Posted on 07/29/2021 7:40:44 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Sunday, July 28.
Information was received this evening relative to Messrs. ARNOLD, HARRIS and McGRAW, who, several days ago went in quest of the body of Col. CAMERON. The former was sent by the Confederates to Richmond, and the latter to Manassas Junction. They did not accomplish the object of their mission.
Mr. BUCH who took them to Bull's Run has returned, and reports that all the dead are not yet buried, and that the slaughter on the side of the enemy is greater by far than they themselves represented.
It is believed that Gen. MCCLELLAN has been assigned to the command of the troops on both sides of the Potomac. He, in company with Secretary CAMERON, visited Arlington Saturday afternoon.
Unofficial information has been received here that the Confederates contemplated at an early day the planting of batteries on the Potomac, at points to command the channel, as a part of their general programme.
At Aquia Creek they have five guns upon one battery, and three upon another, and while an excursion party from Washington were in that vicinity, on Saturday, a train of cars full of troops, it is said, came up to the station there, and by way of amusement or experiment, a few ineffectual shots were fired at a distance of three miles from the steamboat containing the pleasure party, which comprised several members and ex-members of Congress.
Some of our citizens were considerably alarmed, last night, by the successive reports of heavy cannon, which subsequently proved to be from the same steamboat on its return, and not from the enemy, as was at first apprehended.
The business of the Senate in Executive Session has so far been confined principally to action on the appointments made by the President during the recess.
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