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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Attack on our pickets — affairs on the Peninsula . (search)
Attack on our pickets — affairs on the Peninsula. [correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] White House, (on the Pamunkey,) December 6th, 1862
About 11 o'clock last night a courier arrived here from our forces below this place, stating that an Abolition force of about three hundred, from Williamsburg, had attacked our pickets, twenty-eight in number, near Barhamsville, killing or capturing all but one, who got into camp safe and made the above statement, and that the enemy were still advancing.
As the reports of the pickets are not always to be relied on, it is more than probable that more of our pickets will return to camp.
Our forces advanced to meet the "Hessians," and of course we have no fears for the result.
The enemy, it seems, are trying to get to the York River Railroad and bar it up; but they will have a lively time before, they reach it. Some days since the notorious traitor, Lemuel J. Bowden, left Williamsburg, went to Washington, and complained that the milit