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The Daily Dispatch: October 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
nt reconnaissance was made on last Tuesday night from our extreme left by two hundred and fifty men of the Thirteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, under Major McCabe. They passed the enemy's cavalry pickets without being discovered, and proceeded to Stony Creek and Rowanty stations, the latter of which places is two miles beyond the extreme right of the rebel army. The expedition successfully returned, after making considerable captures and gaining much valuable information. It was ascertained that the rebels have, on the extremity of their right wing, at Stony creek, seven thousand cavalry and infantry, strongly entrenched. Some deserters from our lines below Richmond having made oath before Beast Butler that eighty Yankee negro soldiers were taken out of Castle Thunder and carried down to work in the trenches, has sent the following letter to Commissioner Ould: Headquarters Department of Virginia and North Carolina, Army of the James, October 12, 1864. Sir: I enclose