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Yankee raid into Northumberland.[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp Grigg Caroline Co., Va., February 25, 1863.
The almost incessant rains and snows have rendered the roads impassable in many places.
A citizen has just arrived in camp from Northumberland county and reports that on Wednesday last the Yankee cavalry made a raid down on the Northern Neck, in search of the conscripts and enrolling officers.
When they arrived at Lancaster countenance they found the officers busily engaged in taking down the names of such conscripts as were present.
Here they succeeded in capturing one of the officers and many of his men, the others effecting their escape by secreting themselves in a cellar.
The men they immediately paroled.
They soon left here, directing their course towards Heathsville where a number of conscripts had already collected, awaiting the arrival of the enrolling officers.
They dashed into the little village and captured all of the conscripts; af