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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the South. (search)
From the South. From the latest Southern journals received we make up the following summary of news: The affair at Hanging Rock. Exaggerated and false rumors having gone abroad with respect to the retreat of our forces from Hanging Rock, in Hampshire county, Va., we copy from the Rockingham Register, of the 17th inst.Hanging Rock, in Hampshire county, Va., we copy from the Rockingham Register, of the 17th inst., the following statement of facts, obtained from a reliable gentleman who was present at the time: Our forces fit for service, all told, did not, amount to over 300. They consisted of a skeleton of one troop of cavalry--Captain Sheets's — a part of Col. Monroe's brigade of Hampshire militia, Capt. Sibert's 8th Star Artilleg forces. He says, also, that it was generally believed that some spy or traitor had communicated to the enemy intelligence of our numbers, situation, &c., at Hanging Rock. In support of this theory, he says that neither of our large guns could be got off, notwithstanding the gunners and drillmaster did their utmost to fire them