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From Petersburg. Petersburg, June 30--12 M
--General Mahone, assisted by cavalry, came up with Wilson's raiders near Reim's Sirtion, ten miles below here, yesterday, rough and routed them driving them four miles, capturing eleven pieces of artillery, two hundred prisoners, thirty-three ambulances, and thirty-five wagons, killing and wounding a large number of the enemy, and recapturing, five hundred stolen slaves.
Our cavalry were in pursuit of them at the last accounts, and a large number of them ought to be captured.
The enemy are retesting in great-disorder by the route which they came to Ream's. Our loss in infantry one killed and one wounded.
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], A gallant Exploit. (search)
A gallant Exploit.
A correspondent of the Petersburg Express, writing from Burntville, Brunswick county, June 30th, gives the following account of the capture of a Lieutenant and thirty-one privates of the Yankee cavalry, by a Confederate officer and six citizens, armed with shot guns only:
On the evening of Wednesday, the 22d instant, a party of Yankee cavalry, numbering thirty-two men, passed through the neighborhood of Red Oak, in Brunswick, and stopped at Mrs Nancy Mason's. Here they found Captain G D White, of the Boydton cavalry, who has been at home on furlough in consequence of a dangerous wound, received while gallantly leading his men in the right at Gettysburg.
Capt White was on a visit to Mrs Mason, who is his grandmother.
The Yankees called Captain White from the house, and threatened to take him along with them as their prisoner; but not having a spare horse, the Lieutenant in command (a scamp named Brooks, and a renegade from Halifax county, Va.,) gave
Our victory at Kennesa W Mountain,
We are again under obligations to the Southern Express Company for files of Atlanta papers to the 30th June. the Intelligencer has the following account, from its correspondent, of the defeat of Sherman's army on the 27th:
The game of blood and life for the possession of Atlanta commenced yesterday.
Early in the morning the Yankee pickets made a general advance on our vidette line, which they easily drove in, and soon became holly engaged with our first entrenched line of skirmishers.
Fight on Cleburn's line.
Finding that our skirmishers would not retire, the Yankees buried up their lines of battle on our centre and opposite Cleburn's and Cheatham's line.
They moved up in large force on the first named division, and charging them, carried the entrenchments held by our skirmishers, and rushed on the main works.
With loud cheering they rushed on our men and endeavored to carry the works.
A terrible volicy of musketry belched out
The army correspondent of the Atlanta Register writes from Marietta, (June 30) as follows:
The troops of Cheatham's and Cicburnc's divisions were yesterday engaged in a most pleasant part-time, repaying them for fatigue and exposure Early in the day a Yankee flag of truce came, asking permission to bury their dead, which were becoming very offensive to both armies.
After a little parleying it was granted, and the work began.
It was no small task.
They were lying thick upon the gsummated a title of the plan proposed by him at the outset of the campaign and his commission from the Yankee War Department, is evident.--We cannot divine what he hopes to do next.
The following is the latest from the field:
Marietta, June 30--It two o'clock this morning the enemy drove in Gen Cheat ham's pickets, and attempted to storm his breastworks.
They were received with a most terrific fire of artillery and musketry, which caused them to retreat precipitately.
The loss of th
Governor Brown, of Georgia, has set apart the 15th day of September as a day of fasting and prayer.
The not earnings of the Virginia and Tennessee railroad for the year ending June 30th were $1,777,551.32.
Colonel Robert W. Withers, of the Forty-fifth Virginia regiment, was badly wounded at or near Shepherdstown recently — shot through the lungs.
The Daily Dispatch: October 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], War horse for General Sherman
Dead.
--Information has been received from Bremen of the death, on the 30th of June last, during the voyage from Honolulu to Bremen, on board of the Hawaiian brig R. H. Hood, of Mr. Thomas Miller, of Essex county, Virginia, formerly United States Consul at Hilo, H. I.