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The Daily Dispatch: July 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 10 (search)
The Augusta Volunteers. The Staunton Spectator pays a just tribute to the splendid garlentary of the Augusta volunteers, who, with a company from Winchester and Rockbridge, making in all only three hundred and eighty men, repulsed in the action of the 2d inst, nine thousand of the enemy three times, held them in shock for two hours, and killed about two hundred of them, wounding many more, and capturing forty prisoners; while their loss was only three killed and eight or nine wounded. When, to avoid the danger of being flanked by the enemy, they retreated, it was at a very slow pace, firing with deadly effect all the time. Col. Jackson, who witnessed their heroic conduct, remarked that it was with the greatest difficulty they could be made to obey the most peremptory orders to retreat. The enemy may judge from this specimen whether his march through the Valley of Virginia is to be a more triumphal procession.--We know enough of these mountaineers to feel assured that they c