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The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North (search)
eded, however, in reaching the shore at the point where the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers form the York. They unexpectedly came across some pickets here, whom they supposed rebels, but the Lieutenant who was in command of them recognizing Captain Oakley as an old friend, their tolls were brought to a close.--They were furnished with horses here and taken to Williamsburg, where they were treated with the utmost kindness by Col. Campbell, of the Fifth Pennsylvania. Next day they went to Jamestown Island, where they took boats for Gen. McClellan's headquarters. They gave him some very valuable information, and received furloughs to go home and recruit their health. Disbanding Hunter's negro brigade in South Carolina. The Northern papers give the following account of the disbanding of the negro brigade raised at Port Royal, S. C., by Gen. Hunter: The negro brigade, organized by Gen. Hunter, has proved an unmitigated failure. Out of eight hundred contrabands on the muster