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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The battle at Leesburg. (search)
of the Virginia race. Up to this time the enemy, 4,000 in number, by the confession of their own prisoners, was not only held in check, but driven back, foot by foot, by one regiment of ours, and in the main fight not even that force on our side was engaged. The enemy's strong advance, in heavy column on our centre, was met and repelled by three or four companies only. The battle had continued with brief intermissions for more than an hour, as well as I could estimate the time, when Gen. Evens ordered up the 18th Mississippi, Col. Burt, from Edward's Ferry, two miles below and subsequently the 17th Mississippi, Col. Featherston, leaving the 13th Mississippi, Col. Barksdale, to hold the enemy in check at that point, and prevent his throwing a force upon our flank. The 18th arrived in good time, entered the woods, in the rear and on the right flank of the 8th, and commenced their attack with all that desperate valor which characterizes the great race of which they were on this oc