Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1862-06-05
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tsince seen your paper, and con duehtlF do
not know whether you have printed them
or not However, / cannot repress the de-
sire to give iyon afeN more items, some
founded on rumor, (which speaks loudly
and frequently here,) but the most of them
based upon solid fact,sto my own kh6wl-
edge.
We have very hard work in this hospital.
although every place In which, lnanirould
De slowed was occupied !, We were COMPEL
LED, yesterday Sunday to receive de-
teehment of one hundred sick and wohnd-
ed from McDOwell's division. We made
the best disposition we could Of them, and
they are all now comparatively comfortA-
kble. But this overplus of patients makes
ldoctorsi wnrd-masters, attendants, - and
apothecaries yigilant and active both by
day and by night. To make no lack Of
4 work here, we ara informed that we will
be- visited by three hundred sick and
wounded, this day, from Petersburg. We
shall do our utmost endeavOrs to take care
of them kindly and properly.
l4have RsCertatued from the patients that
have recently arrived here, (and to whom I
have alluded in a foregoing paragraph, j
that in the recent battles in this State,
Mcdowell lost 81 killed and had $50
wounded. Mcdowell has 800 sick besides;
o1t.1t Is supposed thRt many of them, by
skiltul treatment, will recover sufficiently
to be returned to their duty, AT least we
l.hope SO. 3 EtRt
AS to Fremonrs Division we have two
different classes of intelligence. One re-
port states that he is about 20 miles from
Franklin, but on the march for Winchester.
A discharged man from the 4th N, Y.Cay-
airy, who left his regiment on Friday last,
and arrived here yesterday, says positively
that on Friday Fremont's forces were only
"a miles from Winchester, and were then
on the active move for that place. 1t is
hard to tell which portion of this intelli-
gence is correcti but give you both sides.
of the history, and leave yourselves and
your readers to make your own decision.
| Another very important piece of Ee,Vs If
1t proves to be suCh) was received at this
post by telegraph few hours ago, to the
effect that Jackson aud bis whole force had
been intercepted by our meu-that he had
been captured with many other; prisoners,
defeated and his command broken up to
such an extent that H. Will never again be
organized for service Gan We believe this
intelligence Pr Ii the one thRlf of this dis
patch be correct it is glorious, If the
whole OIL It no yeractous The. war Is most
certainly crushed out-excepting guerril-
laism--so far MS Virginia is concerned.
By the way, in order to make room for
the constant stream ofnew corners thai ia.
vadeour territory, we sent TO Cumberland
on Saturday lob COnValescents, hoping that
the relief thus afforded w0uidilIphten our
troubles for several days, but before sum
set their places were filled by other inva-
lids, who all required continuous nursing
and extra accommodating!
Many of the faint hearted htre-h-bonts,
having the fear Of the secessionists before
their eyes, predicted and anticipated AN
attack upon this station several DAYS ago,
In order to quiet their alarms, Major Burs-
ton, commanding the military department
here, caused every available maj, in the
l.Yicinityato be mustered and armed and pre
pared for guard duty. Among Others no.
tilted to stand guard were five files Of men.
belonging TO battery which had lust ar
rived, but they refused at first TO comnIy.
with the detail, giving as a reason for for tIie
refusal, that the regulations aid not reonire
them to do such duty. The Major sent for
them to meet him on the parade ground.
near the railroad depot. They came. Fac
ing them were 90 men with loaded pieces.
The Major addressed the ualcontents in
these words: ,s.g.5..4.5y.
~ understand from your Captain that
you refuse to do guard duty ON the ground
that it is contrary to regulations wish
here, and that when want Won 10 Ilp stndS
the 6ookI willsentI ITO You. Tcommsnd
this post, and will allow no one-either a
commissioned officer or an enlisted man
to dispute my orders. Are YOU now viii.
ling to do dAty ~ f 49,
Here they all stepped forward. sionifvino
that their contumacy WAS at an end. The
Major eyed them a moment sternly. and
then said:
1.-THE next time Won rebel will not give
you chance to retrace your steps. lad,
you nov refused 10 comply fefkh mn orders i
iDouldh hare caused you to 30 6loson to atoms"
This was the first intimation we had of
the fact that the body of men assembled he.
hind the Major had their weapons charged.
The incident caused a great sensation. and
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