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The Daily Dispatch: July 12, 1861., [Electronic resource] 4 0 Browse Search
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He was at a fence firing away at the enemy, when a cannon ball took off the two top rails. He stooped a little lower, and continued to return the compliment with his Minnie. Little Charley Turner, a boy about fifteen years of age, insisted so strongly on going with the Augusta Guard that his father finally yielded to his importunities, and all wed him to go. The result shown that little Charley went to perform service, for he made one of the enemy bite the dust. A correspondent of the same paper says: Our men were fighting under a heavy fire all the time, and it is wonderfully remarkable that our loss was not much greater, only two killed, and three or four missing. The balls were whisting all around us, and shells bursting over our heads all the time. We had three of the West Augusta Guard slightly wounded — Jack Doyle, Kennedy and Maphia — who were sent to Winchester. The boys fought like Trojans, and never fell back till commanded two or three times to do so
given them some odd names, such as "Pretty Boy," "Peace Maker," " Conscience Settler," "Secession Pill Machine," etc. From a prisoner I obtained the following particulars concerning the First Virginia Regiment of Cavalry, which was engaged in the action at Hainesville: Loudoun County Cavalry, fifty men, Capt, Carter; Rockingham County Cavalry, sixty men, Captain White, three other companies from counties unknown, commanded by Capt. Yancey, fifty men; Capt. Haye, seventy-five men, and Capt. Doyle, sixty men. Besides these there were four other companies, the names of whose captains my informant could not give me. Wm. Kerfoot, a member of the Berkeley Border Guard, under Capt. Nadenbush, was arrested yesterday. He has been a very violent Secessionist, but is now released upon his parole because of the sickness of his wife. Yesterday the troops found 23 stand of arms in the county jail, concealed under beds.-- Dugan, the jailor, an active Secessionist, has fled. A la