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The Daily Dispatch: September 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 12 (search)
from the border — skirmish at Shepherdstown. Shepherdstown, Va., Sept. 11, 1861. Yesterday, the tenth of September, will be a day long remembered by the citizens of Shepherdstown, and the "stranger within its gates." The events of yesterday will be as memorable as the famous battle of Erie, in 1813, which was fought on the tenth of September, forty-seven years ago. Our usually quiet and peaceful town was yesterday, between the hours of three and four P. M., thrown into a blaze of intense excitement, alarm and consternation, produced by a sudden and unexpected arrival of a banditti of Federal mercenaries into the place. Two companies of Baltimore "Plug Uglies," numbering in the aggregate about one hundred rowdies, crossed over the river at the fording — a mile from town — and boldly marched into town to perform the object of their mission. Were it for the fact, (which is to be regretted,) that we still have "frogs in the net"--traitors on this side who su<