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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The battle at Leesburg. (search)
than at Manassas. Its effect is shown by McClellan's falling back — which may or may not be unfortunate. With that I have nothing to do, being simple chronicler of the battle of Leesburg. The enemy has fallen back here also. Gen. Banks has retired his force to Poolesville, where — seen from For Evans, where I write — his cloud of tents crown the upland, his watch fires blaze at night, and his drums are heard beating tattoo and reveille. I have not spoken of the death of the brave Colonel Furt, that of the Federal General, Baker, nor stated the loss on either side. On the latter point I know nothing accurately — I saw, I suppose, some 20 or 30 dead bodies of the enemy, generally shot in the head, and suppose that the dense thicket concealed as many, perhaps a great many more. The enemy's loss, in killed and drowned, must have amounted to 400 or 500, and the prisoners to 600 or 800. Thus, whatever may have been the character of Gen. Evans's instructions — whether he carrie