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The Daily Dispatch: May 28, 1864., [Electronic resource], Late Northern news. (search)
strations of the enemy since our last report have been expected for several days past. --These movements are, however believed to be mere feints to cover their heat weakness. Two deserters, belonging to the 41st New York regiment stationed on Folly Island, came into our lines last week and reported that an expedition against James's Island had been projected, and that an attack might be expected the first favorable night. The plan, as they learned, was for the light draft gunboats and monitorsr would admit. They were then to shell the island while the troops in barges landed, under cover of the boats, at or near Grimbell's or Legarc's plantation. The deserters also stated that there were only about eleven hundred effective men on Folly Island, under the command of Brig Gen Semmelting. Great dissatisfaction existed among the troops, the greater majority of whom were foreigners and substitutes, whose term of service expires in June. They had been promised seven hundred to a thousan