Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1864-04-22
GONE BACK to. FORTRESS MONROE.

GONE BACK TIC, FORTRESS MONROE.
The Petersburg Express" states that near
ly or quite oil Of the Yankee forces, who wcro
marauding about the country between Suf-
folk, Va, and the ~Blackwater, last Thursday,
have returned to Fortress Monroe. The "Ex.
press" says:
Their object seems to have beon very def
| nitcly explained in ono particular. They
| stole and carried CT everything of value, and
what they could not carry of was broken to
| pieces aud otherwise destroyed. They en-
torcd Suffolk bowling like demons, opened
and searched private dwellings, destroyed
furniture aud stole clothing. The workshops,
but few in number, were broken open, and
| oil the tools destroyed.
Az Smithtcld, besides other depredations,
| thoY broke into tho residence of Mr.. Fred.
Cowpcr, and stole tho valuable library of his
brother, Leopold C. P. Cowper, who long
since deserted his country, and is now Lieu.
tenant Governor OF Virginia, under P%ierpont's
bogus government. From Smithfeld, q gon.
| tloman who left the .alace since the Yankees
depnrtcd, informs uB they carried OF about
ono hundred negroes. lie says alGp, that
here they killed and devoured all the fowls
| they had stolen in their march from Chucka-
tuck and Cherry Grove, and their camping
ground looked es though several feather beds
had been Smpticd thereon.
The fight in Wren's field, referred to in our
last, was continued for four hours, and the Yam
KEGS finally iesisted from any further attempt to
advance, and sought the protection of their gun.
boats. They numbered between four hundred
ind five hundred men, and consisted of tho Dbl
Massachusetts, under the command of Colonel
EllsU crth, of Salem, Massachusetts. Captain
| Causey, of the Scouts, Lieut.. Woodley aud Major
Milliean, Of The Signal Corps all participated
Serg't Henniss, OF Capt. Noises 7th Confedor.
ate cavalry, was wouaded in the wrist, and Capt
Charles Spruiil, Of North Carolina, was taken
prisoner. We killed some five or six of the
enemy, ana wounded some eighteen to twenty
Among tho killed WIS All officer, supposed to be-
long 10 the Minnesota. He was endeavoriIe tO
cross Pagan Creek in II barge, for the purpose OF
communicating with Gen. Graham. Gen e,
complained very much to tho citizens of Smith
| fi.ld, about the "bushwhackers" who, he said
were i~nCesting that section Of country, and
deeply lsnenteL the death of the officer who
WAS killed in the barge.
1t il thought by gentlsmen from the lower
country who came up last evening, that Burn.
sides expedition haan0 yet left Annapolis, and
| thai these parties were sent ont last week only
~s 'fcclers," to Ascertain what Confederate force
there was in that section. In the meantime, they
stole valuables, only to keep their hands in. and
to satisfy their thiavins propensities. These
gentlemen think further, that if Burnside doe:
come up the Soutlside of james river, he viii
land above the mouth of the Appomattox river
probably Mt Bermuda Hundreds. This, however
is mere conjecture, and must DO received IL
such only.
1t may be II matter of some interest 10 men.
| ton, that the force at Snlithield Thursday, con
sisted of the 18th Massachusetts, u Michigan Hut
a Wisconsin regiment, and II New Jersery Bate
r. and that tho 9th Massachusetts was doing
duty not long since al Charleston, South Carroll