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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Gun sleighs in Canada. (search)
other side of the ferry. As soon as our troops became aware of the fix into which the Yankees had got themselves, Lieutenant McElhenny, of Captain Moore's field battery, (from Wilmington, N. C.,) was dispatched, with a section of the battery, to a pgainst our troops on the main. At that point our force consisted of Capt. West's Company, of Jones's regiment. Lieut. McElhenny's battery arrived just as the flats had come out about midway in the stream. He immediately opened fire upon them wss among the men on the flats must have been very heavy. Col. Jones's regiment was moved up promptly to the support of McElhenny's battery, but the enemy seem to have abandoned the attempt to cross, if such was ever their intention. Lieut. McElhenLieut. McElhenny's battery was exposed to an incessant fire from the guns of the steamer during the whole engagement. From Texas — Evacuation of Galveston. The San Antonio (Texas) Herald, of the 7th inst., says: One of our citizens just from Galvest