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The Daily Dispatch: May 31, 1862., [Electronic resource], The War in the Valley. (search)
e got to Front Royal where we met the 1st Maryland Regiment, and after a fight and a charge we captured every man of them save fifteen. Our cavalry then dashed ahead and took two hundred more prisoners, at a little town between Front Royal and Strasburg, on the railroad. In all we took nine hundred prisoners at Front Royal, including one Colonel, one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major, two pieces of cannon, horses, arms, &c., in abundance, and $300,000 worth of Quartermaster and Commissary stores,hester road. On our way to Middletown the road was often crowded with prisoners, wagons and horses, which our cavalry had captured and were conveying to the rear.--When last heard from, we had 1,500 prisoners at Front Royal. Banks, who was at Strasburg, when he heard of our doings, cut stick and broke for Winchester in hot haste, but we cut his force in twain at Middletown, sending Taylor's brigade (Ewell's division) after the Strasburg wing, who captured many of them and demoralized the rest