The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1863-05-08
SUMMARY OF WAR NEWS.
Operations of Gen. Banks.

SERIOUS FEDERAL LOSS IN KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Correspondence of the Boston Courier
NEW ORLEANS, April 18, 1868.
In my letter of yesterday I told you to ex-
pfct.arepori Of Success" on the Bayou Teche
manding the operations in person. You were
advised of the destruction Of three Confederate
boats-and now you will learn of the complete
success" of the army corps, at least so thinks,
or rather says the Government organ. BY the
last accounts, the Rebels were falling beck be-
fore the Union forces, towards Franklin, the
latter having made and sent to this city about
800 prisoners, in doing which there must have
been some hard fighting, as large number of our
men have been wounded, and now find accom-
modations in most of the houses in the Teche
but about 600 wounded Federals have been
successfully brought to this city. A list of
those brought yesterday, and who fill one of the
many hospitals enclose.
find, in looking over the various accounts
of wounded men from twenty-six regiments
that the greatest sufferers seem to be the l59th
New York and the 18th and 25th Connecticut
regiments, which were terribly cut up. About
the killed, we are not permitted to know, for all
communication with the returned soldiers and
prisoners seems to be interdicted. / was fully
aware that the Confederates would fall back
fighting as they went thought Banks would
reach Franklin. Anything, however, of his
movements is contraband If however, by the
next mail, a true account of the expedition is
allowed to be published, you will be able to form
an idea whether Sour success will be likely to
end the war.
The mercury is up to IS degrees, and our
soldiers will find their duties SO onerous in the
Opelousas swamps, that the day of their dis
charge will be hailed with joy by the months
men, who will be glad to yield their places to
some of the 100000, who, wish, would come
out and see how their African brothers condi-
tion has been improved; and after they have
seen the elephant, let the nine months men 20
home satisfied. Ex-BOsrON.
Concerning the Confederate raid into Yves.
tern Virginia, there are rumors in abundance,
but the facts are few. The actual amount of
damage done to the western section of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railway is at present unknown;
nor does it appear to have been ascertained with
any degree of accuracy whether the Confeder-
ates are in force or not. In The fight which &C.
CURED at Greenland Gap, one of the most i'm
portant points on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
way, the Confederates are said to have been re-
pulsed several times with great loss, but event.
ually succeeded in killing, wounding or captu-
ring the whole Federal detachment, numbering
between seventy or eighty men. Colonel Null
igan, at Fairmont had also been attacked and
defeated with the loss of his artillery. The ex.
element along the Pennsylvania border was in
tense, the raid having extended into Fayette
county but for only few miles into the inte-
rior. At the last advices they held Bridgeport
and Palatine, on the railroad west of Grafton,
and, it is asserted, had seized large quantities
of horses and cattle and sent them southwark.
The extent of the raid, both in the amount of
damage done and of spoil taken at various
points, is said to exceed that of any previous
excursions of a similar kind during the present
war. 1t is, however, the opinion of the mill
tary authorities that the number of confederates
engaged in it are comparatively small.
Of tho six transports that attempted to run
the batteries at Vicksburg, we now learn that
four are known to have been sunk, and that the
other two, if they got by, were badly damaged