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The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
e of the town are in a wild state of trepidation. Women are running here and there, from one house to another, and others are hugging their children to their breasts as if to them from harm. The enemy have attacked us on General Terry's front. A prisoner has just new been brought in. He says they left Franklin this morning; that the rebel forces crossed in several places; that they commenced their march at daylight; that General Jenkins's division is moving on in one direction and Gen. Hood's in another, and other forces in directions he knows not of. He says it is the intention of the enemy to try and get between us and Norfolk and Portsmouth, and thereby cut off our telegraphic and railroad communication and prevent us from receiving reinforcements. As I write this more prisoners are passing. They express gladness at being taken, for they anticipate something good to eat. Col. Spear has advanced with his cavalry brigade to a point one mile on the Blackwater road, whi