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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway in jail. (search)
Fight at Rich Mountain. This community, the State, and the entire South, feel an intense interest in the details and the result of the conflict which occurred in the neighborhood of the Rich Mountain on Thursday last, and we regret that we have not the means of gratifying them. Passengers who reached here from Staunton on Sunday and on yesterday state that the reports received there are vague, inconsistent, and every way unreliable, and they can only report the same unsatisfactor the Federal forces. Col. Scott has with his regiment 20 or 40 prisoners --Union men — who were arrested by the militia of that section of the country. Col. P was taken prisoner. It is thought the Hessians were 10,000 strong at Rich Mountain, and had a force from 18 to 25,000 at Laurel Hill. It is related as an incident of the battle that Capt. De Lanier, formerly of Petersburg, in command of an artillery company, after all his men had been killed, loaded and fired one of th