FROM WASHINGTON: Further Reports from Lee’s Army; A Division of Longstreet’s Sent Back to Richmond (4/28/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/28/1864

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WASHINGTON, Wednesday, April 27.

A squad of twenty-five deserters from the rebels, belonging mostly to the Fifteenth Virginia Regiment, arrived here from the front to-day. They escaped while out on picket duty. They agree in their statement that LEE has been of late receiving heavy reinforcements. One of them, who left on Monday last, asserts that much of the heavy artillery had been sent back to Richmond, and the belief was current among the soldiers that an early retrograde movement upon that city would be made.

One of LONGSTREET's divisions has been sent back to Richmond from LEE's army.

Report of the capture of Newbern by the rebels, so current here to-night, can be traced to no authentic source. In answer to the inquiry concerning it at the War Department, it was ascertained that no intelligence of this sort has been received there, and the report is discredited. It is probable that this rumor grew out of an order of Gen. BUTLER forbidding civilians from going to Newbern.

It is said that orders will soon be issued to commanders who have colored troops under them to carry out retaliatory measures upon the rebels. What these measures are has not yet transpired.

Orders have been issued for an immediate draft in the States of Pennsylvania, New-Jersey, Massachusetts; Ohio and Missouri. The draft will probably be ordered in Delaware and some districts of Maryland.

The War Department has ordered that cavalry organizations which cannot immediately be supplied with horses, will be armed and employed as infantry. They may be used to guard depots and railroads, or be assigned to infantry brigades in the field. When regiments so assigned are partially mounted, their horses will be transferred to others. Commanders of departments and separate armies are authorized to dismount and

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From Washington: Further Reports from Lee’s Army – 2
Proceedings of Congress – 2-4
Department of the South: Desertions – 4
The Army of the Cumberland: Pickets Captured – 4
From Lookout Valley: “Holding On” – 4
From The South: News About Burnside’s Expedition – 4-6
Treatment of the Inhabitants of the South by Our Military Commanders: A Noteworthy Letter from Major-Gen. W.T. Sherman – 6-7
From California* – 7
Editorial: The Coming Campaign – 7-8
Editorial: The Moral Police of Society – 8
Movements of Secretary Chase – 8
From the Seal Fisheries: Loss of Sixteen Vessels– 8
The Tobacco Question: The French Vessels Ordered out of the James River – 8

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