NEW YORK, April 5. – A special dispatch to the Philadelphia
Inquirer, dated Middleburg, via Baltimore, April 4, says Col. George’s advance encountered
100 of Merrit’s and White’s cavalry and Price’s infantry at Middleburg, Va.,
last Saturday. He drove in the rebel
pickets outside of Middleburg, when he entered the town and discovered the
infantry in retreat, and cavalry posted to make a stand. One gun was placed to command the main street,
and the 28th advanced by the approaches to the town, while the main body rushed
through it with bayonets fixed and on a double-quick, driving the enemy before
them. Col. George dashed at the head and
at one time he was within 200 yards of the rebel cavalry. Col. George’s command scoured the country as
far down as Albu, from which place it returned as far as Scietarville to assist
at Winchester, but the battle there was decided before it could get further.
– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 12, 1862, p. 4.
Editor’s Note: This
article has been transcribed as it appeared in the Hawk-Eye, and seems to be
riddled with errors. A more accurate but
still slightly differing versions of this article appear in The
Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 7, 1862, p. 1
and The
New York Times, April 6, 1862.
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