| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| June 25, 1862 |
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| The Enemy Advancing |
| We learn from the Petersburg
Express that Yankee troops to the number of 6,000 have advanced from
Norfolk and Suffolk to a point on the Seaboard {&
Roanoke} Railroad known as Franklin Depot, fifty miles from
Portsmouth and thirty from Weldon. The aim of this force is beyond doubt
to advance to Weldon and cut off railroad connection at that place with
Petersburg and Richmond. At Weldon, the roads from Wilmington and
Raleigh and Petersburg converge. This explains the recent visit of
Burnside to Old Point and the White House, on the Pamunkey, where he and
McClellan compared notes. |
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