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The Daily Dispatch: September 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Moral epidemics. (search)
retofore that guard has been but a single company. I do not believe that it will soon again be set upon in any such fashion, unless a general attack be designed by the enemy. Skirmish over the river. Arlington Heights. Aug. 28 --Col. Hoffman, of the 23d New York (Elmtra) regiment, with Capt. Dingree's company and one other, started yesterday afternoon to the vicinity of Ball's Cross Roads, for the protection of our pickets in that locality. Near Ball's Cross Roads they encounterear with his regiment. Another of our men was wounded in the neck and had a finger shot off. Whether the Confederates suffered any loss is not known. Our companies and the pickets fell back to the camp about half a mile beyond Arlington. Col. Hoffman and the Quartermaster of the Regiment, hearing that a large force of Confederates were in the vicinity of Falls Church, took a circuitous route, and got on the top of a house, about a mile from the church, to reconnoitre. They had a good glas