April 16, 1863, The Charleston Mercury
OPERATIONS IN TENNESSEE.
CHATTANOOGA, April 14. – The first rumors in relation to VAN DORN’S fight at Franklin, prove to have been greatly exaggerated. The loss was only 50 on each side. Only a portion of FREEMAN’S battery was captured by the enemy, which was immediately retaken. All quiet along the lines.
Major DICK MCCANN has captured another train on the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad. He also destroyed a long wagon train. Two more gunboats and three transports on the Cumberland River have been destroyed by WHEELER’S command.
ITEMS FROM MURFREESBORO’.
MURFREESBORO’, April 9. – Gen. WILDERS’ brigade has returned with many prisoners. Sixty contrabands taken – several of them being clothed in the Yankee uniform – have been shot or hung.
A despatch dated Cairo, April 8, says that the gunboat Cincinnati, which was disabled at Steel’s Bayou, had arrived there.
A despatch from Washington, dated April 8, expresses apprehensions of the invasion of Maryland.
GEN. WISE’S ATTACK ON WILLIAMSBURG, VIRGINIA – THE ENEMY ROUTED.
We have it from a trustworthy source that General Wise made an attack on Williamsburg on yesterday morning. When our informant left the enemy’s pickets had been driven in. No authentic particulars of the affair have transpired. Heavy firing was heard in that direction at points on the York River Railroad. It was rumored last evening that General Wise had entered the town, and that the enemy was shelling his position from Fort Magruder, a point on the battle field of Williamsburg.
Information has been received at the War Office that General Wise had pursued the enemy four miles beyond Williamsburg, when he captured a deserted camp, with a quantity of commissary stores and horses. – Richmond Examiner.