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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Our correspondence. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Forward to New Orleans. (search)
The Army of the Potomac.
--We learn from a correspondent at Fairfax C. H. that there has been no regular engagement yet between our advanced forces, under Gen. Longstreet and the Yankees near them.
Col. J. E. B. Stuart continues to command a considerable force of infantry at Munson's hill, supported by the Washington Artillery, Capt. Rosser, and Mason's hill is now occupied by Col. J. L. Kemper, with several regiments under his command.
The Leesburg Artillery, Captain Rogers, have been stationed at this post for about two weeks. Munson's and Mason's hills mutually defend each other as military posts, being about two miles apart, equidistant from the Potomac, the latter nearer Alexandria, and both almost within range of the enemy's guns at Arlington Heights and Fort Ellsworth.
There has been a good deal of skirmishing between the pickets of the two armies, but the Yankees are evidently backing into their entrenchments, and are afraid to venture far from their strongholds, thoug