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The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Yankee raid on the Petersburg and Weldon Railroad. (search)
ersburg Express, has not been reached at any point by the vandals, and the trains are running regularly through as usual. It is stated that Gen. Matt. W. Ransom, now commanding the Confederate forces in the vicinity of Weldon and Garysburg, made a narrow escape from capture on Tuesday afternoon. The General and a portion of his staff were sitting in the porch of the hotel at Jackson, Northampton county, not dreaming of Yankees, as our pickets were far in advance, when two dozen or more Lincoln horsemen, who had been piloted through a by path, suddenly dashed up and attempted to surround the hotel. The General speedily mounted his horse, and, several of his aids following the example, all made good their escape except Captain Colvert, of the Commissary Department, who was captured. Several bullets whizzed in dangerous proximity to the General's head and body, but he escaped unhurt.--Before our forces could be brought up the Yankees had suddenly departed by the same route they ca
The Daily Dispatch: July 31, 1863., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
negroes. They took some prisoners and slaughtered many. Bayonets clashed and muskets rattled, and the Massachusetts blacks got bewildered. They barely saved one of their flags and the staff of another, and then, with thinned ranks, retreated through the showers of iron bail, leaving their Colonel in the fort, many officers unaccounted for and many black bodies lifeless or disabled along their track. The New York Tribune denounces the attack as a failure and a disaster, and calls upon Lincoln to ascertain who is the responsible officer. The position of the two armies repulse of the Federal at Chester Gap A Washington dispatch states that on the 22d inst., while Longstreet. was endeavoring to get into Eastern Virginia, by way of Manassas Gap, Gen. A P. Hill's corps took possession of Chester Gap and repulsed the Federal cavalry who attempted to drive him out. Longstreet's corps afterwards came through the same Gap. The Washington Republican says Lee has managed to carr