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The Daily Dispatch: October 23, 1862., [Electronic resource], The latest from the North. (search)
he way to Colonel Wyndham. At dawn on Saturday, finding the rebels about to occupy the Cap, Colonel Wyndham charged them, and put them to flight before they had placed their artillery in position. Colonel Wyndham pursued them into the town of Warrenton, where he found about a thousand infantry and a full battery of artillery.--He attempted to draw them out of the town, but was unsuccessful, and, as he had exhausted his forage, returned to Centreville on Saturday night, having captured ninety o Front Royal, or to some other point in the Shenandoah Valley, where he can have the choice of position, and then fall upon the Union army, with the hope of defeating Gen. McClellan. Gen. Johnston, in the meantime, to advance from Culpeper and Warrenton, to Aldic, so as to be between Gen. McClellan and Washington, in order to cut off his retreat to the capital, and to act as a reserve to Gen, Lee in case of need, it will be seen at once that there are both sense and strategy in this plan. --In