| From the Mobile Advertiser &
Register |
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| June 22, 1864 |
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| The {Lynchburg} Virginian of Monday, 13th says: |
| *** During the day,
intelligence was received to the effect that Sheridan and his raiders
had been overhauled at Trevilian Depot {on the
Virginia Central RR}, by Generals Hampton and
Fitzhugh Lee, where a heavy fight ensued with favorable results to our
side. It was stated that a battery of six guns was taken from Sheridan
and the enemy pressed back today. |
| An ammunition train that left
this city {Lynchburg} via the Orange {&
Alexandria} road, about 2 o'clock on Saturday, and for
the safety of which great fears were entertained, returned safely
about 8 o'clock in the evening. The conductor saw smoke in the
direction of Arrington depot, from which he inferred that that building
was burned by the enemy. When the train went down, a gentleman named ?owdy,
who had a hundred unarmed men with him, took the responsibility of
seizing an equal number of muskets that were in the cars, armed his
men and got off at Tye River Bridge with the avowed purpose of
defending it to the last extremity -- such an instance of heroism
should not be left unrecorded. |
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