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maunder of the Department of Virginia and North Carolina.
It is perhaps proper to add that this was done at the instance, and by the particular request, of Lieutenant-General Grant, the General-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States.
Successful raid by General Rosser--capture of Beverly and the Yankee garrison.
A telegram from Wheeling, dated on Thursday, says:
We learn the garrison at Beverly, West Virginia, were attacked on the morning of the 11th by a force of the enemy, under General Rosser, and the town and a large portion of the force defending it were captured.
The number of the enemy not stated.
A later dispatch confirms the above, but states that the rebels have again retreated whence they came.
From Grant's Army.
A telegram from City Point, of the 11th, says:
All remains quiet in front, although rumors begin to float about that Lee is contemplating some movement or other, but what that movement is, no outsiders can imagine.