Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-07-10
LATE FROM MARTINSBUGG.
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AFTER
noon, brought very conflicting reports in regard tC
affairs near Marnnsburg.
4 gentleman. who had cOnycrsed with bearer
of dispatches from General Johnston, and who ar
rived al Manassas Junction yesterday morning
says that no general engagement had taken place
up to Thursday night and that the reported Iepul
ses of Gen. Patterson's forces by Gen. Johnston
must have been founded upon the skirmshes with
the enemy by Col Jackson.
in those skirmishes the enemy lost enc hundred
and fifty killed, and sixty>three taken prisoners
Our loss was two killed and eight slightly wOun
ded.
Several regiments have been sent to reinforce
Gen. Johnston and the lst and llth Virginia RegI-
iments. and the 9Th Louisiana Regiment stationed
at Manassas Junction, were, on Saturday. under or
ders 10 hold themselves in readiness with four day
provisions, to move at any moment.
MORE oUTRAGEs IN NoETHwEsTERX VIRGINIA.
A letter from reliable gentlemen now at Gar
netts camp, TO his friend in Richmond, says the to-
ries and Federal troops in Harrison and the coun-
ties adjacent Selling the property of every citl-
zen OF Virginia so far as they can, and destroying
it apprOpriating it 10 their own uses They also
seize every tTuehearted man and woman and make
prisoners Of them. instances related of the ar
rest. by the Lincoln leaders, of highly respectable
ladies' the breaking open of their trunks, and the
searching Of their persons.
Among the gentlemen arrested in the neighbor-
hood of Carksburg, the writer gives the name of
pei eighty years of age. This venerable clergy
is arrested because he refused to take the oath
renouncing his allegiance to Virginia. James NJ
Jackson, Cooper Smith, Clerk of the Court Of Har-
rison, and other prominent citizens of that county
have been arrested for the same reason.
ANOTHER VERSION OF THAT TERRIFIC FIGHT BETWEEN
THIRTEEN OF COLONEL wALLlCE's MEN AND SEVEN
TY-FIvE CONFEDERATE TROOPS.
A correspondent in Winchester, Virginia has
forwarded the Baltimore American the following
account of the skirmsh between the pickets of the
Federal and Confederate armies near Romney 1t
is an extract from letter addressed to Hon. ]. n.
Mason, at Winchester, by gentleman in Col. Nc
DoSALDs regiment, dated at GOMSEY, June p
1861:
Yesterday wednesday, Richard Ashby left with
a portion of his command, twenty-One strong, from
Captain 7. Ashby's company. on a scouting expedi-
ton to Maryland, dividing his command into three
bodies. He with six men, met strong force Gorty)
of the United States dragons (regulars) and made
a running fight with them, killing number of the
enemy. Himself and three of his men are missing,
but two escaping, and we fear thai they have been
killed as their horses were led off by the enemy.
Captain Ashby, who was also scouting with six
men, hearing Of the fight, Immediately started in
pursuit to rescue or avenge his brother. On his
way he was joined by four Of his meH, making
IN all. They came upon the enemy, 40 strong, hid
in gully with brushwood upon the opposite side
of the river near Patterson's Creek bridge The
enemy commenced firing upon him when he order
ed charge ferding the river in the face of de-
structlye fire, and charging upon and completely
routing them, they leaving all their horses behind
them. iAshby's loss was two killed and two wound
ed, and four horses killed. His horse was shot I'M
der him. Their loss was eight or ten killed Ashby
secured enough horses, one of whichwAs his broth
er's, to mount the men, but owing to his small
force was compelled to leave the others behind.
Dick Ashby was terribly cut up, one of his eyes
being shot out and his head and neck badly cut by
balls. Upon hearing of the fight Immediately
started for the scene of action asking the chaplain
TO accompany me, which he willingly did. We went
to Ashby's camp, located the farm of Col. Wash
ingtOn six miles from here, but finding that the
envy were in force between US and the wounded
men, that they 1.-THE enemy had returned, and that
Captain Ashby had gone in pursuit of them with his
whole force and Captain Myers company, we re-
turned 10 this place, and are now waiting to lend
our aid at the weakest point Il is reported that
strong force Of the enemy is approaching upon the
Northwest turnpike. We not only ready for
them, but having reliable information that the enc
my, one hundred strong, and posted in PaddytOwn,
we have sent 4 force to surprise them; the eXpedi
ton left before returned from Ashby's camp or
l would have Joined them. Dick Ashby Is
noble man. and has endeared himself to US all,
and l sincerely trust that he made good his
escape by Abandoning his horse and taking to
the woods. If he has been murdered, l pray
that the Almighty will nerve my arm to avenge him
a hundredfold. Captain Ashby had over forty shots
fired at him, and his escape was miraculous. His
horse was shot twice, and killed under him, and he
wounded slightly in the leg, which has not prevent
ed him from pursuing the enemy. l received the
above account from two of Ashby's own men who
were in the fight. As their accounts tally, sup
pose them to be correct. This is fighting regi-
ment the chaplain and surgeon fighting first and
praying and dOCtOrng afterwards Our Colonel
Is emlneStly qualified for the kind OF work which
We have before Us. and is beyond doubt fighting
man have become very much attached to him
Please excuse this hurried and disconnected
count have been compelled to write hurriedy
as | viii be called upon in two hours, and having
had sleep last night, and but two hours the night
before wish to refresh myself before entering up
on duties Of know not what character-probably
that of hgnting and dressing wounds.