An engagement took place yesterday (Saturday) between Col. Angus McDonald's Cavalry, about two hundred in number, and about two hundred militia, under Col. Monroe, and a body of Yankee troops, variously estimated at from three thousand to five thousand. Our...
A pay site gave the tidbit...it is dated November 1861.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/1705776382.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+12%2C+1861&author=&pub=The+Sun+(1837-1985)&desc=DETAILS+OF+THE+ENGAGEMENT+NEAR+ROMNEY--COL.+M'DONALD+SUPPOSED+TO+BE+TAKEN+PRISONER&pqatl=google
David