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Bowie-Knives not used.
--A correspondent writing from Leesburg, says bowie-knives were not used, though the cavalry, under Capt. Ball, who had dismounted and were fighting on foot, used their revolvers with considerable effect.
I have heard several accounts of rencontres with the bayonet, but probably more than two or three actually took place.
The Yankees ran before our boys could get within perforating distance.