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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
t 6th says: On Monday afternoon Gen. Jos. Hooker, with his entire division, together with the division under command of Gen. Sedgwick, a brigade of cavalry under Gen. Pleasanton, and four batteries, commanded respectively by Capts De Rossy, Benson, Bramall, and Tidball, the whole under the immediate command of Gen. Hocker, were ordered to make a reconnaissance towards the enemy's lines. At 4 o'clock they left the encampment and proceeded out the Charles City road; after following it arom the start and during the entire night they were continually on the go, scouring the country in every direction, and securing most of the prisoners captured, some sixty in all. During the engagement we only had two batteries engaged, Captains Benson and Bradnell; so effectively were they managed that the infantry were not called upon to fire a single shot. The party, when they left for the hill in the afternoon, took with them a large number of contrabands, and doubtless ere this t