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The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1862., [Electronic resource], of the enemy on the Pamunkey (search)
of the enemy on the Pamunkey New Kent, May 9, 1862. To the Editors of the Dispatch: Presuming that any tidings at this time from this section of country would be admissible to your excellent journal, I send you the following scrap relative to the Pamunkey river: Early on the morning of the 7th the first, and so far as I am at present informed, the only Yankee gunboat that has been in that river, came some distance up. As soon as possible after the evacuation of Yorktown, Capt. Carrington, of the Quartermaster's Department, Lieut. Tapscott, Mr. McDonald, and Lieut. Gilmer, of the Engineers, commenced obstructing the stream at Cook's Island, about two miles below Cumberland and ten below the White House. They used a portion of the vessels that had been used at Yorktown by the Government, loading them heavily with stone and dirt. On the morning of the 7th the work had not been quite completed. Two vessels remained to be sunk. News came that a gunboat was appr