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The Daily Dispatch: April 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Still later. (search)
at the commander of the Eureka took his boat down the river, and she will probably be captured by the Yankees. Since the foregoing was in type we have conversed with a gentleman who left Fredericksburg a day or two since, and learned from him some further particulars. The officer in command of the enemy is a General Earger or Yearger. The terms of surrender, which have not yet transpired, were written at the dictation of the Common Council, and presented by a committee, of whom one Peleg Clarks, a Northern man by birth, was chairman. It is stated that the Federal officer replied that he had no power to treat with the citizens; that his orders were simply to take possession of the hills opposite the town and hold them. He, however, graciously offered to pay for such supplies as he needed, and which would have to be forthcoming when called for. The notorious Sickles is on hand with his brigade, and when these ruffians are turned loose upon the inhabitants of Fredericksburg there