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From The Peninsula

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Day
24
Month
April
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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Dispatches to tlie Associated Press.. Washington, April 19. Thé folio (ving lias beorí recoived ut headquarters : Fortress Mpnroe, April 19. To Major General Halleck : '' I deern it due to the forces at Suffolk to notice briefly tbeir gallant eonduct for the last six dayst. On ti8 day Gun. Peek's regiment was altacked and the enerny's advaQCe was gallantly met by Gen. FosterVlight tToepa and the fonner were driven back to tbeir line of piokets. Andernon's división ■ was engaged at the same time on tho . waier iront with our gunboats and : teries and sufferod inaturiaüv. ün j Wednesday a rebel battery of 20 poun I der r.Hed guns was silenced effect iraHy and an attaek on the Srrthh-Briggs and ! an armorcd twogtm boat was repnlscd. Repeated uttempts hnve been made upon our lineü bot all failed. The storining ol' the enemy's batteries near the ! west branch of fhe Nansemond by Gen. I Getty and the gonboats under Lieut. Lowson oí the navy, and the capture of six guns and 2Ü0 prisoners doses tha operations of tho si'x days agaiost the enemv's large foren. JOHN A. HIJ, Maj.-Gen. A special to the Hirald has the following : " Headquahters Ahmv of the Potomao, ) ■April 20. J " Last week $30,000 was stolen between Aquia Creek and Washington. The inoney as ia separate paokages, and belopgöd to aoldiers who were sending it to their families."

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