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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)
he had captured, but released the privates after going a short distance. The officers of the Court Martial, which he captured in the neighborhood, including Lieut.-Col. Jone, Capts. Page and Dement, and Lt. Garber and others, all their escape. A Lieutenant in Capt. Dance's battery, found near Federick Hall, was carried off a prisoner. The Departure of the raiders. The fate of Kilpatrick's command was a matter of great anxiety to the Yankees on the Peninsula. On Wednesday last Col. Spears, 11th Pennsylvania cavalry, cause up to Tunstall's Station three times to meet Kilpatrick, and finding he had not arrived went back. The last time they came up they met him, and falling in with him protected his rear on his way down the Peninsula.--Col. Bradley Johnson, with his gallant body of men, who had been hammering at Kilpatrick's column, then found Dahlgren in his own rear wills a largely superior force, and turned upon him. Had he had a larger force he would have captured them,
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.
declaring that they knew nothing about Burnside. They were brought up to Petersburg. The conflicting accounts they give of Burnside would indicate that they are spies, and have deserted for the sole purpose of deceiving our officers as to Burnside's movements. Information from a gentleman who was within five miles of Portsmouth on Wednesday night states that Burnside's forces were janding in large numbers at Portsmouth all day Wednesday. The enemy hold Suffolk, and have sent out forest in every direction. They now occupy every road leading to that town. A large force, estimated by some to number between three and four thousand, quartered at Philips's Mill Thursday night, nine miles this side of Suffolk; one thousand stayed at Hardy Chapman's, one mile from Zatil, on the Norfolk and Petersburg road, the same night and a party who was at Wind or went off Thursday night in the direction of Franklin. Spears is said to be also operating in the direction of Franklin.
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)
In addition to the troops he furnished Gen. Graham, Gen. Heckman also dispatched three different expeditions from points along the Suffolk railroad to cooperate with the navy. A force under Col. Keese was sent across the Nansemond, while Lieut. Col. Hetzel, of the 11th Penn cavalry, was sent with a large force of cavalry to take a position at Ivor Station, about forty miles from Suffolk, on the Norfolk and Petersburg railroad. In addition to these two expeditions, a large force under Co Spears, composed of infantry and cavalry, were ordered to march from suffolk and effect a junction with the navy at Milnorstown, on the Nansemond. They were unable to effect the object and did not reach the point until the navy had retired, although they made an infantry march of fifteen miles in four hours. An attempt to shoot a negro picket, made by a secession farmer, outside of Suffolk, failed in a most unfortunate manner for the perpetrator. He was pretending to use the hoe in one of hi
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
r of Petersburg — the Explosion of a Gunboat, &c. The noted Yankee marauder, Spears, had an exceedingly rough time of it after burning the railroad bridge at Stonyetty well riddled with shot. Flushed with his easy success at Stony Creek, Spears pushed on, crossed Nottoway river, evidently making for the Mcherrin bridge, ander the command of Col. Tabb, had reached Nottoway river bridge, and upon Spears's return they were prepared to receive him. A severe battle ensued, which laste thereby saved. The enemy also burnt Sussex C. H. It is now believed that Spears is on his return to Suffolk or Norfolk, to make report of his brilliant operations to headquarters. On Monday, at 12 o'clock, Spears and his command were at the farm of Major B. W. Belsches's, in Sussex county, about 12 or 14 miles from Stol his our-house, and committed many other depredations. It is also stated that Spears's ire was particularly excited against Maj. B. because he had heard that it was
The Daily Dispatch: May 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], The movements on Richmond — the fighting around Richmond. (search)
to be about 3,000, and it is believed that they have gone up to cut the Richmond and Danville Railroad, and perhaps to keep on to the canal. The Spears raid upon Petersburg — it Marches to city Point. We have some further particulars of Spears's raid on the rear of Petersburg. On Monday, after burning Maj. Belsches's mill and dwelling, and every out-house on his plantation, they proceeded to the premises of Mr. Niblett, not far distant, when they burnt that gentleman's mill, but did n of wounds received in the fight at Nottoway river or Jarratt's. He was evidently an officer of note, or his body would have been buried where he died. In this connection it may be interesting to state, that our troops heard at Jarratt's that Col. Spears himself was mortally wounded. The enemy burnt the entire village at Jarratt's, except a small dilapidated building, occupied by an aged widow lady. In this case, the claims of humanity were for once regarded, even by Yankee hearts, and th
d water tank. We learn from a telegram from Mr. Jas L Morrow, the Superintendent of the telegraph line on the road, who started on an engine yesterday morning to repair the damage to the line, that they left Powhatan for the Mattoax bridge, over the Appomattox river, 27½ miles from Richmond, and that heavy firing was heard there yesterday afternoon. There was a force of infantry and artillery stationed there to protect the iron bridge over the river. The cavalry is under the command of Spears, of the 11th Pa. regiment, who had just gotten through with an attempted raid to the rear of Petersburg, and got a whipping for the attempt. Free Gen. Lee's Army. The only intelligence received from Gen. Lee's army yesterday was the following dispatch from the correspondent of the Associated Press, which, by the cutting of the telegraph wives, had to come a very circuitous route. It will be seen that it is not later than Gen. Lee's last dispatch, and refers to the same fight allude