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The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], The war Movements. (search)
ss' regiment arrived here this morning from Boston, but proceeded on to Washington without landing. The original destination of this regiment was Fortress Monroe. The Massachusetts 3d and 4th regiments are under orders to march tomorrow morning.--They will probably entrench themselves beyond Hampton bridge, and form the advance of an important movement towards York town. Their time will expire in about three weeks. The Naval Brigade will probably accompany them to Hampton. J. W. Bennett, of the 1st Regiment of Vermont, died yesterday, at the hospital, of typhus fever. Over one hundred sick are now in the hospital. A large number of fugitive slaves have come in to-day. The Confederates this morning fired two or three shots from a new battery on James river, directly opposite Newport News. [The foregoing paragraph concerning "fugitive slaves." will attract the attention of every reader. Butler's vandals, in fact, seize all the negroes they can lay their ha