Show r L r fr G x URE A PROVOST MARSHAL MARSHALld Id ld at Fredericksburg Officer and Escort With Trainload of Tobacco Captured March 4 4 1865 the tho Third Bri- Bri Third Division Twenty-fourth Twenty is s formerly the Eighteenth Eighteenths Is s composed of the and li 1 Pa Mass 2nd N. N H H. and Conn broke camp near Fort Ison on the tho James river and emed em em- jed ed on transports for Fredericks- Fredericks then In possession of the Con- Con rates writes W. W R R. Schaffer of r Pa In the National Tribune m at that place we surprised captured the provost-marshal provost to to- tar er with an escort of cavalry and andrain andrain andrain rain loaded with tobacco ready shipment The provost-marshal provost found hiding in an upstairs roo room r it a bed but our boys found him tier ter destroying the tobacco and ng the place in repair we re- re for Fortress Monroe meet- meet with some opposition on our way tho the river but our gunboats opened the way with shot and among the surprised Johnnies I were not aware of the large guns oard board We Ve soon arrived at FortI Fort Fort- I Monroe and went on to Norfolk Portsmouth and coaled up for forer or er orders Our next move was wase e Potomac river to Kinsale we marched out in the tho forenoon strict t orders to touch nothing the route But after some hot for dinner we marched back to boats on the river receiving orto ox or- or to take anything eatable and wo we ly by did oui ourselves selves justice in the lIne trip we |