3-003-748 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Civil War in America: fight at Hainsville, on the Upper Potomac - advance of the Wisconsin men (Federalists) on the Secessionist position, 1861. 'Our Special Artist in America, writing from the Federal Camp, on the 7th July, says he managed to pay a flying visit to Patterson's division at Martinsburg, getting up in time to witness his gallant and successful dash at the Confederate troops, on the 2nd July, at Hainsville, on the Upper Potomac. In reference to this brisk encounter he has forwarded a Sketch showing the advance of the Wisconsin men through the wheatfields, after fording the river, to attack the enemy's position. Their behaviour (he says), considering it was the first time they were under fire, was admirable: they went on very steadily, poured in two or three volleys, and then, making a rush with bowie-knife and revolver, sent the Disunionists flying towards Winchester, leaving behind them many dead, wounded, and prisoners. The building burning in the distance is a barn in which a strong body of the enemy had intrenched themselves, and near which they had planted some guns. A few shells sent into it by the Federal artillery soon dislodged them, and completed the discomfiture of their already wavering troops. From "Illustrated London News", 1861.