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The Daily Dispatch: May 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rom the front, as late as 1 o'clock P. M., represent that there was no general engagement up to that time. Lieut Gen. Longstreet's condition to-day is reported as much improved. There was some cannonading on the extreme right and left during the morning; but it amounted to nothing of importance. A negro soldier, an infantry man, the first ever captured by this army, was taken near Brandy Station yesterday, and brought in here to-day. He says that he belongs to the 27th Ohio, Burnside's corps. The enemy have been fortifying all day, as if to provoke Gen. Lee to attack him. [fourth Dispatch.] Orange C. H., May 8. --Advices from the front to sunrise this morning report that there was no general engagement yesterday — only heavy skirmishing. The impression prevailed last night that the enemy were falling back towards Culpeper or Fredericksburg. The negro troops occupying Brandy Station advanced out to Culpeper Court-House Friday and occupied it. Yest