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The Daily Dispatch: may 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
ats of the Pamunney. The Philadelphia Inquirer's correspondent writing from "Waterico, New Kent county," Friday, May 16, says: To-day the pickets of the 3d Illinois cavalry advanced to this point, which is six miles by water from White House Point. Here is the residence of a wealthy planter named Braxton Garlick. His residence is built upon a high bluff, in a romantic and beautiful spot. He is as bitter a rebel as is to be found in the country. It was he who had the schooners sunhe Chickahominy. A reconnaissance was at once ordered, and they were found to have all gone, their cavalry pickets retreating whenever we came in sight. They no doubt feared being out off. Some nights since we moved up the whole army near White House Point. We can now open the railroad to within fifteen miles of Richmond. On to Richmond. The welcome face of Old Sol has again made its appearance, and the roads are drying so rapidly that by to morrow they will again be quite dusty. A