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The Daily Dispatch: August 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], $100 reward (search)
sent week caused a great rise in the waters, and the Hessians, to the number of 1,700, found it impossible to get back to the Maryland side.--some of the citizens, thinking the opportunity for a coup de main too good to be lost, dispatched messengers to Gen. Johnston, informing bird of the situation of affairs. That officer, it is alleged, sent a body of troops, consisting of the 17th and 18th Mississippi, and the 8th Virginia Regimen, and the Richmond Howitzer Battery, under command of General Evans, to Lovittsville where the Federals were attacked. The result is said to have been that 300 of the enemy were killed and the remainder captured, while on our side the loss was six killed and nine wounded. We do not vouch for the accuracy of the statement, although passengers by the Central train yesterday considered it reliable. There is much anxiety to hear further news from Missouri. That there has been a great battle, that the Federals have been routed, and General Lyon slain,