The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Franklin in Southampton.

--The Petersburg Express publishes a letter from Col. Marshall commanding at Franklin Southampton county, Va., in which he says the enemy had been driven back on the having attacked him in the morning with gunboats, and made a demonstration on his front in the evening. The Express says:

‘ Arizona , it was said that Graham's battery, of the bay, had suffered severely. Inquiries made minority quarter yesterday where we thought it possible to obtain information, failed to furnish any satisfactory details. We hear that three gunboats came up to Blackwater river, and fired several shot and shell; that they were replied to by Graham's battery, and finally repulsed. We hear, also, that our sharpshooters along the banks of the river annoyed the crews of the gunboats very much, and that six of the vandals are known to have been killed.

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