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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
ll give us battle there, if anywhere east of the fortifications of Winchester. Affairs at Suffolk, Va.--a Reconnaissance to Zunis. We take the following from a letter dated at Suffolk, Va.,Suffolk, Va., September 26th, published in the Philadelphia Inquire: Last evening troops D, H and E of one regiment returned from a scouting expedition, having been out some four days, the expedition being us party of mounted men reached Zuni, Va., on the Blackwater river, about twenty-five miles from Suffolk, last evening about 9 o'clock, when they were bred into by a party of rebel infantry from the oed by all around him. Our troops are now busily engaged in throwing up entrenchments all around Suffolk, and we feel able to defend Suffolk against fifty thousand men. Since the 20th of this month weSuffolk against fifty thousand men. Since the 20th of this month we have lost one orderly sergeant one sergeant, two corporals, and three privates. So you will see that the enemy are on the lookout for us. Yankee Romance about the surrender of Munfordsville, K
The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from Europe. (search)
upon them, very soon clearing the decks. For some time the boats attempted to press forward, but the unerring aim of the men on shore finally disheartened them, and they retreated down the river. It is believed that the enemy's killed and wounded in the affair will amount to one hundred. But two men were wounded on our side — none killed. There was no artillery in the fight on our side. In the afternoon of the same day the enemy advanced in considerable force from the direction of Suffolk. Their force on this occasion is estimated to have been about 2,500 infantry, six pieces or artillery and 300 or 400 cavalry. The battery of Capt. Graham, of Petersburg, and two sections of Captain Wright's Rocket Battery, were put in position, and soon opened fire upon the foe. The fight lasted some two hours, our shot and shell falling in the midst of the enemy with such rapidity as to cause them to fire in confusion. Graham's battery fired a shell which exploded in the midst of a body