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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Our army Correspondence. (search)
u in a few days from some point nearer the army. J. [*The letter of our correspondent has been anticipated by events, but is still interesting.--Ed.] Martinsburg, July 4th, 1863. I reached this place late in the afternoon of to day. The town is full of rumors and reports — some of them startling and apparently wallheard of the people in Pennsylvania resorting to this mode of warfare. This morning a small party of Yankee cavalry came to Falling Water, seven miles from Martinsburg, and out away a few of the boats forming the pontoon bridge at that place, and partially sunk several more. They attempted to fire the whole structure, but wercaptured three wagons and some sixteen mules, and than returned. It is positively stated here that Harper's Ferry is evacuated entirely the enemy. J. Martinsburg, July 5, 1863. The great battle in the Northern field of operations commenced on Wednesday, the 1st. Late on that day Ewell and A. P. Hill attacked the e
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], Telegraphic lies. (search)
aylor had crossed the Mississippi and was joining Gardner at Port Hudson, had completely routed Banks, and marched on to reinforce Johnston of course must be received with the incredulity that the questionable ter of everything by telegraph from that quarter is so well calculated to inspire. But all at once the telegraphers from the North appear to be ambitions of outstripping their contemporaries of the far South, and with one bound go a long way ahead of them. We are informed from Martinsburg that Gen. Lee, by an adroit move, has captured forty thousand of the enemy, and they "refuse to be paroled! " The number of prisoners are finally reduced to four thousand, and some have been charitable enough to imagine that there was a mistake in transcribing the sum, by which four was magnified into forty. But the signs of the telegraph do not admit of such a mistake. Yet again, if this were not so, the particularity with which the message described the movement of the falling back of
The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1863., [Electronic resource], From General Lee's army. (search)
my did not leave his fortified heights to try a battle in the field again that day. Our two informants, who were wounded, went back to their tents on the same ground they had occupied the night before, and the next day at noon were sent off to Martinsburg. They report the loss in the division as very heavy. The 1st Va., in Kemper's brigade, and the 14th Va., in Armistead's brigade, suffered heavily. Col. J. Gregory Hodges, of the latter regiment, one of the best and bravest officers of the a. We inquired of the President of the truth of this report, and were assured that no such dispatch had been received by him. It is stated, however, that a dispatch was received, (by whom we could not learn,) from the commandant of the Post at Martinsburg, stating that the army had reached Hagerstown with a large number of prisoners, and that our forces were entrenching themselves on the hills around the town. A gentleman who lived all the early part of his life in Gettysburg makes the fol