The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], From the Upper Potomac.

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is an extract from a letter re Gated Romney, Hampton county Va. September 26th, 1861

clock Tuesday morning we met that near the battle west of Romney, and pretty much in skirmish and century marching. We wounded five of the enemy — come of hart .Our force was odd, that of the about Loss. In the evening we and the enemy four miles from The next morning the 20th, the into Romney, where we again but they bad established the of the we got there. In the of the fight we had only 150 of the when the enemy probably this has been rein forced began a about this time a body of cavalry even a few miles off came up, and our forces pursued them some ten miles--killing eight wounding many, and taking but none mortally.

Means behaved gallantly. I am our militia.

The Daily Dispatch: October 3, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. October 3, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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