General Hospital, rochester, N. Y.

Actg. Asst. Surg. AZEL BACKUS.

Detachments.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Fort Adams, R. I.

Colonel OLIVER L. SHEPHERD.

Recruits, &c.

Portsmouth Grove, R. I.

Captain CHRISTOPHER BLANDING.

Rhode Island Hospital Gurads, Company A, Captain Christopher Blanding.

Forts Preble and Scammel, Me.

Lieutenant Colonel GEORGE L. ANDREWS.

17th United States, Invalid Company A, Captain Thomas H. Carpenter.

17th United States, Invalid Company B, ---

17th United States, 2nd Battalion, Company D, Captain Pythagoras E. Holcomb.

Fort Trumbull, Conn.

Captain JOHN D. O'CONELL.

14th United States, 1st Battalion, Company B,

14th United States, 2nd Battalion, Company B,
Captain John McClintock.

3rd U. S. Artillery (recruits), Lieutenant Watson Webb.

CONFEDERATE CORRESPONDENCE, ETC.

SEPTEMBER 1, 1864.

(Received 7.30 p. m.)

Between 300 and 400 troops mutinied or deserted in a body from the forts investing Washington on the 29th of August. These were drafted men recently placed there. They continued in a body, with arms, until they secured citizens' clothes, when they scattered in every direection. The whole body passed through Prince George County; many passed through Charles County, Md. I saw two on the 30th; they were very bitter against the Government, but in favor of McClellan for the next Presidency. Judging from the papers, I fear McClellan will get the nomination; if so, there will be a split.

DURST.

P. S.-Now would be a splendid opportunity for a few men to enter Washington from this side. There is not a single man in the first south of the Eastern Branch, and only seven or eighth at the bridge.

NEAR STEPHENSON'S DEPOT, September 2, 1864-8 p. m.

Major-General RODES:

GENERAL: General Gordon's division has been sent to the Fronts Royal road beyond Winchester. I am here with Wharton's division and two batteries, and am picketing the Smithfield and Charlestown roads. I have nothing on the Valley pike. Where are you, and where will you be in the morning?

Yours, truly,

JOHN C. BRECKINRIDGE,

Major-General.