Posted on 08/28/2021 8:12:01 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Aug. 27.
The order issued by Gen. McCLELLAN, restraining the Provost Marshal from giving passes to members of the Press to cross Long Bridge, or to go within the lines of our camps, was rendered necessary by the improper uses made by some correspondents of the facilities heretofore afforded them. They obtained information which would be of great benefit to the enemy, which was transmitted by mail to the newspapers to avoid the censorship exercised at the telegraph office. I understand the order will be extended so as positively to prohibit officers on the Virginia side from giving any information to the newspaper correspondents.
THE HARRIS LIGHT CAVALRY.
Commissions were issued to-day to the officers of the Harris Light Cavalry.
THE KENTUCKY CAVALRY.
Col. YOUNG's battalion of Kentucky cavalry paraded to-day, and passed in review before the White House.
GONE OVER TO SECESH.
Surgeon GANESLEN, formerly in charge of the Union Hospital at Georgetown, has resigned. He obtained leave of absence, and went directly to secesh by way of Niagara Falls, at which place he wrote his resignation, and forwarded it to the Department. He is a native of Virginia, and assigns as a reason that he will lose his property in that State if he continues longer in the service of the Government.
THE ARMY RETIRING BOARD.
The Retiring Board met at the War Department to-day, for the purpose of receiving propositions from officers to be placed on the retired list, under the law passed at the last session.
IN THE HOSPITALS.
The weekly report of the number of patients in the hospitals to-day, except the Alexandria Hospital and the Hospital for Eruptive Diseases, shows as follows: There are in the E-street Hospital, Washington, one hundred and twenty-four; in C-street, Washington, fifty-five;
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Bkmk
My great-grandfather was in that battle in Kanawha Valley under Floyd.
Congratulate him for us. If the Times says Tyler was defeated, it must have been bad. They usually start off by declaring it a brilliant Union victory, and then walking it back as the facts emerge.
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