Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1863-06-20
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The Cavalry battle ST Aldie.

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The Cavalry battle at Aldie.
The cavalry engaged on the Federal side IN
IA fgbt On Wednesday, at Aldie, we're the I'd
New York. 9Th Ohio, lst Mass, and 4th \.
.Y nnaer command Of Colonel Fitzpatrick, and
rba 1.t Maine. Of Colonel J. j. Gregg's bri-
. ga3e and portion Of Gen FitZhugh Lee
4 b6rgado, under command Of COL Rousseau, on
i fhp mart at the Confoderato2 COL Fitzpatrick
oommaD2 WAS leading the advance OF the cay
4 ajry corps moving from Eairfax Courthouse
70 Aide
The Confederate force cavalry and mounted
infantry had come from the direction OF
Smokers Gap, arriving at Aide some two
hours before the Federal force reached that
Doint and the C0nfederates getting warning
Of the approach OF, Fitzpatrick, posted them
selves in commanding positions, and with
their mounted sharpshooters placed behind
stone walls, ready to FIRE upon the advancing
column, Fitzpatrick charged upon the Con
feder2te advance and drove them turlously
through the town, the Confederates making
stand on the other side, where was posted 8
battery Of four guns on the road TO Ashby's
Gap, and the cavalry posted themselves along
the wooded hills aud stone walls toward
Smokers Gap.
Here desperate charges we're made by the
Federal and the Confederate cavalry alternate
}y, and after 8 fight Of over three hours, with
varying success, the Confed rate force seemed
TO be gaining some advantage, when the first
Blaine regiment, COL {. S. Douty, which had
been detached from Col. Gregg 8 brigade for
that purpose, came up TO tbs contest, and by
desperate charge against the battery Of four
guns and regiment OF mounted Mississippi
infantry, the tide was turned and the Confede-
rates were routed with loss-tLe horses gailOp-
iLg ever the field riderIess, and ali Of the Zoe
thar had not been killed being captured,
But the victory was dearly bought by the
:o3s ofthe gallant COL Douty, who fell NOR
cally wounded The fight lasted tour hours,
and some officers who participated and who
have been il other fights say it was most des-
perate, such cutting and s)ashing with sabres
not having occurred before in any Of the en-
counters with Confederate cavalry. AS soon
rs the Contederates wavered they we're driven
n The direction Of A8hby's Gap, and as they
were going toward the latter, the First Rhode
Island cavalry Col, Dufe, which hgd adyan.
ego through Thoroughfare Gap, Intercepted
1be getreatlng ConfeQerates at Middleburg, five
miss from Aldle, and made s charge upon
t1alr rear, compelling them to move yet faster
EoTard Ashby, ; Car, the Rhode Island men
?G9!IoWlng them up, Col. Fitzpatrick heard
rom the latter that they were still fighting ut
seYen o clock p nl., but no subsequent infor
nation IS to the result Of the contest at that
po!at baS yet been received.
5he force thus engaged was lbs advance
p }'1eneral Stuart s cavalry, who, it is alleged
y PRISONERS, was advancing thus through Al
1!e With the expectation Of making a new
The Federal loss is estimated at 200 in kill
%, wounded, and missing They captured
2YeT LOO prisoners, and battle-hag belonging
10 the Fifth Virginia cavalry.
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