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[correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Leesburg Va., Oct. 28, 1861. Doubtless you have had various accounts of the signal victory, gained over "Old Abe's" forces near Leesburg on Monday, October, 21 Just three months from the celebrated battle of Manassas. Shall I venture you a line?-- Brevity is a desideratam with editors. I'll try at that. The ball was opened about 8 o'clock, A. M., by Captain Duff's Company of Seventeenth Mississippi Volunteers, who had been thrown out as skirmishers and, from that time, with occasional intermission, the firing continued during the day. Towards half-past 3 it became general, and from that time until dark, it was awful. The 8th Virginia regiment, commanded by Col. Hunter, (than whom a braver man tread not the soil,) supported by Captain Fletcher a company, of the 13th Mississippi volunteers, gallantry led the charge. Reinforced by the 18th Mississippi volunteers, Col. Burt, and 17th Mississippi volunteers, Col. Feather ston