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The Daily Dispatch: October 31, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Boy Mortara. (search)
day, the 21st, when he advanced upon the enemy's breastworks, and commenced an attack upon them. The fight was kept up from 10 o'clock A. M. till 5 P. M. The attack was not a general one as only some two regiments of the General were engaged--Cols. Newman and Raines's Tennessee Volunteers. We tried by almost every means to get the enemy from behind their breastworks, but to no avail. When they would venture out, we would drive them back in double-quick time. Night came on, and Gen. Zollicoffrom Gen. Sydney Johnston, notifying him of the advance of some 20,000 upon Cumberland Gap. He immediately took up his march for the Gap, some forty-five or fifty miles. It is proper to state that we lost no commissioned officer. A brother of Col. Newman was killed while bravery charging upon the enemy's breastworks. The enemy's loss was supposed to be some 20 killed and a number wounded. One officer remarked, in the presence of Mr. Comann, that "Beauregard with 50,000 men could not take the