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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1862., [Electronic resource], Attack on our pickets — affairs on the Peninsula. (search)
Lemuel J. Bowden, left Williamsburg, went to Washington, and complained that the military commander of the "Old Burg" was too lenient to our citizens, and that he ought to be removed. On his return, he was walking quietly down the street, consoles of having accomplished his ends, when some Yankees fell to and gave him such a handsome drubbing that it is thought he will, as of old, have to keep his house for several weeks. A few weeks since a steamer arrived in Pungoteague creek, in Accomac, Va., from the Eastern shore of Maryland, with troops to be landed there, to keep the Virginians down and guard the two counties on that side the Chesapeake; but, lo and behold! the Marylanders refused to go on shore, stating "that they would not fight against Virginia, and that they had only been enrolled as a home guard." The commander of the steamer could neither persuade nor force them ashore, so he had to telegraph to Fortress Monroe to know what to do. After waiting two days, a steam tu