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The Daily Dispatch: September 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
t may appear, there are as many rumors and false reports here as there are in Richmond, and it requires great care and attention to details to be able to separate the false from the true. I will give one example, to show how easy it is to fall into error. Last night, a courier came from the advance posts, bringing the news of a battle that had been fought that morning near Arlington Heights. Everybody was on the qui vive for further information, and of course questioned all who came from Fairfax. Some two hours after the news was received another courier came in and denied the story in toto, and said he had passed the day with one of the regiments reported in the engagement, and that they were fifteen miles from the battle site. Here was a dilemma. After some hard labor and much questioning among the officers of the post, it was found this particular regiment had been detached from the brigade to which it belonged, and were assigned to some special duty. Both couriers told thei