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The Daily Dispatch: August 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
These fellows have slain Wise and dispersed his forces so often, that we wonder at their assurance in speaking of him as "still in the flesh," and capable of fighting a battle and making a retreat. We have not been able to find Bellston either on the map or in the latest Gazetteer. If there is such a place and there has been such a fight, the former must be somewhere on the road between Charleston and Lewisburg, along which Wise was at last accounts retreating to effect a junction with General Floyd, and the details of the battle must be enormously exaggerated and misrepresented to suit the Northern market.--As this is Wednesday, probably the New York papers got the tale up for to-day's European steamer. The mania for lying affects all the Northern war journals. Hence we are not surprised to find the subjoined paragraph in the Washington Star: The War Department is in the receipt of dispatches from Western Virginia, confirming in part current newspaper reports of Genera