New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-06-11
bears on and IN his own person many certificate Of
presence in Well.fOnght fields.

presence I'D WelI.IOng0t neld0.
ALSO among these prisoners Is Capt. Semmes o.
SeiDDes's Battery, sand who commanded the gun
boat Diana ut the time of her destruction on Bayou
Ieche at the bat Il of Indian Bend. Although q
young man OF reputation Of his own among Con.
fecerdes, lie IL doubtless more noticed as prsoaeI
on account OF the notorety Of biz father Captain
Ralph Semmes, late of the pirate Alabama Giants.
YOungbloOd and Mclean have also made some noise
in tie world outside Of Secessa but the rest of the
prisoners are TO Us olmost entire strangers. They
are mostly Of gentlemauly appearance aud address.
and being by Gen. Emory orders placed on a mar
~i;b H. ). oihcers on oohTd the transport, have en-
Joy ed better time lately than they had any right or
reason to expect.
One other feature presented by the Cahawba II.
usirates the incongruiies incidental to state of
war; On board are the dead bodice OF several Uuion
officers killed in the late bloody battle at Port Hud.
son. One is that OF Col. Cowles OF the l2sth New.
York, from Columbia County, who was killed early
n the nction in which his regiment suffered severely
Col Cowies WIS mainly Instrumental IN Ialsing a
fractional regiment ia Columbia County in 1861, ous
which was consolidated with similar fraction
rsi, ed at the tine in Albany County, and which
together low constitute the 9lst New-YOrk. AZ the
consolidation he was offered aud declined the Leu
ienan. Colonelcy and year later was appointed to
the conmard OF tho L2Sth. His death viii produce
profound sensation wherever he was known. o.
the Cahawba is alec the body If Col. Chaplin OF the
llGth New-York, young officer, who, as Captain
aud afterward Mayor IN the fitb Ellsworth Ayeng.
ers). won an enyiable reputation, and which has
heen enhanced at the cost Of bis life at the held OF
bis new regiment He was killed in the charge in
eide Of the parapet a. Port Hudson, ground coDSc.
Grated by too much OF the best aud bravest blood in
the United States Army. Major Love OF the same
regiment WAS also severely wounded in tie same
charge. but yet lives and may recover.
On the same fed was tested TO the uttermost the
capacity OF TIE negro for soldierhis bravery ard
endurance under FIRE. Many were prepared TO
admit that Oh a dash or charge negroes might be
eqnai 10 other troops; Yet they feared that they
lacked in that higher quality Of courage which
epab 90 its p0ssessOre 70 endure heavy aud murder
Gus fire without finching, srd that moral elevation
OF character and true manly frmness which belongs |
to our best disciplined aLd most Trustworthy troops
IL was hardly hoped that ia the present. generation
they could reach That point, even under assduous
cultlvatiJn Yet, 10 the battle at Port Hudson, the
lst Regiment Native Guards, commanded by Col. |
Stafford, not only gallaLtly led the charge. but
until near all their officers and two Of every three
men were either killed wounded. Tic regiment |
went into action about nine hundred strong, and It's
loss IL atont ak hundred killed and wounded. Tho
Gay for sneering a. negro soldiers mas passed away.
Among tie ,r!sClers on board worthy Of special
merton Is Judge McGowsn, formerly OF California,
eec;ed delegate TO Congress IRON Ari
loea, and since holding tie rank vi Purser IL the
Confederate navy, and brother TO Capt. McGowan
)i HE L. :. navy. The Judge attempted the peaee-
able citizen dodge at New Orleans, but Gen. Boge en-
IVES not 10 be caught mapping, even by 30 old and
"iy "a bird, and tho Judge YVES compelled 10 take
up quarters ~ the old Custom House until the DO
l2rtuIe VI lne steamer.