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The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee's army. (search)
ers and a number of flag. One Yankee Colonel was killed, and a Lieutenant Colonel wounded and taken prisoner. Our own losses are said not to exceed one hundred killed, wounded and missing. The scene of the battles was on the road leading from Aldie, a village on the west of the Kittoclan Mountains, and the enemy's object is supposed to have been to ascertain the movement of our troops. Two aids of Gen. Hooker, with important documents, were captured. One of them with orders to Pleasanton to occupy and hold Snicker's Gap at all hazards. Our forces had anticipated this movement, and were already in possession of it. Many brilliant charges were made during the three days fighting, and some desperate hand to hand encounters came off. The great disparity between the casualties of the enemy and our own is attributed to the fact that the enemy relied altogether on the sabre, whereas our troops used both the sabre and pistol with citing effect. A gentleman who left Winc