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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1863., [Electronic resource], The War! (search)
drove the enemy back some miles from our lines. Deserters say the enemy intend to make an attack this week. Guerillas prowled about our flanks yesterday, killing one man, and cut the telegraph wires, which were soon repaired. Both railroads between Suffolk and Norfolk are in running order and amply guarded by cavalry patrols. No letters are now allowed to be sent forward by flag of truce except to prisoners of war. A dispatch from Washington says that the chief of the rebel General French's staff was captured on the Nansemond river on the 17th by Lieutenant Cushing of the steamer Commodore Barney. The same dispatch says: The steamer Baltimore arrived at the navy yard this morning from Fortress Monroe, bringing further particulars of the affair on the Nansemond. The Mount Washington was towed to Newport News, where she will be repaired. She received two shuts in her boiler, and several struck her engines damaging them considerably. For woodwork is pierced th