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The Daily Dispatch: December 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], More of the Abolition Raid in Gloucester — the gunboats on York river. (search)
it was very large. The Yankees loaded a wagon with the valuable material and took two of Mr. Reed's horses to draw it away. They then piled up all that remained, with the tanbark which was found in abundance, and net it on fire. At the usual exportion prices of leather, it is said, the quantity destroyed would amount to over $30,000 worth. The party of the enemy that visited Centreville in King and Queen county, numbered not more than eighteen and might all have been captured by Capt. Littleton's men, had they not taken them off in consequence of alarming reports of numerical strength brought in by pickets. We hear that some friendly rifle sent a bullet through the leg of a Yankee picket near Wood's Cross Roads. Mr. John T. Seawell, who was arrested upon the supposition that he was getting up a company of "guerrillas," was released in a short time, though we know not upon what conditions. It is safe enough to presume that he did not compromise his well known Southern s