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The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
and were reported to be retreating on Winchester. Whether this be true or not, we have no doubt they are near enough to our enemies to create a considerable degree of consternation throughout the Yankee dominions. A private dispatch, received here yesterday, states that our forces under McCausland and Bradley Johnson met with a slight reverse at Moorefield last Sunday, but nothing like the disaster announced by the Yankee papers. Four hundred and thirty prisoners, captured by General Early in the Valley and Maryland, have arrived at Lynchburg. It is stated that Colonel William E. Peters, of the Twenty-first Virginia cavalry, was captured recently in Maryland by the enemy. The Petersburg Express of yesterday announces the receipt of a dispatch putting Bradley Johnson's loss at four hundred men, nine hundred horses and five pieces of artillery. Arrival of bushwhackers. The Danville train last evening brought down eighteen bushwhackers, captured by our cavalry
The Daily Dispatch: August 12, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
alarm. The rebellion now is in serious danger of a violent death from strangulation. Grant has it by the throat at Richmond, and cannot be made to relax his hold, except by some desperate and formidable diversion that will compel him, as McClellan was compelled, and as Hooker was compelled, to turn his back upon Richmond in order to save Washington. That this great design underlies all these guerrilla movements along the Maryland border we do most seriously believe. We dare say that Early, Breckinridge, Mosby, Imboden and Company are for the present engaged in the important work of providing, at convenient stations, all the way up the Shenandoah Valley, the depots of supplies necessary to enable an army of sixty or eighty thousand men to move down in light marching order so rapidly as to be in Maryland again in advance of any reliable warning of their numbers or their near approach. In this view of the subject, we care less to know what Hunter, Crook and Averill are doing th