Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-02-13
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quarter of which present circumstances afford
Indications"
WEDSEsDAY, Feb. ia skirmish took
place few days since near Yorktown, on the
Peninsula, which resulted in considerable loss
TO the small party Of Federal troops engaged
in it. Some Confederate dcserters who came
within the lines al Yorktown, arc said to have
reported that sixteen others were some six
miles out, waiting an opportunity to come in
also On this representation. two companies
or cavalry were sent out, but fell into an am
buscade and suffered very much Capt. Faith
was wounded, it is supposed mortality Capt
hagerman was taken prisoner; Lieut.. Rhine
miller is supposed to have been killed, and
three other Lieutenants were captured. The
entire Federal loss is set down at thirty killed,
wounded and missing; but from the casual
ties among the commissioned officers, it would
not be surprising if when the facts are more
fully known, the loss should turn out to be
much more severe.
There had been something like q revolt
among the convalescent soldiers OF Point
Lookout, on the Lower Potomac difficult
/ ty appears TO have occurred between Major
Brown, the commandant at that post, and Dr.
Wagner, the surgeon in charge. The conva-
eseents taking sides with the medico and the
soldiers sustaining the major. 1t seems that
! the conyalescents amused themselves with
! II
! that the office from which it emanated was en-
tered by squad of Browns men and its con-
tents destroyed. The indignant convalescents
met the following day in solemn convention
and resolved, firstly; That Major Brown be
/ requested to retire, and-secondly That if he
/ did not do so voluntarily, " he should be made
/ to leave gia the Chesapeake Bay with no planks
/ beneath him" Whether Major Brown, with
| that prudence which is said to be " the better
! part Of yalor," win comply with the mandate
and discreeuy vacate his post or whether the
/ irate convalescents will actually undertake TO
consign him to the tender mercies Of the wa
/ tiers Of the Chesapeake, minus the planlls afore-
SAID, the chronicler Of this +" tempest in a tea
| pot" leaves wholly to conjecture. At the
latest adyices, however, a squad Of Gonzales
/ cents had armed themselves, and bloodshed is
said to have been apprehended.
! The correspondent Of the New York Times,
| writing from New Orleans under date of Feb.
ruary I'd, states that in addition to the dis
/ turbances which had occurred between the
/ white and negro soldiers in garrsOns at Forts
Jackson and st. Philip, on the Lower Missis-
/ sippi, disordcrly spirit had also manifested
itself among the troops on Ship Island in CON
/ sequence Of the arrival there Of negro regi-
ment. II was reported at New Orleans that
several OF the Northern officers on the Island
bad been arrested for mulinous conduct
! Whilst declaring the opinion that these preiu-
dices are unreasonable, the writer frankly ac-
knowedges that it is idle to attempt to con-
front and override suddenly the deep and
universal feeling which exists upon this sub
iect, and which is often found to break out in
unpleasant manifestations whenever the two
classes-white and black-are brought into
contact
| THURSDAY, Feb. IA telegram dated Feb
! pqrti md ,,nlt eba1
in the Richmond papers, reports, as a rumor
that was current at Baton Rouge, the destruc-
/ ton, in the Gulf Of Mexico, Of the United
States steam sloop Brooklyn, by the Confed
crate steamers Alabama, Florida and Harriet
Lane.
The Confederate steamer Florida-which the
/ United States gunboat Cayuga saw, or thought
she saw on fire, and in the act of being torn
into shreds by the combined attack Of three
Federal vessels which was also believed by
passengers from Havana to have been destroy
ed and whose total destruction was suisse
quendy announced by the steamer Columbia
quietly concealed Il! Nassau somewhere
about the 29th ut, and is now reported to
have taken eight prizes Off Cuba and the Ba-
hamas making an addition Of three to those
previously published. The last heard Of the
Florida was that she returned to Nassau on the
3Oth, and sailed again on the evening of the
3lst.
The success OF the Federal steamer Queen Of
the West in running the blockade Of the
Nicksburg batteries is reported by Capt Ellet,
her commander. He states, however, that she
did not escape wholly unscathed The cotton
bales which constituted part Of her protcc-
tive armor, were set on fire by shell from the
batteries on shore, and the flames spread so
rapidly, that 90 the dense smoke rolling into
the engine-room suhocated the engineers. -
The fire was finally extnguished by cutting
loose the burning bales and pitching them
i overheard, In the meantime the Queen was
struck twice in the hull by the enemy s shots,
but above the water line, and one Of her guns
was dismantled and ruined
There is now no longer any doubt whatever
/ that it was the Alabama which sunk the Hat
teras in the Gulf, as she subsequently landed
at Kingston, Jamaica the officers and crew Of
7 the llattcras
1t was believed at Key West that the Fed
eral gunboats blockading the Bay Of Apalachi-
cola would be attacked by a Confederate flo
tila which was organizing in the Chattahoo-
chic river, and that au iron-clad steamer was
to take part in the expedition.
From Nashville We learn that Lebanon,
/ Tennessee, was entered on Sunday last, by the
/ Federal forces, and that six hundred Coufed-
erates-evidcntly the sick aud wounded in
4 h9sptal-wcre captured
The Army Of the Potomac has recently been
weakened by detachng from it the 9th Army
/ Corps-formerly Burnsdes--which was en-
! harked'on board Of transports at Acquia creek
a few days ago, and is supposed to be on its
| way South
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