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The Daily Dispatch: July 6, 1861., [Electronic resource], Serious accident. (search)
Another version of that Terrific fight between thirteen of Colonel Wallace's men and seventy-five Confederate troops. A correspondent in Winchester, Virginia, has forwarded the Baltimore American the following account of the skirmish between the pickets of the Federal and Confederate armies near Romney. It is an extract from a letter addressed to Hon. J. M. Mason, at Winchester, by a gentleman in Col. McDonald's regiment, dated Headquarters, 4 A. M., Romney, June 27, 1861. Yesterday (Wednesday) Richard Ashby left with a portion of his command, twenty-one strong, from Captain T. Ashby's company, on a scouting expedition to Maryland, dividing his command into three bodies. He, with six men, met a strong force (forty) of United States dragoons (regulars,) and made a running fight with them, killing a number of the enemy. Himself and three of his men are missing, but two escaping, and we fear that they have been killed, as their horses were led off by the enemy. Cap