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The Daily Dispatch: July 25, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
tt's brigade, of 3,000, without cavalry, had a smart skirmish yesterday with nearly 10,000 of the Ashby horse, three miles from Winchester, and fell back on their fortifications, where they have twelve 24 pounders. Piatt considers his force, thus entrenched, amply capable of coping with and repelling three times his number of the enemy. At the distance of half a mile he can shell them with great spirit; and, for closer quarters, he has pent up for them a storm of canister which no rebel Ajax will venture to defy. He declares that he will neither surrender nor evacuate — that "if the rebels want his room, they must kill or capture his entire command." My informant is satisfied that the rebel cavalry is the old Ashby force, but by whom now commanded he knows not. The secesh of this region say, however, that Ashby has been succeeded by Colonel Minifle, of Kentucky--a man with one leg, but noted for "independent" exploits in Mexico."All accounts agree that for their present ope