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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
cession of victories in the Trans Mississippi Department. Capture of a correspondent of the New York world.--Development of the enemy's Plans. Our pickets at Tunstall's Station, on the York River Railroad, yesterday morning captured R. B. Francis, a correspondent of the New York World, who was on his way to the White House, under the impression that Gen. Baldy Smith had reached that point from the Southside. He had in his possession a number of letters, and his dispatches for the Worter "butting" uselessly against the enemy's fortifications. The World's correspondent was brought to Richmond and placed in Castle Thunder. On his arrival at that institution he sent for an officer of the prison, and told him that he was Mr. Francis, late of Gen. Grant's army; that he unfortunately ran into our picket line at Tunstall's, and was captured; and that he expected to have the honor of remaining his guest for some time to come. The officer, as a matter of course, expressed his