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Fight at Warrenton — Repulse of the Federal troops.[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Warrenton, Va., Oct. 20th, 1862.
On Saturday last, after frequent rumors that the Yankees were coming.
Col Payne, the gallant commandant of the post, (who has been incapacitated from active duty since May last, on account of a terribly severe wound received at Williamsburg,) having obtained positive information that they were approaching Warrenton in considerable force, made every preparatio the attack was made we might have been repulsed, but their last opportunity is gone, and, in the writers opinion, the town of Warrenton is safe for some time, unless the Feds bring a very much larger force to bear against it than heretofore.--Colonel Payne has the confidence of all, and every man will fight to the death to defend on present position.
The statement in the Yankee papers that we had three regiments of infantry and two of cavalry at the fight, is false; but when they come again th