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The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Boy Mortara. (search)
killed by these Union-loving people. On Sunday, the 20th inst., the General came to a halt, finding the road completely blockaded by the falling timber. He sent out scouts, who reported the enemy, some three or four thousand strong, in their breastworks, some three miles off. He immediately commenced clearing the road, no sooner than which he was fired upon by the enemy concealed in the adjoining brush. This mode of operation was kept up all Sabbath, and until 8 or 9 o'clock on Monday, the 21st, when he advanced upon the enemy's breastworks, and commenced an attack upon them. The fight was kept up from 10 o'clock A. M. till 5 P. M. The attack was not a general one as only some two regiments of the General were engaged--Cols. Newman and Raines's Tennessee Volunteers. We tried by almost every means to get the enemy from behind their breastworks, but to no avail. When they would venture out, we would drive them back in double-quick time. Night came on, and Gen. Zollicoffer fell bac