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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 35 (search)
ective neighborhoods to picket and protect, in some degree, their stock. A concentration of our men at Chambersburgh, or Greencastle, or Mercersburgh would have left twenty-five thousand people with their property entirely defenceless. In the valley the citizens were under arms, and had the roads barricaded for defence, but the southern portion of the county is open and unsuited to defence by small parties. On Sunday, the twenty-eighth, the Eighth New-York militia arrived here, having marched from Shippensburgh, and they were received with the wildest enthusiasm. Considering that they are on our border in advance of any Pennsylvania regiments, they merit, as they will receive, the lasting gratitude of every man in the border. The old men of the town organized a company, headed by Hon. George Chambers, for the defence of the town. None were admitted under forty-five. On Monday every man capable of bearing arms had his gun, and was in some organization to resist the rebels.
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 29 (search)
ania, with ten men, to proceed to the other side and set fire to them, which they speedily accomplished, bringing back several trophies dropped in hasty retreat by the murdering party, among which was a splendid Minie musket, loaded but not capped. The houses fired were the Wager, Galt, and Railroad Hotels, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot, the Winchester Railroad Depot, Welch's store, the telegraph office, and the dwelling houses of Mrs. Wager, Mrs. Darien, Mrs. Ellen Chambers, George Chambers, and William J. Stevens — none of them occupied. The destruction of this block now gives our pickets and battery men a view of the Shenandoah road from Charlestown, and will enable our men to protect the village, in daylight, from any clandestine occupancy by the enemy's forces, as well as give them a warm reception if they should at tempt to advance in force by their favorite and hitherto protected and concealed route. The once populous town of Harper's Ferry now contains but sev
The Daily Dispatch: August 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 4 (search)
il. How marked the difference, how loyal the distinction, in the demeanor of this old lady and mother, that urged the youngest and to go forth to battle for Southern independence, and the action of two other females of the same place, who presented a splendid flag to a regiment of vandal Massachusetts cobblers, under the command of Patterson — the one an evidence of loyalty and devotion; the others a demonstration of pride and a miserable exhibition of treason. The dwelling of Captain George Chambers (now at Manassas) was invaded, his household effects destroyed, his china ware cast on the floor, and the silver ware carried away by these Hessian burglar. Two Indies, whose husbands are at Fayetteville, were ordered out of town peremptorily, and their residences threatened with fire, because they had spoke on behalf of the South. One old gentleman received notice to quit the place, because he had been employed in removing machinery from the Raffle factory to Richmond and Fayette
The Daily Dispatch: February 14, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
ent, with ten men, to proceed to the other side and set fire to them, which they speedily accomplished, bringing back several trophies dropped in hasty retreat by the murdering party, among which was a splendid Minnie musket, loaded, but not capped. The houses fired were the Wager, Galt and Railroad Hotels, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad depot, the Winchester Railroad depot, Welch's store, the telegraph office, and the dwelling- houses of Mrs Wager, Mrs. Darin, Mrs. Ellen Chambers, George Chambers, and Wm. J. Stevens, none of which were occupied. The destruction of the block now gives our pickets and battery men a view of the Shenandoah road from Charlestown, and will enable our men to protect the village in daylight from any clandestine occupancy by the eneemy's forces, as well as give them a warm reception if they should attempt to advance in force by their favorite and hitherto protected route. The conflagration was magnificent, the volume of smoke and flame almost concea
The Daily Dispatch: June 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], Casualties in Capt O B Taylor's (search)
Casualties in Capt O B Taylor's battery to the 4th June, 1864, inclusive: At Spotsylvania C H, May 12th, 1864--George Chambers, dangerously wounded in the neck. At Hanover Junction, May 23d--Albert G Priest, painfully, though not seriously, wounded in wrist. On line of battle one and a half miles north of Gaines's Mill, June 3d --Charles Hazard, dangerously wounded through the hip Same position, June 4th--Vincent F Burford, shot through the head, instantly killed. Casualties in the Richmond Fayette Artillery on Wednesday, the 224 --Killed; Private Alexander Newman. Wounded: Sergt Hilaman, private John Frazier. The fight lasted all that evening.