Posted on 11/11/2021 7:13:16 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Sunday, Nov. 10.
A SUCCESSFUL EXPEDITION FROM CHINCOTEAUGUE.
An official dispatch from Chincoteaugue Inlet Virginia, shows that the United States steamer Louisiana has been actively at work. A party from that vessel, together with five volunteers from the Island, went on an expedition and proceeding up the Creek a mile or more, they found and destroyed by fire one schooner and two sloops. The party left the Louisiana in three boats at 10 o'clock on the night of the 27th of October, and returned at 3 o'clock the next morning, all well. The whole affair appears to have been conducted with so much system and discretion that the enemy, said to be 300 strong, in and about the town, was unconscious of the presence of our expedition.
Under all the circumstances the late battle at Belmont, Mo., is considered in a high degree creditable to all our troops concerned in it, and the credit of the brilliant movement is due to Gen. GRANT.
A dispatch to-day from Western Virginia says that Gen. ROSECRANS and his command are in fine condition, and prepared to receive the enemy from any quarter they may approach, and the commander is confident of success.
Lieut. KANTZ, the Union prisoner released from Richmond on parole, to find an exchange for himself on this side of the lines, is successful, the Government having promptly furnished the exchange in response to this overture of the Confederates. The Government has resolved to release on parole 250 prisoners, part of those captured at Hatteras, to proceed to the South on a similar mission. If they succeed, 250 Union prisoners now in the South will soon be returned to us, and the principle and manner of the full exchange of prisoners will be fully established
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