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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Mecklenburg. (search)
rned on our left flank, north of Bolivar. The infantry formed near the breastworks in the woods, and when the enemy left their shelter in the houses and advanced on our force, a severe engagement, the heaviest firing of the day, occurred. Our men must have thinned their ranks, as they retired a second time. Just then I left my horse to aid in conveying the wounded from the field. I saw persons passing with blankets, coats, and cartridge-boxes, left by the enemy; and along came young Mr. Pennybacker with a prisoner he had captured in Smallwood's field. I next met persons bearing along a young man wounded in the leg, also a prisoner. I have since heard that there were about twenty-five of the enemy killed besides the wounded. "At this time the artillery opened on the enemy from the Loudoun Mountain, but again ceased a short space, when it was evident the enemy had been reinforced either by the railroad from Shepherdstown or Shapsburg. The balls and bombs passed over and fell