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The Daily Dispatch: November 28, 1861., [Electronic resource], Statement of a Confederate prisoner — a Correction. (search)
Military. --At a meeting of the officers of the Nineteenth Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas J. Evans, on the 26th, the following field officers were elected: D. Lee Powell Lieutenant Colonel; Stephen E. Morgan and J. F. C. Potts, Majors. These officers were elected to fill vacancies occasioned by the resignations of the gentleman who formerly held them, and who are now in commission of the Confederate States and in the field.
Poolesville, where Brig, General Stone's column is lying, and up to Darnestown, which is the headquarters of Gen. Banks's force. Early yesterday morning, before dawn, a detachment of 400 men, of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment, crossed over and proceeded on the road to Leesburg, without encountering the enemy till they got within a mile or so of the town. At the same time a small force of cavalry marched on their flank towards the left. Both were met at last by the Confed rates, under General Evans, and were driven back to the river, where the infantry made a stand, reinforced by the remaining companies of their regiment, by the 20th Indiana, and apparently by Baker's Californians. As the islands in the river had been occupied by the Federalists, it seems to me as if Gen. Banks had been ordered to advance and occupy Leesburg, in the expectation that it was lightly held, but the Confederates were somewhere in the neighborhood, and, as far as I can make out, they succeeded in fo