The Daily Dispatch: June 15, 1863., [Electronic resource]

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Mosby in Maryland.

Mosby seems determined not to confine his field of operations to his native State. On Thursday morning last he crossed the Potomac near the mouth of Seneca Creek, nearly opposite Drainesville, where a company of Yankee cavalry was camped, guarding the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. These Mosby pitched into, and after a severe skirmish, in which he killed some six or eight, he succeeded in capturing and bringing off seventeen, with their horses and equipments, besides two Virginia negroes they had with them. The only account of the fight we have is that furnished by the prisoners, who state that they were attacked by three companies of cavalry, numbering nearly two hundred men, shortly after daylight, on Thursday morning, and that they fought the force opposed to them for about half an hour, during which time they killed one Captain, one Lieutenant, and mortally wounded another Lieutenant, and suffered a loss of six killed and several wounded. They also state that in the engagement Mosby had his horse killed, and narrowly escaped being shot himself. They say the name of the Captain killed was Bramer or Broomer. The point at which the fight occurred was about twenty miles above Washington city.