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The Daily Dispatch: August 29, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
The following summary of news was copied from the Washington Chronicle and Baltimore Gazette of the 27th, received last night: From the Upper Potomac. The Washington Chronicle says: We learn from an eye-witness that the fighting on the Upper Potomac on the 23d instant was most brilliant, and successfully conducted. At an early hour in the morning the cavalry under General Custar advanced to feel the enemy's lines in the vicinity of Duffy's station, on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad. They pushed the skirmishers of the rebels steadily before them, and were themselves boldly followed up by the Sixth corps until the skirmish line of the enemy fell back on their main support — some time in the afternoon — and the cavalry, in turn, were compelled to fall back on their's. Our line of battle was boldly advanced, and a most terrific musketry fire ensued. The ground was rolling and partially wooded. The first sharp experience our men got of the rebel fire was as they