The following article appeared in the Greenville [S.C.] Daily Southern Enterprise, 23 Apr 1863, p. 1, c. 1:

"The Army of the Blackwater has arrived within four miles of Suffolk, the advance being less than two miles of that place. No general engagement has yet taken place; picket firing is going on at all hours, while the Yankee batteries from the town has [sic] kept up an almost incessant shelling for the past two days. No damage has resulted from this cannonading so far as I can learn.

We arrived before Suffolk on Saturday afternoon, driving in those of their pickets which we did not capture. Gen. Jenkins' Brigade, of South Carolinians, were in advance. The cavalry scouts made a dash at a company of Yankees and succeeded in capturing twenty-two horses and five men, including a lieutenant, belonging to a Pennsylvania regiment.

The following is a list of the casualties so far, all having occurring among the advance pickets:

Thomas R. Walker, Washington Light Infantry, Hampton Legion (a scout), wounded in arm.

Z. Smith, Co. A, 11th Mississippi, lower jaw shot off; ___ Ethrage, Co. A, 11th Mississippi, wounded in the thigh.

I learn that four were wounded in Gen. Hood's Division yesterday, and several in Armistead's Brigade, but I have failed to learn their names. None killed, and none mortally wounded, so far. .....

W. P. P."