Posted on 12/02/2022 5:04:36 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
We have a special dispatch from Falmouth containing very late information from the rebel army, procured as follows:
On Friday night about 12 o'clock, while Capt. BYRON McCUTCHEON, of the Twentieth Michigan infantry, was on duty with two hundred men on the Washington Farm (the old Homestead of the Washington family, about two miles east of Falmouth, where George cut the famous Cherry tree,) two rebel officers crossed the river in a skiff and delivered up themselves and arms, asking the protection of the Stars and Stripes. They were well dressed and intelligent gentlemen; one a captain in a Texan regiment and the other, a clerk in the Quartermaster's Department in Richmond.
They left Richmond nearly three weeks ago and have since remained secreted by an Irishman in Fredricksburgh, only venturing about by night.
The information, which those officers impart is valuable, and contains matter confirmatory of and additional to that contained in our yesterday's dispatch. They agree that the rebel force at Fredericksburgh numbers from 73,000 to 160,000 men, and certainly has not exceeded the latter figure, and that, though suffering for want of clothing and many kinds of supplies, they are still apparently hopeful of final success. For once, however, Gen. LEE and his associates are puzzled over the movements of our army, which they do not seem fully to comprehend, and have finally concluded the advance upon Fredericksburgh to be a feint, designed to amuse them, while the main attack upon Richmond is to come from another quarter. Upon this theory, they now believe our force in front of Fredericksburgh in reality to be [???], and that immense hosts are being embarked at Bellplaine, and conveyed in transports up James River. Acting upon this idea, they have commented erecting earthworks for the protection of a garrison force,
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