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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: June 13, 1863., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Brandy Station (Virginia, United States) or search for Brandy Station (Virginia, United States) in all documents.
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The fight at Brandy Station.
The particulars which reach us of the affair of Tuesday last, in Culpeper county, tend to confirm the first reports received.
As has already been stated, the passage of the Rappahannock was effected by the enemy at fords not picketed by our troops, and consequently without interference or interruption.
Before our pickets could communicate with the camps, to enable our troops to prepare for an attack, the force of the enemy, largely superior in number, was precipitated upon them, and it was only by severe and hard fighting that victory was wrested from the bold and determined foe. Our gunners at the first battery charged by the enemy had no time allowed them to use their pieces, but, manfully standing by their guns, they fought the enemy with their rammers, and in this way succeeded in unhorsing several of the Yankee cavalry.--They were finally overpowered and forced to leave their pieces, or were cut down or captured in their defence.
This was early
Prisons Record.
--Fifty-nine Yankees, most of them wounded, captured in the fight at Brandy Station, were received at the Libby prison during the day yesterday.
As Castle Thunder there were no place of any importance on the register.