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The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
pon the enemy and prevented their getting into position, and they retired. Many of our citizens were yesterday disposed to treat this affair as a false alarm, and persons who professed to have been at the front asserted that there was no enemy within sight of our artillerymen. It was therefore talked about as a great waste of ammunition to no purpose whatever; but we have every reason to believe that the foregoing statement of the advance of the Yankees is correct. A portion of the James river fleet has been engaged since Thursday morning in shelling Fort Harrison; but no general assault has been made by our troops since Friday, and the enemy still hold the position. Yesterday, with the exception of some skirmishing near Chaffin's Bluff, no fighting took place on the lines below Richmond. In the morning the enemy's skirmishers advanced and drove in our pickets at that point, but our men rallied, and in turn drove the Yankees back. It was currently reported yesterday that
The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Death of Colonel George Patton. (search)
Runaway. --Ran away from the subscriber on the 24th instant, at Manchester, boy Henry; about sixteen years of age; five feet high; nearly black; slender; long face and thick lips; on right or left side a wen about the size of a walnut; has eruption on his skin, resembling bites. When the said boy left he had on a soldier's jacket and a common cotton shirt, rather light-colored pants, old hat and shoes; all of which clothes were very dirty. I will give one hundred Dollars in the presI will give one hundred Dollars in the present Confederate currency for the apprehension and delivery of said Boy to Messrs. Lee & Bowman, Richmond, or in any jail so I can get him. Said boy was sold by Messrs. Hill, Dickinson & Co. for James Gray's sons. He is supposed to be lurking about Richmond, or at Mr. Mallory's, on the Mountain road, ten miles above the city, where his mother lives, or in Manchester, where he has a sister living with Mr. Rowlett Winfree. Jack Hall. se 27--12t*