Text Appearing Before Image: This image also Published in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, August 17, 1861. Title: Discovery of a new rebel battery at Messech's Point, near the mouth of Back River by a scouting party of the Tenth Regiment of New York Zouaves, from a sketch by a special artist accompanying Major-General Butler's command- See page 212. Text Appearing After Image:
'Discovery of a Confederate battery at Messech's Point by a scouting party of the Tenth Regiment of New York Zouaves. The activity of the Confederates on the Potomac and the confluent rivers was almost incredible. In one night some point hitherto defenseless was made to bristle with cannon, and the first intimation of its locality was a leaden messenger winging its way on its mission of death. A party of the Tenth Regiment of New York Zouaves, while out scouting through a dense wood, came suddenly in sight of Messech's Point, and there beheld the Confederates at work upon an almost completed battery, which had sprung up with magical rapidity. 133
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