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The Daily Dispatch: February 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], The raiding expedition up the Peninsula . (search)
The raiding expedition up the Peninsula.
We are enabled, through a scout who captured two soldiers of the raiding force which came up the Peninsula on Sunday, to give a reliable statement of the regiments engaged in the expedition.
The white infantry consisted of the 118th, 139th, and 148th New York regiments.
The negro infantry of the 4th and 6th Maryland and 5th Pennsylvania regiments.
The cavalry force was under command of Col. Onderdonk, and included the 1st New York Mounted Rifles, Col. Dodge; the 11th Penn., Col. Spears; the 5th Penn., the 3d and 20th New York, the 1st District of Columbia, (negro,) mounted and armed with sixteen shooter revolving rifles, and another company from Washington city.
The artillery consisted of four batteries (16 pieces) of 12 pounder guns.
The whole expedition is supposed to have numbered 10,000 men, and was piloted by Wilson, Thomas, and another deserter from our army.
Gen. Wistar was in command of the whole force.
The Daily Dispatch: March 7, 1864., [Electronic resource], More of the raid — the division of Kilpatrick 's command . (search)
The enemy in Suffolk.
--The enemy have occupied Suffolk in force.
There are three regiments of infantry, one of which is negro, and five companies of cavalry.
Col. Spears commands the entire force.
This is the famous Spears that attempted a raid on Weldon last year, but retreated when he found out that Gen. Matt Ransom had artillery.
Affairs in Gloucester. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Gloucester Co., Va., April 13.
The Yankee in this region are troublesome, Spears's cavalry, stationed at Glouster Point, have made several raids through the county recently, stealing and destroying the actual necessaries of life from the defenceless inhabitants.
The gunboats continue their usual voyages up York over as far as West Point.
Last week a deserter, named Woodard, from the Gloucester Light Dragoons, escorted by several marines, burnt a barn, filled with grain, belonging to Lieut Leavitt, of same company.
Large fleets of Eastern vessels are busily engaged stealing oysters, Brig Gen.
Wistar, commanding at Yorktown, informs the citizens that for every vessel that is destroyed by our troops he (Gen Wistar) intends retaliating by applying the torch to some peaceful dwelling located on the river.
Surely the condition of the Gloucester people is heart-rending. A. J. A.
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], Capture of Plymouth , N. C. --Twenty-five hundred prisoners and thirty pieces of artillery taken. (search)
The enemy on the York Peninsula.
We learn from a gentleman who came up Saturday from Gloucester that the country people estimate the number of troops at and around Gloucester Point at 25,000.--This is, of course, an exaggeration, though it is true that a large number of troops have been landed there lately, many having been sent over from Yorktown.
The river is full of steam transports, plying to and fro. A regiment of negro troops and Spears's 11th Penn. cavalry were up as far as Gloucester Court House last week.
A brigade of negro troops are at the Williamsburg Landing, on York river.
Much trouble has been caused the Yankees by the explosion of torpedoes, which are in the oyster beds.
A few rakes of the oyster tongs blow up boat, dredger, and all. Week before last a coasting canoe was blown up, one man killed and two drowned. This unexpected disaster has nearly put an end to Yankee oyster fishing.
They had threatened to burn a house for every vessel that was blown up b
The Daily Dispatch: May 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], Contraband — their Sad fate. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements on Richmond — the fighting around Richmond . (search)