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—We have a letter from Augustus Ogden, a member of Oapt. Braden’s Company of the 30th Regiment, dated at Camp Andy Johnson, five miles from Nashville, Feb 9. in which he* states the circumstances connected with the capture of seven privates belonging to that company by the enemy. The company were on picket duly two miles in advance of the regiment, and the seven men taken prisoners wore on an em inence some two hundred yards from the balance of the company, that commanded the principal road over which an enemy would have to approach, when some thirty persons on horseback approached in citizens dress, one of whom presented a paper supposed to be a forged pass, and while the guards were carefully examining it, the balance encircled the seven men, and at a given signal drew from under their overcoat a double barrelled guns, demanded their surrender, and under threat of instant death if they refused, ordered them to march forward, thus deceiving and capturing them. The young men were alt from the vicinity of Ligonier, Noble County.Mr. Ogden further says that whilst the loss of their comrades cast a gloom over the entire camp, there is a determination to retake them, the latter of which has been pauially accomplished in a recent skirmish, in which they slew eight of the enemy and wounded a larger number. There is every pmsp ct of an en gagetnetit in the vicinity of Nashville, for thlt;-rebels are in strong force within one day’s march of our outposts. If it should take place, the banner of the rebellion will trail in the dust before the Union standard.
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Dawsons Daily Times and Union
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Tue, Mar 18, 1862
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