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The Daily Dispatch: April 26, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Department of Henrico. (search)
untains through Fauquier and Loudoun. On the 17th Brig Gen Fitz Lee moved from Piedmont towards Aldie, with the view of holding the gap in Bull Run mountain as a screen against Lieut Gen Longstreet't Rectort own, so as to be able to move to the support of either. Fitz Lee's brigade, moving on Aldie, was halted at Dover, and was driven back by the enemy's cavalry, which was advancing from Fairfax. Gen Fitz Lee took up position on a hill west of Aldie, commanding the Snickersville road. Simultaneously with this attack Gen Stuart was informed that the enemy was advancing on Middleburg, viaturing one standard and seventy prisoners. Chambliss, in approaching on the Middleburg road from Aldie, during the night and next morning, captured one hundred and sixty prisoners, also horses, arms morning it became evident that the enemy were retiring.--They were pressed vigorously as far as Aldie, and a number captured. On the 25th Robertson's and Jones's brigades were left to observe t