Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-05-20
Northern News.

New York. Although their term OF
service expired on tho Sd, the men
periodically refused to.leave their brig
AIDE until the battle was over.
Rebel Prisoners Taking the Oath.
Sixty-fyo Rebel prisoners took the
oath of allegiance and expressed a
desire to remain within u lines.
Eight were from North Carolina, thir,
teen from Mississippi, thirty from
Louisiana, nine from Alabama, and six
from Virginia. More than one,fourth
Of the whole number captured will
take the oath.
The Number of Wounded.
The total number Of wounded arriv.
ing here from Rockers army up to 3
p. m. Of yesterday was 1900.
An Entire C0mpany Of Reba CaUaLry
Captured.
An arrival at Fortress Monroe from
North Carolina brings intelligence that
on Wednesday last our cavalry captur.
cd an entire company Of Rebel cavalry
with all their horses and arms. Gen.
Foster had sent u number of Rebel
families from Newborn, but the Rebels
refused to receive them,
The Panic in Richmond.
Incredible as the report of the off,
cors who have Just returned from Rich.
mond with regard to the alarm caused
by Stoneman's approach and the de.
~fcnceless condition Of the city may APP
pear, it is concurred in, 50 far as is
known, by all of them, both naval and
military. Some say that only the
parole cXtortcd from the prisoners pre-
vented them from rising upon the few
and feeble guards. Others communi-
cato the fact that on Monday last sew.
orQl members Of the Richmond City
Guards, which vas composed Of be.
tween six and seven hundred Of the
oldest citizens, returned to Richmond,
reporting hat their battalion was
taken prisoners by S~toneman's cavalry,
about fifteen miles from the city, on
Sunday night, while on u rccOnnois
sance to ascertain the cause Of the in.
%terruption OF travel, and released on
parole, Gen. Stoneman being then in
no condition to cucumber himself with
prisoners. On their voyage down the
river the returning officers saw two
divisions Of Longstreots force coming
from Suffolk toward Richmond.
Sympathy NTH Rebels,
Friday afternoon papers contained
an announcement that q boat load of
rebel prisoners would arrive at the
Sixth street wharf, and soon afterward
the scccsh sympathizers of both sexes
began to assemble there with baskets
Of oranges, biscuits, sandwiches and
other dolicacies. But Captain Todd,
the Provost Marshal, informed these
would. be friends Of the enemy Of their
country, that no attention could be
shown the prisoners, who were rcceiv.
ing as good fare, and much of it, as
was given TO the Union soldiers. "Any
one" said the Captain, "who attempts
to insult the prisoners, or any one who
makes any demonstration Oh sympathy
for them, shall be arrested-it will be
cowardly to hiss and reasonable to
applaud" Whereupou the buttornuts
departed with their provender, the
female portion Of them Sowing angri.
Iy as they passed the memorable officer.
G9r A correspondent Of the Mobile
Register, writing from Jackson, Miss,
under date the 9TH, says:
About n hundred prisoners arrived
from Vicksburg last evening. A por.
ton Of them were taken at Grand Gulf,
and the remainder composed the crew
and passengers Of the tug which was
sunk in attempting a few nights ago to
pass Vicksburg. Three of the latter
are reporters for the New York Herald
and Tribune, and very gentlemanlike
personages. One Of them said one
million rations we're destroyed at the