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The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee depredations in Mathews county. (search)
ng officer, he was told that if he could point out the man who had the watch it should be returned. The guilty party was at once designated, but by the officer, who was as great a thief as himself, was permitted to lie out of the scrape, and retain the watch. They extended their raid into Middlesex, where they captured Lieut. Harvey, who was at home on furlough. About the same time a body of cavalry from Hooker's command, numbering some 600, went down into the Northern Neck, and plundered the citizens of Northumberland, Lancaster, and Westmoreland, stealing and destroying everything in their route. The people are very much discouraged by these repeated outrages, and are clamorous for protection. They think that a few hundred Confederate cavalry would effectually shield them from these plunderers. On Thursday the enemy captured a blockade running schooner in the Rappahannock river, about six miles above Urbana. She had a large stock of different kinds of goods on board.
The Daily Dispatch: May 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankees in King George and Westmoreland. (search)
Yankees in King George and Westmoreland. A correspondent, writing from Port Royal under date of the 21st, states that the Yankees have withdrawn their pickets from Port Conway, just opposite Port Royal; but scouting parties appeared there almost daily. A courier had just arrived, bringing information that five Yankee gunboats had come up to Layton's Ferry, in Westmoreland, about 15 miles below Port Royal. He also stated that about 1,000 Yankee cavalry were encamped in Westmoreland, just t, states that the Yankees have withdrawn their pickets from Port Conway, just opposite Port Royal; but scouting parties appeared there almost daily. A courier had just arrived, bringing information that five Yankee gunboats had come up to Layton's Ferry, in Westmoreland, about 15 miles below Port Royal. He also stated that about 1,000 Yankee cavalry were encamped in Westmoreland, just opposite Layton's, and that they were committing many depredations upon the country adjacent to that point.