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Passengers who arrived on the Central cars yesterday, who left Winchester on Wednesday evening, report the retreat of General Patterson's command across the Potomac on the approach of General Johnston. It is further reported that of Col. Jackson's force of 4,500 which engaged Patterson's column on Tuesday, at, Falling Waters, near Martinsburg, there were six killed and twenty wounded, and it is believed there were about eighty of the enemy killed. The arrival of over forty prisoners at Winchester is confirmed. It seems useless to anticipate any pitched battle, as the enemy is apparently not disposed to give Gen. Johnston battle, at least on this side of the river. Their retreat looks very much like a ruse to draw our troops into Maryland. We publish this morning from the Baltimore Sun, of Wednesday, the Northern account of the engagement between Gen. Johnston's advance force and the Federalists under Gen. Patterson, on the 2d inst. Of course it is very false, as are all the Northern accounts of the engagements with our troops are. Such lying reports as they give to the world, we suppose have been hardly equaled in any war.
The Daily Dispatch: July 5, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 5, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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