Posted on 09/01/2023 3:02:25 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
We have received a copy of the Richmond Enquirer of Aug. 29. As will be seen, it contains come highly interesting intelligence, which we failed to receive in our telegrams from Fortress Monroe, purporting to give all that was of interest in the paper in question:
From the Richmond Enquirer, Aug. 29.
The following official dispatch was received in this city yesterday morning:
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, Aug 27, via DUBLIN, Aug. 28.}
To Gen. S. Cooper:
We met the enemy yesterday morning about a mile and a half from this place, on the road leading to the Warm Springs. We fought from 9 A.M. to 7 P.M. Every attack made by the enemy was repulsed. At night each side occupied the same position they had in the morning. This morning the enemy made two other attacks, which were handsomely repulsed, when he abandoned his position and retreated toward Warm Springs, pursued by cavalry and artillery. The troops engaged were the First brigade of this army, Col. GEORGE S. PATTON, commanding. The enemy were about three thousand strong, with six pieces of artillery, under Brig.-Gen. AVERILL. Our loss is about two hundred killed and wounded. The enemy's loss is not known. We have taken about one hundred and fifty prisoners and a piece of artillery.
(Signed,) SAM'L. JONES, Maj.-Gen.
(Official.) JOHN WITHERS, Lt.-Col. and A. and I.G.
Considerable excitement was occasioned in the city on Thursday night, and was kept up during the day on Friday, by a report, brought by couriers and passengers from the White House, that the enemy, 8,000 strong, was advancing upon the city. At an early hour Gen. ELNEY, in command of this Department, proceeded to make the best possible disposition of the forces under his command for the defence of the metropolis.
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