Named Entity Results, Blackwater Creek (Virginia, United States)

The Retirement of the enemy from the Blackwater region. It is stated upon authority deemed reliable that the force of the enemy which was at Suffolk and in the Blackwater region last week have nearly all returned to Fortress Konrad. During their visit to that section they committed the usual depredations which attend their raids, and carried off and destroyed a considerable amount of property. While at Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, they entered the residence of Mr. Frederick CowpBlackwater region last week have nearly all returned to Fortress Konrad. During their visit to that section they committed the usual depredations which attend their raids, and carried off and destroyed a considerable amount of property. While at Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, they entered the residence of Mr. Frederick Cowper, and stole the library of his brother, R. C. P. Cowper, who is now the Lieutenant Governor of the Pierpont Government.--They also carried of from this place about one hundred negroes. On Thursday morning a fight occurred on the farm of Mr. Wronn, near Burwell's Bay, between a force of the Yankees numbering some 300 or 400, who had landed at the latter point, and a few Confederates who had been gathered together by Major Milligan, of the Signal Corps, and Capt. Causey, of the In this eng