FROM THE REBEL STATES: Arrival of Deserters at Washington; Rumored Heavy Reinforcement of Gen. Early from Richmond (8/14/1864)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 8/14/1864

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WASHINGTON, Saturday, August 13.

Six refugees and twenty-one deserters from the rebel army arrived here to-day from City Point.

The former left Richmond by stealth on Thursday night and came into our lines. They tell a long story, representing that on Saturday last four trains of twenty cars each arrived in Richmond, bringing a body of troops from Petersburg, said to be a division, and they left immediately on the Central road, to reinforce Gen. EARLY.

A large body of rebel cavalry arrived the same day coming by railroad, and departed for the same destination.

One of this party worked on Belle Island, and states that when he left there were but five Federal prisoners there, the others having all been sent South, to Georgia.

There are but few Federal prisoners in the Libby Prison -- in fact none but the sick and wounded are kept there, and these only for a few days after their reception.

At the time the Danville Railroad was cut our prisoners were made to walk on foot some seventy miles before they took the railroad, and these men heard the guards when they returned say that many gave out and died on the road.

There are no troops in or about Richmond, except in the fortifications, those on the south side being fully garrisoned, while those on the north side have barely enough men in them to keep things in order.

The deserters from the rebel army have belonged to different regiments, and have left their lines at different times, some as late as Monday. Most of them are from Florida, Alabama and Georgia, and have not, generally, served over one year, but they say that year has been enough for them.

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From the Rebel States: Arrival of Deserters at Washington – 2
The Army of the Potomac – 2
The Pirate Tallahassee: The Pilot-Boat James Funk Converted Into a Tender – 2-3
From Washington: From the Georgia Coast – 3
The Guerrillas in Virginia: An Attack Upon the Gunboat Reliance – 3
The Rebels in Kentucky – 3
Arrest of an Editor – 3
The Indian War – 3
The Rebel Papers: Letter to Edward Everett – 3-5
Gen. Sherman’s Army: An Advance by Schofield – 5-6
The Mission to Richmond: Edmund Kirke’s Statement – 6-7
The Indian War: From the Yellowstone – 7-8
The Richmond Mission – 8
Editorial: The American Aborigines – The Indian Territory – 8-9
Editorial: France and the Vienna Conference – 9