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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], Empty Menaces. (search)
erson's Creek, were in their possession. They had a force of 8,000 infantry at Romney, with a good proportion of cavalry, and twenty cannon — all protected by strongfield, nine miles distant, and 1,000 at Green Spring Valley, sixteen miles from Romney. So, in like manner, the entire county of Morgan was in the possession or unde point equidistant from Winchester and Martinsburg, and about thirty miles from Romney. Whilst reposing there a day or two to rest his fatigued soldiers, and to prepovements and the terror of his name caused the enemy in great haste to evacuate Romney and retire into Maryland; and thus in ten days, without the necessity of fightige quantities of military stores have been captured at Batt, Hancock Depot, and Romney. One of the prisoners, an Orderly Sergeant, taken at Romney, estimating probabRomney, estimating probably too largely the value of the stores left at that place, supposes them to be worth half a million of dollars. The whole line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad fro