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The Daily Dispatch: July 27, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our army correspondence. (search)
Our army correspondence. Army Northern Virginia, July 18th, 1863.
The heavy cannonading heard in the direction of Shepherdstown Thursday originated from a severe cavalry fight, of which you have been advised by telegraph.
I will now furnish you the particulars as they have been ascertained.
After the return of Gen. Lee's army to Virginia, the enemy, evidently too much crippled for immediate pursuit, and desirous of ascertaining our movements and feeling our position, dispatched a large body of cavalry down the river to accomplish this object, if possible.
They crossed at Harper's Ferry, where pontoon bridges were thrown across for the purpose, and proceeded up the river as far as Shepherdstown, where they arrived on Wednesday; then coming down the Leetown and Winchester road to the distance of about five miles, halted.
Meantime, Fitzhugh Lee, who was in the vicinity and hearing of their whereabouts, proceeded up the Shepherdstown road for the purpose of checking the