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The Daily Dispatch: February 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs on the York Peninsula. (search)
Affairs on the York Peninsula. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] On the York River,January 31st. 1864. Thirteen of our cavalry were taken on Thursday night last, in Gloucester county, at a frolic or party at the house of a Mr. Sincwar, than when all her soldiers and other citizens were at home. A regular trade is carried on with the Yankees across York river. From all I can learn, scarcely a night passes that boats do not pass through the swash, to merchants in York county. t three days. It is reported, and stated on good authority, that one hundred and eleven torpedoes have been planted in the York, Mattaponi, and Pamunky rivers. The Yankees are quite shy how they come up. A gunboat was two hours one day last week coming from Bigler's to Capphosic, about four miles. There is no fun in being blown sky high. They say one exploded in York river that threw a volume of water as large as the Capitol one hundred and fifty feet in the air. So, a Yankee blown up by one,