The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-08-12
WAR VA NEWS.


ated Press withthe Army Of sbe Potomac, says
that on last Friday evening the enemy exploded
I'D minein forlt of the Fifth corps, but without
doing any damage, on account of Their, nottdg-
!; ging within forty yards of The onion works. A
charge was also attempted, and considerable fir
ring kept up for an hourlby the enemy a,af
A Confederate battery on the north side Of the
flames river, which for day Or two had been
livery annoying, was shelled out by the gunboats
on Friday, after considerable engagement! ;
70 Anarfital from New orleahs,5 via Hilton Head,
brings intelligence from Charleston bar that The
ENTHUSIASTICALLY exposed at CHARLESTON, S., O. to
pithcehfsaof the Union batteries, were exchanged
" on thesd inst, offiFort Sumter. ',' s.''"'',
A despatch from General Butler TO President
Lincoln states that the Richmond, Sentinel OF
q Monday annoances on official authority that Adj
Iniral Farragui's feet offourteen ships and three
piron-cads destined to attack Mobile, passed
Forts Morgan and Ganes on the 9th inst, cap
turing the Confederate rams Tennessee and Sell
his, and driving ashore the ram Gaines. Admit
raj Buchanan, IA Marylander,) who commanded
the Rebel feet was. wounded and, taken prison
1'sf! THE feet Of Admiral. Farragut had SO far
approached the city of Mobile that be had com
rienced the bonihardment Of the upper defenses
The Tecumseh, one of the Union monitors, was
sunk during the engagement pfr Eprt;Morgau.
The latest advices from Hagerstown and Har.
.risbnrg represent all as again becoming quietin
Western Maryland and Pennsylvania, The Con,
'fndc tea 20 boya
the Potomac, and Hagerstown is now occupied
by Union troops. Saturdayafterpoou, 1t ap-
pears, q SMALL party Of Confederate cavalry re
turned TO Hagerstown and arrested. several prom
iaspt citizens there, to be held as hostages, but
in the evening they were released, and the enemy
A Washington dispatch says that information
!, ffom, Gen. Sherman's army confirms the report
Of the capture of Gen. Stopeman and apoption
of his command. i,,r 8 .t-s.u9sih on
T. THE Cupberland Md Union of Saturday,
publishes an account of u skirmish which took
18th inst. ebetweea the Confcdefaies under john
son and McCansland and the Federal forces I'M
der Gen.. Kelley. After considerable fighting,
the Confederates retreated by mountain road,
leaving behind them their dead and wounded
how many Gen. Kelley does not state-and also
two eaissons, and a quantity Of ammunition,
many wagons and carriages &C.. On the follow
ing morning Col. Slough, Of the l53d Ohio, who
has been sent by Gen. Kelly to the neighborhood
'of0ldtown, with four hundred and fifty men, to
intercept the Confederates in their retreat, was
Himself attacked and compelled to fall back
across the river. "A portion of his forces took
'the, road to Cumberland, but Col. Slough with
the remainder threw himself into b,ockhouse.
Being surrounded there by superior force Of
the enemy, and having had a lock of his hair
twisted from his head by mimic ball, which
left bare spot on his scalp about the size of a
dime, the Colonel, together with some forty OF
his men, surrendered and was paroled. .as
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