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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankees not in force at Suffolk . (search)
The Yankees not in force at Suffolk.
The Raleigh Register is informed by a gentleman street from Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Va, that the Yankees have left Suffolk, and that it is supposed they have moved down to North Carolina, Weldon and Wilmington are the real points of danger.
The force of Suffolk, he says, at no time numbered more than fifteen thousand.
Skirmish in Isle of Wight county. Petersburg Dec. 24.
--On Monday Gen. Roger A. Pryor, with a small detachment, attacked a Yankee force of several hundred stationed at Isle of Wight C. H. to protect the election of a Representative to the Abolition Congress.
At the first charge Gen. Dix's protectors fled in great confusion, and were chased ten miles at full speed.
Our loss was trifling.
Gen. Pryor and his men afterwards visited Smithfield.
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1863., [Electronic resource], Yankee movements on the Seaboard . (search)
Yankee movements on the Seaboard.
Two hundred Federal cavalry advanced as far as Windsor, on the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad, Sunday, and camped at that point Sunday night. Windsor is in Isle of Wight county, about twelve miles from Ivor.
It is also stated that an entire brigade of the enemy, consist of infantry and artillery, camped at Kelly's, in Nansemond county, seven miles from Suffolk, Sunday night.
Home Ingenuity.
--We were yesterday shown a hat made of rye straw, which, in point of beautiful appearance and elegant finish, we have never seen excelled.
It was made by J. R. Holleman, an invalid soldier from Isle of Wight county, Va., and intended for His Excellency Jefferson Davis.
The number of knots tied in making the hat was 18,500, and we learn that the whole of it was done by the hand.
The straw itself was as fine as an ordinary sized darning-needle.
The Yankees at Smithfield.
--Two Yankee gunboats and one transport landed at Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Va., on Tuesday.
They immediately sent fifty men ashore, who quickly spread themselves over the town and arrested several citizens, but these were released in a few hours, upon condition that they would not bear arms against the Lincoln Government.
As these men are all beyond the conscript age, such a requirement was altogether unnecessary.
At a late hour on Tuesday evening the Yankee visitors had not retired.
The object of this visit has not transpired, but it is generally believed to have been organized at Fortress Monroe by Beast-Butler.
The Daily Dispatch: February 3, 1864., [Electronic resource], Handsome affair near Smithfield .--capture of Yankees and Destruction of a gunboat. (search)
Handsome affair near Smithfield.--capture of Yankees and Destruction of a gunboat.
On Sunday last a gunboat came up Pagan creek in Isle of Wight county, and landed twenty five cavalry, two pieces of artillery, and one hundred and fifty infantry at Smithfield.
The parties composing this expedition had instructions to march across the country to Cherry Grove, on Chuckatuck creek, and capture the Confederate pickets there.
In the meantime the Yankee gunboat was to go around and meet the Yankees at Cherry Grove.
At Scott's factory, four or five miles from Smithfield, the invaders were by about seventy five Confederate cavalry, when a skirmish , and the Yankee back to Smithfield, losing prisoners.
At Smithfield they were the aid of their gunboat, it having to Cherry Grove, and our men, being attacked and captured the whole not a man hart of the Yankees killed and two or A telegram from Col. Station states in addition to that the gunboat Smith was attacked by the Confede
Arrivals at the Libby.
--One hundred and nine Yankee prisoners, captured near Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, a few days since, arrived in this city yesterday, and were taken to the Libby prison, where they will remain till further disposed of. Forty more of them, taken on the same expedition, will be brought here to-day.
The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1864., [Electronic resource], A Peace meeting in North Carolina . (search)
Another Arrival of Yankees.
--One hundred and eighty-three Yankee prisoners arrived at the Libby prison yesterday, five of whom were negroes.
These fellows were captured in North Carolina, Bristol, Tenn., and near Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, Va.
The enemy in James river.
--A Yankee gunboat visited the farm of Mrs. Robert Wilson, near the Stone House on the south side of James river, Isle of Wight county, last Tuesday, and the crew committed such depredations on the promises as to completely deprive the owner of the means of subsistence for some time to come.
They burnt the corn crib, with its contents, killed all the sheep, mules and horses, and carried off fifteen negroes, every one owned by Mrs. W. except a miller, who fled on the approach of the enemy, and a woman, who was too sick to be removed.
The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Retirement of the enemy from the Blackwater region. (search)
The Retirement of the enemy from the Blackwater region.
It is stated upon authority deemed reliable that the force of the enemy which was at Suffolk and in the Blackwater region last week have nearly all returned to Fortress Konrad.
During their visit to that section they committed the usual depredations which attend their raids, and carried off and destroyed a considerable amount of property.
While at Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, they entered the residence of Mr. Frederick Cowper, and stole the library of his brother, R. C. P. Cowper, who is now the Lieutenant Governor of the Pierpont Government.--They also carried of from this place about one hundred negroes.
On Thursday morning a fight occurred on the farm of Mr. Wronn, near Burwell's Bay, between a force of the Yankees numbering some 300 or 400, who had landed at the latter point, and a few Confederates who had been gathered together by Major Milligan, of the Signal Corps, and Capt. Causey, of the In this eng