FROM WASHINGTON: National Armory West of the Alleghanies; THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL REPORTED (2/3/1864)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 2/3/1864

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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, Feb. 2.

It is believed here in military circles that a large rebel cavalry force is in the Shenandoah Valley preparing for a raid on an extensive scale. Preparations have been made to receive them.

A great sensation was produced in military circles, to-day, by the news from Charleston that the most successful fire at long range upon that city, with projectiles almost noiseless, was maintained by NORMAN WIARD's twelve-pounder light battery steel guns. Since the failure of the large rifled Parrott guns, GILLMORE has been using these overlooked pieces of WIARD, that drifted down to Hilton Head from the waste of the Burnside expedition. Accident and insolence combined to show their extraordinary value. A rebel cannonier, making a beastly exposure of his person a mile and a half off, was made a target of by a gunner familiar with these steel cannon. The wretch went fifty feet in the air in pieces. Practice from day to day revealed the truth that WIARD's small steel guns, with the HOTCHXISS shell, have the longest range with the greatest accuracy and the least expenditure of ammunition of any gun now in use in our army.

Senator WILSON's bill to equalize the pay of sol-41ers in the army, and for other purposes, provides that all persons of color who may have been or may be mustered into the military service of the United States, shall receive the same uniform, clothing, arms, equipments, camp equipage, rations, medical and hospital attendance, pay and emoluments, other than bounty, as other soldiers of the regular or volunteer forces of the United States of the like arm of the service, and that every person of color who shall hereafter be mustered into service shall receive such sums in bounty as the President shall order

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From Washington: National Armory West of the Alleghanies – 2
From the Upper Potomac: Efforts to Destroy the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad – 2
Army of the Potomac: The Late Mutiny Among the Rebels – 3
Gen. Butler’s Department: Capture of a Blockade-Runner – 3
News from Rebeldom: Comparative Strength of the North and South – 3-4
Editorial: The Future Military Policy – 4-5
Editorial: Rebel Prisoners, and What Should Be Done With Them – 5-6
Editorial: Gen. Gantt and the Pro-Slavery Democrats – 6
The Missouri Legislature, &c. – 6
Amusements – 6

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