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The Daily Dispatch: July 14, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ispatch from the officer in command at Charleston was received yesterday: Charleston, July 12th, via Petersburg, July 13th. To Gen. G. T. Beauregard: The enemy attacked Battery Simpkins last night, and were repulsed. We have driven them from John's Island. Their fleet dropped down last night below Battery Island. All the available force of the enemy from Jacksonville has been operating against this place since the 2d instant.--Major General Foster is commanding in person. S. Jones, Maj. Gen. A capture by the enemy. On Tuesday morning, about 4 o'clock, fifty Yankees came ashore at Cox's wharf, on the north side of James river, about thirteen miles below Richmond, and surprised an outpost picket composed of twenty-five men of the City Battalion. The enemy succeeded in capturing fourteen of the number, including a commissioned officer and a sergeant in charge of the detachment. Capt. John Maxwell, of the C. S. Navy, was near at hand with a wagon, containing