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The Daily Dispatch: January 27, 1862., [Electronic resource], Army of the Potomac. (search)
whose chief news you have anticipated in your enterprising columns from your correspondent at Norfolk, I have seen an account of what is either foolishly or facetiously termed "the battle at Romney." Battle forsooth, A battle won by "the brave Col. Dunning !" "You call this a battle, eh ? Soldiers term it but a brawl," says a Yeoman Captain to a cockney cit in an old play. From all I learn of this affray as far as the fleet-footed Hessians were concerned, I would call it a foray ded by the appearance of Capt. Hardy's Little Capon Company, a small militia corps, who seeing the 5,000 or more Hessians made good their retirement, but not until the cowardly enemy became much alarmed and somewhat panic struck, as "the brave Col. Dunning," who is better acquainted with the yard-stick than the sword, fancied the entire march would be interrupted — his superior number giving him full sway and making him monarch of all around. Reaching Hanging Rock, a rock thirty-five feet h