Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-06-12

1he elect thet MAJOR General
Frank J. HERON has lett SAINT
Louis Tor below with large
force IL lett SAINT Louis on
las, Thursday with hIs full staff.
FORT HUDSON NEWS.
The assault. on the 27th was
very desperate aud very bloody.
the rebels fighting with the most
reckless courage. md our men
no, bi. behind IN daring and
pluck Our informant cor
roburatss the Socd account here.
,oiore given ri the conduct OF
oar coiored soldiers. These
cable waru0rs provoked tie most
frenzied hatred on the part OF the
rebels, fJr they bent all their
energIes To- their annlhllatIon,
and since the fight they have
missed no opportunity to kill
our negro pickets. In one in
stance. they bounced upon
black sentry, and forwith hung
him. Bloody retri button quickly
followed, for almost within an
hour. some negroes rot hold Of a
rebel picket aud swung him up
IN fall sight OF their murdered
companion.
4 Times letter says the lst
Louisiana (colored) showed great
pluck on the 9th, marching up
70 the guns within 50 PAGES at
double quick, supported by the
9TH Michigan. 18th New York
and i6is New York. These
regiments are completely cut up.
The colored regiment has but
200 of It's men left. Alter firing
one voliey, they did not STOP to
reload. but rushed upon the
enemy with fixed bayonets, doing
most effective work wherever
they went.
There was great cavalry
fight at Beverly, Virginia. on
Tuesday. which appears to have
been a brilliant affair. and re.
suited In a decided defeat OF the
rebels. The latter were twelve
thousand strong, with sixteen
pieces of artillery, and were to
have started on raid into
Pennsylvania and Maryland yes
terday, morning. That plan was
was interiered with.
Colonel Grierson Is Slashing
around, and at last accounts was
up between Port Hudson anu
Vicksburg, tearing up railroads,
burning bridges, and hunting Tor
Confederate stores and supplies:
The crops are looking finely
all over the South and promise J
fine harvest.
Col. MoptgoTery's raid il
South Carolina was most success.
ful. He returned Without losing
man ofhis black regiment, (the
Second South CaroIIna,) and
brought iato our lines 725 contra
dabds- AT lsst accounts the sa
bic warriors were at Pooataligc
bridge, on the Charleston and Sa-
vannah Railroad, where they had
defeated the rebels.
NASHVILLE. June 5.-News
from Franklin, up to 2 p. m. is
that Coloael Baird, comman ding
the garrison, was attacked by one
thousand and two hundred rebel
cavalry Yesterday, who drove his
forces back into the entrench-
nen,s. They rallied, however,
and repulsed the enemy, with a
heavy loss 20 the latter.
An attack was simultaneously
made upon our forces at TrIune,
IN which the rebels were repulsed
with the loss oftwo hundred men,
forty horses, and a lot oil camp
and garrison equlpage.
ISpI&SAPoLIs, June IO.-The
steamer Atlantic. sent by Gov
Morton TO Ficksburs, after the
wounded. returned today with
fhe last lot. ard all the indian
sans wounded IN the battles.
Gen. Grants losses in killed.
wounded and missing. since he
commenced this n emorsble cam
paign, foot up less than seven
thousand; the Indisuians killed,
and wounded being less than 100.
Nine army is In splendid condi.
ton. anu Gen. Grant assured one
of Cox. Morton's agents that if
Johnston attacked kim with less
than sixty thousand mea, he
would give him a severe drabHng.
The arrangements for the care
ut the wounded are ample, and
all one could wish. There is
scarcely any sickness among our
troops Our siege guns are with
IN pistol shot of,he enemy's works.
The Nashville CRion saws IF
the rebellion can not be ex,in.