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The Daily Dispatch: October 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Potomac. (search)
From the Potomac. Hampton's Legion--an Experiment on the enemy — a short engagement--"Nobody Hurt"--camp incidents, &c. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Camp Conner, Hampton's Legion,Army of the Potomac, Oct. 7, 1861. Since I last wrote you we have advanced considerably towards the enemy — to what precise point I will not inform you, though I think the Lincolnites could, as they give it a much wider berth in passing. Suffice it to say, that we built, working day and night, a battery in double- quick time, and that one bright and beautiful morning last week the "Stars and Bars" waved free and fearlessly from a jutting point of the Potomac, where little dreamed the foe the night before a Southerner was nigh. Several war steamers and innumerable small sails were heaving around, and immediately opened upon our (then) little battery of three guns--two 12-pounders, rifled, of the Legion, and one thirty-two. The compliment was not returned by Capt. Lee until