways produced Il e eflect Of
. squadron Of cavalry. The panic sui siding in
laughter the orderlies began to look for th, animals
which had been given them to hold. TIN % were
missing among them horse in whom had, vital
interest. The search for him was thcroug and
senerous-but Behemoth could NOT have been 'ouud
in that forest by night. philosophically srraa ged
in my mind the style and quantity my of walking ior
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