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The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee cavalry raid. (search)
train of freight cars, and some buildings.--At Peake's Station, on the Central railroad, they cut the telegraph wires, and probably inflicted some damage upon the road. They proceeded on yesterday morning to the famous Meadow Bridges, on the Chickahominy, a locality which their army evacuated in great haste on a former occasion. The Chicahominy it here crossed by the Central railroad, and it happened that about the time of their visit yesterday, the locomotive "Augusta," with Conductor Phillips and Engineer Crone, was approaching the spot on a reconnoitering expedition. The Yankees had the locomotive nearly surrounded before they were discovered, but the conductor and engineer succeeded in effecting their escape through the swamp. Two negroes remained with the locomotive, but afterwards escaped and got back to the city. The Yankees sat fire to the bridge, which is an inconsiderable structure, and as it burnt the engine was precipitated into the water. The "Augusta" is an old
The Daily Dispatch: May 5, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Prince of Wales. (search)
One hundred dollars reward. --I will give the above reward of $100 for the apprehension and delivery to me in Richmond of a negro boy named James, hired for the present year to James Hunter, Esq. Said boy is about years old of a gingerbread color, and very intelligent, and when spoken to rather looks down to the ground. I think it probably he can passed himself off an a free boy, and hired himself to some officer or connected with the battalion around town. He (James) belongs to Mr. Wm. A Buckner of Caroline county, Va. where he was making his way. Wm. S. Phillips. [ap 26--5t*]