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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.look out for spies. Fredericksburg, June 5th, 1861.
Though I am not in the habit of writing for newspapers, I feel it my duty, as a Southern man, to make known, through you, some facts which you and others may think important.
I am, you see, near our border, and hence have opportunity to see and hear much.
I go to Aquia Creek two or three times a week, marking closely men and things.
Yesterday morning I went over, as usual, and after arriving there, a fellow who came down in the same train with myself stepped up and inquired of me the number of men at the batteries, and several other questions of the same character.
Discovering at once that he had a Northern tongue, I gave him such answers as I thought a Southern gentleman should give a Northern vandal, for such I at once regarded him. I soon discovered him and two others, out in the swamp near the point, pretending that they were looking for pieces of shell.
I inquired of several
An official negro minstrel.
--Lieut. Pendergrass, of the Seventy-first Regiment of New York, who with twenty-two of his men worked one of the guns of the Anacosta, on the occasion of the recent attack upon Aquia Creek, is a member of Bryant's band of negro minstrels.
He is also the proprietor of a New York "rum mill" and gambling hell — the headquarters of John C. Heenan, the Benicia Boy, and the bristle-headed fraternity of fighters generally.
He is a little man with a very large voice, a pock marked face, and never more in his element than under a nigger wig, and a physiognomy of burnt cork, dangling away his part in a minstrel performance, upon a triangle.--Such is the "elite" of the New York Seventy-first.
The fight at Aquia Creek.a highly colored Narrative.
The following description of the second engagement at Aquia Creek we copy from a Northern paper.
It purports to be from an eye-witness.
The only fault that can be found with it is that it is totally untrue, so far as the effect of the fire from the steamers is concerned:
Nearer and nearer the vessels approached, till the batteries were plainly distinguished by the naked eye, and the secession flag was seen flaunting in the breeze.Aquia Creek we copy from a Northern paper.
It purports to be from an eye-witness.
The only fault that can be found with it is that it is totally untrue, so far as the effect of the fire from the steamers is concerned:
Nearer and nearer the vessels approached, till the batteries were plainly distinguished by the naked eye, and the secession flag was seen flaunting in the breeze.
But what is that brown spot on the summit of a hill, that contrasts so strongly with the surrounding green?
Glasses are eagerly directed towards the suspicious-looking spot, and it is soon discovered to be a sand battery.
Some of our officers thought they could see the guns, in which impression I shared.
Certainly the works swarmed with men, and one man was distinctly seen going through the motions of using a pickaxe, or some such implement.
Captain Ward now signalled the Anacostia to