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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1863., [Electronic resource], From the Peninsula — the great raid. (search)
e meat it contained. And so ends this raid, which was being made, according to rumor, by 7,000 cavalry, infantry, and artillery. The city troops, who went down below yesterday morning, will doubtless return to-day. Another raid was going on off the Peninsula while the one detailed above was in progress, for an account of which we are indebted to a friend who participated in an attempt to catch the raiders. On Wednesday evening last a small side-wheel steamer entered the Chickahominy river, which stream it ascended a distance of fifteen miles, and landed a small party of soldiers on the north bank at Hog Neek wharf, who made a reconnaissance, searched several houses in the neighborhood, and retired. On Thursday morning the same boat again appeared, and landed about thirty men at Lamb's, on the south side of the river, who immediately commenced a plundering expedition in the vicinity of the boat. Captain Hanley, of General Wise's command, with twenty men, was dispatched