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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: August 20, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Fairfax, Va. (Virginia, United States) or search for Fairfax, Va. (Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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War movements.reported through Northern channels. Washington, August 17.
--The Confederate forces have all fallen back to Fairfax, thus apparently separating the distance between the hostile forces, but the picket guard occupy their former positions.
Baltimore, August 17.--Federal troops are now at New Bridge, where they have captured three of the bridge burners.
About one thousand Confederate troops are now near Romney, and an attack on the Federals is momentarily expected.
A flag of truce has conveyed the Nicaraguan Minister wholly beyond the Federal lines.
A flag of truce from Norfolk brings prisoners released on account of various good actions.
Several others, including chaplains, are coming.
More "masked batteries"--the navigation of the Potomac in Peril. Washington, Aug. 17.
--The correspondent of the New York Post says that a new Confederate battery, two miles below Aquia Creek, unexpectedly opened on the Pocahontas to-day.
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