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The Daily Dispatch: July 11, 1863., [Electronic resource], Letter from the North. (search)
are coming within our lines every hour. The troops under Gen. Pierce (formerly Milroy's) arrived yesterday at Chambersburg, and pushed on towards Greencastle, where they captured 500 prisoners, two wagons leaded with plunder, and three pieces of artillery. The prisoners were stragglers, making their way to the Potomac in company with the wagons. A dispatch from near Chambersburg this morning, says that heavy firing was heard in the direction of Hagerstown. It is believed that Gen. French has made as attack in that vicinity on the trains moving towards Virginia. Frederick, July 6. P. M.--It is believed here that the reported destruction of the rebel bridge at Williamsport originated in the fact that the bridge at Falling Waters, 5 miles below, was destroyed. An officer who was with the party which destroyed the latter bridge, reports that the party subsequently started to destroy those at Williamsport, but finding Imboden there with a large force, abandoned the enter