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The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1862., [Electronic resource], A Remarkable cavalry chase. (search)
ed willing to avoid a trial of Southern steel, Captain Gilmar moved on, and all hands were rapidly approaching the limits of our village when the courier left. Under the pressure of these circumstances, the "call to arms" was followed by a speedy disappearance in the distance of the larger portion of the "brave soldier boys, " while the resident population and "refugees," like the fragments of a shell, scattered in every direction. At the appearance of every rider from the direction of Hughes's creek, the of "Yankees! Yankees" went up from the women and children. A of the by private place, of ville, vallied to the rescue, and to the retreating Gilmer; but before their arrival as the scene of "blood and slaughter." it was ascertained that the pursuing Yankees were only two companies of Confederate cavalry traveling the same road with Captain Gilmer and the halled to give battle, the supposed to throw down some fences which impeded their progress. If ever you saw "fl