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The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Secret history of the subjugation of Maryland. (search)
ice quivering with excitement, exclaimed, "Glorious news!" He was able to get out no more, and it was some time before he could make us understand that he had seen — not the elephant, but — the "reliable gentleman," and had learned from him that Gen. Lee had captured 18,000 Yankees! We thought this a pretty big haul, but our friend was so earnest that we did not venture to dispute the correctness of his information. We passed on, therefore, to hear the same tale repeated in a hundred different We meet a gentleman to whom we communicate what we have heard. "Why, it must be true; for I was at the Enquirer office just now when a gentleman came in and said a member of the House of Delegates had risen in his place and read a dispatch from Gen. Lee to the President to that effect." Here we were again staggered. We know that dispatches were generally addressed to General Cooper, and that the President was away. But we began to pluck up our spirits, and determined to see the end of the mys
The Daily Dispatch: October 19, 1863., [Electronic resource], Secret history of the subjugation of Maryland. (search)
From Northern Virginia. --The real news from the army of Gen. Lee does not confirm the almost innumerable reports which were in circulation on Saturday. A pretty severe engagement was fought at Bristow Station, on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad, on Wednesday afternoon between two brigades of Gen. Hill's corps — Cook's and Kirkland's and a heavy force of the enemy. The enemy were posted in a railroad cut, and in advancing upon them our men were exposed to a galling fire. Our loss was quite severe — estimated by some to be not less than one thousand in killed, wounded, and missing. In addition to this we suffered a loss of seven pieces of artillery. Gens. Cook, Posey and Kirkland are reported wounded. Many of our wounded fell into the hands of the enemy; but that night they fell back, and our badly wounded were recovered, besides a number of the enemy's seriously wounded. The next morning a portion of Gen. Ewell's corps had a fight with the enemy, in which we cap