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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], City Battalion. (search)
From the Valley.the trap set to Catch "Stonewall."he Withdraws his troops from Winchester. the plans of the enemy Frustrated.hopes of the inhabitants.instances of Yankee meanness.spirit of the ladies.the Redoubtable BanksMisrepresentations of the enemyheavy skirmishing and death of the gallant Ashby. [from our Regular correspondent] Rockingham Co., Va., June 6. 1862
The day after my letter from Winchester intelligence reached "Old Stonewall," at Harper's Ferry, that a Federal column from the Northwest, probably headed by Milroy and Fremont, was trying to form a junction at Strasburg with Shields and McDowell's forces, and cut off his communication with the upper Valley, while Banks, collecting his scattered forces, and probably reinforced by Dix, would press upon him from Maryland.
It was an artful trap, and showed how important it was deemed to head off the old here, who proved himself, however, a little too smart to be caught by it. On Saturday morning, 31st ult., he quiet