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Enfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): article 2
New Kent (Virginia, United States) (search for this): article 2
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Affairs on the Peninsula.
Information from the Peninsula is up to Saturday last.
The Yankee advance pickets were six miles from Williamsburg.
During the retreat about 20,000 passed over the route by Diaskon bridge, and stripped the whole country through which they traveled of everything like provisions for man and beast.
Their wagons were driven into the fields, the corn pulled and loaded up, and then they would drive on. What they could not take they destroyed.
At Eltham they fired a burn containing 500 bushels of wheat, after first sprinkling the floor with sulphur to render it more combustible.
They burned Mrs. Caroline Christian's house, at the Forge, in New Kent, and Wm. A. Blayton's house, near Diaskon bridge, was also destroyed. --Several houses in the vicinity were tern down, and the timber used to rebuild the bridge which had been tern up by our troops in their retreat from Yorktown.
Among those who left with the Yankees were M. C. Gilman, of the 3d Virginia cavalr
Beverley Anderson (search for this): article 2
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