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The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
olerable propriety. Up to Wednesday last they had not commenced enforcing the order of Pope, requiring the male citizens to take the oath or leave the Federal lines. In and around Winchester there were about 1,500 troops, under command of Gen. Platt. A few evenings ago a report was started that our forces were advancing from the Valley road, when Platt immediately turned his guns upon the town, declaring his intention to shell it if our forces attacked him Several of the Union citizens ofPlatt immediately turned his guns upon the town, declaring his intention to shell it if our forces attacked him Several of the Union citizens of the town went out to the fortifications to remonstrate with him, assuring him that the report of an advance was without foundation. These citizens were seized and kept through the night, with the cheering information that if any assault was made upon his lines they should be shot. The only pickets on the Valley road are at Hollingsworth's Mill, one and a half miles west of Winchester. Our pickets are down as far as Newtown, 7 miles from Winchester.