FROM GEN M’CLELLAN’S ARMY: False Reports of a Battle Corrected; A DISPATCH FROM GEN. McCLELLAN (6/22/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 6/22/1862

[Homer_J_Simpson]

WASHINGTON, Saturday, June 21 -- 3 P.M.

Having learned that reports of an exciting character were industrioulsy circulated in Philadelphia and New-York, respecting affairs in front of Richmond, your correspondent called at the War Department for information, and was assured that no advices had been received, which indicate any engagement of a character beyond the daily skirmishing growing out of reconnoissances, and none announcing any change in the general position of our forces before Richmond.

The following message was received at the War Department at 3 1/4 P.M.:

MCCLELLAN's HEADQUARTERS, June 21 -- 2 1/2 P.M. To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:

Things are pretty quiet to-day. There is not quite as much shelling as usual.

Our preparations are progressing well.

The enemy opened with some heavy guns yesterday, but did no harm. G.B. MCCLELLAN,

Major-Gen. Commanding.

CAMP BEFORE RICHMOND,

Wednesday, June 18, 1862.

As so much has been reported of rebel barbarity and vindictiveness, I am happy to note evidences of a better state of feeling on their part, as exhibited in the care taken of our wounded recently fallen into the enemy's hands, and the interchange of courtesies, instead of bullets, between the pickets of the two armies. There is some sharp-shooting across the lines, in which the rebels have clearly been the aggressors, but these indications of murderous propensities have been relieved by a little by-play of intercourse of a less deadly sort. Papers have passed to and fro, and other interchanges of commodities have been frequent between the troops of Gen. SMITH and the Georgia regiments, under HOWELL COBB, opposite them.

The rebels were especially liberal in their presents of Richmond papers of the 16th, containing an account of the really very clever dash of their cavalry on our rear.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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From M’Clellan’s Army: False Reports of a Battle Corrected – 2-4
Important from Corinth: Gen. Halleck’s Army Returning from the Pursuit of Beauregard – 4
News from Washington: An Order from the War Department Relating to Recruiting – 4-6
The Death of Col. Ashby – 6
Editorial: The Question of Time – 6
A Danger and a Caution – 6-7
Editorial: The Death of Charles Ellet, the Engineer – 7
A Fight in Arkansas: Progress of the Expedition up the White River – 7

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The first casualty of war is truth