The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-06-17
WAR NEWS.

" VI Tue oneDy, put no hSHtihB YET. lne previous
accounts from Gen. Sherman, which are contain
ed in Secretary Stanton's official bulletin of Sat-
urday, stated that he was marching towards
Kenesaw Mountan where the enemy were in a
position between it and the Lost Mountain.
III The New York Commercial Advertiser, Satur-
day evening says; "Important movements are
ntnow taking place in Gen. Grants army, which,
= for the good of the cause, should not be made
public.' In the course of three Or four days they
b will have been accomplished. a.
-ar We will merely state that the report published
in the morning journals to the effect that Sheri-
dan has proceeded in the direction of Bottom $
6 Bridge, near the Chickahominy, is untrue. He
las, however, gone with large force to operate
in locality where the rebels will not be looking
for him. . "' ..f +'" ''.'l
tr' A late letter in the ST. Louis Democrat says :
% no Navigation on the Lower Mississippi is now and
will be for some time extremely perilous, and we
advise women and children to stay at home, or
travel where there is less danger and more pleas
tIre This trouble from guerillas is the result of
the miserable failure of Banks, Porter & Co., up
Red River. Marmaduke will probably organize d
large force to operate on the Mississippi, breaking
up government Planters and render, navigation
too dangerous to be profitable. We don't anti
cpate, however, that he nor all his guerilla host
will blow the Marine Brigade, gunboats and ALL
out of the water, but the people may make up
their minds for a large amount offghting on the
river this season,
The Richmond Enquirer Of the sth says:
y To-day over one thousand of the Yankee pris-
oners now here will be sent to Andersonville,
Georgia, where general depot for their reception
has been established. On Thursday another
thousand win follow. This is done to make room
for the constantly increasing numbers that find
their way here from Grants army. If any are
retained here this summer they will be sent to
Belle Isle.
The Federal officers now in our custody are
CHARTERED at Macon, Georgia. The privates and
non-commisSioned officers are at camp Sumter,
Andersonville, Ga.
There are over | 500 Yankee prisoners at An
Jacksonville, Georgia. The editor Of the Albany
Patriot says that upwards. OF 5000 have died
since their removal to Andersonville the mortal
ity averaging daily thirty-fve, with every pros
pect of IA large increase. On the night of the
14th thirty-two died. ......
An official despatch from General Hunter has
been received by the War Department dated at
Stanton, on Wednesday morning, which reports
that he met the Confederates at Piedmont, on
Saturday, the 5th and routed them, killing Gen
,eral W. Z, Jones and capturing fifteen hundred
prisoners, three thousand stand of arms three
pieces of artillery, and vast quantity of stores.
y junction has been effected between the forces
of General Hunter and those of Generals Crook
and Averill. a later (unohicial) despatch to the
Secretary of War, and dated Thursday, says that
Gen. Hunters infantry were engaged n destroy
ing the railroad track, and that all the Govern
ment buildings and Railroads at Staunton, Va,
had been burned and that they would leave on
tho, next day, (Friday.) a,Sb .,,!"
i, The Augusta Constitutional says g. .r.
The following is a memorandum of war mate
rial supplied to the Confederate armies by their
Government works OF Augusta, Georgia, during
the past two months .t....t :ett-
f., One million four hundred thousand small arm
cartridges. al aaq..-.i; ban ..a',. ,'.H, ,
Six thousand rounds fixed ammunition Is no
and shell attached to cartridges for field batter
lles,)lss D. .al :gi---Ta.. .'sI r'.. Be-. p. NJ t"
"a Thirty thousand Girariey's percussi on fuses
for rife shell. l.gl zd1 p.gI .lg s..a ..
Two thousand FIVE hundred Colonel Rains
percussion hand grenades. ..
Il One thousand five hundred riRed shells for field
artillery. -
Is,Fifty-four tons eight and ten inch shot and
shell for colunbads. g,. 70 rI . J rr
.g.0ne hundred tons of gunpowder. ..
+ Three complete batteries of brass l2-pounder
Napoleon guns, with carriages, mbcrs, cassons,
harness, equipments ammunition, travelling tor
ges, &c. fE' s.tt. - 9... ,.H.
lone battery of three-inch rife and banded iron
guns and l2-pound bronze howilzers
~ One battery of four l2-pound howitzers. The
abovetwo batteries being complete at all points,
with carriages limbers, caissons harness, am
hamilton, equipments, &c. "a '1-
The steamer Daniel Webster, from New Orleans
on the 9th, has Arrived. There is nothing impor-
tantlih the papers, except the successful passage
ofseveral steamers past the rebel batteries at Co.
lumbia, including the "Brilliant' and the Mis-
sissippi, which had reached New Orleans. They
were conveyed past by our gunboats The lat
ter were repeatedly struck but not much injured
The captain of the gunLoat Excl ange was seri-
ously wounded. 1t seems that Marnadukes
main force is at bayou Macon. with Shelby and
Cabell at Columbia. Gen. Candy had despatch
ell a large force TO drive off the rebels
,ty4:en. Burbridge reports to the Secretary of
Was that on Sunday morning, utter an hours
bard fighting at Cynthiana, he completely rou-
ted Morgan and scattered his forces, killing $780,
wounding as many more, and besides recaptur-
ing 400 prisoners and over 1000 horses The
Union loss was about l50.. 'i.-i 5la.tyt
Up to o'clock on Monday evening all was
quiet at Bermuda Hundred. No further intelli-
gence has been received from General Sherman