| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| May 10, 1864 |
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| 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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