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The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
. In the course of the day, some barges from the gunboats attempted to land in Essex, but were fired on and driven off by our local troops. It was reported last night that Mosby had found another wagon train, and burned it after some fighting with the sword. He lost two men in the engagement. The precise locality of the affair is not certainly known, but is supposed to be on the ill fated Martinsburg pike. Successful expedition against the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Major-General Rosser, on Monday last, made a successful descent upon the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at New creek. Except the fact that he captured five pieces of cannon, the particulars of the affair are contained in our extracts from the Northern papers, published in another column. From South Carolina--the enemy Beaten at Grahamsville, S. C. We have previously stated that the enemy were landing troops from fourteen gunboats and transports at Port Royal. An official dispatch, received at Gene
The Daily Dispatch: December 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ous posting of his force, the problem of defeating Hood would be a much simpler one. His retrograde movement, as we understand the campaign, grows entirely out of that necessity. Successful raid on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad--the Destruction of stores. Telegrams give the particulars of a successful raid by the Confederates on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. One says: It appears that, about 1 o'clock on Monday afternoon, fifteen hundred or more rebel cavalry, under Generals Rosser and McCausland, it is said, appeared in front of New creek, twenty-two miles west of Cumberland, and attacked the two earthworks there located. What force defended them is not definitely known here, but it was only a short time before the rebels were in possession of the post.--It is believed that but few of the garrison escaped. New creek was a Government depot for West Virginia, and the warehouses, containing a large amount of quartermaster's and commissary stores, were burned