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April 4, 1862 – Letter from Winchester

Correspondence of the Baltimore Republican.

Winchester, March 26, 1862.

Messrs. Editors: It may interest your readers to have some account of the severe battle of Sunday last, near this town. You have already the main facts as stated in the dispatches of the telegraph agents, and it is therefore needless to repeat them. The plain story of the fight, as ascertained and believed by the substantial people of this place is sucinctly thus:

Late on Saturday afternoon some two or three hundred of Col. Ashby’s cavalry, unexpectedly to all parties, military and citizens, made their appearance on thehigh ridge of hills south of the town and signalized their presence with the discharge of a few shells, but not in the direction of any of the houses of the citizens. This, of course, produced great commotion among the Federal military, who immediately commenced moving in all directions; cavalry, infantry, and artillery went thundering and plunging through the town all night, giving our citizens a very impressive idea of the dread commotions and fierce energies of war.

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April 2, 1862 – Forced March Against a Rebel Camp at Union City

Chicago, April 1—A special dispatch to the Journal from Cairo says that Col. Buford yesterday, accompanied by the 27th and 47th Illinois Regiments, and part of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, from the force near Island No. 10, with a detachment of cavalry and artillery from Hickman, under Col. Hedge, made a descent upon Union City, Tenn, after a forced march of 30 miles, and fell on the rebel encampment there at 7 o’clock In the morning, dispersing the entire force stationed there under Clay King, both cavalry and infantry.

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Japan Called Big Winner in Russia Pact

LONDON—Hurried examination of the text of the soviet-Japanese treaty, received in London Monday night, reveals a number of new features.

It is disclosed for the first time that the soviet recognizes private ownership and freedom of commerce on the part of Japanese subjects, while Japan grants equal rights to soviet subjects.