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The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern war News. (search)
circumstances, than a defeat. None here doubt General McClellan's entire readiness to receive the enemy whenever they may imagine themselves strong enough to advance further in this direction, whether above, in front of, or below the Federal metropolis. No officers captured. The stories saying that a detachment under General Smith, on the night before last, captured a Confederate Major and a Captain, are incorrect. That detachment captured two privates of Virginia cavalry at Lewisville on that occasion, and killed two. No Secession officers have fallen into Gen. McClellan's hands since he has been in command of the army of the Potomac. Prisoner taken by a New York Boy. Ball's Cross Roads, Sept. 10.--To-day one of the skirmishers of the New York 13th Regiment took prisoner a secesh soldier by the name of A. P. Rose, belonging to the 18th Virginia Regiment. He had been employed as a skirmisher to the right of his company, and got a "little" too near the New York
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Northern war News. (search)
a more full account of the skirmish on that day than we received by telegraph. It is probably exaggerated in some particulars: A large skirmishing party of Federal troops started out at seven o'clock this morning from the vicinity of the Chain Bridge, under command of Colonel Stevens, of the New York Highlanders. It consisted of several detached companies of infantry, a company of cavalry, and Capt. Griffin's battery. As our skirmishers advanced the enemy's pickets retired beyond Lewisville, about seven miles from the Chain Bridge. Our troops having accomplished the object of their errand, connected with the reconnaissance of the country, began to their steps, when a large force of Confederates, consisting of two regiments of infantry and Col. Stewart's regiment of Virginia cavalry, with a battery of four pieces, were seen approaching from the direction of Falls Church, evidently with a view of cutting them off with their cavalry and preventing the return of our troops