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The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Remarkable cavalry chase. (search)
The Peninsula. A correspondent of the Lynchburg Virginian, writing from Gloucester Point, April 21, says that the enemy made three desperate assaults on our lines at or near Wynne's Mills, on the night of the 19th, and were repulsed each time with considerable loss. The writer gives the following account of the situation of affairs on the Peninsula: Your readers may not understand what is meant in the newspaper reports of fights and skirmishing at "Dam No. 1," "Dam No. 2," &c. A word of explanation may make it all plain. Our line of defences extend from Yorktown diagonally across the Peninsula to or near the head of Warwick river. There is a creek running very near our lines and almost parallel with the same from near Yorktown to the river, upon which is built Wynne's mill, Lee's mill, and perhaps others. The stream is a small one, and offered no obstruction to the passage of any kind of troops, except at the mill-dams, until Gen. Magruder had dams constructed all along
The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], The fight near Falmouth (search)
The fight near Falmouth [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Caroline County, April 21st Thinking it will be interesting to some of your readers, I will give you the details of the handsome little engagement which took place on the morning of the 18th near Falmouth, just before the vandals took possession of the country north of the Rappahannock. On Thursday, the 17th, about two o'clock P. M., Capt. Swann, of the Caroline cavalry, with some forty of the Lancaster cavalry, was on picket above Yellow Chapel, about 10 miles from Fredericksburg, in Stafford, on the Fauquier road, when his videttes reported some Yankee cavalry were approaching. Captain Swann then advanced to meet them, thinking it only a scouting party, and sending four men in advance, when they were pursued by a full company of Yankees, who, when they came in sight of Capt. Swann's squad, thought they were in danger of a large force, retreated, and Capt. Swann seizing the opportunity with his forty Lancas