The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-06-27
WAR NEWS. .

SItIp ItttiihblSShHCts vi iHSt WIEN hcHctaE
Hooker massed our cavalry under General
Pleasanton and sent them after the Rebel
cavalry under General Stuart. They came
up with the Rebel cavalry near Middleburg.
General Pleasanton brief reports gives the
result Of the fight. He moved out with his
force to MddIeburg, and attacked General
Stuart early on Sunday morning. The
Rebels were steadily driven all day, suffer-
ing heavy loss at every step. They were
finally forced back through Cppervlle into.
Ashby' Gap. General Plcasanton captured
from him two pieces Of artillery, one q
Blakely gun. blew up one caisson and cap
tured three. Sixty prisoners were captured,
including a Lieutenant Colonel and five
other officers. The Rebels also left large
nu!nber of wounded at Cppervile. They
left their dead and wounded on the field
A large number Of arms were also captured.
General Pleasanton says it was "a most
disastrous day to the Rebel cavalry Our
troops behaved splendidly and their loss 10
comparatively small.
- The Rebel steamer Atlanta, formerly
the fingal, has been captured by our gun
boats near Savannah. She was ono of the
most formidable aimored ships of the So
called Southern Contederacy, will prove
severe loss to the Rebels. For many
months she has been used by the authorities
of Savannah as bugbear with which to
trighten our naval and military forces in
that vicinity, but while apprehension %as
| expressed of the probable results to accrue
from raid on her part, every preparation
had been made for her reception, and q
constant, never ceasing surveillance was
maintained on her movements. We only
have the brief announcement that she left
her moorings, and was attacked by two Of
our iron, cla'ls the attack resulting in her
capture. The Rebels have been unfortnH-
| ate with their iron vessels, and, however
much they may have laughed and sneered
at our Monitors since the attack on Charles.
ton, they cannot but acknowledge that even
their strongest iron clads are at no time q
match for the little Cheese boxes" whose
fame inaugurated in the conflict with the
Merrimac, has been so vastly increased dur
ing thirty minutes fight in the Georgia
waters.
1t is stated that the Government has
determined to adopt plan for recruiting
the army, which has been long under con.
sideration, and that measures will be ine,e-
dlately taken to carry it into effect. BY this
plan it is hoped that very large proportion
of the two years and nine months men,
just discharged, may be induced to re inlist
for the war. These veterans are to be offer
ed, in addition to the 500 bounty and pay
which all the National soldiers receive, a
bounty of $500, and are to form n special
corps. distinguished both from conscrip.s
and from other three years men. The
Government is to be reimbursed, man for
! man, for this $500, from the substitute fund
to be raised under the draft, and which by
the terms of the act must be devoted to this
purpose. Teese advantages are to be for
telted III case the men to whom they appea
do not avail themselves of them within q
fixed time, which will probably be sixty
| days. The large bounty offered is to be
paid in nStallments to snt the convenience
of the Government and the wishes of the
soldier.
Two items in late Southern papers are
particularly worthy of attention. One
transmitted by telegraph from Mississippi
announces that a desperate fight took place
at Port Hudson the 18th instant, ternin.
ating with the driving of :he Union troops
from their intrenchments by the Rebels
This, of course, must be received with
grains of allowance. The other is a brief
editorial from one of the Richmond Jour.
nails, expressing apprehension of the evils
to result from the withdrawal of Lees army
from the vicinity of that city, as it will now
be impossible to invoke its assistance, if such
assistance should become advisable, an
occurrence which the editor evidently thinks
not unlikely.
Halleck from Cincinnati that Colonel De
Courcy, with parts of the Tenth and -Four.
teenth kentucky cavalry and Eighth and
Ninth Michigan cavalry, cut off at Triplett's
bridge the body of Rebel cavalry that mace
the raid upon Maysvile. He killed and
wounded many of the Rebels and took over
one hundred prisoners, including one Cap
tain and two Lieutenants, and recaptured
all the property stolen at Maysvile. Gen.
Burnside says that the Rebels are broken to-
pieces and may be destroyed altogether, as
our people are hunting them up.
The War Department has dispatches
from General Banks to the 14th, which
appear to etfectually dispose of the Rebel
stories that our troops had been repulsed
twenty seven times, driven from their in.
trenchments. their siege guns spiked, etc.
Banks reports that on the 14th INST, having
established mis- batteries within three hun.
bred and fifty yards Of the Rebel works,
after vigorous cannonade, he summoned
General Gardiner to surrender. On his
refusal an assault was made, and our troops
gained positions within one hundred yards
of the enemy's works. General Banks is
confident of success.
The Richmond Dispatch of Tuesday
contains telegraphc dispatches from Jack
son, Miss. to Dist inst. Our cavalry forces
were operating extensively and successfully
on the Mississippi railroads, on which John.
son depends for his supplies. One despatch
says that almost daily accidents occur on
the Mcrden Railroad, on which General
Johnson principally depends. The latest
despatch, dated on the 2lst, states that a
heavy engagement was going on between
Jrckson's (Rebel) cavalry at Big Black
Bridge, and that the cannonading was awful,
terrific, &c.
- From Rebel sources we learn that Col.
Hatch of the I'd Iowa Cavalry. had sue.
cecded in his expedition from Lagrange to
Grenada, destroying the railroads and
bridges along his entire route. The object
of this raid was to prevent Johnston from
making his way North by rail, and has
doubtless succeeded fully.
The Rebel steamer Calypso, prize to
our blockadng fleet off Wilmington, N. c.,
arrived at Philadelphia, on Saturday in tow
of the United States steamer Massachusetts.
The officers and crew of the Calypso were
captured on board her. The Captain Is 8
notorious blockade-runner, named William
Black. The Massachusetts also reports
that the celebrated blockade runner steamer
Herald was sunk off Charleston. Our
blockading feet fred broadside after broad
side into her until she sunk.
Intelligence from Newbern, n. c.,
states that the appointment of Gen. Wiles