SANDY HOOK, Md., Jan. 29. – This morning a squad of Ashby’s
Rebel Cavalry made their appearances at Bolivar, accompanied by a section of
artillery, which opened on Col. Geary’s regiment. Our Parrott gun and Enfields soon silenced
their battery and drove the Rebels back behind the hill.
Jackson’s main body is concentrating at Charleston. Informants state that great consternation
exists among the Rebels, in consequence of the circulation of reports among
them that our whole division is about to cross over, and that Jackson has
posted to Charleston to resist our progress.
It is thought here that Jackson will move down nearer to Harper’s Ferry
to-night.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, February 1, 1862, p. 2
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