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The Daily Dispatch: June 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], The fight with Hunter's command at Hanging Rock. (search)
a few miles, when he found that the vigilant Gen McCausland was in his front, and almost before he was aware of it some ten or twelve pieces of his artillery, twenty five or thirty wagons, between two and three hundred prisoners, a number of negroes and about two hundred horses were in the hand of our cavalry. The enemy, however, quickly threw forward his forces, and compelled Gen McCausiand to abandon all except six of the captured pieces of artillery, but with them and the other captures Gen McC withdrew to the spur of a mountain close by, where he gained a position almost impregnable. The enemy then attempted to continue his retreat, but from the new position occupied by our forces his trains were rapidly fired into by the captured guns, and, to save them from imaginary capture, the enemy blew up a number of caissons and destroyed a large portion of his train. Many of the enemy's men were killed by the explodes on of their own caissons, and in the several little skirmishes which