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The Daily Dispatch: July 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], The enemy's lines before Washington. (search)
The enemy's lines before Washington. The report of the enemy's raid upon the town of Gordonsville has been contradicted in time to present any undue excitement here, but it seems to have been the prevalent impression among the people of Orange county that Gen. Pope's army was coming down upon them in terrible army, dealing death and destruction at every step of their progress. The telegraph operator at Gordonsville caught the alarm and with the abrupt announcement, "I'm off," packed up his instrument and deported discontinuing, for the time being, all communication between the capital and a point whereon public interest so suddenly concentrated. A citizen, who numbered himself among the stempeders, telegraphed from the nearest station that the enemy had actually entered the town; but somehow or other nobody had seen the Yankees, and all information respecting their movements was necessarily vague and uncertain. Matters, however, soon assumed a more definite shape, and it was a