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Mr. Garrett's railroad telegraph had kept him thoroughly informed as to the movements in western Maryland.
He had perceived as early as the Thursday or Friday before, that Early had crossed the Potomac in force and that his real object was Washington.
He had impressed his views personally upon President Lincoln and the Secretary of War, Mr. Stanton, and insisted on the necessity of fighting a battle at Frederick, in order to either gain time for troops to be got up for the defense of that city, or, failing that, that prepations could be made for its evacuation.
Accordingly when the battle of Monocacy was fought on Saturday, and he found Early in full march southward, he immediately prepared the transportation on his road to receive the reinforcements which he was informed would arrive the next day at Locust Point.
During Sunday the fleet of transports from Fortress Monroe, with the Nineteenth and Sixth Corps, began to arrive, but the officer in command refused to allow any troops to land until General Emory had arrived.
After striving in vain to start the disembarkation, Mr. Garrett proceeded on a special engine to Washington and so impressed his views on the President and Secretary of War that he brought back with him an order to the senior officer of the troops on the transports to report to him until General Emory should arrive.
During Sunday night and Monday, Garrett, thus actually in command of two army corps, pressed the reinforcements on his cars and hurried them to Washington.
Early saw their advance filing into the works on Monday afternoon, and the rest of them lining the parapets on Tuesday at daylight.
While these events were taking place, I was pressing in hot haste through Howard and Montgomery counties.
I reached Triadelphia after nine o'clock that night, and unsaddled and fed my horses, and let the men get a little sleep.
By twelve o'clock I received information that a large force of Federal cavalry had gone into camp since my arrival, at Brookville, only a few miles off. I at once got ready and started to attack them, but on reaching that point found they too had received information of their unwelcome neighbors and had left.
Thence I moved to Beltsville, on the railroad between Baltimore and Washington.
There I found about one thousand cavalry of Wilson's Division, which had been dismounted in a recent raid in lower Virginia, and sent north to recuperate.
They were mounted on green horses and we drove them, after a short affair, down the road toward Bladensburg.
It was now the morning of Tuesday, the 12th.
I was due
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Graduates of the
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, [from the
Richmond, Va.
, Dispatch,
March
30
,
April
6
,
27
, and
May
12
,
1902
.]
Treatment and exchange of prisoners.
Battle of Cedar Creek
,
Va.
,
Oct.
19th
,
1864
.
Narrative of events and observations connected with the wounding of General T. J. (
Stonewall
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Jackson
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chapter 1.6
Lee
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Davis
and
Lincoln
.
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The last tragedy of the war. [from the
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Picayune
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1903
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Elliott
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November
28
,
1902
.]
Thrilling Chapter [from the
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July
21
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1902
.]
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Fatal wounding of General J. E. B
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Johnson's Island
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April
27
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1902
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Roll and roster of
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Why we failed to win.
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Fisher's Hill
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May
12
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