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The Daily Dispatch: November 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The battle at Leesburg. (search)
ppose the force at Edward's Ferry, General Evans sent the 13th Mississippi, Col. Barksdale, and the 18th Mississippi, Colonel Burt. The 17th Mississippi, Colonel Featherston, was afterwards added. At Burt Bridge were posted the 8th Virginia, Col. Hunton, composed of Loudoun and Prince William volunteers, and a 12-pound howitzer. The forces thus posted remained awaiting the assault until about 3 P. M., on Monday, when all anticipation of an attack at the Burnt Bridge were dissipated. At the us, is the incessant firing — more uninterrupted and violent, I think, than at Manassas — indicated. Once or twice the noise of the musketry and the cheering seemed to roll nearer, and show that our troops were wavering and falling back. But Col. Hunton assures me that such was at no time the face. "It was one steady advance," he declares. To notice more particularly, however, the mode of attach adopted by the 8th, the writer of this was with the piece of artillery above alluded to, and was