The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Fayetteville, N.C.) 1864-186?, 1864-03-01
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synnse q " nee roached 85tta.n's bridge, VS.
/ .t.nde IS a movement against nictmond,
and hat tie plan was 20 surprise the city. b. /
II. s-I'l miss Of the Increment, and to lioe-
rate the nike prisoners confined thoTe.
Tie ,rtcnlar OF the movement are given !
by q c1rreSt ondent II the Tribune Who &C |
com Ia"iec: tie expedition. lie writes as fol-
lows from Fortress I7aroe
I'.:a *. c}.:io, 5-Yiry returned, we are
1e: ta;tt@t . STAT ~ t,iiov.las t,-ts: On
=. +f.rtaY mora Z General 6i:er forces.
III or co..,::ltll.s + ;;ri@ader-G ner i iFi~tar,
marched from Yorstow.. by way- of Ne:- Zen
Court House. ,ihe cavalry arrived At hait.
last two o'clock yesterday morning 1t 30.
t9s3i's bridge. across thc Chickanonlny, ten
1uile5 from Richmond, for tle purpose tf
making q Eas: into Richmond, aud endeav"tlr
Jag, by Il surprise, to l-c4ratc cur prisoners
there
/ Ihl ca,a'ry re- ch2d ,hc bridge at the time
/ IaIpoi..,el, rn@rci.i. Z, ii sixteen AID haif
81, ~ .. e.=n .n.sos- : force q intanc';
Io.lo wed in tcr re4r, Tor the purpose of sup
p,r-ing them. 1t wts exrected TO surprise the
.arcin7 - Dottot,l'a trliee, who EIad had for
.some time only;t small picket there. Inc sur
prise filled because, IS the Richmond Exami-
Ger Of 10 Gay says, "a Yankee deseTter &aSc
info lnatlan in Richmond Of the intended
GfIiAGttt. l!iG tNtiiy ii'N> 'tiiSt ~ 10. %
amount OF timber SO as to book up and CO.
struct the forJs and make it impossible for
our cavalry to pass After remaining at the
bridge from two clock until twelve, General
iFstar ioincd them with his infantry, and the
! whole OBJECT of the surprise having been de-
tastted Genera. Wistar returned to Williams
burg. Or his march hac|; to New hent Court
iioust, his rear attacked by the enemy,
iut they We're repulse1 without loss to US.
rptrI,,, ,npfS q
HON wer" coloured, Of more than eighty
JljLsS, made in tit.v-six hours. The cav
airy marched over one hundred miles in fifty
hours. This shows that it is possible to make
9 ca npaign il Virginia in winter.
The Iriou3e, il editorial, says:
\ ,liSpatc., informs Us of the return Of az
expedition sent up the Peninsula hy General
=. i5u:ler, under c.,nfnland Of General Nlstdr,
Win tie object # MAXI g q sudden dast. in
. Richmond and releasing cur prisoners.
The expedition was "el! Planned, and made
! with adequate force, ii the enemy, as WAS ex-
I.ectcd had been surprised. It Wms conlpos
tai If he First New orf1 aicuntctl Rifles,
! I'd New York Fifth :'cnnsv vlvania, Eleventh
Fennsyivana. ar.i T~eo4ieth lew York
c.>yatGy, tne One Hundred and Eighteenth
New l5rl volunteers, one iIund. ed ara
tirty ninth New York, ore Squadron Of tEle
un.. Hundred ana Foi} fifth = nw York, thc
Eleventh Connecticut, Re r'p.:ctia, E.itll "a
sixth United States csInuscd troops, ahd 'wo
oatta.i1s of,a-r1iiiery. This force left York
: town on SATURDAY inorn::ikr, and t.sc caVaiTy
,rc>cs1ed i}ottons bridge, on .ae Ch:cAaho-
J :niny, ten miles from iichsnol, on Sunday
.:.caoon, al half past two. :ney- there tcunti
: that lie enemy Aaa been informed ct the eX-
petlit,u:i ana its purpose, an. ''i'a ohstToct-
ed the ford By telling trees. Unable to eros
they waited tnc arrival ofthP infantry and the
al
G further att NUTS t. l.itc; is object. The be
9 tI..yoei Of the plan IS s:tf: ,utsd TO deserteF
L rom our lines. b1t for Ills mistortrne II
.seelns more than probable the eNped ition
l"o-.!a nave occD 4 Complete It
!innwn that but small iorcc was in or near
) sichmond while Lees army was held upon
: the Rapdan by the demonstration Of General
/ oedgwish cn Saturday, which was made for
that purp" Sculpture rs it proves the effort
was creditabe to General Butler and to the
: troops who undertook it.
. The Philadelphia Inquirer laments the fail
: u1e Of the expedition, and says:
It is said that the cackiing ola flock of geese
: once saved the city Of Rome from capture,
. and now 1t appears that deseiter from our
own lines has saved the city of Richmond
: from its well meIied fate a sufficient force
f had been sent on the expedition to have sue
: ceeded, if tie enemy had not been informed
OF the movement III time To ODStruct the pass
age Of the Chichahominy by feiling trees and
y making other preparations to defeat the sud
den dash which Nas intended for the rcalease
I Of our prisoners in Richmond That COM
! paratively small force should have, without
Iany prcmontion of the fact, advanced to
! within ten miles of Richmond is at least some
| thing to talk about, and if it did not happeR
e to be successful, there is no telling what may
be done. General Butler had idea of max
: ing an exchange of prisoners on an original
: plan; finding that the,rebes would not fcome
to him, he thought he would so to them, and
for Ibis audacity they will probably issue an
alias proclamation Of outlawry.
AS moral to this most interesting episode
of tbs war, it may be as we'll to state that
r some day the Yankees will come; and not
only come but stay i! Richmond.
: \ New ALABAAA.-He have information
which leads us to believe that another swift
heeled steamer, armed and equipped for her
peculiar vocation, has made her escape from
British clutches, and is by this time playing
! havoc among the Yankee merchantmen. She
is said to be under the commend of Captain
! North, with Capt. Hamilton, of this State
familiarly known as Jack Hamilton, as first