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-fifth Pennsylvania and Ninety-sixth New York regiments, when a sharp fight occurred. The pickets were driven back a short distance, when they were reenforced, and drove the rebels, regaining their former position. Major Kelly, of the Ninety-sixth New York was shot through the neck, and bled to death. Orderly-Sergeant David H. Lancaster, company C, Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania regiment, had his left arm shattered at elbow, and private William Leighty, was shot through left thumb. Colonel C. C. Dodge with two companies of the New York Mounted Rifles, while on an expedition into North-Carolina, captured seven officers of the rebel army, at Gatesville, in that State.--(Doc. 124.) The publication of the New Orleans Bee was resumed this day, the proprietors having made a satisfactory explanation to General Butler. The Sixth United States cavalry burned a bridge five hundred feet long over South Anna Creek, a tributary of the Pamunkey. The bridge was on the line of Stonewall
September 28. The rebel steamer Sunbeam was captured off New Inlet by the United States gunboats State of Georgia and Mystic, while attempting to run the blockade at Wilmington, N. C. She had a cargo of gunpowder and brandy, valued at a quarter of a million dollars. Three companies of Union cavalry and a battery of two brass howitzers, under the command of Colonel Charles C. Dodge, made a reconnoissance from Suffolk, Va., to a point on the Blackwater River, twenty-five miles distant, putting a body of rebel infantry to flight after a sharp engagement.
ficed popularity without losing esteem. He was for many years the leader of the South Carolina bar, and one of the latest acts of his life was a masterly argument made by him before the rebel States District Court, against the confiscation and sequestration laws passed by the rebel Congress at Richmond. Although living amongst the most bitter and vindictive people of the rebel population, Mr. Petigru died a lover of his country, and loyal to the government of the United States. Colonel C. C. Dodge returned to Norfolk, Va., after making a successful reconnoissance to Southfield, Chuckatuck, and Blackwater Bridge. At the latter place he had a fight with a party of rebels, but at the expiration of twenty minutes, they hastily withdrew. In this affair, several rebel prisoners were captured with their horses and arms. A detachment of National troops under the command of Colonel Chickering, left Baton Rouge, La., for the purpose of reconnoitring the surrounding country and bur
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untry for defence in a field fight, we take it for granted that they will give us battle there, if anywhere east of the fortifications of Winchester. Affairs at Suffolk, Va.--a Reconnaissance to Zunis. We take the following from a letter dated at Suffolk, Va., September 26th, published in the Philadelphia Inquire: Last evening troops D, H and E of one regiment returned from a scouting expedition, having been out some four days, the expedition being under the command of Col. Chas. C. Dodge. This expedition was accompanied by the battery attached to our regiment, consisting of two brass . This party of mounted men reached Zuni, Va., on the Blackwater river, about twenty-five miles from Suffolk, last evening about 9 o'clock, when they were bred into by a party of rebel infantry from the opposite side of the river, wounding one of our men named Brown, belonging to troop D, and occasioning a general stir throughout the battalion. The fire of the rebels was promptly return