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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 7 (search)
y as they pell-mell into and through Centreville, on their way to Washington, and to everlasting disgrace. It was by one of these last guns, I suppose, that my gallant horse and the officer who commanded the detachment which took me prisoner were slain-- to pace! that night towards headquarter South Carolina Brigade, in whose company I found myself b vou as various places on the battle- field, and finally, about 8 o'clock in the morning Monday, we arrived at the headquarters of Gen. Evans, where we laid down on the ground, and on Yankee blankets, in the rain, and slept till we got sufficiently wet to wake us up — about 6½ or 7 o'clock. My captors belonged to a regiment of Wisconsin--the 6th, I believe. After they ran off and left me, dropping every portable thing they had, I picked up the fine military great cost of one of their officers--Lieut. Wise, I suppose, was his name, from an envelope in the pocket — which I have yet, and which (my baggage being at the Junctio