Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1864-05-27

Official reports Of this Department show tst within
eight days after the great battle at Spottsylyania
Court house, many thousand veteran troops have
/ been forwarded to General GRAST The whole array
has been amply supplied with full rations OF subsssE
] enFe. Upwards OF twenty thousand sick and wound
ed have been transported from the field Of battle to
the Washington Hospitals, and placed ander surgical.
care Over eight thousand dprsoners have been trans
ported from the field TO prison depots and large y
mount p artillery and other impedments Of an active
campaign brought away.
Several trains and fresh cavalry horses have been
forwarded to the army, and the grand Army Of the
Potomac is fully strong IN numbers, and bet
ter equipped, supplied and furnished, than when the
campaign opened Several thousand renforcements
have also been forwarded other armies in the field
and ample supplies to all.
| During the same time over thirty thousand volnn-
teers for one hundred days have been mustered into
the service, clothed armed, equipped and transport
ed to their respective positions. This statement is
due to the Chiefs fthe Army, Stat and Bureau and
their respective Corps to whom the credit belongs.
EN-. SrASrox, See Of War.
Port Hudson adyices to the 7h inst state that the
rebels have been making considerable demonstrations
in that vicinity, hut Gen. Ullman commanding the
fort, is prepared for any attack There is also re-
port that the rebels have established blockade ut
bend IN the river, about Is miles above Fort Del
sey, and in attempting to pass the point we had in
four days lost three transports and two of the light
mailed gunboats. The rebel blockading force is said
| to number 10000.
Advces from Red River, via Cairo, state that the
rebels have constructed at least three batteries on Red
river, between its mouth and Alexandria as Is sup
posed 10 prevent the passage of stores gunboats or
transports Admiral Porter was al Alexandria with
his iron-clads The river was being damned, so as
to , raise the water to allow the gunboats to pass
There Is no communication by land with the army
at Grand Ecore. General MeClernand was soon to
reinforce General Banks
The Secretary of War has issued an official order
declaring exchanged all Federal prisoners of war and
all civilians on parole prior 70 May 7th The rebels
are said to be indebted tous 33, ,596 men,
BERMUDA HUYDRED, May ls.
All qniet with our army to day. The object of the
demonstration on Fort Darling merely to draw off
and entertain many of Lees troops as possible al
to attract the attention of al the rebel forces in and
about Richmond, so as to enable Gen. Kautz to de-
stroy the communications south of Richmond
On Monday morning the enemy came out of their
earthworks IN front of Fort Darling at daybreak hav
ing been heavily reinforced during the night by Long
street corps and made three seperate and desperate
charges upon entrenchments, all of which were
promptly and energetcally repulsed by our men.
he enemy lost IN these three charges from 1000 to
1890. men while our loss very slight.
Gen. Butler having learned that Beaurecard was
heavily reinforced by Longstreets corps and also by
the rebel papers, and by courier ascertaning that
General kauz, cavalry had DESTROYED the bridge over
the Appomattax River and several miles of the Dan
vile Railroad track, With the DAMS locks and en-
bankments of the canal leading into Richmond deci
ded to fall back from before Fort Darling, and gave
orders accordingly, and By Monday evening our army
had safely arrived behind our new lines of intrcnch
ments having retired in perfect order excepting Cen
erai Hickman brigade, which was badly dsorgani-
zed and the General captured.
This brigade formed the extreme right wing, and
the enemy attacked this point with great desperation
following them back nearly miles with oyerwhelm
ing numbers, and wounding many of them
Three of siege fell into he eDfF1vS hands
the horses being killed The guns were spiked.
At present it is impossible to estimate our oss.-I
Straggers are coming in constantly. We have lost
more prisoners, than the enemy, bat their loss is in
killed and wounded is double ours, as our men were
protected by intrenchments.