Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Perkins or search for Perkins in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
companied by a guide and fourteen privates, moved round the east side of the hill three-quarters of a mile north of Falls Church, where the rebel outposts have been stationed. They approached in the bush within a short distance of eight of the rebel cavalry, and opened fire upon them. Each man fired from one to three shots, and three of the rebels were killed at once. Captain Powers, of the rebel cavalry, was present, mounted on his white horse, which has become famous to our pickets. Mr. Perkins, the guide, fired at the horse and shot him in the head, in the hope to take Powers prisoner. He escaped, however, and as the rebel picket was only three hundred yards distant, Capt. Barney gave the order to retire, which they did without the loss of a man, and bringing with them four rebel cavalry horses, thirteen pistols, four sabres, one Hall's carbine, several blankets, and one prisoner — a young man named Charles H. Knott, a private in Company F, Col. Stuart's First Virginia Cavalry