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The Daily Dispatch: August 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], One hundred and Fifty Dollars reward. (search)
ne yesterday, the origin of which we could not ascertain, that excited a very lively interest. It was of a victory achieved by General Lee over the enemy.--The rumor at first maintained a currency on the reputed authority of the War Department. Upon applying there we found that there was no truth whatever in it. The Department had received no information of the kind. At last accounts that have reached us Gen. Lee was with a part of the force under his command not far from Huttonsville, in Randolph county. The enemy, or part of the force under Rosencrantz, was between him and that town, the distance between the camps of the opposing forces being eight or ten miles. Up to that time Gen. Lee had moved steadily, and the enemy had been receding before him after he had passed a defensible point on the line between Pocahontas and Randolph. It will be remembered that Rosencrantz endeavored to get possession of that point when he heard the approach of our army; but Gen. Lee got ahead o