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The Daily Dispatch: September 21, 1863., [Electronic resource], Enforcing the Conscription. (search)
ld the place and were eager to try to do so. We learn from one of the persons who was there that there were 12 pieces of artillery planted, and that the General would not allow the men to spike the guns. Lt. O'Conner and his men pitched their guns over a precipice some thousand feet high, and the balance, 8 or 10 in number, fell into the hands of the enemy uninjured. Gen. Frazier was under the impression that the place was invested on the south by Gen. Burnside and on the north by Gen. De Corsey, each with a very large force. Others thought the forces were mere detachments from the commands named, and not very formidable in numbers — certainly not strong enough to take the position, had it been bravely defended. Our forces in the Gap were estimated at something like 3,000, about 1,800 of whom were captured, the balance making their escape. Col. Slemp, of the 64th, escaped with all his Captains except one, and all his Lieutenants except three or four, and about 100 private