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The Daily Dispatch: December 9, 1864., [Electronic resource], Twelve Hundred and fifty Dollars reward. (search)
The War news.
We hear nothing more of the crossing of the enemy to the south bank of James river, near Battery Howlett, and therefore believe it certain that, if any force crossed at that point, it was an insignificant one, and not designed to effect any important result.
From all we have been able to gather, we think it-likely that a small party, in barges, engaged in the interesting, but perilous business of torpedo-hunting, took advantage of the leg of Wednesday morning and came over from Cox's landing to the south bank; and being seen when the leg had partially cleared away, their numbers were very considerably magnified until the story assumed the round proportions with which it reached the city, namely, that a heavy force of the enemy had succeeded in making a landing between Howlett's and Drewry's Bluff.
Yesterday passed off quietly on the lines south of the city, the report circulated yesterday morning that "a general battle was going on all along the lines" being