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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: April 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Retirement of the enemy from the Blackwater region. (search)
eir visit to that section they committed the usual depredations which attend their raids, and carried off and destroyed a considerable amount of property. While at Smithfield, Isle of Wight county, they entered the residence of Mr. Frederick Cowper, and stole the library of his brother, R. C. P. Cowper, who is now the Lieutenant Governor of the Pierpont Government.--They also carried of from this place about one hundred negroes. On Thursday morning a fight occurred on the farm of Mr. Wronn, near Burwell's Bay, between a force of the Yankees numbering some 300 or 400, who had landed at the latter point, and a few Confederates who had been gathered together by Major Milligan, of the Signal Corps, and Capt. Causey, of the In this engagement we had one man wounded and one (Capt. Chas. Spruill) taken prisoner. The enemy had five or six killed and from fifteen to twenty wounded. A Yankee officer was killed in attempting to cause Pag in Creek in a barge, with a view of communicat