NP, RD 5/10/1864

From the Richmond Dispatch
 
May 10, 1864
 
The rumors about Chester
   There were a hundred rumors yesterday about the occupation of Chester by the enemy, the burning of the station, and the occupation of the hotel as a hospital. None of them were true. Mr. E. H. Gill, the Superintendent of the Richmond and Petersburg Railroad, went over on an engine to Chester yesterday and ascertained the following to be the facts of the case: The enemy were in the village yesterday morning about 9½ o'clock, and tore up the track at the station and a part of the track leading to the Clover Hill coal pits. They left without doing other damage to property. There were no Yankees there at 4½ o'clockyesterday afternoon.

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