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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1863., [Electronic resource], The movements around Richmond. (search)
der to avoid arrest, he traded his Yankee uniform to a negro for a cornfield suit, with which he made his way through the Yankee lines. He says that Dix's whole force has not at any time exceeded fifteen thousand, about ten thousand of which were infantry, and the remainder artillery and cavalry. The Fredericksburg train brought down 17 Yankee prisoners, captured in the neighborhood of South Anna bridge on Sunday morning. They were a part of the force that committed the depredations at Ashland on Saturday night. A citizen of King William, who has been exiled from his home since its occupation by the band of marauders under Dix, went on a scout to that county on Monday last, and obtained some interesting particulars of the whereabouts and movements of the Yankee army of plunderers. His statement is that their headquarters are at Mangohick Church, and that their squads of thieves are scattered throughout the county, taking whatever they can find, and destroying what is not co