| From the Savannah Morning News |
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| July 23, 1862 |
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| Yankee Foray on the
{Virginia} Central Railroad |
| The Richmond Dispatch of Monday
says: |
| The train which left this city
yesterday morning {July 20} for the West,
over the Central Railroad, was obstructed in its progress by a Yankee
raid on Beaver Dam Station, about 27 miles from Richmond. On nearing the
above station, the train encountered several cross-ties and trees which
had been carefully laid upon the track, with a view to throw the train
off, but which happily failed in the object intended. This brought the
train to a halt, when a citizen of the neighborhood came up and informed
the conductor that a Yankee force had made its appearance at the
station, about a quarter of a mile beyond, and were engaged in tearing
up the railroad track. On the receipt of this intelligence, the train
put back with all possible speed, and arrived here about 2 o'clock, p.
m. It is also stated that the Yankees had fired the depot at Beaver Dam. |
| This is a most daring and
independent raid of the Yankees, and just have been effected by a
comparatively small force, as they are not known to be in any
considerable numbers in that locality. The impression obtains that the
party committing these depredations consisted of cavalry scouts from
Caroline and Spotsylvania counties, and that the raid was perpetrated
with hope of cutting off communication with our forces between this city
and the Rapidan. |
| Besides obstructing the
railroad the Yankees cut the telegraph wire, and we are thus unable to
get positive information concerning the state of affairs at Beaver Dam
station. It is believed, however, that the depot was destroyed by the
Yankees, who retreated towards that point on the approach of the train,
and a dense volume of smoke was soon afterwards seen in the same
direction. |
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