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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], The armies below Richmond. (search)
Latest.--We made repeated inquiries yesterday and last evening, from everybody likely to know, but could get no information explanatory of the heavy firing heard in the direction of Shirley Saturday morning. Several persons residing in the vicinity of the river, report heavy firing heard again yesterday, but whether from contending forces or the enemy's gunboats, we have been unable to learn. Four more prisoners were brought in yesterday, and consigned to the Petersburg jail. Alexander Jackson and Wm. Suther were brought in during the forenoon. They are from McClellan's command, but we could not learn the name of the company or regiment to which they were attached. Richard Becket and James Sayer, of Company K, First Ohio Artillery, were brought in yesterday afternoon. These men state that they left McClellan's Army Saturday night. They say his headquarters are at Westover, and that he still has an effective force at Berkeley, is in a strong position, and anxious to fight.
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
her they have drawn back again to the main line of defences, hear the rebel capital, there to await the onset of McClellan, we are quite in the dark. We should judge that the latter would be their policy, and that they would have carried it out just as rapidly as possible.--They cannot cross the Chickahominy; they cannot operate on the York river, or anywhere north or east of it; and so, perhaps, leaving a small force for the sake of show, and to give themselves assurance of a victory won, Jackson at once hastened in the direction of the beleaguered capital. Jackson's name and army would be a tower of strength there at present, crowned as he is with the laurels of the Shenandoah, and followed by fifty thousand of the best troops in Jeff. Davis's service. All these rebel masses, however, cannot avail for the defence of Richmond when once our gunboats shall have passed Fort Darling and the rebel obstructions in the river. When they reach the town, its surrender is certain; the most