Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-05-18

with the resolutions OF the BAR and the responses
of the different members of the Court be entered
upon the records.
And in further honor to his memory, without
transacting any ordinary business, it is ordered
that the Court be adjourned until tomorrow
at 9 o'clock.
Movements of Stoneman's Cavalry.
From the Richmond Examiner, May A.
At an early hour yesterday morning several
persons reached the city who were on the ambu
lance train at the time of its capture by the Yam
KEGS on Sunday evening. From one of them we
obtained some particulars of the affair. As the
train neared the hotel at Ashland. couple of
shots were fred at the engine, which was at once
stopped. The Yankees were the 18th Illinois
regiment FIVE hundred strong, and commanded
by Colonel Davis who said he was originally
from King George county, Virginia, and claimed
kin with President Davis. By order of the Col
onel the engine was uncoupled and burned. All
the sick and wounded and passengers were then
paroed. No interference was made with private
property. Just as the train was hailed by the
Yankee cavalry several persons who were in the
back car, among them a bearer of dispatches
from General Lee, jumped off. and succeeded in
escaping. aud supposed to have made their
way TO our forces at the South Anna, or to Han
over Junction The Yankee Colonel was dis
posed to be very chatty. He said he knew the
country round about Ashland like book-that
he had fox hunted over it many time. The
privates were not so compacent; they seemed
rather uneasy, fearing surprise One of them was
heard TO ask another how he liked the country.
The fellow said he didn't like it altogether; he
feared it unhealthy to people from so far
North. The Yankee horses were first-rate, and
all in good order The sick and wounded on the
train were Immediately taken into the houses of
the residents of Ashland and the vicinity and at
tended by the ladies. The only property de
stroyed by the raid makers was the engine of the
ambulance train, an old engine living at Ash
land, and some two hundred yards of the railroad
track.
A negro who was with the Yankees took an ak
and began to knock car to pieces, but his com
rades made him desist They took several horses
and negroes from the neighborhood. We should
have mentioned that when the cars were first
stopped gentleman aboard fred pistol at the
Yankees, but several ladies on the train becom-
ing very much alarmed and beginning to scream,
he was prevailed upon to put up his weapon.
RUMoRED APPROACH OF THE ENEMY ON THE CITY
RENEWED.
At8o'clock A. NJ, courier reported at head
quarters that the Yankee cavalry, to the number
of five thousand, were at Warwick's farm, five
miles from the city. About the same time, an
other courier brought information that the enemy
had appeared at Hungary Station. station ten
nouncements, of course. produced some excite
ment, though persons who had any experience in
couriers stories, received the accounts with many
grains of allowance. All. however. believed
that the Yankees, part or the whole of the same
who had been at Ashland on the dav before, were
in the vicinity of the city, with the design not of
attacking the Capital, but of inficting still fur
ther damage upon our railway communication
with the Army of Northern Virginia.
O'coPk A NJ taleOra rhiet had heen
sent, with an engine and tender, up the Central
road to repair the wires Upon the receipt of the
above news, much uneasness felt for the
safety of the telegraph party. Abou: ii o'clock
youth. who had ridden in from Atlee's, brought
information that the engine had been ca ptured by
the Yankees at the railroad bridge over the Chick
ahominy. FIVE miles north of this city, locality
made memorable by the fact that near here, on
the 26th of June, 1862, Gen. A. p. Hill begun
the great battles of Richmond.
Between III and l2 O'Clock yesterday morning,
Major John F. Wrenn. with about eighty men of
his cavalry battalion, who on Monday started to
Hanover Junction, returned to this city by the
Mechanicsville turnpike. From one of the men
we learned the adventures of the company dur
ing their brief absence from the city. On their
way to the Junction, when three miles on this
side of Ashland. they met on the mountain road
a considerable body of Yankee cavalry. Major
hrenn at once ureW us men up IN line OF DaItle,
but the enemy showing no disposition to make an
attack, he advanced upon him. skirmish at
long range ensued IN which forty or fifty shots
were fred on each side. One Yankee was seen
to fall from the saddle No one was struck on
our side Major Wrenn, finding the enemy's
forces much superior to his own, fell back slowly
toward Richmond. During the night Gen. Pry-
or rode out from the city and joined Major Wrenn.
The men remained in the saddle all night falling
har md n
o'clock this morning the party came in sightof the
Brooke bridge, on the Brooke turnpike, three
miles from the city, when, to their surprise, they
found il occupied by a detachment of several
hundred Yankees. Seeing his retreat in that d.
ricton cut of, and the Yankees pressing his rear,
Major Wrenn wheeled bis column to the lett and
made across the country for the Meadow Bridges,
which, on nearing, he discovered to be also in
possession of the enemy. Without loss of time
he bore still further east, and by dnt of urging
his jaded horses to their utmost, was enabled to
reach and cross in safety the Mechanicsvie
bridge, from which point access 20 the city was
unobsuucted. General Pryor and Major Wrenn
at once repaired to the camp Of the battalion at
the old fair grounds, and set about collecting
fresh horses with which to resume the field. The
horses that had made the expedition and retreat
were in a sad plight indeed They had not tasted
food since the previous morning, and we're so ex-
bausted by hunger and fatigue as scarcely TO be
able to drag one foot after another. On the con
trary, the men were as fresh as larks and not al
all dispirted BY their mastery retreat.
THE YANKEES AT oHIckAHoxrSY BRIDGE.
Between one end two o'clock P. NJ. John l..
Phillips and James Crone. the telegraph operator
and engineer who had started out in the morning
to repair tfss wires on the Central Railroad re-
turned to this city on foot. They give the fol-
lowing account of their expedition:
They left the city at seven O'Clock A. M, with
an engine and tender, having with them two ne
gro fremen. They proceeded as tar as Peake's,
eighteen miles from Richmond, without seeing
any signs of the enemy. At this place they were
met by section master of the road, who inform
ed them that the Yankees we're at Hanover Court
House, where they had staid all night Upon
the receipt of this information, they Immediately
reversed the engine and started to return. On
nearing the bridge over the Chickahominy the
engineer discovered the Yankees employed in
burning that structure. Leaving the free negroes
to shift for themselves, Crone and Phillips eaped
from the engine and plunged into the dense un-
dergrowth of the Chikahominy Swamp. The
Yankees pursued them short distance and gave
: up the chase. They then made the negroes put
on full head of steam on the engine, and run it
into the stream over the broken span of the