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take advantage of every opportunity to meet and circumvent them. Heavy firing was heard yesterday in the direction of Spotsylvania Court House. A report was in circulation yesterday that the Yankees had burnt the railroad buildings at Milford, about forty miles from Richmond. Parties who left the immediate neighbor of that point yesterday morning report that the enemy had occupied the place, but state that no buildings were destroyed. Accompanying this is another report that three companies attached to one of our infantry brigades, were captured by the enemy while engaged in a skirmish near Milford on Saturday. The raid on the Central railroad. The raiding party who reached the Central Railroad last Friday night did but little damage to the road. Two small trestle bridges were burned in the vicinity of Hanover Court-House; the track was torn up for a distance of about three hundred yards, and the telegraph wire cut. On Saturday they were met near Hanov