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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee raid on the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. (search)
umbers variously estimated at from 1,000 to 1,500. Our skirmishers encountered the advance of the enemy at Roone's Mill, in Northampton county, eight miles from Garysburg, and poured such a destructive fire into the ranks of the invaders as caused them to check their speed considerably. The skirmishing was kept up at intervals, ws landed at Murfreesboro' N. C., on Sunday night last, where they proceeded to rob the citizens and collect all the negroes they could put their hands upon. Garysburg and vicinity was filled on Tuesday with fleeing citizens from Murfreesboro', N. C., Jackson, N. C., and other places situated in the route of the invaders. As me trains are running regularly through as usual. It is stated that Gen. Matt. W. Ransom, now commanding the Confederate forces in the vicinity of Weldon and Garysburg, made a narrow escape from capture on Tuesday afternoon. The General and a portion of his staff were sitting in the porch of the hotel at Jackson, Northampton co