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The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
hby's cavalry — rumors of a fight, &s. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch] Woodstock, Shenandoah co., March 16. Gen. Jackson, after remaining near Strasburg for three days, fell back to this place yesterday, a distance of twelve miles from the former. The enemy with cavalry, artillery, and infantry, advanced to a small place called Middletown, midway between Winchester and Strasburg, on Thursday last, and were kept constantly annoyed by Ashby's cavalry, who captured several prisoners and wounded a number of others, with no less on our side. There is a rumor in camp this morning that the enemy, finding that our forces had fallen back, advanced to within two miles of Strasburg, to Cedar Creek, where Ashby is now fighting them. Two companies citifies (one of them the Grayeen Daredevils,) have just gone down to their support, and we look for a very lively time of it, as our forces have a very strong position there. It is hard, indeed, to give up this beautiful