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The Daily Dispatch: October 8, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee prisoners Entering our service. (search)
Yankee account of their Thrashing in Florida. --The Yankees admit the disaster they sustained at Gainsville, Florida, a few days since, and acknowledge the loss of one hundred and fifty men and one gun. The Yankee paper published in Florida says of the affair: The enemy had concentrated quite a force at Waldo, where they expected to meet us with a warm reception. Having, however, avoided an engagement there by passing around instead of through the place, the disappointed enemy followed in our wake until our entry into Gainsville, when, having ambushed his force in the thickly-wooded land about the town, he succeeded in effecting a complete and, to us, a disastrous surprise. The officers and men of the cavalry succeeded in getting into line of battle, and the artillerymen got their piece into position and opened fire before the whole force of the enemy closed in upon them. The contest against such fearful odds was, from the first, considered hopeless, though it was mainta