The Portland daily press., 1863-06-26

una ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS pennsylvania scare
WASHINGTON, June %, 1868.
To the Editor Of the Press;
The Maine Cavalry, those "staiwart broad
armed swordsmen from Maine" as an Eng
lish writer called them, have again covered
themselves with glory. Stuart's men once
and felt the edge Of their sharp steel. Their
brave colonel has fallen. He has been a
splendid officer. He fell in the thick of the
fight, coming up with his brave regiment at
an hour when the intrepid onset stayed the
receding wave Of battle. At the moment of
the charge, not only was our line wavering,
but the reserve hesitated when ordered to
the attack. The hesitation was brief Act
ing General Fitzpatrick, in command of our
forces engaged, accompanied by COL Douty,
and Capt. Carter of General Pleasonton's staff,
went to the front and called on the troops to
follow. "There was no hesitancy then,"
writes an eyewitness. "The Maine boys gave
three hearty cheers for Gen Fitzpatrick, and
the whole column made dash up the road in
the face of terrible fire from carbines, rifles
anN SdhhOh, oWScpinH DtloTc
them" TWAS in this advance that Colonel
Douty was killed. Two balls struck him at
about the same moment. When returning
from the charge, Capt. Vaughan found his
body, and had it properly cared for. 1t was
sent to this city to be embalmed. The charge
was successful, the enemy were driven, our
forces clearing away the dead, andsuccoring the
wounded, friend and foe, slept on the bloody
field. Besides COL Douty, Capt. George j.
Summat, of Co. ii, was killed. Summat was
appointed from the Regular Army. What
was his rank there, / am unable to say. He
must have died in the the thickest oft fight,
for many of his men were struck around him.
Among these were LIST Sergeant Daniel w.
Hall, of Starks, who was hit in the left thigh;
Corporal c. Emery" probably Corp. Abner
C. Emery, of Buxton, breast and arm; Isaiah
c. Mosher, of StaTks, left arm; James A.
Hurd, of Harmony, reported killed; Lewis
Andrews, of Scion, hit in the hip; Corp. Hem
ry w. Boston, of ST. Adams, hit in the head
Hiram w. Allen, of Lowell, hit in the hip;
Llewellyn Goodwin, of Fairfield also hit in
the hip; Sumner A. Holway, of Bingham, hit
in the left ankle; ABE Emory is reported
with several wounds. His is probably rep
etition Of Corp. Abner C. Emery's case, noted
above, though il is too bad to have a man hit
two or three times in the same battle, and
then have his name twice spelled wrong in the
report of it; David W. Rhodes, of Harmony,
got bruised. There must have been bruises,
for the men rode fast and ran against all sorts
of hostile things in their path. Most of the
casualties reported were in Company II.
John McLoud, Of Rockland, Co. b, Tas hit in
the foot; Lieut.. VIM. Montgomery, of Bucks
port, Co. d, in the arm; Corp. Homer Child,
of Peru, Co. G, was hit in the right leg, and
oseph B. Peaks, of Charleston, was bruised.
You viii have received perhaps fuller re-
port Of the casualties.
Col. Douty went from Dover, Piscataquis
County, where he has been engaged in mer-
camille business, but was native, think, of
Cumberland County. ar
All honor to the Maine Cavalry, and all
NJ aine men in the field, whether dead or living,
wounded, bruised or unhurt They do their
duty. Let me turn from the record of their
yalor to topic of another kind.
THE PENNSYLVANIA RAID:
The "scare," as the excitement of the re-
ported invasion of Pennsylvania is now pro-
nounced, lasted here one day, and for all the
interval since, the crowd of intellectual iders
in Washington have been amusing themselves
br non anti tie
general-in-chief is reported to have telegraph
ed to the North that the supposed invaders
were only a raft Of delegates pushing on to
the Democratic State Convention at Harris
burg. Milroy's cutting himself out of Win
chester also affords food for fun for the gentle
men just above referred to. 1t is said that
Winchester, strongly fortified, has more Of our
troops within its lines than the investing force
numbered; that it would require large army
to invest it, and, that unless Gen. Milroy took
the thickest slice OF the enemy TO cut through,
he must have found thin cutting. His loss in
the cutting through" operation he set down at
two thousand OF these seventeen, hundred at
least have come in, in entire, unbroken regi-
ments. One regiment was "lost" behind
piece Of woods, and like cows that are hunted
for ofan evening in vain, came home the next
morning-hungry. Some of his wagon trains
ran by the place, somehow failing to hit it
and making their way into Pennsylvania, were
mistaken by an Intelligent farmer for that
force which few days ago was reported with
in II miles of the Pennsylvania capital, but has
since disappeared like the puppets ola ma
gician. One suggests that Milroy should be
nominated for Governor of his State, Ohio, -
his recent performance showing that he would
make great run. One of the billiard men
remarked that If he himself could make "run,
like that of Milroy's, he would pocket the
cue, swallow the balls. and shoulder the prize
table. Another remarked that the "run" was
on the masse principle, as Milroy's was a force
of 10000 men, and they all worked together
to the same end" Gen. Tyler, in command at
Harper's Ferry, is man who will fight. He
is West Point graduate, afterwards he was
broker or banker, then Col. of the 1st Connec-
ticut % moaths troops,) subsequently appoint
ed brigadier general; is anxious for fame
and is willing TO it rather than steal it, as
some generals are ready to do. Without ref
erence to this last remark, permit me to call
your attention to the following extract from
the Washington Chronicle, which you will
agree must be conducted by the Puffmaster
General of the army:
The energetic, indomitable Milroy the ear