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The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
the return fire of Mc'cook's Ohio Regiment on the evening before last. [What liars those neighbors are1] Col. Stone's command. Washington, June 19. --Accounts of an entirely reliable character, this morning received from Poolesville, Montgomery county, Maryland, dated nine o'clock last night, say that Colonel Stone's command was still there, and not at Leesburg, as heretofore frequently reported. Yesterday afternoon the enemy attempted to make a crossing at the mouth of Goose Creek, on the Virginia shore, having arrived opposite Edward's Ferry in force estimated by the officers in command of the Federal guard there at from 800 to 900 men. The Confederates made use of a ferry boat which they had withdrawn from the Potomac river. Col. Stone had given orders, as he himself communicates, that if any attempt was made to move the boat fire should be opened on it. In compliance with these orders Lieut Hasbrouck fired from his twelve-pound field howitzer a spherical ca