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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: April 28, 1864., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Nelson or search for Nelson in all documents.
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From Northern Virginia. Orange C. H, April 27.
--Mosby surprised a picket post of forty men at Hunter's Mill, in Fairfax county, on Friday last, capturing six men and eighteen horses.
The rest escaped.
During the day the enemy pursued Mosby, recapturing four horses, and taking prisoner Lieut. Hunter, commanding company A, and wounding Lieut Nelson, of the same company.
A fight between Mosby and the Yankees occurred at Leesburg Monday week, in which the Yankees lost three killed and seven wounded. All the Yankees have left the Valley, the most of them coming to reinforce Meade.
Averill has gone to Southwest Virginia on a raid.
Meade is receiving reinforcements over the Alexandria railroad.
Two hundred dollars reward.
--For the delivery of Nelson to my overseer at Colly Swim, a Hanover, or to me. I will give one hundred dollar if taken in the limits of the county, or two hundred if taken out of the county.
He is 5 feet 9 inches high, 32 years old, very dark, with small eyes, (sometimes sore,) and has lost part of one if before fingers.
He may be in Richmond, or his way to the enemy's lines. S. Fontains Beaver dam, April 25, 1864. ap 27--