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The Daily Dispatch: January 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], Foster's raid in North Carolina, and the Abduction of negroes. (search)
Petersburg. The gartulous Yankee newspapers proclaim that Petersburg is to be one of their next points of attack, preparatory to the capture of Richmond.--One of their newspapers is of opinion that if Petersburg is taken, the whole South will immediately fall. They are kind enough to add that, having taken Petersburg, a cavalry force will be sent to Burke's, at the junction of the South Side and Danville railroads, and that the destruction of both roads will be the inevitable consequence. So that Petersburg will be likely to divide with Richmond the attention of the civilized and uncivilized world. Our sister city, the gallant Cockade, is worthy the fame that is about to be thrust upon her. She too, like Richmond, will become histories. She too, like Richmond, will never be taken by the Yankee. The second city of the Commonwealth in commercial importance and now that Fredericksburg has been depopulated, the most purely Virginia city in the Commonwealth; she would be a s