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The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], The armies below Richmond. (search)
The armies below Richmond. Very little is known of the relative positions of the Confederate and Federal forces below Richmond. There has been no operations of a startling character, and the impression generally obtains that there is no immediate probability of an encounter between the two armies. There was a rumor yesterday to the effect that the enemy's main force had evacuated the position recently held by them at Berkeley, and moved on down the river. This is probably true, and although the War Department has no authentic intelligence of the fact, it is generally conceded that probabilities tend to confirm the report. Before another advance on Richmond — if another is ever attempted — McClellan must reorganize his army, and it is scarcely to be supposed that he would select a point so remote from the seacoast as Berkeley for this purpose. It is much more likely that he will, permitted to do so, withdraw his army from the swamps and marshes of Charles City, where unhe