Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-03
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ADVANCE or GEN. BAhgS'S DIVISION.
WOOdstOck and Edinburg
Captured.
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Emancipation Fill Passed the
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GENERAL DESP0NDENCY.
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WASHINGTON, April 2-The Tribune's dis
patch says:
IL is said the Senate Military Committee dis
sents from the rule that volunteer officers must
seek for promotion in their own branch OF ser
vice only.
They think vacancies in the regular army
should be filled by experienced men from the
volunteer regiments, in preference TO civilians
Mr. Ames, Of the Chcopee manufactory, has
presented flag officer Foote with a sword, and
Lieut.. Worden with cutlass.
The Tlmes's correspondence says:
Prisoners taken IN the recent reconnaissance
to the Rappahannock state that the rebel force
in that vicinity consists of eight regiments of in
fantry, two of cavalry, and six pieces of artil-
lery.
Gen Ewell, of Drainesville notoriety, was in
command on the return of our forces 70 Warren
ton Junction.
The rebels hover arc and the outskirts of our
army, and frequently succeed in picking up small
parties of our men, who contrary to commands,
occasionally 90 out on foot hardy foraging expe
dtiOns.
Information has just been received from the
Lower Potomac that contrabands from Fredericks-
burg report that own now occupied by Thirty reg
iments Of the enemy, the mann part of which have
arrived within the last three days.
They report the steamer st. Nicholas and one
the RappahannOck as being held in readiness to
transport rebel troops down the Rappahannock to
some point.
Other rebel troops are reported as having gone
down the York river to reinforce the enemy 5
position at the mouth where the rebels have bat
teries erected.
Small detachments of rebel cavalry still occupy
Aqua Greek and as far up as Dumtries.
Another magazine has been found at Shipping
Point containing large quantity of shells and
other munitions.
The Heraids dispatch says:
About one and half millions of per cent.
certificates were issued to day, chiefly of the de-
nomination of 800.
The checks aud warrants row in AMOUNT to
about ten millions.
Yesterday the Jacob Bell and Stepping Stone
visited Evansport
A boats crew from each vessel was sent on
shore. They visited nearly all the batteries IN
that vicinity including one on high hill about
half mile back OF Transport, where was found
the gun that Capt. Eastman had attempted un-
successfully to burst The gun is 32-pOunder
This battery, aided by field pieces. was intended
to cover the retreat of the rebels through the
woods in the rear in the event of their being
driven from the lower batteries. 1t was well de-
Tended by rife pits
Several men went a considerable distance into
the country, but there were no signs of rebel
troops nor inhabitants.
Both parties of seamen subsequently returned
on shore in command OF Lieutenant Commanding
McCret of the Jacob Bel. proceeding inland,
where they found FIVE rebel storehouses containing
hay, cutting machines. platform scales and other
useful apparatus and implements.
They set fire t. the buildings which were en-
tirely consumed.
citizen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who
went to Bull Run to recover the remains of his
brother, who belonged to Boston company,
gives a melancholy account the sacrilege COM
mitted upon the graves of our soldiers by the
rebels.
About twenty of the Boston company and
Chelsea company had been buried near each
other. but every skull bad been taken away and
nearly all the principal bones Of the bodies were
gone. Some OF the bodies had been dug out and
others pressed out OF the graves with levers, and
in some the sleeves of the uniforms were slit to
obtain the bones of the arms.