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The Daily Dispatch: August 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
oke an engagement between large portions of the two armies, by inducing the defeated or weaker side to supply its outposts with reinforcements, until the number which at first was few is swollen into thousands.--It is now stated, however, that General Long street, commanding the advance brigade, will issue positive orders for a discontinuance of the picket warfare, which he declares to be only an annoyance, totally worthless in its results, and also unknown to the rules governing civilized wars.ope the rule against surprising and picking off sentinels is so decided that hostile guards are frequently known to converse with each other, and sometimes go unarmed. A false alarm of a grand character was created to day in the Brigade of Gen. Long- street from a skirmish with the enemy's pickets, during which a heavy reinforcement was rapidly sent from Alexandria, with the design, it is supposed, of killing or capturing a portion of our scouts. The cavalry pickets galloped hurriedly int