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I checked the Richmond Daily Dispatch for these dates and could only find information on the July 2,1861 affair.

George Martin

Richmond Dispatch.
July 5, 1861
Friday morning...July 5, 1861.

Latest News
late from Winchester.

Passengers who arrived on the Central cars yesterday, who left Winchester on Wednesday evening, report the retreat of General Patterson's command across the Potomac on the approach of General Johnston. It is further reported that of Col. Jackson's force of 4,500 which engaged Patterson's column on Tuesday, at, Falling Waters, near Martinsburg, there were six killed and twenty wounded, and it is believed there were about eighty of the enemy killed. The arrival of over forty prisoners at Winchester is confirmed.
It seems useless to anticipate any pitched battle, as the enemy is apparently not disposed to give Gen. Johnston battle, at least on this side of the river. Their retreat looks very much like a ruse to draw our troops into Maryland.

We publish this morning from the Baltimore Sun, of Wednesday, the Northern account of the engagement between Gen. Johnston's advance force and the Federalists under Gen. Patterson, on the 2d inst. Of course it is very false, as are all the Northern accounts of the engagements with our troops are. Such lying reports as they give to the world, we suppose have been hardly equaled in any war.

War Movements.

From the Baltimore Sun, of Wednesday morning, July 3d, we copy the following in relation to the movements of troops, &c., at the North;
U. S. Troops at Point of Rocks.

We learned last evening that about 900 U. S. troops, under Col. Stone, have arrived at Point of Rocks, and were yesterday occupying that place. The Confederates were reported to be throwing up batteries on the opposite or Virginia side

Monday morning...May 11, 1863.
Death of Gen. Thos J. Jackson.

General Johnston's official report of the battle of Manassas will show:

"On the 2d of July [1861] Gen. Patterson again crossed the Potomac. Col. Jackson, pursuant to instructions, fell back before him. In retiring, he gave him a severe lesson in the affair at Falling Waters. With a battalion of the 5th Virginia regiment (Harper's) and Pendleton's battery of field artillery he engaged the enemy's advance. Skillfully taking a position where the smallness of his force was concealed, he engaged them for a considerable time, inflicted a heavy loss, and retired, when about to be out flanked, scarcely losing a man, but bringing off forty-five prisoners."

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