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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 9: (search)
mp at Culpeper Court House and rode out to capture Dumfries and operate on the Telegraph road up to the Occoquhe 11th, the command bivouacked within 16 miles of Dumfries, and by daylight on the 12th, Hampton had his troosappointed. General Sigel's corps was marching to Dumfries by the only road open to General Hampton's retreat's army. Gen. W. H. F. Lee was ordered to move on Dumfries, General Hampton on Occoquan, and Gen. Fitzhugh L distance. Gen. W. H. F. Lee found the force at Dumfries too strong for successful attack. He captured allalry, with artillery, on the march from Fairfax to Dumfries. Geary was in position to meet him, and at once o of his brigade, cut the enemy's communications at Dumfries, entered the town a few hours before Sigel's corpsquan, surprised the pickets between that place and Dumfries, captured 50 wagons, bringing many of them across ance in rear of the enemy's lines, attacked him at Dumfries, capturing men and wagons near that place, advance