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The Daily Dispatch: August 17, 1861., [Electronic resource], Runaway (search)
everal regiments of the Confederates were approaching the river opposite Berlin from Lovettsville for the purpose of erecting a battery to stop the trains. This and other information received at Headquarters, to the effect that Point of Rocks was threatened as a strong Confederate force, induced the General to dispatch Colonel Geary's regiment and the Rhode Island battery to Point of Rocks. About one o'clock last night a blue rocket was thrown up by the Confederates in the rear of Loudoun heights, about two miles from our camp, which was probably a signal that our reinforcements were moving down the river. An officer from Berlin this morning states that the fight of last night consisted of about twenty-five Confederates approaching the river, and firing a volley into our picket guard on the abutment of the burnt bridge, and also into the town of Berlin. Major Ledlie, of the Nineteenth New York Regiment, at once dispatched a battalion of his regiment to the aid of the picke