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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
lated to impede their flight; broke into a thousand fragments, scattered to all the quarters of the compass, and fled faster than the wild deer of the mountains, Belvidere himself leading the way, and keeping far in advance of the most fleet- footed. For four days this heroic chief continued to run, and at the end of four days he s about one hundred miles from the field of battle! At that moment Col. Napier expressed the belief that there was not a Spanish soldiers within twenty miles of Belvidere. We said this story could not be surpassed — and we are sure it could not, at least in Spain. But the Yankees beat the Spaniards as far in romancing as thehey threw away their weapons, almost to a man, and our troops gathered them in by thousands. Few prisoners were made. Few could have been made unless General Early had been furnished with a pack of greyhounds. They ran thirty- eight miles without stopping, and here is the account of their exploit. Truly, Belvidere is outdone!