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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], The wheat crop in East Tennessee. (search)
t, Dr. Philip Corbin, and Richard Hozier, were held as prisoners at Suffolk when last heard from, the two former sick in the hospital. Several skirmishes occurred during last week with the Yankee cavalry, infantry, and artillery kept on the Blackwater, which did credit to our soldiers. Col. Baker, with only one or two companies of his cavalry dismounted, held a large force back at Franklin, and finally repulsed them, with heavy loss on their side and no loss on ours. The notorious Col. Speare, of the 11th Pennsylvania cavalry, was slightly wounded and his horse killed under him, while his Orderly was killed by his side. Col. Baker and his men acted very gallantly in this affair. As usual, in this raid much private property was destroyed. The houses of J. W. and Wm. Lawrence, Mrs. Nancy Daughtrey, John Andrews, and Mrs. Wiley Watkins, were burned. We also learn that Western Branch Baptist Church has been burned. The large number of refugees in this city from Suffolk an