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The Daily Dispatch: October 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
winsville. The batteries were drawn up in prominent positions, and the infantry placed in situations to support them. After remaining for about three hours waiting in vain for the rebels to make an attack, in fact, inviting them to it, our skirmishers advanced and occupied Lewinsville, the rebel forces retreating. Lewinsville will be retained as well as other positions taken by our forces to-day. A portion of the troops under Brigadier General Porter also advanced and occupied Miner's hill, to the right of Falls Church, and commanding that village and Barrett's hill, which latter is now in possession of the rebel pickets. General McClellan and staff, accompanied by Captain Baker's McClellan Dragoons, crossed over the Chain Bridge at an early hour this morning, spending the whole day in making reconnaissances of the new positions taken by the National forces. A Raid on the enemy's pickets. At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, Captain Barney, of the New York Twenty