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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Further from the North. (search)
operation of military rule, the peninsula has been pretty well cleared of the more valuable portion of the slave property — those who are left generally being either of ancient or very tender and juvenile age, neither of which are of much profit. Practical emancipation has taken place, and those who have not availed themselves of its benefits are of the class who are either too old, to young, or too shiftless to do so. This morning one of the rebel sympathizers of this place, named Robert Coles, was arrested by the order of the Provost Marshal, and at his residence was found a quantity of ammunition and some arms. It is stated that he was busily engaged yesterday in running bullets while our troops were passing through the town. The avowed purpose of these preparations was to stop the departure of the contrabands after the expected withdrawal of our forces. At an early hour this morning the march was resumed, and continued in an orderly manner until Yorktown was reached.