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The Daily Dispatch: June 20, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he results of the cavalry skirmish in Bedford on Thursday last (mentioned in Saturday's paper) were unimportant. The enemy's cavalry encamped on Thursday night eight miles from Lynchburg. It is stated on undoubted authority that the Yankee raiding party which passed by Melvor's, in Amherst county, committed outrages upon the persons of three respectable ladies. Surely a day of retribution is in store for these incarnate fiends. The Yankees were attacked between Rose's Mills and Fleetwood, in Amherst, by Major Sweeney, with the 36th Virginia battalion, composed of only 150 men, who fought them for an hour, but was finally compelled to give back, with the loss of fifty men. Pressed back in the direction of New Glasgow, the heroic leader of this gallant little band retired with his face to the enemy, and at every feasible position maintained his ground, repulsing charge after charge, and finally discouraging the enemy to such a degree as to cause them to cease from the attack