...ndreds on the roadside in groups, having no shelter to cover them, and often nothing to eat, on that dark winter's night. We are living in fear of a Yankee raid. They have a large force on York River , and are continually sending parties up the Pamunky and Mattapony Rivers, to devastate the country and annoy the inhabitants. Not long ago a party rode to the house of a gentleman on Mattapony; mee...