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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
have received Northern papers of the 16th instant. On the night of the 13th inst., the steamer West Point, with 221 convalescent troops from New port News, for Burnside's army, was run into at Aquia Creek by the steamer George Peabody, Capt. Travers, and sank in ten minutes. Seventy-three lives were lost, including the wives of a new position two miles in the rear. The Washington Star, asserts that Gen. Pope would promptly advance and attack them. Large reinforcements are joining Burnside with a view, if need be, of an advance in aid of General Pope. The enemy are in very strong force on the Rapidan, and their numbers are estimated at from 60,000's Landing. A deserter who came into the lines at Malvern a week ago yesterday reported that the Confederates were in constant fear of the movements of Pope and Burnside, and that fifteen thousand additional troops were sent to Stonewall Jackson on the previous Sunday, and an additional reinforcement of twenty-five thousand on th