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The Daily Dispatch: January 25, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: June 17, 1863., [Electronic resource], Operations of the enemy on James river. (search)
Operations of the enemy on James river. --The Yankee fleet, consisting of two iron clad Monitors, five wooden gunboats, and four transports, made their appearance in James river about 12 o'clock Wednesday morning. After shelling all the houses on the south side of James river, they sent one gunboat up the Chickahominy, which shelled both sides of the river as high up as Barrett's Ferry. --About dark they dropped down the river; but on Thursday morning they again came up to the mouth of the Chickahominy, and protected the transports while they landed troops at Lamb's wharf, on the Chickahominy river.--This party, after stealing all the horses and cattle they could find, re-embarked and made their, way back again. During the shelling of Mr. Holliman's house, formerly Mr. Joseph A. Graves's, a shell exploded in one of the chambers, tearing the furniture to pieces, while Mrs. H. was sitting in the hall.
mes A. Powell — and unlawfully assaulting and beating Frederick, slave of Martha J. Stamper, in the First Market. John Love was fined fifty dollars for purchasing butter in the First Market to sell again, in violation of a city ordinance. Ann Weaver, free, charged with being a person of evil fame, was ordered to be whipped, and then to leave the city. A negro, named Jim Brooks, slave to Major William Allan, was arraigned on the charge of murdering, in the county of Surry, on the 25th of October, 1862, J. M. Schriver, Joseph A. Graves and George Graves, and wounding, at the same time, Gilbert Wootton, a free negro. The accused, Jim, is said to be one of a party of negroes who committed the above murders at "Jamestown," the former residence of Major Allan, soon after the Yankees took possession of that place. The Mayor postponed an investigation of the case till the 1st of February. One or two other cases, of trivial import, concluded the proceedings for the day.