The New York herald., 1862-04-14
TINE SIEGE or YORKTOWN.
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sKIRMIsuEs WITH THE REBELS.
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THE ADVANCE OF OPERATIONS.
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Cen mpDessness % Gen. McClellan's
Arrangements.
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- 1unbss and 1quipmsnt Of the
Rebels.
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oSvSuAR OaDEn ~ CExEalL nAoauDEn,
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THE ADVANCE OF OPERATIONS.

csnr Buvcss yoassow-, April Is, lsc2
On Yy,day While shs Twelfth New Yorh vohutscrs, 10
command Of Major Bsynup, were psckst n front Of
The ensnys works Yofh river regiment Of rebels
came eat from un6sr and advanced line Of battle
The MAJOR rallied about three hundred 70 receive
them Al nuskst range pouring deadly Ore Of Minnie
balls when the rebels retired leaving their dead and
wounded which they afterwards removed in amoulancss
Later the day the rebels advanced In considerable
force from another point driving In entire pckcts
and burned dwelling used by the Union troops.
During both these skirmixbes we had thrce men
slightly wounded.
The Fifty.ssyenth and sixty-hird Pennsylvania rsg
ments had brisk skirmish with the enemy Friday,
in which we had two men killed and four wounded.
Kled-E. Cross, Company X, and James Thompson, CON-
pany A. both belonging TO tho Sixty third Pennsylvania
regiment wounded-Thomas Brooks, Company {, sixty.
third Pennsylvania r. Lynch, Company +, Sixty third
Pennsylvania; Sergeant Samuel Msrvine, Company +,
FGy-ssventh Pennsy ylvania, and John Cochrans, Com
pany F, Fifty seventh Pennsylvania.
balloon was up from the rebel lines this
ing for the first time.
Tho weather still continues pleasant much mproy ing
the roads.
The stcrn.wheel steamboat WissahickOn Of Phjlade-
phia while entering creek yesterday fred upon
by the rebels water battery shot passing very Close
10 her cabin.
Tncrs was no firing Of artillery yesterday by other
parties Of any moment.
The army s busily occupied in pushing forward the
necessary preparations for advance.
There are no suffers here. The Quartsrmastsr and
Subsistence Departments rapidly perfecting their
rangements keep the army supplied with every thing
nsedful for the comfort Of the troops.
WASHINGTON, April l3, 1902.
An intelligent observer who left the Of operations
IN front Of Yorktown late yesterday afternoon, and ar
rived here to-day furnishes the latest details from that
region, where the most terrible conflict land and
Ger 10 hourly expected.
II 10 evident from the Of the rebel monster
Nerrimas that II 10 not The intention TO engage the
Monitor and the other vessels Of Commodore
Goldsborough's feet outside Of the bar. u s
believed that the object Of tho rebels is to
draw the Monitor Of her position, " enable the
TO pass the blockade
The preparations Of General Mcclellan vigorously
prosecuted. His vigilance seepless and his arrange
ments complete.
The force Of the enemy has been rather moderated
than ovsrestmated. There reason TO believe that the
rebel strength hundred thousand and that
large number of the their possession
in position and the rebel troops there the best
drilled and the best armed in the rebel service. The
deserters and prisoners that have fallen into lines
ar armed with improved rifles
TBE REBEl. GENERAL MAGRUDER's ORDER JOR
FURIOUS FIGHTING.
fFrom the Richmond Examiner
ORDER NO. lb0.
HEADQUARTERS ARxY or THE PENINSULA,
BARrIlIxR RAECBE, March 13, 1862.
Al the arrangements hacsng been made for the dCesrs
Of the pefsi,sstld and tho Commanding General whose
troops stationed at different points not having IL in
his power 10 be at the same time with each division Of
troops the following directions given for the gov
ernment of all, viz
When any body Of our troops. large small, meet
with any body OF the enemys troops however large the
commanding officer Of troops will the same TO
be Immediately attacked and the soiH atpck
and furiosasly This order easily understood by on
and men, and doubtless viii be obeysd with aacrity
by both.
The above instructions are inopded for those who
have special orders sser certain named circumstances
not TO fight
BY order OF Major General MACRUDER
JonN poNNElI SIXTH, Acting Aid-de.Camp.