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Update on the War - Union

Published in The Philadelphia Inquirer on January 27, 1863 Important From Galveston      New York, Jan. 26,--The steamer, Mary A. Boardman arrived to-night from New Orleans on the 18 th, and Key West on the 20 th. She furnishes Galveston advices of the 17 th, which were brought to Key West by the steamer Northern Light, from New Orleans.      On the 17 th, the United States sloop-of-war Brooklyn, in company with six other United States steamers, were off Galveston. They saw a steamer in the offing. The steamer Hatteras immediately got under way to speak to her, and, when within hailing distance, asked who she was.      The answer was--"Her Majesty's ship of war Spitfire.      The commander of the Hatteras then told them to wait and he would send a boat to her, and had just lowered a boat with an officer and crew in her, when the steamer opened her broadside and fired it into the Hatteras.      The Brooklyn immediately got under weigh [sic], and started in pursuit of the stranger, but night coming on, lost sight of her, and was compelled to give up the chase.      On returning she found the steamer Hatteras sunk in nine fathoms of war. [sic] The officers of the steamer Mary Boardman were unable to give further particulars. The steamer that fired was no doubt the pirate Alabama.      The steamer Hatteras was merely a transport, but carried four guns of light calibre, similar to those on the transport McClellan. Deaths of Soldiers      Deaths of Pennsylvania soldiers in the hospitals in and about Washington to-day:--GEORGE MAUK, Company E, One-hundred-and-twenty-fifth; ALFRED McCLAY, Company E, one-hundred-and-fourteenth; WILLIAM KENNEDY, Company K, sixty-ninth; ABRAM HANNA, Company I, one-hundred-and-fiftieth; ABRAHAM BAGSLEY, Company G, one-hundred-and-thirty-first. Officers Without Commands      A list of "Major and Brigadier-Generals who are not assigned to any actual command, and the length of time since engaged in actual service."---     Major-General George B. McClellan, Relieved by General Order No. 182, November 5, 1862.      Major-General Irvin McDowell. Not since September 6, 1862.     Major-General D.C. Buell. Not since October 30, 1862. Before military commission.      Major-General Fitz-John Porter. Not since November 10, 1862. Undergoing trial. Since cashiered.      Major-General C.M. Clay. Not since June 17, 1862, when appointed. Assigned to General Butler, but did not report.      Brigadier-General Andrew Porter. Not since May, 1862. Now on duty, commanding camp at Harrisburg.      Brigadier-General Wm. S. Harney. Not since May 16, 1861.      Brigadier-General Robert Anderson. Not since October 8, 1861.      Brigadier-General C.P. Stone. Not since February 8, 1862.      Brigadier-General Geo. A. McCall. Not since July, 1862. Now on court-martial.      Brigadier-General Louis Blenker. Not since July 21, 1862.      Brigadier-General Jas. Shields. Not since June 24, 1862      Brigadier-General R.B. Marcy. Has been Chief of Staff with General McClellan since appointment September 13, 1862. Now with General McClellan.      Brigadier-General T.T. Crittenden. Not since July 13, 1862. Exchanged.      Brigadier-General J.B. Turchin. Not since appointed as Brigadier-General, July 17, 1862.      Brigadier-General S.W. Crawford. Wounded at Antietam, and in New York since September 17, 1862.      Brigadier-General L.P. Graham. Relieved as instructor, Cavalry Camp Institute, Annapolis, August 18, 1862. Sick.      Brigadier-General Z.B. Tower. Wounded at Antietam September 17, 1862. Sick in Washington.      Brigadier-General R.J. Oglesby. Wounded at Corinth, October 4, 1862.      Brigadier-General W.B. Campbell. Not since appointed, June 30, 1862.      Brigadier-General F.C. Barlow. Wounded at Antietam September 17, 1862. Not since on duty.      Brigadier-General J.H.H. Ward. Relieved November 1, 1862.      Brigadier-General H.S. Briggs. Not since September22, 1862. The Confiscation of Rebel Property     In reply to the resolution of inquiry relative to property heretofore seized by the Military Governor of the District of Columbia as the property of Rebels, the Secretary of War encloses a communication from General Martindale detailing the circumstances of the conflict of military and civil authorities with regard to the property of Judge Campbell, which, after its seizure by the military authorities, was subsequently turned over to the Marshal of the District, upon a writ of replevin. [sic]      General Martindale suggests further legislation by Congress, to embrace two points:--first, to authorize the seizure of Rebel property by the military authority, as though martial law existed, but to be transferred to the civil authorities for condemnation and sale in those districts where the civil courts are in operation, and to courts-martial where Rebellion has interrupted civil courts; secondly, continued absence and general reputation of disloyalty to authorize condemnation and sale, unless the owner of the property shall appear and prove loyalty.

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