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The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Northern Virginia. (search)
affairs since our last report. There was a rumor afloat yesterday that the troops of Gen. Jackson had again captured Harper's Ferry, with an immense amount of valuable stores, but from what we know of the position of Gen. Jackson's forces as late as Friday morning we are satisfied that the rumor has no foundation in fact. The force of the enemy at Harper's Ferry is variously estimated, some persons placing it as high as 26,000, and others as low as 5,000. A gentleman who left Winchester od Charlestown on Thursday, says that everything was quiet in the Valley when he left. The enemy made an advance from Harper's Ferry on Sunday last, and came out as far as Rippon, five miles southwest of Charlestown, on the Berryville road. Their fagined committed. A dispatch from Winchester, dated Friday, says that there is now so enemy in the Valley, except at Harper's Ferry, and that the country is clear to the Potomac. Forty Yankee privates and six officers were captured on Thursday.
The Daily Dispatch: November 17, 1862., [Electronic resource], Latest from the North. (search)
The creme of the letter consists of dissatisfaction with McClellan because he had not pushed into Virginia. The New York Tribunes, commenting on the removal, says that "the report of the Military Commission touching the surrender of Harper's Ferry, contains facts which form a part of the Cass against the superceded Major-General." The removal of McClellan has certainly produced a good deal of excitement in the North. The Tines' Washington correspondent heard a Lieutenant Colonel on his way on the 9th to Rappahannock station, with artillery and infantry, to hold the important bridge there past peradventure, with the assistance of Bayard's cavalry. Gen. Geary made a reconnaissance with 2,500 men, on the 8th, from Harper's Ferry. Charlestown was occupied and searched, and about 20 prisoners made. The Federal went to within five miles of Berryville, where they say the reconnaissance ended, and where "two Virginia regiments of infantry and Chew's rebel battery assist