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The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], A salute in Honor of the victory. (search)
their way to the Battery and other points of observation. Many supposed that the great Yankee mortar fleet had arrived, and that the grand fight and struggle for the city had commenced. Others again asserted positively that a sanguinary contest had taken place on the island in which the enemy had again been driven back with great loss of life. Things soon became quiet, however, on learning the facts, and the fighting spirit which had been thoroughly aroused calmed down, and almost as quickly disappeared as it had risen. The following is a copy of the dispatch: Richmond, June 30, 1862. Major-General Pemberton: --Announce to your forces that after two days hard fighting the enemy have abandoned their camps, and are in full retreat, closely pursued by our army, under General Lee. They attempted to destroy their stores, but left their tents standing, and large quantities of their stores have been captured and saved. Prisoners are rapidly coming in. G. W. Randolph.
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], A salute in Honor of the victory. (search)
Yankee Raids in Southwestern Virginia. A band of Yankees entered Scott and Lee counties, Va. last week, taking possession of Jonesville, the county seat of Lee, and pursuing and capturing some twenty citizens of the place who had fled, carrying off the mails from the Post-Office, and everything of value in the town that was portable. They took $20,000 of property from Captain D. S. Dickinson, including eleven slaves. About 400 of them are now encamped four miles from the place.
The Daily Dispatch: July 7, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
ain the enormous fire under which our men were borne down and swept away, precisely as some of the regiments were swept away at the Seven Pines. On the Confederate side, it is estimated that full sixty thousand men took part in the action. Gen. Lee is known to have been in command, and under him Generals Hill, Anderson and Branch. It was late at night when the firing ceased. As this is written it is now past midnight. Bodied of the dead cover the hill-sides and fill the fastnesses owith the main portion of his army; that- 30,000 men had been sent to Jackson, and that Jackson with these reinforcements, and the men he already had, would at once attack our right flank, about Mechanicsville, and get around into our rear, while Gen. Lee, with the main Confederate army, would at the same time make a desperate attack in front. These protects are stated substantially in the letter intercepted. The Depot of the White House. [From the N. Y. Express, June 30, third edition