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The Daily Dispatch: December 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 19 (search)
of the news have been anticipated from Halifax and Cape Race. The mails by the Europa will reach New York early to-morrow morning. The battle at Alleghany Mountain. The Baltimore News Sheet, formerly the Exchanges, after giving the Federal lying account of the above battle, says: From private sources, by way of Washington, we learn that the fight between the Confederate forces, under Col. Ed. Johnson, and the Federal troops, under Gen. Milroy, at Valley Mountain, Pocahontas county, Va., was a sanguinary conflict. After hours of fighting the Federal forces were badly beaten, and put to utter rout Col. Johnson is in command of a Georgia regiment, and by seniority led the Confederate forces on the occasion referred to. The battle is reported to have been one of the most terrific of the war, and the slaughter most fearful. Advices were further received at Washington city, representing to the Government that the rout of the Federal troops was disgraceful. Suspen