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The Daily Dispatch: March 19, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the Valley. (search)
From the Valley. finishing with the enemy — gallant conduct of Ashby's cavalry — the evacuate of Winchester, &c. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch] Strangburg March 13, 1862 Since my last communication to your interesting and valuable paper, we have had quite stirring times in this section, which I will endeavor to give to your readers so far as known. Since about the first of March, that noble and gallant band, Ashby's cavalry, have been constantly skirmishing with the enemy, until Friday last, when they advanced in such force so close to our lines, that the cavalry pickets and scouts were compelled to retire before them; not, however, until the Yankees had to use cannon to drive them in. Friday evening and night our small forces was in position, anticipating that the main body would attach us and endeavor to gain possession of Winchester; but they felled to do so and fell back some distance from the advance they had succeeded in gaining in the morni