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The Daily Dispatch: August 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
distinctly hear the hum of voices of the infantry support of the Federal battery. The reported loss of the Purcell Battery is eighteen killed and wounded. On yesterday a squad of twenty-five of our cavalry made a dash into Front Royal, capturing the Provost Marshal, two Captains, eight privates, and seven horses. Twenty-one Yankee soldiers came in here to day and surrendered themselves as deserters. They belonged to the 1st Virginia (Yankee) regiment, and were citizens of Northwestern Virginia. They declared that they were tired of fighting, and wanted to be "paroled" and allowed to return home. If pressed again into the U. S. service they intend to commence "bushwhacking" on the Confederate side. In the fight at Cedar Creek company F, of Richmond, went into action with eighteen men, and came out with six. Several of the wounded are now at Charlottesville, where they are receiving the kindest attention from the citizens. The information in the first part of t