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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
December
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Caire, Dec. '12. An éye-witnessi tothe tnkingoíTreotoo .-.ivs ihat Colond Frv '.vas n commando! 200 men, bafNick, the mum port oí' the gnrrison having previou.sly beun sout tü Jacksori. At thut placo as was antiuipulud the rebel ménade was only a feiot to draw our troops from Tren ton. When Col, Fry heard ofthü rebel approaoh to that place ho rnade breaBtwurks oi" cotton bales arouod the depot ant! placed his muí bc-l]:ul tliem. The rebela attacked him til Uncu pifieos of artiílery. Thirty roundi were firéd, wheo the Fedérala surrenderéd. Uuring the skirtnish seyerai reSul saddlos were einptied. On Priday (hi, Taylor oí the Pifth Objo, wiili Col. Hawkms, of a Tonness.ee. regifnent, wnt on a reconnoisance to Lexington, Ternessee, whero they met a largo rebül cavulry forcé, and were badly cul un, and a number oí thein onptured. Col. Hawkin escaped, and reaetied Trenton íq time to be onptured there. Dyer aiation thia sido of Trenton was evaouated yertord iv rneming, and at Ruthfórd, the first station thia sido of Dycr, there was skirmishing yesterd;iy. The rebelo aro under tho comrnand oi Qen. lilack formerly ot Trenton. 6eó Ddvia started forC jlumbus thia morning, ith a largo forcé lo drive olí or capture the rebela, Genera} .Shunnan's división, it ia roprirted, enibarked on transporte for Moiriphis, on Saturday, destined eithec for Vickoburg, or a flank movemeut oa the reliéis at Grenada, in whioh placothey have oencentrated in large forcé.

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